Playstation: Blendshape Artists (contract)

Animator is needed in Canada.

Playstation is seeking Blendshape Artists. This job was crawled from the web.

Location: Canada, Remote

Contract: Contract

Responsibilities:

• The Blendshape Artist will be responsible for bringing highly-realistic faces to life for both cinematic and in-game sequences
• You will work with our senior and leads on the topology edge-flow and determine the final positioning and refinement to key assets such as eyes, teeth, tongue and eyelashes
• When the model face is finalized the artist will sculpt a full array of naturalistic FACs and corrective blendshapes for expressive photorealistic humans
• Sculpting a series of high-resolution wrinkle maps to add a final level of polish and nuance to the expressions
• Work closely with the external clients, internal artists and outsourcing partners to keep quality and style consistent across all characters
• Create and lead others in the creation of photo-realistic humans, with particular attention to advanced facial modeling and expression modeling
• Lead and mentor both internal character teams and outsourcing partners to reach aesthetic and technical goals
• Create documentation, communicate requirements, and provide feedback to internal artists and outsourcing partners
• Constantly and proactively seek to improve the production processes, tools and pipelines for character creation, rigging and animation and rendering

Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of professional character art experience in high-end 3D games and/or films
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Grasp of realistic human anatomy with special emphasis on the head/face
• Understanding of Maya and basic understanding/use of blend shapes
• Comfortable making facial expressions in the mirror and ideally capable of isolating difference expressions/actions in the face
• Must have extreme attention to detail and an eye for minute differences/movements in the face
• The ability to grasp technical concepts at least from a broad perspective and follow technical workflows while pushing artistic limit
• Self-manage and keep track of progress and troubleshoot technical issues with Maya
• Brainstorm ideas that keep in mind the overall goals of the project

Desired qualifications:

• Experience with facial rigging of any kind as well as sculpting in Zbrush, Mudbox, etc.
• Experience with facial blend shape workflows on realistic humans
• Expert understanding of human anatomy
• Experience with Blendshape Combination System plug-in
• Experience with Perforce