3D modeler: job description

Most of the objects that we are surrounded with, big or small, have been prototyped before being produced

Often born in the designers’ heads, they take shape thanks to the talent of men and women who, on the computer, translate them into graphic representations: they are the 3D modelers.

  • Checks the appearance and the feasibility of the designers’ creations.
  • Materializes the creation of volume by making a simulation of the objects or systems
  • Elaborates documents with graphic representations of the projects, for validation or decision-making support
  • The 3D modeller works on working stations equipped with professional software that require an important training and a constant practice in order to excel in that job. The results come from files that can generate:
  • Computer-generated imaging, animated films, augmented reality and virtual design environments
  • Machinings or material additions on numerical control machines
  • At Strate, we teach 3D modelling and traditional modelling in our 3D Modelling curriculum.

Job duties and responsibilities 

  • Interpret the demands of the specifications (expressed in an oral or written statement)
  • Imagine the potentialities of transformation of the submissions
  • Offer solutions to improve the propositions
  • Realise digital models, animations and files ready for machining
  • Make the projects visually understandable

Average salary 

from 1,500 to 4,000€/month based on seniority

skills

  • Excels in abstract conception and in the use of software
  • Has the ability to visualize objects spatially from sketches or 2D plans and to turn them into digital files
  • Has an aesthetic sense and a sense of proportions
  • Works methodically and accurately
  • Knows the manufacturing technologies and the materials
  • Masters the rendering software (lights, materials and view angle) and animation software

 

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