Characters are the drivers of most stories, and crafting them is something we do with love and passion. Our PC, consoles, and mobile game character design services are top-notch, because we understand the importance of creating characters for games that capture hearts.
At Pingle Studio, you can hire character designers who are talented in-house artists that work in a variety of styles and genres. They can create characters who have personalities, express emotions and entice gamers to continue playing. Does your game need a cuddly cutie or a brooding hero? Or perhaps a killer no one suspects, hiding in the shadows?
We can do all that and much more. We can shape creatures — humanoid and otherwise — to liven up your story and move the narrative.
Pingle Game Character Design Services
We believe in three principles: to make your game’s characters custom, unique, and delivered on time. To uphold these principles, we’ve built solid, dependable and well-practiced processes. All our projects start with and are overseen by an Art manager. This person ensures that everything proceeds efficiently and that you receive high-quality compelling custom character art right on time. Whatever the art is.
Be it 2D or 3D, we approach character creation with care and precision, focusing on the end result: how this character will make players feel. Polishing each design to perfection, we deliver outstanding character design for games. We can handle any complexity and depth.
2D game character design
If you hire character designers at Pingle, your 2D will never be flat. The characters we create are vivid and alive — through their facial expressions, postures, gestures we imbue souls into them, born of creative genius our exceptionally talented artists possess. After reviewing the character details, we will start the magic with concept art. Once complete, we breathe life into each custom-made 2D game character design with animation (if needed). Like Pinocchio, they will come alive and keep players entertained and fascinated.
Pingle Character Design Advantages
Experienced team
We have artists working in multiple styles. Do you need a VR level of realistic character art? We can do that. Caricature? Yes! Anime style? We take on board your dreams, concepts or specifications and we deliver. Creepy fantasy monsters derived from Scandinavian myths? Challenge accepted!
Top-notch custom character art
Each detail you provide about your characters will find its place in their design. We draw character art from the ground up, from mere concepts, to full-fledged personifications of your ideas. They will always be custom-made and unique.
Flawless future animation
Even before the time comes to make them move, we have already kept in mind that characters don’t just float around the screen passively, like flat paper cutouts. We future-proof them, ready for animation, so that at the right time, they perform to their best in your game.
Communication at all levels
It’s not easy juggling the multiple facets of game development, the business side of things, and several character designers for hire to boot. To make everything we do completely honest and transparent, we assign a dedicated Project manager to the team working on your designs. The Project manager will pay careful attention to everything within our scope of work and will regularly report progress, to keep you informed and worry-free.
Support from start to finish
Efficiency is our middle name. We research and employ all the latest relevant technology and tools to provide quality end-to-end character design.
Game Character Design Development Stages
Established processes exist for game design and character development: processes with solid principles, theory, and execution. This makes character art creation more streamlined. Since characters drive the story in games, to make games more immersive and interesting, we approach character art creation with multiple factors in mind. For example, it’s often important for characters to be attractive to the target audience. Attraction rests upon two massive blocks:
The characters’ appearance must be to the audience’s liking, and players need to be able to identify with characters beyond just appearance.
To create attraction, our character designers flesh out their projects in order:
1. Understanding the concept
2. Rough design idea
3. Final sketching of the selected version
4. Final design
5. Adding expressions
6. Finalizing the project
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FAQ
What is a game character design?
How to design a character for a video game?
When can hiring an artist for video game character design be of help?
- By offloading certain tasks to a character design studio, your team can focus more intently on tasks that can’t be done by an outsider as easily, for example, tasks related to R&D and decision-making.
- The wide pool of available artists is the biggest advantage of outsourcing studios. You’ll significantly reduce the time and effort needed to gather a team of qualified designers for the project if you hire a character design agency.
- Outsourcing character design for your games means you (or rather, the character design agency you hire) can distribute the task to multiple artists, so that it’s completed more quickly. For an in-house team, that would mean hiring more people — probably on a temporary basis — and providing them with somewhere to work, hardware, and software, which is costly and restrictive. Agencies are more flexible with this, they can move employees between projects faster.
- The higher level of competition in outsourcing means that each character artist for hire in an agency is continuously upgrading their skills. Moreover, artists in studios work on different projects all the time, gaining experience faster than in-house artists working on the same game for a prolonged period of time.