Studio: Warner Bros. Discovery
Job Opening: Lead Artist, Facial Animation
Location: Kirkland, Washington State
Type: Full time
Qualifications & Skills:
- 8+ years working as an animator in the entertainment industry with a focus on facial animation.
- Strong understanding of facial anatomy.
- Experience working in modern facial animation pipelines.
- Deep understanding of FACS based animation analysis and implementation (e.g. Faceware).
- Experience working in industry standard 3D software packages (e.g. Maya) and creating blendshape based facial systems and animations.
- Deep knowledge of facial topology, anatomy and rigging solutions to best support both automated and individually authored performances.
- Ability to direct and focus on the “details that matter” in emotional performances.
- Portfolio/website/reel demonstrating fundamental foundational art skills, design sensibilities, and attention to detail.
- 2 shipped AAA titles.
- Experience in a Lead or equivalent position preferred
- Understanding of facial likeness capture and scan processes including light stage, photogrammetry, HMC and hybrid approaches preferred
- Experience in motion and performance capture facial animation pipelines preferred
- Experience using audio analysis software for facial animation generation preferred
