is your studio paying the maximum that they can pay you, or are the paying the minimum that they can pay you? Your effort should be proportional to that. Personally the only way I am going to exhaust myself at a job is if I am a partner - e.g. a percentage of profits are coming back to me, and that I have full and complete…
if you're a 3d generalist, this sounds normal. I frequently do environment assets alongside monsters, weapons and character armour. If the work is becoming too much for the allowed deadlines, you need to let your lead know, especially if you're taking on the work of recently laid off coworkers, that demands extra pay and…