We are seeking a highly skilled individual to join our growing technical team!

Taking a lead as a Real Time Technical Artist, you will assist with motion capture activity at the CAMERA Innovation Studios.

You will be expected to provide technological expertise in the following areas:

• Assembly of environments from various sources for Virtual Production in Unreal or Unity
• Remeshing avatar and prop scans with R3DS Wrap, ZBrush or Mudbox
• Look development including material, shaders, texturing, and lighting
• Basic rigging for motion capture driven assets
• Facial blend shape authoring
• Retargeting of motion capture
• Asset authoring in Maya or similar
• Use of game engine visual scripting
• Processing photogrammetry scans

The Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA) exists to accelerate the impact of fundamental research being undertaken at the University of Bath in the Departments of Computer Science, Health and Psychology.

CAMERA has two world-class, production standard motion-capture studios, including a range of full body and facial motion capture systems capture systems, multi-camera 4K arrays and photogrammetry facilities. Operating on multiple levels these suites support fundamental research, create pipelines for tool translation, and offer collaboration on external productions and projects.

This is a full-time position, for a fixed-term period until November 2022.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Neil Campbell (nc537@bath.ac.uk), however, please submit your application via the University website.

What we can offer you:

Our campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and the City of Bath with its historic charm and social activity only a short distance away creates an excellent environment in which to work. 

We are:

• a family friendly workplace 
• open to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the University. 
• recognising of the talents of our diverse workforce through an excellent reward package 
• encouraging of your personal and professional development

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community. We are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Further details:

• Job Description & Person Specification