Studio: Playground Games
Job Opening: Blendshape Artist
Location: Royal Leamington Spa, England, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Bring the faces of Fable to life, through the creation of highly realistic blend shapes
- Populating the blend shape sets and testing them to ensure each actor’s likeness is maintained
- Aligning and cleaning up scanned expressions with the knowledge and skill to maintain the masses and underlying structure of the face
- Work closely with our Tech anim to create highly realistic and efficient facial rigs for a range of characters
Qualifications & Skills:
- Deep knowledge of facial anatomy; specifically, its musculature, underlying structure, and how that deforms in motion
- Advanced knowledge of FACS and associated systems and the ability to properly isolate expressions
- A broad experience, covering modeling, texturing, shading, rigging & skinning, animation, facial animation, and blend shapes
- A genuine passion for video games and Fable
