VFX Tutor, Escape Studios

Job Description

VFX / Animation Tutor at Escape Studios, Pearson College LondonEscape Studios are seeking an experienced Game Artist to teach courses to Undergraduate, Postgraduate students and from time-to-time professionals from diverse industries.The RoleThe VFX / Animation tutor is part of a team responsible for the development and delivery of theVFX programs to our Undergraduate and MA students. You will be comfortable teaching the foundations of VFX which helps students understand VFX / Animation and establishing good practice in all aspects of your discipline at a much higher level depending onthe class being taught.We prefer artists who have worked on successful professional projects. You need to be a good communicator and confident with public speaking.You need to be capable of explaining complex artistic and technical principles, able to create learning materials, comfortable with both face-to-face and online teaching. Ideally, we want you to have prior teaching experience and a degree or MA, did we saywe want you to be amazing artists, yes, we want Unicorns.We are looking for tutors who have a range of skills in working on high-level animation / VFX projects and understand the latest pipelines. Someone who is comfortable talking about art in general and understands technical limitations of the medium beingdiscussed.You will be comfortable briefing students on industry-based projects and guiding them as individuals or in groups, providing formative feedback as well as summative reviews.

• Learning and development are important to us as we want you to keep your edge and pass that on to our students.
• Development time is given so you can learn our curriculum, deliver and importantly contribute to its development. We want tutors who are constantly looking and learning new things.
• We use Maya as our core application, but expect you to be conversant with leading packages in your area with an appetite to learn new technologies as they appear. If you have used other software, we are still interested in seeing your work.
• If you have worked on a animation and VFX projects and are interested in passing that knowledge on to our students, then this is a great opportunity for you.

Further Responsibilities Include:

• Working with the Head of VFX / Animation and other members of staff to deliver fantastic game art classes and learning materials.
• Delivering training courses to students in a classroom environment, online and when necessary, to individuals and professional customers on and off-site.
• Providing oneto-one feedback, coaching, show-reel clinics and support to students with a range of backgrounds and abilities.
• The ongoing research and development of course content and industry tools and techniques to ensure industry relevance of our training, tutors must be comfortable creating learning materials and writing documents,
• To organise workloads to a schedule and work under pressure when required.
• Cooperation with the Marketing, Sales and Recruitment teams to support and participate in promotional and business development activities.

Experience and QualificationsEssential:If you do not possess all essential skills, we will still consider applicants who have a willingness tolearn.

• Worked on at least one professional animation / VFX project
• Experience in using Maya
• Industry experience in animation / VFX
• A strong communicator. You must be comfortable creating learning materials that range from slides through to Video lessons

Highly Desirable:If you do not possess all desirable skills, we will still consider applicants who have a willingness to learn

• Teaching experience and/or a willingness to undertake teaching training with eventual membership of the HEA and postgraduate qualifications is also acceptable

Working hours:

• The Degree Course has two terms but there will be various teaching initiatives in the summer
• The working day is 9 till 6, 5 days a week and actual Teaching contact hours are mostly 16 hours a week with the rest of the time taken up with various duties such as course development and, providing timely feedback and of course marking.
• There are generally 30 students in a class and the ages tend to be from 18 - 25
• We have a great team of tutors, all of us have worked in Industry, we are very passionate about our subjects in general and we are very keen on making sure that tutors stay up to date

Why Escape StudiosOur mission is clear: to become one of the UKs leading universities for in-depth industryengagement. As a pioneering Higher Education Institution (HEI), were transforming industry today and tomorrow, by designing and delivering education powered by industry experience. At Escape Studios, industry engagement drives us; its not just what wedo, its who we are, and it is what will take us, and our students, into the future. Europes premier Creative Academy, Escape Studios was established in 2002 and creates world-class, studio-ready talent, with several BAFTA and Oscar winners counted amongstour alumni.We are the only Epic Authorised Training centre in the whole of the UK and run the UKs Premiere VFX, Games and Animation Festival. Our games students came 2nd in the world for immersive media in the Rookies 2020 as well as 3 other projects making the finalists.We are 10th in the world for production excellence in Game design and development as well as 11th in the world for top development schools in 2020.Your Benefits & RewardWell expect a lot and we know youll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business! Along with learning, development and mentoring opportunities, our range of benefits can support the different needs of our diversecolleagues, and their families too. Joining our Pearson family can provide you with unlimited and truly global career progression options, and you can also look forward to exploring our impressive benefits, such as:

Flexible options for work from home days.

A starting holiday of 25 days plus UK public holidays, and youll earn 1 additional days holiday per year you work with us.

Generous pension scheme where we match and double what you contribute.

Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible work policies.

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