Acquisition Specialist Jobs

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The EA Create Capture team provides high-quality body motion performances for in-game, cinematic and narrative sequences.

The EA Create Capture team provides high-quality motion capture performances for in-game, cinematic and narrative sequences. Reporting to the Stage Manager, you will be a member of the Acquisition team - the crew that prepares and executes capture sessions.

You Will

• Preparing all production requirements for a capture sessions, including prop and set assembly, performer wardrobe fitting and markering, and general stage maintenance and system upgrades.
• Preparation of the technical requirements of a mocap capture session;
• Provide animation feedback and communicate best practice with intention for animation refinement.
• Work with animation leads and directors to agree on visual targets of motion capture data.
• Contribute to capture session postmortems by providing feedback, with the goal of helping improve capture process and data output.
• Learn proprietary art pipelines, new technology, and processes.
• The operation and troubleshooting of the mocap capture system;
• As a member of the Acquisition team, participate in:
• Help document workflow and pipelines.
• Plan and prepare capture session requirements related to the motion capture system, real-time streaming, HMCs, virtual cameras and witness video systems.
• Operate proprietary tools related to acquisition systems.
• Track and clean (QA) motion capture data in Vicon Shogun.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of experience with Motion Builder or a similar kind of 3D animation software.
• An understanding of A/V hardware, time code and signal flow.
• You work well under the pressures of a ‘live’ production environment and have on-set production experience in a related field (film, TV, VFX, games).
• A knowledge of, and experience with, optical based motion capture systems.
• You have a high level of professionalism when working with clients and talent.
• A minimum of 5 years experience in motion capture or animation for video games, television, film or other related industry.
• Understanding of alternate motion capture techniques such as inertial and volumetric capture
• An understanding of human movement, and knowledge of functional human anatomy.