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Motion Capture Data Cleanup (Contractor)

Motion Capture Data Cleanup (Contractor)

Hybrid

Cambridge, United kingdom

Freelance

28-10-2025

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Teamwork Creativity

Job Specifications

About us: Ninja Theory is a six-time BAFTA award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK, and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our diverse and welcoming team values collaboration, quality, and excellence. We strive to maintain an inclusive culture that empowers deep focus, rewards creativity, and supports personal and professional growth.

Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are committed to bringing together the best talent in the industry help us fulfil that promise.

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity. 

Requirements

We're looking for someone to support our Performance Capture pipeline with a focus on data cleanup on a 12-month, freelance contract. During this time, you'll work closely with other disciplines to produce high quality data from our in-house Performance Capture shoots. With the opportunity to work on shoot as well as on data, being adaptive and responsive to the needs of the Performance Capture pipeline is essential. Whether you're an experienced mocap tech or looking to develop your experience at the cutting edge of Performance Capture tech in a great dev environment, we welcome your application.

Your Skill:

Demonstrable understanding of animation/motion capture concepts
Passion for games and game development
A great team player
Well organised with an excellent eye for detail
Familiarity working with Motionbuilder and Unreal Engine.

Your Experience:

Produced animation in a team environment, whether in education or in industry. You will have some familiarity with Performance Capture or Animation pipelines and game engines
Relevant experience working with Vicon or other optical motion capture systems and the data produced on shoot.
Demonstrable skill in Shogun Post.

About the Company

Ninja Theory Ltd. was formed in 2004 by four partners, including current Directors Nina Kristensen (Chief Development Director) and Tameem Antoniades (Chief Creative Director). We pride ourselves on striving for the highest production values, continually pushing the boundaries of technology, art and design to create evermore meaningful and memorable video game experiences. We're based in Cambridge, UK and are the creators of five-time BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, the No.1 selling DmC: Devil May Cry, Dev... Know more