3D Artist Intern

Tencent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Level Infinite, Tencent's global gaming brand, is looking for a skilled hard-surface 3D artist to create high-quality assets such as vehicles, weapons, and sci-fi props. You will handle high-poly to low-poly workflows, UVs, and baking maps for PBR texturing, ensuring clean topology and performance-ready results.

You will collaborate with artists, programmers, and designers in Unreal Engine or Unity, and explore AI-assisted workflows to accelerate concept design and texture generation while

Qualifications

• Portfolio showcasing complete hard-surface and PBR work.
• Proficient in Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender with hard-surface focus.
• Experience with Substance Painter or Mari for PBR textures.
• Familiar with baking high-poly to low-poly maps and UVs.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality hard-surface assets: vehicles, weapons, machinery.
• Bake normal maps and texture maps from high-poly to low-poly.
• Import assets into Unreal Engine or Unity and collaborate with team.
• Explore AI tools to assist in concept design and texture generation.

Skills

3D modeling

PBR texturing

Game engines

AI-assisted workflows

Portfolio

Education

Art/digital media degree

Related field preferred

Tools

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

Marmoset Toolbag

Substance Painter

Mari

ZBrush

Job description

About The Hiring Team

Level Infinite is Tencent's global gaming brand. It is a global game publisher offering a comprehensive network of services for games, development teams, and studios around the world.

About The Hiring Team

Level Infinite is Tencent's global gaming brand. It is a global game publisher offering a comprehensive network of services for games, development teams, and studios around the world. We are dedicated to delivering engaging and original gaming experiences to a worldwide audience, whenever and wherever they choose to play while building a community that fosters inclusivity, connection, and accessibility. Level Infinite also provides a wide range of services and resources to our network of developers and partner studios around the world to help them unlock the true potential of their games.

What The Role Entails

• Responsible for creating high-quality hard-surface game assets, including vehicles, weapons, machinery, sci-fi environment props, and other related objects. Work includes high-poly modeling, low-poly modeling, and UV unwrapping/layout.
• Responsible for baking normal maps and related texture maps from high-poly models to low-poly models, and creating realistic material and texture effects based on the PBR workflow.
• Import completed assets into mainstream game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity, and collaborate with programmers and game designers to restore and adjust the final in-engine visual results.
• Work with the team to explore how generative AI tools, such as Midjourney and Hunyuan 3D, can be integrated into early- and mid-stage asset production workflows, including concept design support and texture generation assistance.

Who We Look For

• Majors in art, digital media, 3D animation, game design, or related fields are preferred. Outstanding candidates from other backgrounds are also welcome. A personal portfolio is required, including complete hard-surface and PBR works.
• Proficient in at least one mainstream 3D modeling software, such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender. Solid foundation in hard-surface modeling, with clean topology, reasonable edge flow, and accurate structural design.
• Proficient in Substance Painter or Mari for PBR material and texture creation, with a strong eye for material qualities such as metal, plastic, paint, wear, scratches, and surface aging.
• Familiar with the complete high-poly to low-poly baking workflow using tools such as Marmoset Toolbag or Substance Painter. Able to accurately preserve high-poly details while maintaining proper low-poly polygon counts and topology structure.
• Familiar with common AI image generation and model design workflows. Able to use AI tools to quickly extract design inspiration, assist in concept sketch generation, or support texture and material creation, such as using Stable Diffusion to enhance detail maps or understanding the basic principles of AI image-to-3D workflows.
• Strong self-learning ability and teamwork spirit. Passionate about emerging technologies, such as virtualized micropolygon geometry technology and AI-assisted production workflows.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in Blender for efficient hard-surface modeling, including experience with plugins such as HardOps and Boxcutter.
• Hands-on experience integrating assets into Unreal Engine 5 or Unity projects/demos, with basic understanding of material node setup.
• Ability to use Stable Diffusion or Midjourney for controllable image generation, with practical experience integrating AI into production workflows, such as creating seamless textures or developing concept base designs.
• Familiarity with ZBrush sculpting, especially for assets involving both hard-surface and organic elements, or complex surface wear and damage details.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.