Absurdventures
Producer, MoCap and VO
Santa Monica. Posted 6 months ago
The role
This Producer will join the central production team with a focus on video game production. The role involves planning and executing voiceover and performance capture shoots while coordinating cross-team efforts to meet production milestones.
What you will do
- Lead scheduling and coordination of VO and performance capture shoots.
- Support day-to-day production for video game projects.
- Build and maintain detailed production schedules, task tracking, and milestone plans.
- Partner with Narrative, Audio, Animation, Performance Capture, and Cinematics teams.
- Prepare shoot schedules, call sheets, agendas, and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate with Production team to track deliverables for VO and performance capture shoots.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
- Facilitate communication between central production and discipline leads.
- Maintain accurate documentation, reports, and status updates.
- Prepare and format scripts prior to VO recording or performance capture shoots.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of production experience in TV, film or video game industries.
- Proven experience scheduling and managing shoots and VO recording.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Experience working within SAG talent guidelines.
- Experience with production tracking tools (e.g., ShotGrid, Jira, Confluence, Excel, etc).
Nice to have
- Experience working on AAA or large-scale game productions.
- Understanding of video game development pipelines and cross-discipline workflows.
- Familiarity with performance capture pipelines, union talent considerations, or external capture vendors.
- Experience supporting multiple projects from a central production or shared services team.
- Background in audio, narrative, animation, or cinematics production.
Benefits
- Vacation time
- Sick time
- Company holidays
- Parental leave
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) matching
About the company
absurdventures is seeking an experienced Producer to join their central production team.