Technical Artist - Facial Animation and Rigging

Technical Artist - Facial Animation and Rigging

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We're looking for an experienced Technical Artist to join our AR team to focus on facial animation and rigging of real time characters. You will be joining a team that supports Messenger's growing portfolio of AR products and features. Working closely with designers, engineers, and other technical artists, you'll work to bring AR characters to life on the Messenger platform, to be used by over a billion users on the Messenger Platform.

• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to define and develop content in Unity, Unreal Engine, VR Shell, and other graphic engines
• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
• Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional leads
• Responsible for maintaining assets from creation to shipping
• Ability to collaborate and iterate based on the team's needs
• Demonstrate appeal in animation and posing
• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety technical and artistic tasks

• 3+ years experience with Maya Python/PyMEL, C API, PySide/PyQt, JavaScript
• 3+ years of experience in game development or film as a Technical Artist
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists
• Expert Knowledge of character rigging in Maya
• Experience in facial rigging and morph targets
• Experience with real time asset implementation and optimization techniques
• Experience working with Unity and/or UE4

• Extensive Content development experience, including shipped AAA games
• Virtual reality experience
• Knowledge of emerging technologies
• Shader programming experience
• Experience with face tracking from video or similar technologies

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