3D Modeling

Assets built for the engine, not just the render

A model that looks stunning in a turntable but tanks your frame rate is not done. We build 3D assets the way a shipping game needs them: clean topology, sane UVs, PBR textures, sensible polycounts, and proper LODs, ready to drop into Unreal Engine 5 or Unity and just work. We are a game studio, so optimization and game readiness are the default, not an upsell.

Whether you need a single hero prop, a kit to dress an entire level, or a stylized character, we model to a target: your art direction, your engine, and your performance budget.

What this includes

• Props and hard-surface models. Weapons, vehicles, gadgets, furniture, and set dressing with clean, deformation-friendly topology.
• Environments and modular kits. Tiling, snapping modular pieces that let your team build large, varied spaces from a compact set.
• Characters and creatures. Stylized or realistic, modeled with edge flow that is ready for rigging and animation.
• PBR texturing. Substance Painter materials with the full map set (base color, normal, roughness, metallic, ambient occlusion) authored for your pipeline.
• Optimization. UV layout, retopology, baking from high to low poly, LOD chains, and collision meshes tuned to your performance budget.
• Engine integration. Correct scale, pivots, naming, and import settings so the asset behaves the moment it lands in your project.

How we work

1. Reference and target. We lock the art direction, the engine, the polycount and texture budget, and gather reference before modeling.
2. Blockout. A fast greybox or blockout to confirm proportion, scale, and silhouette before detail goes in.
3. High and low poly. We sculpt or model the detail, then build the optimized game-ready mesh and bake.
4. Texturing. PBR materials authored to your target look and pipeline.
5. Integration and review. We deliver in-engine where possible, with a structured review round so notes are addressed precisely.

What you receive

• Game-ready meshes in your format of choice (FBX, glTF, or native engine assets).
• Full PBR texture sets at the resolution your project calls for.
• LODs and collision meshes where the asset needs them.
• Source files (high poly, Substance project) so the asset can be revised later.

Who this is for

Indie studios that need to extend a small art team, developers prototyping who need real assets instead of placeholders, and teams with a clear art direction who need a reliable pipeline partner to produce against it.

Why Jalapeno Labs

We build games, so we model for the realities of a live project: memory budgets, draw calls, and animation. We will flag when a request will cost you performance and offer the version that holds up in motion and at scale. Every asset is made by a senior artist and billed transparently by the hour, with honest estimates up front.

Let us model it

Share your art direction, your engine, and your budget. Tell us about your project on the contact page and we will scope the assets and a delivery plan with you.