Digital Human Look Development Artist
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Hardware
Apple's Synthetic Data Group provides content for developing real-time on-device Computer Vision and Machine Perception technologies across Apple products. We are looking for a world-class character look development artist to help us achieve the highest levels of photorealism in our digital human content. The ideal candidate will flourish in a fast-paced, dynamic research environment while continually improving quality and reusability. Contribute to generation of synthetic data used to develop software solutions which will enable Apple’s next generation products.
Key Qualifications
- 7+ years experience working with techniques and technologies for CG rendering and character look development in feature film, VFX, and/or games
- Excellent ability to discern and manipulate light, shade, color, and intricate details to create physically-based, photorealistic material models
- Extensive knowledge and experience on creating photorealistic digital humans, including modeling, look dev, body and facial rigging, cloth, and hair
- Expertise in Maya with crafting advanced shading networks for the creation of photorealistic, physically-based materials
- Highly proficient in painting 2d textures in Photoshop, and 3D texture painting in Mari, Substance 3D painter, and/or ZBrush
- Solid understanding working with V-Ray or other ray trace renderers
- Ability to scale work to large numbers of diverse digital content while maintaining quality
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Description
Leverage your experience in character look development to model, groom, create shaders and materials that will generalize to a diverse range of photorealistic digital human content. You will work in a cross-functional team providing synthetic data to develop innovative computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
Education & Experience
BA/BFA in Digital Media/Visual Effects/Animation or equivalent industry experience
Additional Requirements
- Please Provide portfolio of your work.
- Developing synthetic data content for machine learning, and computer vision is a big bonus
- Python scripting is beneficial
- Familiarity with photogrammetry
- Self managed, self motivated, and able to learn new pipeline and procedures
- Experience working with external art teams and outsource vendors
- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities and interpersonal skills
- Ability to find creative solutions for technically challenging tasks
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies