Environment artist

An environment artist is a professional artist who works in the video game industry or film industry as a 3D modeler, specializing in outdoor and indoor locations for a game's setting. They are responsible for creating and modeling the majority of the overall assets and visuals the player will encounter on the screen, and for bringing life to the game world. They texture and place assets, such as buildings, streets, foliage, furniture, and all other elements, into a scene using a method called set dressing. The artist also approximates collision so that the player doesn't run through walls or other objects that block movement, and optimizes mesh geometry so that the level runs at a manageable framerate.