Responsibilities: Develop and teach courses in animation and visual effects, 3D graphics, VFX, and motion graphics. Provide instruction and guidance to students in the classroom and in the lab. Develop and implement course materials, including syllabi, lectures, and assignments. Included among the Duties and Responsibilities of this position are teaching students the production skills necessary to create, texture, rig, animate, light, and render 3D assets. Primary responsibilities are teaching within a structure of three courses or nine credits per semester using high-end resources. An animator produces multiple images called frames, which when sequenced together create an illusion of movement - this is known as animation. The images can be made up of digital or hand-drawn pictures, models or puppets. Animators tend to work in 2D, 3D model-making, stop-frame or computer-generated animation.