Dariush Derakhshani, M.F.A.

Adjunct Faculty

213.821.4396

LPB 200

Dariush Derakhshani is an award-winning CG animator and author of several Maya books, including the best-selling series Introducing Maya: 3D for Beginners and Maya: Secrets of the Pros who teaches Maya and animation classes. He is creative director and CG supervisor with Radium in Santa Monica and been an animator and supervisor on commercials and feature films for the past 10 years at such places as Café FX, Cobalt FX, and Sight Effects.

Derakhshani is the editor in chief of HDRI3d Magazine and has been publishing tutorials, articles, and books on Maya for the past four years in such publications as Post, CGW, 3D World, DigitalMediaNet.com, and AWN.com.

He was recently inducted into the Visual Effects Society, and won the 2003 London Advertising Award for commercial effects, the Bronze Plaque from the Columbus Film Festival, a graduate fellowship from Paramount Pictures, and shares other accolades from the London International Advertising Festival and the AICP (American Independent Commercial Producers).