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Motion Editor / Motion Capture Animator
1 year ago
Are you a budding Motion Editor / Motion Capture Animator looking for a role where you can develop your skills and embark on a career in a prestigious MoCap company?
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
The Audiomotion team is based in our Didcot film studio, and as part of the role, you may be required to be on site or to travel for shoots. When not on a shoot, there would be some availability to work on a hybrid basis.
We are on the lookout for a Motion Editor / Motion Capture Animator to join our passionate and growing Audiomotion Team to work on a variety of projects!
The Audiomotion team has worked on a variety of exciting projects for Disney, Warner Bros, and several game developers. We continue to work on prestigious projects, and this is an exciting time to join.
You will play an integral role in the team doing a variety of tasks focused on processing data through post-production pipelines, real-time 3d engine operation, and providing mocap stage assistance.
Responsibilities:
- Daily operation of Vicon motion capture system
- Daily calibration of the capture volume and Actors
- Build and calibration of props and tracking objects
- Maintenance of mocap hardware
- Assist with motion capture camera placement and setup
- Troubleshoot data quality and technical issues on-set
- Advise client of any Rig technical issues/improvement suggestions
- Solve, re-target, and delivery of data to characters, props, and sets
Requirements
- Expertise in mocap data cleaning preferably with Vicon Shogun
- Expertise in mocap retargeting preferably with Motionbuilder
- Expertise in mocap animation editing, looping, and blending preferably with Motionbuilder control rig and story editor.
- Expertise in facial capture and editing workflows preferably with Faceware
- Good general 3d skills including modeling, rigging, and UV mapping principals
- Good knowledge of Unreal Engine for scene layout, lighting, Livelink animation streaming, take recorder and sequencer
- Knowledge of HSL and Python scripting languages is an advantage
- Knowledge of A/V hardware such as cameras, lenses, timecode & sync, etc is an advantage
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about ushere
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all of our live vacancies: Rebellion : Careers
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