Motion Capture

The skill spans the whole chain: planning a shoot against a shot list, calibrating suits and cameras, directing performers, then solving the data onto a skeleton, cleaning it, retargeting it to game characters and cutting usable cycles and transitions out of raw takes. Facial and prop capture add their own setups.

Postings expect a capture pipeline tool alongside Maya or MotionBuilder, retargeting experience, and an understanding of why a captured take still needs animation judgement to read in a game: timing that works on a stage is often too slow on a gamepad.

It appears in animator, technical animator and rigging roles. Keyframe animation remains the complement rather than the opposite — most productions capture the base performance and hand-animate what the camera is closest to.