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3D Animation training in Bangladesh

Arif Ahmed known as the Pioneer of 3D Animation Training in Bangladesh. Though he studied Applied Physics and Electronics in Dhaka University he has a passion for arts from the very beginning of his life. His creative mind blended science and arts and guided him towards the path of 3d Animation.

He started his journey through 3D animation world in the year of 1995 when the word "3D animation" was a word of alien in Bangladesh. From 1996 he started professional training on 3D animation based on the software 3d studio Max. In 1996 performing professional training on 3D animation was a fact of beyond imagination for any computer graphics artist in Bangladesh.

At that time a very few people worked on 3d animation in Bangladesh. But they were hardly interested to share this knowledge with others. But he was an exception. He shared everything what he learned by researching 3d softwares. Resources, Internet, books, tutorials on 3d software were not available that time so it was very difficult to explore 3d modeling, animation, lighting, rendering techniques. He took the hard way and engaged himself fully to learn 3d animation by himself.

In 1997 he started working as a CG expert in a post-production house Unifocus Telefilm one of the well-known production house at that time. Side by side he provided training in some computer training institutes in Dhaka like SYSCON(System Communication Network(BD)LTD, INFORMIX etc.

In 2000 he joined as Chief of Multimedia in Softamation which was previously known as Bangladesh Institute of Information Technology (BIIT). As a Director of Research & Production he joined in Soft Reality in 2002.Those days he created many TV commercials for local and multinational companies.

In the year of 2003 he joined in Daffodil Multimedia a concern of Daffodil group. Here he started one year diploma in 3d animation for the first time in Bangladesh. That time some local and foreign institute also began diploma in multimedia where 3d was a part only. To popularize the diploma program on 3d animation and its learning he started conducting workshop. He conducted more than 50 workshops in different institutes, organizations and universities- including Jahangir Nagar University, Asian University, and Daffodil University, where he was the key and only speaker. He also conducted courses on 3d in Film and Media Department in Stamford University as a part time faculty. He holds teaching and production side by side and created hundreds of 3d animation and visual effects for documentaries, learning products, TV commercials, Architectural visualizations and films.

He published many articles on 3d animation software especially on 3ds max and Maya. Country's first interactive video tutorial on 3ds max in Bengali was produced by him. In the year 2006 he developed a low cost solution for stereo anaglyph 3d movie creation.

He also attend in some oil painter’s group exhibition.

Now a days he is performing as an Associate Professor of MCT Department in Daffodil International university and his own 3d Animation research center AAVA 3D.

AAVA 3D is the most famous place for the research and development of 3D animation and visual arts in Bangladesh. It gives support to many local firms to develop their 3D Animation business by delivering technical support and providing professionals. This group of professional are mainly the students who are trained and guided by Arif Ahmed. These highly skilled professionals are working successfully in many TV channels, architectural visualization firms, 3d animation studios, multimedia training institutes and building a better career for them. These successful young man-power is a great signature of Arif Ahmed’s path breaking teaching methodology, which has made a highly technical and scientific term like 3d animation easy to learn for any one.

Inspired by the tremendous success of his owe animation teaching methodology, Arif Ahmed is now planning to extend the area of 3d animation learning through the website aava3dtutorial.com, which is the first e-learning site of 3d animation in Bangladesh. Truly, Arif Ahmed's path breaking method of teaching 3d animation has added a new dimension in the sector of multimedia, animation and visual arts in Bangladesh. Still now he is working relentlessly to make a better future of 3d animation in Bangladesh.