I have over 10 years of experience in higher education and edtech, with a focus on narrative, visual storytelling and creative brand communication. Since completing my Honours degree at the University of Pretoria (B.A. Honours Information Design) and my masters degree at Stellenbosch University (MPhil Visual Arts [Illustration]), my experience as a story art director, visual narrative designer, motion designer and educator has provided a base from which to craft stories with maximum creative impact. My teaching philosophy involves driving a culture of independent practice by encouraging collaboration between students and academic staff through self-initiated editorial and digital visual narrative projects.

Lecturer, Story
Workshop Facilitator, Figure Drawing
Short Course Lecturer, Motion Design

I am responsible for curriculum development and facilitation of the Story programme. Key responsibilities include coaching students on building story concepts, writing, art direction, storyboarding, final animatics and pre-production for their consolidated story pitch, in preparation for production on award-winning films in their final year of studies. Additional responsibilities include adhoc development and facilitation of figure drawing and motion design workshops. The Animation School is currently ranked 10th globally by the Animation Career Review and is the best in Africa. Students consistently win top honours at global award ceremonies and graduates are employed by respected local and international studios.

Head of Animation & Visual Effects

As the Head of Animation & VFX, it was my responsibility to define a clear vision for the department alongside synchronous and asynchronous curriculum design; performance management and development of department lecturers; resource management; process design; lecturing; facilitation of student showcase promotional design initiatives and facilitation of all animation modules. In addition, I was responsible for teaching Motion Design, Illustration, History of Animation and Figure Drawing, while providing supervision of final-year student films.

Senior Multimedia Lecturer
DTP & Graphic Design Short Course Lecturer

Lecturing of motion design, graphic design, animation, illustration, figure drawing, critical studies, HTML & CSS and digital design modules to first, second and final-year Multimedia Design, Graphic Design, Copywriting, creatrive brand communications and Game Design & Development students. My responsibilities as a senior lecturer included facilitation of adhoc workshops, including training staff to effectively leverage Vega School's online teaching platform, VegaLearn (a bespoke version of Blackboard Learn for Vega School). Other responsibilities included supervision of research papers for honours students in the focus area of creative brand communications and multimedia.

Illustration Lecturer

My responsibilities included teaching students in the Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) at the Faculty of Dentistry at CPUT a structured approach to illustrating and sculpting objects in three dimensional form, with emphasis placed on a basic understanding of how to illustrate the human figure from imagination. Particular attention was given to illustrating the head and mouth with a scientific approach to documenting and illustrating dental morphology.