Senior Facial TD (CONTRACT)

Job description

CONTRACT ROLE: Insomniac Games is looking for a new Senior Facial Character TD. In this role, the Senior Facial Character TD is responsible for authoring facial rigs from scratch or utilizing a variety of high-resolution scan-data; participate in facial research & development efforts; pioneer and recommend new tools, techniques and technology for pushing visual boundaries, performance and efficiency. Responsible for a strong understanding of FACS and facial anatomy, as well as cutting edge approaches to facial technology. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: 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 to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside) Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rig...