3D Artist (Generalist)

🌟 Who We Are: Alpaka Games is a self-publishing mobile game studio building fast, polished, hybrid-casual puzzle games. We move quickly, prototype aggressively, and rely on sharp product thinking to scale hits. Our culture values clarity, ownership, and tight execution.👾 Who You Are:Creative Visionary: You think in shapes, colors, and moments of satisfaction, and you know how to make a simple puzzle feel delightful.Business-Minded Gamer: You understand that art in hybrid-casual games serves retention and monetization, not just aesthetics.Player-First Mindset: You design visuals that are instantly readable, satisfying to interact with, and appealing enough to keep players coming back.AI-Native Creator: You treat generative AI as a core part of your pipeline. You write precise prompts, control style consistently, and turn AI output into production-ready assets.Proactive: You anticipate challenges, take initiative, and strive for improvement.Fun Team Enthusiast: You bring positivity to game art and teamwork.🚀 What You’ll Do:Bring games to life: Collaborate with game designers, developers, and product managers to create polished, satisfying puzzle experiences.Design 3D assets: Model shapes, layouts, collectibles, props, characters, and environments for core gameplay and meta layers.Accelerate with AI: Use AI image and 3D generation tools to speed up concepting, modeling, and texturing, and document workflows the team can reuse.Optimize assets: Clean up AI-generated and hand-made assets with retopology, UVs, and baking, and keep low-poly workflows within mobile performance budgets.Troubleshoot issues: Resolve technical challenges in 3D asset performance and integration.Organize efficiently: Manage a clean, accessible asset library and style references.🔧 What We Require:3D Artist experience: Proven in mobile game development, ideally in hybrid-casual or puzzle titles.3D tools mastery: Proficient in Blender or relevant tools Unity expertise: Skilled in asset integration, materials, lighting, and optimization.Texturing skills: Strong in creating stylized textures, including PBR and baked workflows, with any industry-standard texturing tool.VFX & animation: Able to create feedback animations (pops, bounces, squash-and-stretch, merges, clears), simple character and object animations, and VFX (particles, shader effects, celebrations) in Unity, using AI tools to speed things up where useful. AI proficiency: Hands-on production experience with generative AI tools, plus advanced prompting skills to get consistent, on-style results across many assets using references, seeds, and custom style models.Portfolio strength: Includes mobile-optimized stylized assets.Team player: Strong collaboration and communication skills.🦙 Why Join Alpaka Games?Be part of a startup where your ideas matter and contribute directly to our success.Work with a talented, experienced team that’s obsessed with making innovative games.Work in a fun and dynamic environment that fosters innovation and creativity.Competitive salary, employee benefits, and opportunities for career growth.This position will require a case study during the hiring process.