Motion Editor

Description

General Summary

A Motion Editor at Laika is primarily responsible for the re-targeting, editing and clean-up of human motion capture data using MotionBuilder 2012, and is accountable for the delivery of cohesive animation cycles for a crowd system.

Essential Job Functions

• Production experience with the motion capture pipeline from acquisition through to delivery.

• Proficient in all of MotionBuilder’s toolsets, including data cleaning, characterization, constraints, motion blending, animation layers.

• Extensive experience with motion capture editing.

• Thorough understanding of the limitations and nuances of the human body, as well as the physics that influence human motion.

• Proactively communicate with vfx supervisors, production management and technical directors to help shots stay on schedule.

• Able to address notes quickly and offer their own creative variations to give supervisors a range of options to choose from.

• Equally comfortable working independently and in a collaborative group.

• Accountable for meeting productivity and shot quota targets.

• Excellent time management and organizational skills.