Meta, Tiffany & Co, & McClaren Group All Hiring 3D Artists!
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Meta
Principal Technical Artist
USA - Remote - $181K/yr - $250K/yr
OURO Interactive is Oculus Studio’s first in-house game studio dedicated exclusively to creating flagship games for Horizon Worlds. As a Principal Tech Artist for OURO Interactive, you’ll be at the forefront of shipping cross-platform VR/MR and mobile experiences for the ever-expanding Horizon metaverse.
Principal Technical Artist Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain art production workflows and pipelines by creating features, tools, plugins, and scripts to aid artists, reduce pain points, and speed up iteration cycles
Provide input on the ongoing development of the primary game engine, editor, and tooling to our cross functional partners on other teams
Maintain and adhere to a consistent art style and ensure technical requirements for assets are enforced
Optimize environments to keep artistic fidelity as high as possible while maintaining performance
Support the ingestion of finished art to the game engine, assisting in asset performance and validation
Create and maintain technical documentation
Train and mentor other artists to grow their technical skills
Develop the team’s shader tech and implement high-level features and maintain low-level shader code organization and optimization
Collaborate closely with graphics programming and our core tech teams on features that keep the game performant and achieve the highest artistic standards
Support the content team in debugging issues with tools, assets, or framerate
Tiffany & Co
Designer - 3D CAD Jewelry Design
USA - New York, NY - $101.6K/yr - $137.4K/yr
The Designer, 3D CAD Jewelry Design works on the jewelry design team and is responsible for ensuring the design integrity, consistency and aesthetic vision is maintained and executed throughout the development lifecycle of a project. This individual will work on projects in High, High/Fine and Custom jewelry product categories. This position requires expertise as a 3D CAD Jewelry Designer, utilizing CAD software to create and refine jewelry designs. The designer will translate concepts and sketches into precise 3D models ready for manufacturing.
Key Accountabilities Design/Project Management
Model, refine and produce designs for handoff to Engineering, CAD team and workshops.
Design and actualize concepts in partnership with Design team.
Create 3D CAD files, photo realistic 2D presentation artwork, 2D technical artwork, design iterations and size and color variations.
Ensure consistency of design and house codes across jewelry collections and concepts.
Partner with external vendors, the jewelry design and innovation workshop and product development to execute design intent samples and anticipate and resolve critical issues throughout the development cycle
Adapt to changing priorities as directed by design team and meet product development deadlines.
Partner with designers to oversee jewelry product category projects throughout the development lifecycle.
Fabricut, Inc
Marketing 3-D Artist
USA - Tulsa, OK
The 3D Generalist is responsible for creating highly detailed, real-world scale, 3D models related to interior design. Specializing in creating photorealistic models, textures, materials, lighting, and rendering for interior environments. Position is onsite in Tulsa, OK.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Evolve and execute artistic vision at a high production standard
Understand environmental concept art, and industry standards
Be able to explore visual ideas, and rapidly prototype these ideas in 3D
Collaborate with Marketing, Web/IT and Product stakeholders
Create documentation and guides for internal and external teams
Use industry standards and proprietary tools to create content
Work directly with the Stylist to generate 3D models at both photo-real and real-time resolutions
Participate in template and asset development of 3D content
Assist in developing new standards for modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering of products within the established workflow
Assist with post-production editing on rendered content
Ensure production deadlines and quality control are achieved
Perform other duties as assigned
Job duties are subject to change by management
McClaren Group
Design Industrial Placement 2026
UK - London
What to Expect
We are recruiting for an Industrial Placement Intern to join our Design team in Bicester, Oxfordshire. As a Design Intern, you will work within our Design Studio on cutting-edge projects to add to an existing portfolio of work in automotive design.
This is a 12-month, full-time Industrial Placement designed to give you hands-on experience and practical insight. You’ll work alongside experienced professionals, gaining exposure to the tools, processes, and mindset that bring our iconic cars to life.
Please note this is an on-site position.
What You’ll Do
During your Industrial Placement Year, you will be immersed in core Design functions. You’ll work alongside experienced professionals, gaining exposure to a range of design activities and learning from experts across the team. Key responsibilities may include:
Design Development: Collaborate with experienced designers to refine and develop design concepts, taking projects from initial ideation to detailed design stages.
Creative Input: Contribute fresh and innovative ideas to ongoing design projects within McLaren’s Design Studio, leveraging your creative flair and academic knowledge.
Digital Modelling: Utilize design software to create digital models and renderings, bringing design concepts to life and contributing to the visualization of future McLaren vehicles.
Portfolio Review: Participate in portfolio reviews with senior designers and provide insights into your university design work, showcasing your skills, creativity, and potential contribution to the team.
Design Research: Conduct research on emerging design trends, materials, and technologies, contributing valuable insights to the design development process.
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers and other designers, to understand the practical aspects of translating design concepts into production-ready vehicles.
Learning and Development: Embrace the learning opportunities provided during the internship to develop your skills in automotive design, understanding McLaren’s design philosophy and principles.
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Hayley Akins is a UK-based motion designer, educator, and the driving force behind the business-education platform Motion Hatch. With a background in film production and music technology, she originally entered the media world working in sports-broadcast graphics before taking a senior motion design role at Google’s internal production team.
Feeling confined by studio roles, Hayley made the leap into freelancing to work on projects more aligned with her values (clients like the United Nations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are among those she’s served.)
Seeing a recurring challenge for motion designers, how to run the business side of the craft, Hayley founded Motion Hatch. Through its podcast, community, courses and resources she teaches freelancers how to price properly, win the right clients, and design a lifestyle around their work.
Today, Hayley describes her mission simply: to help motion designers, animators and studios “make more money, save more time and work on projects they love.”
Her work stands out because it blends creative craft and business acumen, something she noticed was missing when she transitioned from studio employment to freelancing. By building systems and community for motion professionals, she’s empowering a generation of creatives to thrive not just as makers, but as business-owners.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to scale your studio, Hayley offers an example of how to build a meaningful, freedom-centred career in motion design.
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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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