Insomniac Games is looking for a Senior Facial TD to author facial rigs, participate in facial research & development, and pioneer new tools and techniques for pushing visual boundaries, performance, and efficiency.
Requirements
- Authors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes
- Authors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs
- Authors or contributes to systems/workflows for integrating head and body rigs
- Collaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams
- Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs
- Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization
- Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs
- Contributes to facial animation systems such as facial solvers and R&D
- Sculpts FACS using deformers and/or sculpting tools
- Processes and cleans 3D or 4D scan data from FACS sessions
- Keeps up with state-of-the-art approaches to facial rigging for photorealistic characters
- Has strong understanding of facial shape transfer techniques and ability to implement shape transfer pipelines
- May direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions
- May ingest and integrate facial assets from 3rd parties
- May maintain relationships and provide feedback to external vendors
Benefits