Jr. Motion Capture Technician

Deck Nine Games is looking to hire a Jr. Motion Capture Technician to help facilitate the operation of our motion capture stage. This position is slated to begin in May 2021.

Responsibilities

• Work within a team of Motion Capture Technicians to capture the highest quality full performance capture possible.

• Assist MoCap Technicians with maintaining and operating hardware and software for Vicon Shogun, XSens, and Faceware systems.

• Assist with creating markered props with high-level precision to their digital counterparts.

• Manufacture custom set pieces for mocap, using a workshop of physical tools.

• Assemble motion capture sets in preparation of shoot days.

• During a shoot, quickly assembling and striking sets as needed.

• Operate reference cameras to record mocap shoots.

• Dress in a mocap suit to be captured for pre-visualization, prototyping, or actual content production.

• Ensure high quality data capture/data quality assurance during shoots.

• Support timely processing of mocap animations through our pipeline, using internally developed tools and Jira.

• Edit together dailies videos of reference video footage in DaVinci Resolve.

• Track, clean, and retarget motion capture data.

About Deck Nine Games

Deck Nine Games is an independent game developer dedicated to crafting interactive story games that inspire, transform, and entertain players. Our passion is storytelling games.

Our first narrative game, Life is Strange: Before the Storm is loved by fans and has won multiple awards, including Game of Year and was nominated for both a VGA and a BAFTA. The studio is 100+ people and is in sunny Westminster, Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. We eagerly await to share more information about our next title with Square Enix.

We’re looking for talented and self-motivated people to join us as we aim to rise to the top of the storytelling game studios. If this sounds appealing to you, please apply!

As the crafters of stories that encompass the full breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural team in which people from all walks of life feel inspired to do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believe deeply in the creativity and strength built from diversity of race, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and the many other qualities that make us different.

Benefits

• Competitive salary depending on experience

• Unlimited Vacation Time and paid Parental Leave

• Health insurance for you and your family at a low cost to you

• Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family at NO cost to you

• Life and Disability benefits at NO cost to you

• Optional Flexible Spending Account (including Healthcare and Limited Purpose), Dependent Care Account, and Health Savings Account available

• Optional Supplemental Health and Life Insurance

• 401(k) Plan with an Employer Match

• Growth opportunities for your career

**Please note that the compensation information is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. **

• Any experience with motion capture systems or film production, professional or academic. Or a deep-seated desire to pursue a career in motion capture.

• Ability to work on-site of our studio, located in Westminster, CO near Denver and Boulder, on a weekly basis.

• In short, you enjoy wearing many hats, and sharing them with your teammates.

• You can operate a professional video camera. You understand the technical settings and can also frame up a shot perfectly.

• You love to build things, physically and/or digitally. You have hands-on experience with woodworking, metalworking, or other hands-on crafting.

• Ability and motivation to learn new tools and skills quickly.

• Demonstrate an extraordinary attention to detail and the ability to solve problems on the fly.

• Possess excellent troubleshooting abilities, both creatively and technically.

• Proactive with identifying areas for improvement and pursuing solutions for them.

• Able to collaborate with anyone effectively, actively fostering a humble environment of teaching, learning, and growing within the team.

• Possess clear, efficient communication skills.

Bonus

• You have a deep desire to push cinematic storytelling in video games.

• Experience with any of the following systems: Faceware, Vicon Shogun, XSens.

• Experience with animation and a content production pipeline

• Passion for technological advancements within the industry

• Seeking an opportunity of growth and learning.