Technical Artist

Job Description

EA Worldwide Studios Content is looking for a Technical Artist for Create Capture, in its LA facility. The successful candidate will have strong technical experience preferably in the entertainment or game development industry. As a Technical Artist in Create Capture, you will work together with the Motion Capture Specialists to prioritize and troubleshoot technical issues and will work towards implementing solutions for process and pipeline development, as defined by the Technical Director.

The successful candidate will have an in-depth knowledge of different working data pipelines as well as having experience with tool support.

The Technical Artist will provide technical insight and will support other Subject Matter Experts within Create Capture while attending meetings, and discussions about upcoming motion capture sessions.

The role requires the ability to adapt to custom toolsets and workflows; to maintain the highest data quality and throughput, Create Capture maintains many custom solutions for all aspects of the motion capture process, and logs the data in a database network, as it flows through the various stages of processing. Familiarity in maintaining and rectifying record keeping systems, such as Shotgun and MySQL, are a requirement.

As a Technical Artist, you will regularly collaborate with the motion capture specialists within Create Capture to investigate and resolve technical issues for project-wide problems.

You will collaborate with other Technical Artists to investigate and implement new techniques, including the development of custom tools for workflow improvements and/or automation efficiencies per the technical vision of the Technical Director.

Responsibilities:
• Support motion capture specialists within Create Capture to troubleshoot and resolve technical motion capture issues, including associated proprietary toolsets.
• Create and support motion capture acquisition and post processing pipelines and tools.
• Collaborate with and assist other Technical Artists within Create Capture to create custom scripts and tools to help support data processing needs.
• Assist in the technical maintenance of a large optical motion capture installation.
• Assist troubleshooting efforts with technical scanning system issues.
• Represent a technical opinion and provide technical insight while attending meetings with other Subject Matter Experts within Create Capture.
• Create and maintain technical documents.
• Collaborate with and assist other Technical Artists within Create Capture to support solutions to project-wide problems, as defined by the Technical Director.

Requirements & Skills:
• At least 4 years' experience in tool support and data pipeline support.
• At least 4 years' production scripting experience, using interpreted scripting languages (Python, Mel, etc.).
• Production experience with record keeping database systems (Shotgun, MySQL, etc.).
• Production experience with compiled application development is preferred (C++, C#, etc.).
• Experience with game engines or real time tools (Unreal, Autodesk MotionBuilder).
• Effective and clear communication skills between tech teams, artists and production teams.
• The ability to work quickly in a live production environment.

Pluses:
• Experience in the entertainment motion capture or game development industry, working hands-on with data acquisition and processing.
• Experience working with industry standard motion capture applications (Vicon Shogun/Blade, etc.).
• Experience troubleshooting large-scale motion capture systems and configurations.
• Experience with facial capture and HMC technology.

EA Create

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to deliver outstanding visuals, audio and technology. Our teams consist of artists, engineers, technicians, designers and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound and experiences. We are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

The EA Create Capture team is made up of industry leading experts responsible for motion and performance capture, 3D body and facial scanning, data processing and virtual cinematography tools

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk9400-18-191-13-255-42 in your application.