Senior Facial Character TD

Job Description

Insomniac Games, under the PlayStation brand, seeks a Senior Facial Character TD to create high-quality facial rigs. The role involves pioneering new tools and techniques to push visual boundaries and improve performance. The Senior Facial Character TD will collaborate with various teams to deliver top-tier assets.

Role involves:

• Authoring high-quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes.
• Creating rigging systems to support blendshape-based facial rigs.
• Contributing to systems for integrating head and body rigs.
• Collaborating with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams.
• Contributing to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs.
• Sculpting FACS using deformers and sculpting tools.
• Processing and cleaning 3D or 4D scan data from FACS sessions.

Requirements:

• Expert-level experience with Maya.
• Experience sculpting details with ZBrush, Mudbox, or comparable.
• Experience processing scan data with Wrap3 or comparable.
• Strong understanding of state-of-the-art approaches to rigging photorealistic faces.
• Understanding of FACS and facial anatomy.
• Understanding of current approaches to facial performance capture & solving.

Role offers:

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge facial technology.
• Chance to collaborate with various teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to tools and workflows.