Adidas
3D Footwear Designer - BU Running
Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany
This role will create the market right products for the adidas brand as part of an international design team in cooperation with marketing and development and drive the digital transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Implement the creative vision in a product range for the category.
Visualize ideas for products and ranges in 3D with a high degree of expertise.
Design and develop creative solutions to concepts within the assigned category or specialty area or project with 3D digital in the lead. Present 3D digital designs in context to the category direction.
To support the achievement of the digital targets, by working closely with designers to create 3D Digital assets.
Clearly present product ideas and details during team meetings and range reviews aligned with content direction from marketing.
Ensure efficient process and communication flow between design, marketing, and development (within x- functional team) for all issues regarding the designed ranges and products.
Ensure proper handover of 3D images / digital design pack into development for the development process to start.
Ensure the design teams are trained and supported for the 3D digital way of working and feeding back opportunities to drive efficiency and quality improvements to 3D digital workflow process.
Self-Manage own creative process and execute towards given design languages within the category and according to the visual language of adidas and Corporate identity guidelines.
FitXR
Remote 3D Animator
Remote - London, UK - Short-Term Contract
FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of VR and MR, building a movement for movement.
We started life in 2016 in a garden shed in the UK. Today, we’re building FitXR, one of the top-downloaded apps on the Meta Quest store. We’ve raised close to $40m from top investors such as Maveron, Hiro, BoostVC, and TriplePoint.
We’ve built a growing range of fitness studios, from box workouts with world-class trainers like Olympian Nicola Adams to immersive Zumba dance classes. While nothing compares to trying it yourself, you can watch a trailer here.
FitXR is available on Meta Quest 2 & 3 and has been downloaded by over a million people worldwide and featured in Forbes, Empire, T3, Washington Post, Men’s Health, GQ, and more. In 2022, FitXR ranked 6th in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.
Saforsky
3D Artist
Chicago, IL
Join our team as a 3D Artist!
If you can move fluidly from 3D characters to hard surfaces and switch between styles like photorealism and claymation, we want you! This is a full-time position in Chicago.
At our studio our 3D Artists are more than the software they operate, they are problem solvers and designers. Yes, we often need specialists, who focus on rigging, modeling or < insert your specialization here >, but for our core team we need generalists who can move fluidly from 3D character to hard surface. We also need artists who can work in a variety of looks – from slick photo real phones in a studio lit environment to claymation characters in a stop motion vibe to colorful, cheeky graphic animations.
The 3D Artist Community Updates!
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David Filar is the Director of Product Creation and design at Endstate. He is an extremely accomplished footwear designer and one of the nicest people you’ll meet in the footwear industry.
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Hello! Michael Tanzillo here. I am the Head of Technical Artists with the Substance 3D Growth team at Adobe. Previously, I was a Senior Artist on animated films at Blue Sky Studios/Disney with credits including three Ice Age movies, two Rios, Peanuts, Ferdinand, Spies in Disguise, and Epic.
In addition to his work as an artist, I am the Co-Author of the book Lighting for Animation: The Visual Art of Storytelling and the Co-Founder of The Academy of Animated Art, an online school that has helped hundreds of artists around the world begin careers in Animation, Visual Effects, and Digital Imaging. I also created The 3D Artist Community and this newsletter.
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