Everyone uses painter Job titles such as material artist, texture artist are what you want to be searching for if you're interested in surfacing rather than modelling
I'd like to offer the opinion that most industry roles aren't as rigid as they first may seem. While a lot of companies will try to hire you to be a machine, you are in fact supposed to be an artist. While many AAA-studios may have a fixed pipelines they want artist to fit into, anything smaller (and some AAA) can be able…
Imho biggest thing SD is missing is painting directly on 3D model. I believe this feature would make it much more popular, but probably also hurt Painter. As for using it, I do most of my texturing using SD, with some quick hacks in PS when I'm too lazy to rebake maps just for couple of screws . Tried to learn Painter few…