Atia Newman (Quadri) is a Pak-American immigrant and an international award-winning 3D animator and CG professional.
Atia began her career as the first woman 3D animator in the Pakistan industry. Credited as Quadri, she has worked on Hollywood movies, TV series, commercials, and also shipped an AAA game, Dungeon Lords before moving to New York City. Here, she earned her MFA in Animation from Pratt Institute and freelanced until she was offered a teaching position at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
Atia’s earliest projects taught her the irresistible power of the animated medium and how it can influence the thinking of generations to come.
Thus, holding to the motto of “with great power comes great responsibility”, she has aimed to focus her teaching and her art towards creating a more harmonious and understanding world-view for her audiences.
Her work as an academic focuses on exploring how people consume visual media and the effect it has on establishing world views, particularly in how it affects the colonial mindset. With the advent of AI and deepfake CG imagery, it raises the question of how to help humanity preserve and view reality with as little distortion as possible.
Through her research endeavors, Atia aims to counter disinformation through the preservation of culture across a variety of mediums.
She is currently an Associate Professor at R.I.T. at the School of Film and Animation in Rochester, New York where she can enjoy doing what she loves and use her skills and experience to make the world a better place.
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ORCID ID 0009-0006-4799-3996