Conor-Jack Molloy is Motion Capture Specialist at Cloud Imperium Games.[1]
Early Life
He felt like if he was to do anything with his life video games had to be what he'd do. He grew up around the surge of CGI in films such as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies and the mocap technology in it pulled him in and learned a lot about it.[1]
For a bit he tought he would be a musician but he realized he had no hopes of making it as a musician and went back to college to study games development at Bournville College Staffordshire University. He wasn't sure which route to do but did very well in animation and went this route, learning also Maia on his own which gave him technical knowledge which hadn't been taught to that extent in university. He then taught this is what i want to do, the technical side of animation. The university had a position open for games and visual effects technical specialist, which he was very anxious to get and he got accepted and was an opportunity to learn more from the people he was working with.[1]
When COVID hit he was on furlough teaching others was hard since classroom weren't accessible.[1]
Cloud Imperium had a job opening for mocap specialist. He didn't pass the first interview but he passed the 2nd one a couple months later.[1]