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Thabiso Thomas
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Cell
E-mail
: 078 444 3080
: thabisothomas@hotmail.com
Work Experience
Institution
Position
Duration
Description
: Learning Mate
: Senior Motion Designer (Full Time)
: Oct 2023 - Present
: Leading animation development and collaborating with
cross-functional teams to enhance educational content and learning experiences. Developing animations for marketing in edTech space.
Softwares
Institution
Position
Duration
Description
: 2U
: Senior Motion Designer (Full-Time)
: July 2019 – September 2023
: Creating detailed animations and illustrations, working with creative directors to ensure visual content alignment and storytelling. Assisting with pre-production tasks, storyboarding, and early-stage animation development for education content.
Institution
Position
Duration
Description
: Fuse Universal
: Digital Media Designer (Full-Time)
: June 2016 – July 2019
: I worked as a motion graphic designer, animator and illustrator. I was involved in storyboarding, asset creation, illustrating and animating explainer videos, stakeholder videos and Fuse School educational videos (www.youtube.com/user/virtualschooluk).
â–ª Adobe Photoshop
â–ª Adobe Illustrator
â–ª Adobe InDesign
â–ª Adobe Dreamweaver
â–ª Adobe Premiere
â–ª Adobe After Effects
â–ª Adobe XD
â–ª Adobe Bridge
â–ª AutoDesk Maya
â–ª AutoDesk SketchBook Designer
â–ª ZBrush
â–ª Toon Boom Animation
Languages
Institution
Position
Duration
Description
: Pollen Creative Media
: Junior Digital 2D Animator (Full-Time)
: December 2014 – November 2015
: I was a junior animator on a 5-minute, 52-episode children’s 2D (digital cut-out) cartoon series – The Fledglings.
HTML/CSS
Complete CV
Institution
Position
Duration
Description
: NEMISA
: In-house Graphic Designer (Part-Time)
: 2013 – 2014
: Designed posters, brochures, manuals, stationery, etc., for Student Affairs and S.R.C. department.
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Education
Institution
Qualification
Duration
Modules
: University of Cape Town
: Certificate ‧ Web Design
: Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
: Planning a website: Content and structure
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Image optimisation for the web
Visualising a website: Colours, images, fonts, and layout
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Styling HTML5 with CSS
Responsive web design
Writing web-optimised copy and linking pages
Testing, publishing, and maintaining a website
Institution
Qualification
Duration
Modules
: University of Cape Town
: Certificate ‧ User Experience Design
: Feb 2020 - May 2020
: Building a product-use context
Outcomes and stakeholder management
Research and evidence gathering
Evaluation, alignment, and reporting
The aesthetics of user experience
Wireframing
Prototyping
Institution
Qualification
Duration
Modules
: NEMISA
: Animation - National Certificate 2D | NQF Level 5
: 2012 – 2014
: Character Animation (Traditional & Digital) Character & Background
Design
Cut-out Animation
Life Drawing
Scriptwriting
Storyboarding
Animation Production
Video Editing
Film Studies
I also studied 3D Animation as part of my course. It has its own qualification aside (currently with pending modules). Listed are parts of its modules I was taught and skilled in:
Computer Animation
Character Animation 3D
Character & Background Design 3D
Lighting, Rendering & Texturing 3D
Digital Character Design
Visual Effects
Institution
Qualification
Duration
Modules
: College Campus
: Diploma in Graphic Design and Web Development
: 2010 – 2011
: Design Theory
Computer Graphics (Introduction)
Computer Graphics (Intermediate)
Advanced Graphics Animation (3D)
Web Applications
Web Development (Introduction)
Web Development (Intermediate)
Programming Logic & Design (Introduction)
Programming Logic & Design (Intermediate)
Programming 101
Programming 102
Analytical Techniques
Business Communication
Business Practice and Entrepreneurship
Desktop Publishing
IT Project Management
End User Computing A, B & C
WIL (Work Integrated Learning)
References
Name
Position
Company
Contact Details
: Tino Steenkamp
: Manager, Media Design
: Learning Mate
: 082 956 1077 (cell)
tino.steenkamp@learningmate.com
Name
Position
Company
Contact Details
: Martin Mukhanu (former Manager at Learning Mate)
: Lead Designer
: Sniperverse LTD
: 071 600 2002 (cell)
martinmukhanu@gmail.com
Name
Position
Company
Contact Details
: Kerry O’Connor (former Team Lead at 2U)
: Lead Motion Designer
: Oglivy
: 082 825 9418 (cell)
Name
Position
Company
Contact Details
: Owain Oosthuizen (former Team Lead at Fuse Universal)
: Director and Owner
: BagelDog Studio
: 073 216 9311 (cell)
bageldogstudio@gmail.com
Name
Position
Company
Contact Details
: Debbie Potgieter (former Project Manager at Fuse Universal)
: Director and Owner
: BagelDog Studio
: 072 124 2318 (cell)
deborah.christine.potgieter@gmail.com
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