Senior Facial Character TD (CONTRACT)

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