3D Artist (Generalist)

Alpaka Games; Fatih; On-site; TRY 1,997,000 - 3,495,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpaka Games is a self-publishing mobile game studio creating fast, polished, hybrid-casual puzzle experiences. You’ll design 3D assets, leverage AI for rapid concepting, and ensure assets meet mobile performance budgets.

You will collaborate with designers, developers, and product managers to bring delightful puzzles to life, employing Blender and Unity to texture, light, and optimize assets for a strong player experience.

Qualifications

• 3D artist with mobile game experience in hybrid-casual or puzzle titles.
• Proficient in Blender or relevant tools.
• Unity expert in asset integration, materials, lighting, and optimization.
• Texturing skills in stylized textures, including PBR and baked workflows.
• VFX & animation in Unity, with AI-assisted speedups.

Responsibilities

• Bring games to life: collaborate with game designers, developers, and product managers to create polished, satisfying puzzle experiences.
• Design 3D assets: model shapes, layouts, collectibles, props, characters, and environments for core gameplay and meta layers.
• Accelerate with AI: use AI image and 3D generation tools to speed up concepting, modeling, and texturing, and document workflows the team can reuse.
• Optimize assets: clean up AI-generated and hand-made assets with retopology, UVs, and baking, and keep low-poly workflows within mobile performance budgets.
• Troubleshoot issues: resolve technical challenges in 3D asset performance and integration.
• Organize efficiently: manage a clean, accessible asset library and style references.

Skills

3D Artist experience

Unity expertise

Texturing skills

VFX & animation

AI proficiency

Team player

Tools

Blender

Unity

Job description

Alpaka Games is a self-publishing mobile game studio building fast, polished, hybrid-casual puzzle games. We move quickly, prototype aggressively, and rely on sharp product thinking to scale hits. Our culture values clarity, ownership, and tight execution.

Who You Are:

• Creative Visionary: You think in shapes, colors, and moments of satisfaction, and you know how to make a simple puzzle feel delightful.
• Business-Minded Gamer: You understand that art in hybrid-casual games serves retention and monetization, not just aesthetics.
• Player-First Mindset: You design visuals that are instantly readable, satisfying to interact with, and appealing enough to keep players coming back.
• AI-Native Creator: You treat generative AI as a core part of your pipeline. You write precise prompts, control style consistently, and turn AI output into production-ready assets.
• Proactive: You anticipate challenges, take initiative, and strive for improvement.
• Fun Team Enthusiast: You bring positivity to game art and teamwork.

What You’ll Do:

• Bring games to life: Collaborate with game designers, developers, and product managers to create polished, satisfying puzzle experiences.
• Design 3D assets: Model shapes, layouts, collectibles, props, characters, and environments for core gameplay and meta layers.
• Accelerate with AI: Use AI image and 3D generation tools to speed up concepting, modeling, and texturing, and document workflows the team can reuse.
• Optimize assets: Clean up AI-generated and hand-made assets with retopology, UVs, and baking, and keep low-poly workflows within mobile performance budgets.
• Troubleshoot issues: Resolve technical challenges in 3D asset performance and integration.
• Organize efficiently: Manage a clean, accessible asset library and style references.

What We Require:

• 3D Artist experience: Proven in mobile game development, ideally in hybrid-casual or puzzle titles.
• 3D tools mastery: Proficient in Blender or relevant tools
• Unity expertise: Skilled in asset integration, materials, lighting, and optimization.
• Texturing skills: Strong in creating stylized textures, including PBR and baked workflows, with any industry-standard texturing tool.
• VFX & animation: Able to create feedback animations (pops, bounces, squash-and-stretch, merges, clears), simple character and object animations, and VFX (particles, shader effects, celebrations) in Unity, using AI tools to speed things up where useful.
• AI proficiency: Hands-on production experience with generative AI tools, plus advanced prompting skills to get consistent, on-style results across many assets using references, seeds, and custom style models.
• Team player: Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Be part of a startup where your ideas matter and contribute directly to our success.
• Work with a talented, experienced team that’s obsessed with making innovative games.
• Work in a fun and dynamic environment that fosters innovation and creativity.
• Competitive salary, employee benefits, and opportunities for career growth.

This position will require a case study during the hiring process.