Ateebshahzad

Character Designing, Modeling & Rigging

Facebook • Freelance

Apr 2023 - Present • 3 yrs 3 mos

Since April 2023, I have operated as a dedicated Freelance 3D Artist utilizing Facebook’s professional creator networks, developer groups, and global art communities to collaborate with indie game developers, animation studios, and digital content creators. In this role, I manage the complete character production pipeline, translating conceptual ideas into production-ready assets. Core Expertise & Responsibilities: Character Design: Creating visually striking character concepts based on client briefs, ensuring strong silhouettes, balanced color palettes, and unique personalities that fit specific project themes. 3D Modeling & Sculpting: Translating 2D artwork into highly detailed high-poly 3D models, followed by clean retopology to build optimized, low-poly meshes suitable for games, animations, and real-time engines. Character Rigging: Designing and implementing robust skeleton structures (armatures), custom control rigs, and precise weight painting to guarantee smooth, realistic mesh deformations during animation. Texturing & PBR Workflows: Developing high-resolution material textures, including diffuse, roughness, metallic, normal, and emissive maps to achieve dynamic lighting effects (such as glowing eyes or magical elements). Key Achievements: Successfully delivered over [Insert Number] high-quality character models to international clients met through professional Facebook networks, maintaining a 100% satisfaction and delivery rate. Developed versatile, production-ready assets that seamlessly integrated into major engines (Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender), significantly reducing the technical troubleshooting time for client development teams. Optimized complex high-poly character designs into efficient low-poly game models through advanced normal-map baking techniques, reducing polygon counts by up to 80% while retaining crisp visual details. Collaborated dynamically with independent creators and remote animation teams to manage revisions.