Art Jobs

A Subset of game careers focusing on creating visual art for video-games.

General Art Pipelines

 * Art Fundamentals
 * UI
 * Visual FX
 * 2D Art
 * 3D Models
 * Animation
 * Lighting
 * Pipelines of other styles

Environment Artist
This artist creates the background often static models that make up the game world.

Animator
This artist focus on adding motion to games.

Rigger
The rigger is a sub-category of animator that focuses on adding skeletons to models for animators to use later to make into beautiful animations.

Visual Effects Artist
This artist is a combination of many other artists in one, 3D Modeling, Lighting, Animation, 2D Art, Scripting, and a few other smaller specialize skills like in depth-knowledge of particle systems. Visual Effects artist have to be creative and smart with how they solve problems.

Tech Artist
This weird group are actually programmers who like making art tools, or an Artist who are very proficient in the technical aspects of their Craft. Like a Environment Artist, Animator, Rigger, Lighting, Visual Effects Artist all in one. Basically Tech Artists can do All the other Art Jobs, but are good at merging the gaps between making the art and implementing it in engine.