Blendshape Artist Jobs

Titan1Studios and Missing Socks Entertainment are currently in need of a BlendShape Artist to create expressive characters for Animated TV/Digital Series and Video Games.

The successful candidate is an expert in creating both realistic and stylized characters in Maya, ZBrush and Photoshop, and has a portfolio that clearly demonstrates your ability across multiple genres and styles. You will work with our internal team of Character Artists, an Art Director, and an Animation Lead to ensure that your work meets the necessary quality and style.

As part of our pipeline, the successful candidate:

• Has 3+ years of professional and/or educational experience in character modelling and art, with relevant education and training from a recognized post secondary, or equivalent experience.

• Has built an impressive portfolio of realistic and stylized character art, and will provide a link to a portfolio with this application,

• Is proficient in Maya or Blender, Photoshop, and ZBrush, and is experienced in working with technical artists, artists, and engineers in prototyping, with knowledge of modern industry-standard tools, techniques, and workflows.

• Has extensive knowledge of human anatomy, proportion, silhouette, topology, rendering, and deformation, and extensive knowledge of facial features under multiple facial expressions and emotion, and how they affect motion.

• Is skilled in character-related disciplines, such as modeling, texturing, shading, rigging & binding, animation, facial animation, and blend shapes, and can articulate the art direction focus and conduct art reviews through written and verbal communication with internal and external teams.

• Can prepare assets for physical simulations, such as cloth, hair, while interpreting 2D reference material into 3D textured and surfaced models, while documenting workflows for internal and external teams.

• Has an understanding of FACS.

ABOUT TITAN1STUDIOS

TITAN1STUDIOS is a prestigious, award-winning cross-media content and technology studio established in 2016, focused on creating original intellectual property. By integrating diversity and representation in all stages of production, our team of producers, artists, and technical specialists are crafting captivating stories for global audiences.

With universes characterized by themes of family, identity, mental health, and constructing a brighter future, our initial IPs included the graphic novelsKnight Guardians of Relativityand the beloved all-ages seriesZomben, both part of distinct worlds: theRelativity Universeand theMultipocalypse Universerespectively. Moreover, the studio has extended its creative work by introducing theCoseema Saga, a thrilling YA novel series in publication and available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo Rakuten.

In Entertainment Technology, the studio offers real-time production, visual development, AI, and web3 services, to power its lineup of projects, including IPs in TV/Film, Animation, Gaming, Publishing, and the Metaverse.