[FULL-TIME] [Remote] 3D Artist (Stylized, Toy-Inspired) 2-Year Contract, £30,000/year

BluePixieStudio

Hi, I'm Emily from Blue Pixie Studio, a small, newly funded indie studio actively building a cute and colorful life-sim game with a distinctive, toy-inspired visual style.

The game has recently secured publisher funding, and we are now assembling a small, passionate team to help bring this playful, toy-inspired world to life!

We’re looking for a full-time remote 3D artist who can not only produce high-quality game-ready assets, but also bring strong creative judgement and visual taste to help the game consistently feel physical, playful, and toy-like.

Video of the game style: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6StlUlxsQT4DzPBlB-MsYqjXu7KVTTX/view?usp=drive_link

About the Role 🌟

The game has an established overall aesthetic direction: cute, cozy, and inspired by physical toys.

You’ll have creative input when designing assets, working collaboratively to ensure characters and props feel intentionally cute, playful, and toy-like. You will:

• Translate ideas into assets that feel intentionally toy-like, not just stylized
• Help ensure visual consistency across characters, clothing, props, and environments
• Ensure the models are game-ready and optimised

This is a hands-on creative role, where good visual instincts are as important as technical skill.

Responsibilities:

Characters & Clothing 

• Create toy-style character clothing, hair and accessories
• Skin and weight meshes to an existing character
• Apply a consistent sense of scale, thickness, and construction appropriate for physical toys

Environment & Props 

• Model environment props in a low-to-mid poly, toy-inspired style
• Create clean normal maps and ambient occlusion bakes
• Use simple, readable textures that suit a cozy life-simulation game
• Improve and rework existing props to better reflect a physical, toy-like construction and finish.

Textures & Materials

Create stylized textures, including:

•    Toy-like surface details (seams, mould lines, subtle embossing, etc.)
•    Toon-style eye expressions / facial elements

Animation

Create cute life-simulation animations, such as:

•    Idle, walk, run
•    Emotes and interactions
•    General life-sim animations

What We Offer 

• Fully remote, full-time role with flexible working hours
• Long-term stability (2-years)
• A meaningful level of creative input
• A small, passionate team

Please send:

• A link to your portfolio
• Any experience you have
• Where you are based
• When you are available to begin