3D Artist

KOMPAN U.S. is seeking a skilled 3D Artist to join our team. In this key role, you’ll help bring our innovative playground and fitness solutions to life by transforming AutoCAD plans into stunning 3D renders, animations, and immersive virtual tours using 3ds Max.

You’ll work closely with Sales Representatives, Site Designers, and cross-functional teams to ensure every visualization aligns with client goals and project requirements. Your work will help showcase KOMPAN’s core values of play - Stay, Wow, Develop - by crafting imaginative environments through thoughtful product selection, customization, and surface design.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with multiple departments, including Pre-Sales, Project Coordination, and Installation, as well as field-based Project Managers and Sales teams, contributing to projects across North America.

As a global leader with an organizational focus on people, passion, progress, and performance, our mission is to create healthier and happier communities by delivering the best in play and fitness solutions. We’re KOMPAN - let’s play!

For more than 50 years, KOMPAN has researched, designed, and built innovative and imaginative commercial playground equipment and outdoor fitness sites that captivate all ages and abilities.

In collaboration with our global headquarters in Denmark, KOMPAN designs, manufactures, and installs more than 1,000 sites a month across 90 different countries. Our North American headquarters, located in Austin, Texas, supports field sales around the U.S. and Canada.

At KOMPAN, we take pride in our commitment to the global environment. We exceed sustainability efforts and make it possible to lower carbon emissions by utilizing recycled ocean waste, consumer-recycled plastics, and textile wastes to create playgrounds that are born green or made green.

• Interpret AutoCAD plans and translate them into detailed 3ds Max scenes for high-quality visualization.
• Use a combination of equipment selection, customization, juxtaposition, and surface design to craft compelling visual stories and build engaging, immersive experiences.
• Translate topographical contours into accurate 3D terrain and embankments, ensuring realism and spatial accuracy.
• Utilize Forest Pack and Rail Clone to populate scenes with foliage, hardscape elements, infrastructure, vehicles, and characters.
• Use V-Ray to light and render scenes, creating visually engaging compositions that communicate narrative and atmosphere.
• Paint and illustrate digitally in Photoshop to visualize custom product designs and enhance presentation materials.
• Create fly-through animations that dynamically showcase both the products and spatial context in a fun, cinematic style.
• Develop and render virtual panoramic tours that provide viewers with an immersive, first-person experience of the proposed space.
• Employ multi-pass compositing techniques in Photoshop and After Effects to enhance renders and add impactful post-production polish.
• Collaborate with a regional team of designers to coordinate project responsibilities and deliver cohesive design solutions.
• Pay close attention to inclusive design features—including curb heights, thresholds, and accessible pathways—in all visual outputs.
• Produce visually compelling presentations that clearly communicate design intent and proposed solutions through storytelling and imagery.
• Occasionally, present design solutions to clients or end users, clearly articulating your vision and responding to feedback.

• Proficiency in 3ds Max + V-Ray (or experience with similar 3D software such as Maya, ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, Arnold, Blender, or Cycles), as well as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Wacom Tablet, and Unreal Engine.
• Skilled in character, vehicle, and prop design, with the ability to produce accurate turnarounds that maintain scale, perspective, and volume.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as animation, game design, interior design, architectural design, or similar.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: architectural visualization, product design / visualization, 3D modeling, game…