Ts. Norzaful Anuwar
3D Practitioner · Lecturer · PhD Candidate

Building storyworlds that live across media.

I'm a 3D practitioner with 17 years in animation, a lecturer at Multimedia University, and a PhD candidate researching how Malaysian animation builds worlds that can grow beyond the screen. My work lives where craft, teaching, and story meet.

● Modelling
● Surfacing & Look-dev
● Lighting
● Environments
● Transmedia Research
● Animation Pedagogy
Portrait of Ts. Norzaful Anuwar
01 Selected Work // filter by year · add renders inside each card
02 Research & Writing // add your papers, talks & conference work here

My doctoral research examines how Malaysian animated TV series are structured to support narrative expansion beyond their original stories — studying the worldbuilding, characters, continuity, and cultural cues inside Upin & Ipin, BoBoiBoy, and Ejen Ali that make transmedia growth possible.

03 About & Teaching
Portrait of Ts. Norzaful Anuwar

I'm a 3D practitioner with roughly 17 years in animation and digital content production, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, where I teach modelling, surfacing, look development, character animation, and visual effects.

My PhD research at MMU looks at how Malaysian animated series are built to grow beyond the screen — into games, film, comics, and interactive media. The thread across everything I do is storytelling through visual systems: every modelling, texturing, and lighting decision shapes how an audience understands a character, a world, or a story.

I'm especially drawn to how emerging tools — AI, real-time engines, procedural workflows — can expand creative possibilities without losing the cultural and narrative intention behind the work.

Currently
PhD Candidate · Transmedia Storytelling, MMU
Teaching
Lecturer · Faculty of Creative Multimedia, MMU
Experience
~17 years · 3D animation & digital content
Toolset
Maya, Arnold, Substance 3D Painter, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, After Effects, Premiere Pro
Focus
Malaysian animation · transmedia storyworlds · AI-assisted workflows
Based in
Malaysia
04 Curriculum Vitae // full document available as PDF

Seventeen years across the animation pipeline — modelling, rigging, surfacing and studio supervision — alongside lecturing and judging national skills competitions in 3D digital game art. A snapshot below; the full CV is one download away.

3D Generalist Modelling & Sculpting Rigging AR / VR Environments Game Design Animation Pedagogy

Recent Roles

Specialist S1 — Multimedia University
2024 – Present
Senior Lecturer — UCSI University
2022 – 2024
AR / VR Artist — Serba Dinamik
2020 – 2022
Lecturer & Year Leader — Limkokwing
2018 – 2020

2026 Highlights

WorldSkills Malaysia — Judge & Question Setter
3D Digital Game Art · Final Stage
DSTA — National Evaluation Panel
KPM
InventX 2026 (TAP:AI)
Gold & Silver · as mentor
MIIEX Melaka & VIC 2026
Silver · as mentor
Download CV (PDF) // PDF · updated 2026

Let's build a world that doesn't fit one screen.

contact@norzafulanuwar.com