CONTRACT ROLE
Insomniac is looking for a Senior Face Technical Designer. In this role you will be 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
- 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 in film and games
- Has strong understanding of facial shape transfer techniques and ability to implement shape transfer pipelines
- Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside)
- May be asked to direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions
- May ingest and integrate facial assets from 3rd parties
- May be expected to maintain relationships and provide feedback to external vendors
- Other duties may be assigned
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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.
$66.83—$100.29 USD
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What We Do
Insomniac Games has created and developed award-winning video game franchises across multiple platforms for 25 years, selling more than 70 million games along the way. We’re best known for developing the PlayStation®4 smash-hit, Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), and creating iconic PlayStation franchises such as Spyro the Dragon (1998), Ratchet & Clank (2002) and Resistance (2005). With studios in Burbank, Calif. and Durham, NC, Insomniac has earned 20 local, regional, state and national awards for our workplace culture. You can learn more about us at https://insomniac.games
