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Posted: 29-Nov-22
Location: Muncie, Indiana
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 34780
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Description:
Our dynamic faculty function as collaborative, innovative, inclusive and adaptive members of the College of Fine Arts community, both within and beyond the home unit, serving as quality teachers, productive in creative and/or scholarly work, engaged in public service activities, and contributing to the Ball State and Muncie communities and beyond. Additionally, lifelong learning at Ball State University extends educational engagement beyond the classroom and includes learning for professional development, personal enrichment, or other goals throughout one's lifetime. Faculty will be expected to participate in the department's, college's, and university's lifelong learning opportunities when available and may be assigned teaching responsibility in this area as part of their overall responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Terminal degree (MFA, PhD) in computer animation, or equivalent degree from an accredited institution, or significant sustained industry experience in cinematics, and/or game development
- Evidence of excellent technical skills in industry standard practices to instruct undergraduate and graduate students in Unreal Engine and related software/hardware used in game development and/or virtual production and/or virtual reality
- Evidence of a strong record of achievement with significant accomplishments appropriate to the level of appointment
- Demonstrated commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching of a very diverse student population, including first‐generation college students Demonstrated ability to communicate and work collaboratively within a culturally diverse community of BSU students, faculty, staff, and administrators
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of UE Blueprints, and Simulations, Rigging/Animation or Mocap/Retargeting as it relates to cinematics, games, and/or 3D computer animation production
- Evidence of a current professional practice in virtual production or game engines for cinematic storytelling and/or experimental art
- Evidence of professional practice using Python and/or C++ scripting for animation tools and game engines
- Experience and/or interest in developing new curriculum in game development and/or virtual production
- Familiarity with Autodesk Maya, Substance 3D Painter, and/or Zbrush
Appointment Type: Tenure-track
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The School of Art at Ball State includes exceptional facilities and faculty. Our art-making facilities are competitive with the best in the country, and our faculty and staff are active nationally and internationally as artists, creators, scholars and designers.
Salary and benefit packages for this position are competitive, with salaries for this opportunity beginning at $53,000 annually.
About Ball State University:
And when we complement these promises with our commitment to our enduring values, we define that which makes our University and its culture distinctive.
Our faculty are collegial, collaborative, innovative, inclusive, and adaptive, both within and beyond one's home unit. These attributes include commitments to collaborative discourse, interdisciplinary inquiry, and enterprising learning practices.
Our faculty are expected to be innovative, adaptive, engaging teachers across modalities; producers of impactful creative and/or scholarly work; leaders in meaningful service activities to multiple communities. We seek faculty members who are strategic thinkers, engaging our dynamic communities. We are committed to student and faculty success, impact, and access, within an environment that prioritizes inclusive excellence. We inspire each other to be critical thinkers and responsible citizens, so that we can pursue fulfilling careers and meaningful lives.
Ball State University lives the values of Beneficence. We invite you to be part of our community.
Ball State University is located in Muncie, Indiana, on an attractive campus 45 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Approximately 22,000 graduate and undergraduate students enroll in one of eight academic colleges that offer 120 undergraduate programs. We offer more than 140 master's, doctoral, certificate, and specialist degrees, with many of them ranking among the best in the nation. We engage students in educational, research, and creative endeavors that empower our graduates to have fulfilling careers and meaningful lives enriched by lifelong learning and service, while we enhance the economic, environmental, and social vitality of our community, our state, and our world.
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