FaceSwap Supervisor - ILM London
Position Summary
FaceSwap is a new, exciting, and growing field within the visual effects industry, using Machine Learning (AI) to create digital faces and likenesses. We are currently looking for people with a keen eye for, and curiosity about, photo realism, as well as those comfortable with the technical side of visual effects. The FaceSwap Supervisor will be a pioneer and trailblazer in a new area of visual effects technology. While a background in compositing is helpful, artists with visual effects experience in any field are encouraged to apply.
What You’ll Do:
- Implement and lead all aspects of a variety of deep learning based technologies to produce photorealistic images, including open source tools, and proprietary in house software
- Collaborate with VFX supervisors, Head of department, to help develop the creative and technical approach for FaceSwap workflows on a variety of projects.
- Collaborate with global CGTS/FaceSwap group to help prioritize technical/workflow related tasks
- Assist bidding team and producers with evaluating and bidding potential FaceSwap work on future projects
- Guides FaceSwap work and ensures the technical quality meets expectations, as well as making aesthetic decisions for these groups, including reviewing work from artists and leads
- Supervise the training progress, and assess improvements and quality; making vital adjustments to the configuration of training
- Stay up to date on all the latest technology, and be able to implement the latest research with RnD support
- Drive the department innovation and design new workflows for new ML implementations.
- Supervisors should drive creative and tech direction of the team for the whole show/multiple show
- Create templates to facilitate model evaluation, that can be handed over to artists if needed
- Helps Troubleshoots technical issues, maintain tickets and test tool development.
- Delegating and scheduling tasks to FaceSwap artists along with Production.
- Ability to prioritize task load, and manage your time well on multiple projects with tight schedules.
- Help mentor emerging talent, share techniques, demonstrate skills and build tutorials if needed.
- Building and maintaining documentation of your processes to help with dissemination of knowledge across sites.
- Support the development of up to date training material and take part in training sessions to expand FaceSwap knowledge in the team
What We’re Looking For:
- Extensive experience in visual effects or CG industry
- Experience using or training deep neural networks models, such as Nuke Copycat, DeepFaceLab or other face swapping tools.
- Experience working on projects with realistic looking CGI humans or other face replacement approaches
- A curious mind that is interested in learning new things, and enjoys experimentation and testing
- Flexible and adaptable to changing workflows, detail oriented and meticulous
- Expert knowledge of Nuke to prepare precomps and slap comps
- Python scripting skills to automate and streamline repeated day-to-day tasks
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills. Can collaborate with artists from other teams
- Comfortable working with or learning command-line driven tools
- Interested in, or have basic familiarity with, deep neural networks
Nice to have:
- Experience with Keen Tools/ ComfyUI
- Experience leading a project and supervising a team