Senior Motion Capture Technician

Requisition Number: 186370

Position Title: Senior Visual Effects Artist

External Description:

Cliffhanger Games is a newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on blockbuster action-adventure games and pioneering next-generation emergent storytelling beginning with Marvel’s Black Panther. Join us to pursue your passion to build unique, groundbreaking, and inclusive games that empower players to create incredible stories of heroic adventure. Become a foundational part of an ambitious, respectful, and diverse organization as we are looking for a Mocap Technician to join our team.

The Senior Mocap Technician is a contract role and will report directly to the Sr. Animation Director, overseeing a new optical motion capture studio in Kirkland, WA.  The Senior Motion Capture Technician will capture high quality motion capture data and is responsible for its overall pipeline and maintenance.  

You are passionate about motion capture production related to video games and have knowledge of industry-standard processes, protocols, and best practices related to motion capture, animation, and visual effects.  You run an optical motion capture studio and work as part of a team, collaborating with animation leads and directors, performers and other production personnel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of a new optical system in Kirkland, Washington
• Maintaining the hardware, equipment and troubleshooting issues as they arrive.
• Ensure the studio is working at a high level of stability and professionalism.   
• Coordination with Cliffhanger Studio’s Animation and Presentation Team in planning and running shoots. 
• Create props and breakdown afterwards. 
• Mocap operator, capturing and processing top quality source data. Track, solve, retarget, and clean.
• Communication with developers, actors, external contracts and legal requirements.
• Maintain inertia mocap hardware and pipeline. 
• Evangelize for tools and workflow improvements in the motion capture studio and animation departments.  Establish and document workflows and best practices. 
• Collaborate with EA’s larger motion capture workforce to exchange workflow, tools, process.  Maintain a good reputation and rapport with our fellow motion capture teams. 
• Organize & maintain studio mocap source library.
• Perform animation tasks in support of the Gameplay Animation Department when not otherwise occupied by motion capture duties.  

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years' experience in motion capture production related to video games, television, film or other related industry. 
• Minimum 3+ years of experience with virtual production techniques, including proficiency in cinematic and animation language, camera terminology, and knowledge of real-world cameras of multiple types.
• Knowledge of industry-standard processes, protocols, and best practices related to motion capture and animation; vicon, xsens, motion builder, maya, unreal engine, and other relevant tools.  
• Experience maintaining motion capture hardware, including cameras, suits, markers, and facial capture systems.
• An understanding of programming languages commonly used for motion capture pipelines, such as Python or C++
• A Portfolio demonstrating past work.
• Located or willing to relocate to the Kirkland, WA area.

 

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.