Location: VICON Production and House of Moves Headquarters, Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles

Vicon Production is looking to hire a candidate for the role of Technical Character Rigger at its Los Angeles based, House of Moves motion capture studio. This is a key role for the organization and one that carries with it a great deal of responsibility and opportunity for success. It is a client-facing position, making this role representative of Vicon and House of Moves to the world’s largest entertainment industry companies.

The role will primarily be responsible for the following:

• Setting up new character rigs for real-time pre-visualization and final post processing for motion capture data pipelines.
• Liaising with clients to aid in client character rigging and preparing client character rigs for motion capture and animation.
• Creating and setting up post process pipelines using VICON and House of Moves proprietary tools, alongside traditional animation packages.
• Designing, Implementing, Testing and Using plug-ins and scripts to import our motion capture data into various 3D animation software packages.
• Solving, retargeting and help to assure the quality of data processed at our House of Moves studio
• Designing, Implementing, Testing and Using facial animation techniques with motion capture data and various 3D animation software packages

The qualified candidate will possess the following qualities and attributes:

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• A four year technical degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of technical character rigging and animation experience
• Expert knowledge of at least (2) of the following 3rd party animation packages; Maya, 3DStudioMax, Motion Builder, Lightwave, XSI, Character Studio.
• Currently reside or be willing to relocate to Los Angeles, California
• Have a tremendous ability to multi-task, prioritize and go the extra mile for our client base.
• Experience and comfort working under deadlines
• Superb mathematic and 3D problem solving skills and independent thinking
• A personality that allows you to easily work within a dedicated team environment along side people of widely varying backgrounds, nationalities and ethnicities

The exemplary candidate will also possess the following:

• Motion Capture experience
• Good traditional animation keyframe abilities.
• Credits as a technical animator or rigger on a motion picture, AAA level video game, or TV episodic.
• Some programming background and experience with writing code or scripts

How to apply:

Please email your resume, CV and any demo reel content to careers@moves.com for consideration.