There is lots of freelance tech art. I mostly work with smaller indie studios that don't have a tech artist. I think Paul Neale (http://paulneale.com/) is a great example of a freelance tech artist.
Indeed! Tech art is one of those roles that is quite common to hire-in as necessary, since a lot of small studios don't always have particularly specialist knowledge like that on hand, but may need to solve one or two difficult problems :)
@Justin Meisse I don't think working fulltime + freelance is for everyone. I mainly do it because I was just working on my own personal projects outside of work anyway, and the wife prefers I'm at least making money doing the same stuff. :) I also don't have kids so I think I have more free time than my co-workers. When I…
i work from home, but i'm on a full time contract? edit: with regard to rates, when i first started i was charging £160 per day. at the time i considered that to be a lot, but as time went on and i started getting more jobs, needing to juggle clients and put people on hold etc. i decided to push my rates up... i figured if…