Associate Lecturer in Digital Animation and/or Concept Art. – BA Hons Animation &/or BA Hons Games Art

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK
Salary: £60.07 per hour
Contract: Hourly paid
Hours: Hourly paid

Job description

The opportunity

BA Animation has 2 pathways: Character Animation and Experimental Animation. We are seeking a specialist in analogue and digital drawing and 2D animation, to teach across all years and all pathways but with a particular emphasis on the Character Animation Pathway. This extends to potentially cross course teaching and the BA Games Art course.

Your main responsibility will be preparation, teaching, assessment, student support and administration of practice-based workshops, seminars and lectures as part of the BA Animation or BA Games Art team teaching practice-based units potentially across all years aligned primarily but not limited to the Character Animation pathway. You will make a significant contribution to the quality of learning and support our students receive in order to enable them to complete their studies successfully.

You will provide course level subject-specialist expertise in creative practice and digital pedagogy within the Character Animation subject-specialist pathway or BA Game Arts teaching onsite.

Relevant knowledge, skills and software expertise includes, but is not limited to –

BA Animation & BA Games Art are looking for skills in:

• Toon Boom Harmony digital animation software
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Professional experience as a Character Designer
• Proficient in 2D traditional and digital pipelines for concept art production
• Strong foundational understanding and application of art theory 
• Strong observational drawing practice
• Professional experience as concept artist for games/film/animation
  
  

Desirable

Experience with using 3D within the 2D concept pipeline 

This is an hourly paid lecturer role – your schedule will be term time only and will vary throughout the year.

You will work closely with other academic staff, including pathway and course leaders.

Further information should be viewed on the course pages before application https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/animation-interactive-film-and-sound/undergraduate/ba-hons-animation-lcc#coursedetails

https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/animation-interactive-film-and-sound/undergraduate/ba-hons-games-art-lcc

About you

You will have experience teaching, ideally, in Higher Education. You will take a dynamic and innovative approach to supporting excellent teaching, pedagogy and inclusivity. You will have a good knowledge of animation. You will have an awareness of the global social, cultural, environmental, political and economic issues that are transforming moving image practices.

PG Cert teaching qualification is desirable or equivalent experience.

If you have any specific queries about this role please contact the course leader – s.hilton@lcc.arts.ac.uk

For general queries, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser – lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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