Texture artist

Textures applied to a digital model of a house

Atexture artistis an individual who developstexturesfor digital media, usually forvideo games,movies, web sites and television shows.These textures can be in the form of 2D or (rarely) 3D art that may be overlaid onto apolygon meshto create a realistic3D model.

Texture artists often take advantage ofweb sitesfor the purposes of marketing their art and self-promotion of their skills with the goal of gaining employment from aprofessional game studioor to join a team working on a "mod"(modification) of an existing game in hopes of establishing industry ortrade credentials.

See also

• Digital art
• Texture map
• UV map
• UVW map
• Normal mapping