Meghdad Asadilari is an award-winning filmmaker and 3D technical animator with more than fifteen years of freelance work alongside high-level studios in animation, VFX, and interactive design, and more than 100 international film festival screenings with his previous works. His technical expertise spans rigging and character setup, dynamics and simulation, VFX compositing, data visualization, real-time pipelines, and motion capture. Alongside this 3D foundation, he brings deep professional experience in 2D puppeting and procedural animation.

This combination is grounded in an unusual educational foundation. Asadilari holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Communications Engineering, followed by an MFA in Computer Animation. The engineering training shapes how he approaches problems, bringing fluency in systems thinking to a discipline where such fluency is often rare. 

With this profile spanning engineering, computer animation, and more than fifteen years of industry practice in both 2D and 3D pipelines, his current research is driven by the question of what becomes possible when those distinct disciplines are brought together at the highest level, and validated through the most rigorous venues in the field.

This website documents Asadilari’s scholarship during his tenure period across three areas:

• Creative Scholarship

• Publications

• Presentations