FaceSwap Supervisor

This is a Full Time Job

Job Summary:

Position Summary

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

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