Animateur Lead Post-Production Mocap/Lead Mocap Post Production Animator

As the Lead Mocap Post Production Animator, you will be responsible for the artistic and technical growth of our character animation team.

Your mission is to move beyond execution to serve as a craft leader: mentoring a team of animators, advocating for their career development, and ensuring that our post-production output meets world-class quality standards.

You are the guardian of the craft, ensuring every artist has the technical support and expert feedback required to excel in a high-fidelity AAA environment.

Work closely with the team to evaluate deliverables from a craft perspective, ensuring that technical quality and anatomical principles are maintained at the highest level.

Create game-ready motion-edited or hand-keyed animation for both gameplay and cinematics, ensuring movement adheres to specific project styles and anatomical principles.

Contribute to the animation pipeline by developing innovative solutions via JIRA/GIT.

You will use HSL, Python, or SQL scripting to automate tasks and optimize workflows.

Work with leads to architect setups for motion capture shoots and ready developer rigs for our production pipeline.

Act as the Post-Production point of contact for Dev teams.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA®️ 2K, renowned BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®️ and XCOM®️ brands; popular WWE®️ 2K and WWE®️ SuperCard franchises, TopSpin 2K25, as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR®️ 2K

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!