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>In a production like that you don't do everything yourself.
Correct, but the art you produce is not your art; it is the teams art.

>you can't be the concept artists, sculptor, 3d modeler and texture artist, rigger and animator, at the same time
Yes you can. You're a character artist outside of big studious you'll be the actual creator of your work.

>you are shrink-wrapping your mesh targeting something
Whatever euphemism you are using to trace out the shape of existing geometry that was handed to you you're not doing something
that requires artistry.You are performing a useful production procedure but in this role you're a technician, not an artist.

Way I'd view my own work: If I do concept art, Sculpting, modelling, texturing, animation; That is me doing art drawing on my artistic ability

If I'm UV-mapping, retoplologizing, transfering weights, skinwrapping, shrinkwrapping etc, that is me doing something very algorithmic in nature
I'm a technician operating a tool that'll perform most of the work for me. I could substitute myself with any well trained monkey for same outcome.

>For rigging you need to trace bones, are riggers tracers?

It very much depends on how you approach it. If you are creating custom rigs that are bespoke to the characters you create, such that they
mesh with your geometry like a intentionally designed unified system that fits like a hand in a glove; that's a higher order of craftsmanship alltogheter.

You can do that I'll view you as something of a higher order than any mere artist, in addition to your artistry you are now an architect/engineer of sorts.
The number of skills you need to obtain to become a real one, not some wannabe fake rigger (a bonafide 'thug rigger' if you will) that's top streetcred.

On the flip side if you are using a ill-fitting skeleton you randomly stuck into the volume of your geo as an afterthought
or using crappy autoriggers etc that you then attempt to go clean-up; You're just a hack.

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