Patrick Sfeir was born in Beirut in 1985. As a boy, he tagged the walls of his room and painted animation characters on any surface he would come across. He earned a master’s degree in animation from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), after which he took up a position at Borisfen-Lutece Studio in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2013, Patrick moved to Seoul, where he spent two years working as a 2D animator and character designer at the Meditation with a Pencil Studio. In 2021, he founded Marsam AlHakaya, an independent educational initiative dedicated to animation arts. Patrick lives in Beirut, where he teaches 2D animation and character design at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and Marsam AlHakaya.