Non-regular (Sessional) Faculty - Animation (Anim 350 Special Topics in Animation: Cfx) Fall 2025

**Job Title**
- Non-Regular (Sessional) Faculty - ANIMATION (ANIM 350 Special Topics in Animation: CFX) Fall 2025

**Rank**

**Tenure Information**

**Job Summary**

**Animation**
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design is currently seeking a qualified instructor to teach **ANIM** 350 - Special Topics in Animation**:CFX**within the Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media in the Fall 2025 semester. Situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University is a world-renowned learning and research community dedicated to the education of artists and designers.

We are a strong community of outstanding, socially responsible, talented faculty, staff, and administrators. We offer jobs opportunities to engage in challenging work and exciting collaborations with Emily Carr’s local, national, and international partners in the art and design world.
- Our culture is strengthened by our emphasis on research, exhibition, diversity, and sustainability.
- The course meets for 3 hours per week, with additional time spent for office hours, course prep and marking. The structure of each class includes presentations of material, demonstrations of techniques, reviews of work in progress, and details about assignments. Outside of class, faculty prepare lessons, evaluate the students’ work, provide feedback, answer questions and grade projects.

**Required Qualifications**
- Review 3D asset preparation for simulation
- Discuss best practices for building procedural simulation rigs
- Demonstrate how to create dynamic character FX simulations such as Cloth, Muscle and Skin, Hair, Feathers and Fur
- Review file formats to store and edit simulation data
- Discuss CFX rendering best practices

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field
- Relevant professional practice.
- Knowledge of critique and feedback strategies.
- Experience working with people from diverse creative, cultural, and educational backgrounds.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to develop lesson plans and prepare content for on-campus and/or online learning.
- Post-secondary teaching experience a significant asset.
- Experience with online education (including Moodle and Zoom) an asset.

**Preferred Qualifications**

**About Emily Carr**

**ABOUT**EMILY**CARR**UNIVERSITY**

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, established in 1925, is a world-renowned learning and research community located on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada.

Encouraging experimentation at the intersection of art, design, media and technology, our teaching and learning community merges studio practice, research creation, and critical scholarship in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Alumni and faculty are internationally recognized as award-winning creators and thought leaders who have significant impact in 21st-century cultural production and cultural sustainability. We engage students, industry, and society to explore continuously and think differently about creativity and how it shapes our world. ECU attracts more than 1800 students, with a diverse student body that welcomes people from more than 50 countries to our undergraduate and graduate programs.

We have four university faculties (Audain Faculty of Art, Faculty of Culture + Community, Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media, and Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies) which, together with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Ron Burnett Library + Learning Commons, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, Libby Leshgold Gallery, READ Books, and the research centres and workshops in our new state-of-the-art, custom-built campus, offer vibrant and robust conditions for the development of practice-based and practice-led research and education.

**Additional Information**

**APPLICATION**PROCEDURES**

Applications should include:

- cover letter;
- current curriculum vitae;
- teaching statement;
- portfolio (12-15 images of your current work);
- supplemental materials, if applicable.

**ABOUT**OUR**HIRING**PROCESS**

**This posting will remain open until the position is filled. Application review will begin in mid-May 2024.**

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee for each program area; selected applicants (who are new to Emily Carr) will be contacted for interviews.

Non-regular faculty must be physically located within the province of British Columbia when teaching and delivering courses for Emily Carr University (this includes online and hybrid courses).

Posting Detail Information

**Posting Number**
- F002-2025

**Open Date**
- 05/12/2025

**Close Date**
- 06/30/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- Yes

**Special Instructions to