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Great 3D animation post/job in South Africa

My old stomping ground (Wits School of the Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand) in Joburg has a 3D/animation post available. Great, small department in Africa’s coolest city. I’m happy to answer questions for anyone interested.

Digital Arts is advertising for a new post in 2010.
Please can you forward this to anyone you feel would be interested in teaching 3D Animation at the Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of Arts. Johannesburg, South Africa.

Please note that the closing date is the 17th July.

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POST OF LECTURER IN ANIMATION, WSOA DIGITAL ARTS
WITS SCHOOL OF ARTS
DIGITAL ARTS (ONE FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK LECTURESHIP) IN COMPUTER ANIMATION

Digital Arts is a strongly interdisciplinary department which offers postgraduate programmes in Animation and Interactive Media and also undergraduate courses which link digital elements in Music, Fine Arts and Drama. Digital Arts also collaborates with Engineering and other Faculties at Wits. With strong links to both the contemporary arts scene, the creative industries in South Africa and the international context in both the theoretical and production fields, this is an exciting area of growth.
The successful candidate can expect to play a leadership role in determining future directions in the field of animation education in Africa. (For more
about the Department go to: http://www.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/WSOA/DigitalArt/)

LECTURESHIP IN ANIMATION

The successful applicant will be an animator/animation artist with a firm grasp of the principles of animation and experience with 3D animation.

Qualifications: MA, MFA or equivalent qualification. Experienced in a 3D software package but also be able to teach the fundamentals of 2D animation and to supervise student animation projects employing a production pipeline.

Duties: Teach both production and theory to postgraduate and undergraduate classes. Supervise postgraduate research projects, collaborative projects and assist with course administration.

For further information contact Professor Christo Doherty, Head of Digital Arts, christo.doherty@wits.ac.za, tel: +27 11 7174682
For application forms contact Mrs Margaret Deyi, Faculty of Humanities, margaret.deyi@wits.ac.za, tel: +27 11 7171414


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  1. Colleen Mc Alpine | 31 July 2009 at 5:43 am | Permalink

    Good Morning Professor Christo Doherty, Head of Digital Arts,

    My son is doing a school project on artists , and I would like to know if it would be at all possible to doo an e-mail interview with you - if you do not mind? I may be contacted at the above e-mail address.

    Thank you

    Colleen Mc Alpine

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