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Senior Facial Character TD at Insomniac Games. Location Information: United States. 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 rigs. . . . Contributes to facial animation systems such as facial solvers and R&D (python/C++/Machine Learning). . . . Sculpts FACS (from scratch if necessary) using deformers and/or sculpting tools. . . . 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. . . . May be asked to direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions. . . Please mention the word **PAMPEREDLY** and tag RMTA0LjE1NC4yMDcuNTI= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTA0LjE1NC4yMDcuNTI=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human..