3D Game Artist

Coventry or Warwickshire Based / Remote Working /

Full-time / 18 month contract

Posted: 12 March 2025

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About you

You’re a talented and passionate 3D Game Artist who thrives on creating vibrant worlds that captivate and inspire young players. With a strong artistic eye and technical expertise, you bring characters, environments and props to life, ensuring every element feels engaging, polished, and playful.

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You have exceptional 3D modelling, texturing, and lighting skills, with experience using industry-standard tools like Maya or Blender. You understand topology, UV mapping, and optimisation, ensuring assets are game-ready without compromising artistic quality.

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Collaboration is at the heart of your process - you love working alongside a team to shape cohesive, visually stunning games and experiences.

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Most importantly, you have a passion for crafting child-friendly, immersive game worlds. You know how to blend creativity with technical precision to build spaces that feel alive, interactive, and full of wonder.

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About the role

At fish in a bottle, we’re dedicated to creating meaningful, playful experiences, and we’re looking for an artist who shares our vision.

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As a 3D Game Artist, you’ll play a key role in shaping the visual identity of our games, crafting vibrant, stylised environments and characters that immerse young players in magical worlds.

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This role is more than just creating art, it’s about storytelling through design, capturing the essence of fun, wonder, and imagination in every asset. From early concepting and modelling to texturing, lighting, and final polish, you’ll have the creative freedom to bring ideas to life while maintaining a beautiful visual style.

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Whether it’s designing whimsical characters, building engaging environments, or refining playful animations, your work will directly impact how young audiences experience our games.

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What you'll be doing

Your work will be at the heart of our game, creating magical, immersive experiences that captivate and inspire young players.

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• Concepting and visualising ideas, transforming creative briefs into compelling 3D assets that shape the game’s world.
• Creating high-quality 3D models, including characters, environments, and props, that align with the game’s stylised aesthetic.
• Developing and applying textures and materials, bringing depth, colour, and personality to your creations.
• Optimising assets for seamless performance across mobile, browser, and other platforms.
• Collaborating with designers, developers and other artists to ensure a cohesive and visually engaging final product.
• Implementing assets into Unity, working alongside developers to integrate animations and interactions.
• Refining and iterating on assets based on feedback, ensuring consistency with the overall game aesthetic.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and best practices to bring fresh ideas and innovation to our projects.

What we're looking for

• Exceptional 3D modelling skills, with experience in creating characters, environments, and props for games.
• Strong proficiency in industry-standard tools such as Maya, Blender, or similar 3D software.
• A keen eye for stylisation, with a strong understanding of colour, shape, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Experience with texturing, UV mapping, and material creation, ensuring assets are both visually stunning and efficient for real-time rendering.
• An understanding of optimisation techniques, ensuring assets perform smoothly across different platforms without sacrificing quality.
• A collaborative mindset, working closely with game designers, developers, and UI artists to deliver a cohesive, polished final product.
• A portfolio showcasing high-quality, stylised, child-friendly 3D art - this is essential!
• Bonus points if you have: experience working in Unity, knowledge of animation workflows or experience creating and implementing UI elements.

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About fish in a bottle

Our mission is to make the world better through playable experiences.

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For over twenty years we’ve collaborated with visionary innovators, brands and educators, making us one of the most experienced interactive studios in the world.

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We work with visionaries to create commercial hits, award winners and purposeful products that improve people’s lives.

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We create games, apps and web platforms that educate, train, raise awareness, promote social change and positively impact people’s lives.

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Things to know

Some of the project work you'll be doing is funded by Innovate UK, which comes with a regional requirement. As a result, this role is open to applicants who are based in Coventry and Warwickshire or those willing to relocate.

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If you're not currently in the area but are open to relocating, we'd love to hear from you. Please confirm in your application if you'd be happy to relocate if successful.

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There is the need to travel from time to time to attend client and company meetings.

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Please consider your ability to travel occasionally when applying for this position.

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The position is open to anyone eligible to work in the UK.

Ready to join us?

Apply now! Send us your:

• CV
• A brief introduction and tell us a bit about yourself, why you like the sound of the role and fish in bottle and, if you’re not based in Coventry or Warwickshire, that you’d be happy to relocate if your offered the job.
• Your portfolio - it’s essential that we see examples of stylised, kid-friendly     art that aligns with the kind of games we create.
• Salary expectations.

We carefully review each application, but unfortunately we’re not able to get back to everyone individually. If we’d like to progress with your application we’ll be in touch with you within two weeks.

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No recruitment agencies, please. Direct candidates only.

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Equality

We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively, we uphold these principles in our behaviour and working practices. We are therefore committed to promoting equality at every opportunity and our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity.

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