Isn't it obvious its in the name sculptor sculpt , if there is sculptor in job title/description that's what you do , high res sculpt Sculptor and character artist are no the same thing even tho character artist is suppose to know how to sculpt and sculptor mostly do figurative art , subject is base on personal preference…
Sculpting is usually used for organic shapes. And characters like humans and creatures is one of the most needed organic shape in 3D. Is there other stuff that you can sculpt? Sure. But a sculptor without the skills to shape a character will have a hard time to find his niche.
Hello, Again ... what do you actually want to know ? Or rather, what are you trying to do that makes you think of asking this (somewhat odd) question ? There obviously isn't one single term to describe a given job, so no, you will not find some kind of lexicon that will say "a job posting for someone sculpting X kind of…
That's the low poly stuff that i mean. In this case there might even be some sculpting involved. But this can also simply be done by some clever texture painting, completely without any sculpting. As Pior pointed already out, there is no special job for 3d sculptors. Sculpting is part of the 3D job like cutting onions is…
It's not weird or sophisticated question to ask. I just noticed that a) there are no job offers for "3D sculptors", and b) someone has to sculpt all that organic, stylized stuff. So I asked who is the guy.
As some have already said I don't think there are many "3d sculptor" only positions or if there are then they are not advertised for whatever reason. I think it is somewhat similar to Texture artist positions. Many of the texture artists positions are not just texturing, they want modeling and sculpting as well.
There are many games with stylized art, like mobile games, fantasy and such (like games from Riot or Blizzard), where everything is sort of "organic". When they hire people, do they describe job positions as 3D modellers, 3D sculptors, or do they hire character artists to sculpt buildings like those in Heroes of the Storm…