Senior Facial TD (CONTRACT)

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

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision