Archive - The 3D Artist

3D Automotive Deep Dive 03 - The Tooling: The Software That Runs Automotive 3D

The actual tooling stack behind automotive 3D, from CAD conversion to the file format quietly holding every trim level of every car

Jul 20 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Job Openings!!!!

Netflix, Harvard, Sony, Ford, and Mazda are all hunting for 3D talent this week!!!

Jul 15 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Automotive Deep Dive 02 - From Sketch to Steel: How a Car Actually Gets Designed

Where the process breaks down, why it still works anyway, and why car paint might be the hardest problem in the industry

Jul 13 • Michael Tanzillo

Let's Do Some 3D Job Openings!!!

Meta, Epic Games, Autodesk, and HP headline this week's list, with a Redmond digital-twin startup and a Detroit automotive gig rounding things out.

Jul 8 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Automotive Deep Dive 01: A Brief History of Cars, Configurators, and Car Ads

How 3D quietly took over three completely different jobs in the automotive industry, and never fully finished the takeover

Jul 6 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Job Openings!!!!

Nike, GM, Epic Games, and the Baltimore Ravens headline a week that swings from Fortnite materials to NFL video boards to NIH scientific visualization.

Jul 1 • Michael Tanzillo

June 2026

Start Here: 3D Automotive Design for 3D Artists

A new deep dive series into one of the most technically advanced 3D industries

Jun 29 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Jobs: Netflix, Meta, Roblox, GM, and a Gig on the Largest Screen Ever Built

From R&D games at Netflix to rain puddles for GM's self-driving cars...the range this week is unreal.

Jun 24 • Michael Tanzillo

WTF is Retopology?

The skill AI mesh generation can't replace and why that matters right now

Jun 22 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Jobs Incoming!!!!

Target, Tesla, ILM, goodr, and a humanoid robotics startup in Germany. This week’s list earns its exclamation points.

Jun 17 • Michael Tanzillo

3D Artists + AI

Where things stand today

Jun 15 • Michael Tanzillo

More 3D Job Openings Incoming!!!!

BMW has multiple roles, Fanatics is paying up to $225K, and there’s a forensic visualization gig that could get you a Law & Order character based on you

Jun 10 • Michael Tanzillo

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