About this role
Senior Facial Character TD at Insomniac Games
This position is for temporary engagement through our staffing partner, Yoh Enterprise Solutions.
Insomniac Games is looking for a new Senior Facial Character TD. In this role, the Senior Facial Character TD is responsible for authoring effective FACS shapes from scratch for human and non-human characters; collaborates in developing rigs to support high-fidelity animated facial performances; participates in facial research & development efforts. Expected to have an expert understanding of FACS and facial anatomy and cutting-edge approaches to facial technology.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Expert level understanding of FACS and facial anatomy for cutting edge application to facial animation technology
- Expert proficiency in sculpting FACS shapes using deformers and/or sculpting tools for human and non-human characters
- Expert understanding of facial skeletal and muscle anatomy;
- Collaborates with animation, character art, and engineering teams to produce high quality face rigs
- Authors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs
- Authors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes
- Collaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine
- Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization
- Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs
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