3D Artist for Games

You spend your days building the characters, creatures, props, and environments that players see on screen. Working in tools like Blender, Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, you sculpt shapes, wrap them in textures, and hand them off rigged and game-ready to the animators and engine team. Most of the work happens at a game studio or an outsourcing house, sitting close to art directors and technical artists who review your models in weekly milestones. You bounce between artistic taste and hard technical limits, since every polygon and texture has to run smoothly on a console or phone.