3D Automotive Deep Dive 05 - The Super USD File and How to Actually Build One
A practical walkthrough for building a multivariant "150 percent" USD and getting it into a real-time configurator, no pipeline engineer required
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3D Job Openings!!!!
Target, Stellantis, ALO, and Skydio lead the way this week, with a $185K remote gig at Assured thrown in for good measure.
3D Automotive Deep Dive 04 - CMF: The Best Renders You Will Never See
Inside the role that decides what every car looks and feels like, and why the most demanding 3D work in automotive is invisible to the public
3D Job Openings!!!!
Sony, Ford, Autodesk, and Southwest Airlines are all hiring 3D talent this week!
WTF is a 4D Gaussian Splat!?!?!?
I continue to begrudgingly learn new things
3D Job Openings!!!!
Epic Games, General Motors, and L'Oréal lead a stacked week with a PlayStation studio hunting for a Tech Art Lead and a freelance gig to build a lip-synced VR avatar
SIGGRAPH 2026 Recap
The amazing people, the shrinking floor, and what we owe the next generation
3D Job Openings!!!!
ON running shoes, Epic Games, General Motors (twice!), and a robotics gig paying up to $205K. This week's list runs from footwear to Fortnite to full-on Physical AI.
3D Automotive Deep Dive 03 - The Tooling: The Software That Runs Automotive 3D
The actual tooling stack behind automotive 3D, from CAD conversion to the file format quietly holding every trim level of every car
3D Job Openings!!!!
Netflix, Harvard, Sony, Ford, and Mazda are all hunting for 3D talent this week!!!
3D Automotive Deep Dive 02 - From Sketch to Steel: How a Car Actually Gets Designed
Where the process breaks down, why it still works anyway, and why car paint might be the hardest problem in the industry
Let's Do Some 3D Job Openings!!!
Meta, Epic Games, Autodesk, and HP headline this week's list, with a Redmond digital-twin startup and a Detroit automotive gig rounding things out.
3D Automotive Deep Dive 01: A Brief History of Cars, Configurators, and Car Ads
How 3D quietly took over three completely different jobs in the automotive industry, and never fully finished the takeover
3D Job Openings!!!!
Nike, GM, Epic Games, and the Baltimore Ravens headline a week that swings from Fortnite materials to NFL video boards to NIH scientific visualization.
Start Here: 3D Automotive Design for 3D Artists
A new deep dive series into one of the most technically advanced 3D industries
3D Jobs: Netflix, Meta, Roblox, GM, and a Gig on the Largest Screen Ever Built
From R&D games at Netflix to rain puddles for GM's self-driving cars...the range this week is unreal.
WTF is Retopology?
The skill AI mesh generation can't replace and why that matters right now
3D Jobs Incoming!!!!
Target, Tesla, ILM, goodr, and a humanoid robotics startup in Germany. This week’s list earns its exclamation points.
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Where things stand today
More 3D Job Openings Incoming!!!!
BMW has multiple roles, Fanatics is paying up to $225K, and there’s a forensic visualization gig that could get you a Law & Order character based on you