Freelance 3D Asset Artist (Props & Environments)
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Groom and game friendly Hair creation experience.
