[Hiring] Freelance 3D Asset Artist @Glitch Productions

Role Description

Glitch Productions is looking for a highly creative, artistic and dedicated Freelance 3D Asset Artist (Props & Environments) who can create high-quality, stylised 3D assets for our animated productions. In this role, you'll model a wide range of props, set pieces and environment assets from concept art, helping expand the horizons of animated series. We have a wide variety of artstyles and aesthetics in our shows, offering our team a chance to expand their skills and experiment all the time.

• Create high-quality 3D props and environment assets from concept art.
• Model assets using Maya or Blender.
• Ability to modify modelling efficiency based on graded complexity and shot importance.
• Produce clean, production-ready topology and UV for rigging and unreal artists.
• Create textures using Substance Painter where required.
• Prepare assets for Unreal Engine integration.
• Revise assets based on creative and technical feedback.
• Deliver files that meet production and pipeline standards.

Qualifications

• Have an excellent eye for high quality 3D artwork.
• Ability to prioritize complexity, detail, and efficiency based on Lead callouts.
• Proficient in Maya, Blender, Unreal, Substance Painter, ZBrush or other 3D software.
• Ability to model and texture complex but stylized high-rez & low-rez props, and background items to occasionally support the environment team.
• Ability to model hard surface items and small environments, as well as vehicles.
• Ability to create textures for use with various shaders (specular maps, normal maps, etc.).
• Good sense of how 3D form perceptively changes based on lighting, materials, and scale.
• Have strong time management skills and be able to reliably work independently.
• Ability to work as a team player with designers, directors and producers.
• Able to take direction, work toward very specific objectives with minimal supervision and iterate quickly.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with Unreal Engine 5.
• Skill in one or more related disciplines – illustration, animation, visual effects, or technical art.
• UE Blueprinting knowledge.
• Look development skills.
• Groom and game friendly hair creation experience.