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    Farid Dridi

    A shader designer and artist on The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon at Étranges Libellules.[2]

    His surname is on the Episode 01 poster for “Fred Dridi”, playing at Orlando’s, and Alex has confirmed to the archive that he was the inspiration for Frédéric Dudridier, the gas station attendant of Episode 02 who goes by Fred.[3][4]

    He is the man alone at a table in a bar in the Episode 02 viral teaser, Alex has confirmed to the archive.[4]

    Episode 01’s credits name him, with Val, for its characters. He later became a principal character artist at Arkane Studios, where he made characters and the guards’ faces for Dishonored 2 and worked on Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.[3][1][5]

    In the game

    The character inspired by Farid.[4]

    On video

    Videos Farid appears in, from the archive’s Videos.

    1. 0:431112 Episode 02 viral teaserAgharta Studio · 23 April 2010“You can’t escape 1112!” A short teaser for Episode 02, starring Farid Dridi, one of the game’s artists, as the man alone at a table in a bar, as Alex Leboucher has confirmed to the archive.

    Sources

    1. Farid Dridi on ArtStation
    2. The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon credits on MobyGames
    3. The games’ own credits screens
    4. Alex Leboucher, in conversation with the 1112 Archive Project, October 2026
    5. Farid Dridi on LinkedIn