3D Character Artist

About Jackpot Technologies

What you will do

• Design and build stylised low-poly characters end-to-end: blockout, model, UV, texture, rig, and handoff to the animator, or animate yourself where it helps.
• Own the character language of a game: silhouette, proportion, expression, attitude.
• Build hero props and simple environment elements that frame your characters. Think dioramas and stages, not open worlds.
• Texture using hand-painted, gradient-atlas, or flat-shaded approaches depending on the game.
• Build reusable character kits: base meshes, rigs, and modular parts so we can produce more characters faster without losing quality.
• Own performance budgets. Tri counts, atlas layout, and clean exports for web and mobile.
• Partner with the 2D artist, animator, and engineers so the whole game feels like one piece.
• What you will bring
• 4+ years of production 3D character art for games, animation, or real-time work. Shipped low-poly or stylised characters is a must.
• A portfolio leading with characters. At least two pieces shown from blockout through final, ideally with turnarounds and rig demos.
• Strong fundamentals: silhouette, stylised anatomy, proportion, colour, and expression. Low poly lives or dies on these.
• Topology discipline. Clean, rig-friendly, animation-ready meshes.
• Fluency in Blender (our team standard). Comfort in one other DCC (Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D) welcome.
• Confident stylised texturing: hand-painted in Photoshop or Substance Painter, gradient atlases, flat-shaded or tri-planar workflows.
• Solid rigging skills. Squash-and-stretch, expressive facial rigs, deformations that hold up in motion. Mixamo-only does not count here.
• Real-time engine experience: Unity, Unreal, PlayCanvas, or Three.js.
• Fluent with modern AI tools in your daily workflow. Meshy, Luma, Rodin, Scenario, ComfyUI, and AI-assisted texturing or concepting pipelines. You use them where they help and fall back to traditional workflows where they do not.
• A fast, reliable production cadence. You plan your files, hit your dates, and do not leave messes for the next person.
• Bonus points
• Environment and set-dressing chops beyond the basics.
• Character animation experience: idle loops, win reactions, feature-trigger moments.
• Shader work for stylised looks: toon shading, rim lighting, custom ramps.
• Marmoset Toolbag or real-time render setups for asset presentation.
• Experience with slot or casino game production pipelines.
• Concept art or 2D illustration chops. If you can sketch the character before you build it, we love that.
• Tools you will work with

Often

Bonus

• Substance Designer, shader authoring tools, Maya or 3ds Max
• How we work
• We care equally about quality and velocity.
• The best people in our team use modern tools as a multiplier, not a shortcut.
• AI has changed how great art teams operate, and we expect everyone we hire to be on the front edge of that change.
• Fluent with AI tools as part of your daily craft. You know which tools help, which do not, and when a traditional workflow still wins.
• Stay on top of industry standards. New tools, new pipelines, new techniques. You read, you try things, you do not wait for someone to tell you the industry moved.
• Use that fluency to ship higher quality work faster, not to cut corners. Craft comes first. AI is the lever, not the product.
• Share what you learn. If you find a workflow that saves the team two days a week, write it up.
• Why you might like it here
• You ship real games to real players, not pitch decks. Our B2C platform is live, so your work goes in front of actual users fast.
• We are early. You will have real ownership of your craft and real influence on the art direction.
• We do not believe in slide-deck culture. If you like building more than meeting, you will fit.
• Dubai base, international team, healthy pace. We work hard, we deliver, we go home.

Compensation And Benefits

• Monthly salary: AED 6,000 to AED 15,000, dependent on experience
• A key role in a fast-moving, fast-growing iGaming company where your work ships and real players see it
• A creative, collaborative environment where your contributions have direct, visible impact
• On-site in Dubai with a small, craft-obsessed team