Senior Facial Character TD - United States, Remote
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Job Title: Senior Facial Character TD (Senior Character TD)
Summary: 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:
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Authors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes
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Authors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs
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Authors or contributes to systems/workflows for integrating head and body rigs
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Collaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine
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Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside)
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Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization
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Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs
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Contributes to facial animation systems such as facial solvers and R&D (python/C++/Machine Learning)
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Sculpts FACS (from scratch if necessary) using deformers …
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SkillsC++ Machine Learning Python R Scripting
Tasks- Collaborate with teams
5-7 years
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