Senior Mocap Animator for VR & AAA Games

Cyborn BV; Antwerpen; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyborn BV in Antwerp is seeking a senior game animator with solid motion capture experience to join our in-house studio. You will shoot, clean and polish mocap data using our 30-camera Vicon setup and bring characters to life across work-for-hire productions and our VR/mixed reality titles.

You will run mocap shoots with Faceware facial capture, implement animation in Unreal Engine, and collaborate closely with gameplay programmers and tech artists.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional experience as a game animator.
• A reel showing mocap-based and keyframed work.

Responsibilities

• Animate characters and creatures for games, including locomotion, combat, cinematics and interactions, mocap-driven and keyframed.
• Run motion capture shoots in Vicon Shogun studio with Faceware facial capture: session prep, actor direction, capture, solving and retargeting.
• Clean, edit and polish motion capture data to client and project quality standards.
• Implement animation in Unreal Engine: blueprints, blend spaces, montages, state machines; collaborate with gameplay programming and tech art.
• Provide feedback on rigs and pipelines with technical animators; mentor junior animators.
• Switch between work-for-hire productions and our own titles; communicate daily with production manager.

Skills

Motion capture

Unreal Engine

Maya

MotionBuilder

Faceware

Rig feedback

Team collaboration

Tools

Vicon Shogun

Faceware

Job description

Cyborn BV in Antwerp is seeking a senior game animator with solid motion capture experience to join our in-house studio. You will shoot, clean and polish mocap data using our 30-camera Vicon setup and bring characters to life across work-for-hire productions and our VR/mixed reality titles.

You will run mocap shoots with Faceware facial capture, implement animation in Unreal Engine, and collaborate closely with gameplay programmers and tech artists.