Art & Animation Services

The art team at iXie is experienced in delivering world-class art assets and animations. Our deliberate streamlined art pipeline of creating and implementing art for your game, whether it is character or environment, animation or VFX, is meticulously curated keeping the final product in mind. We break down each project into categories, each with its own Product Backlog and Milestones that combine cohesively to create your dream game.  

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Our art team at iXie Gaming are experienced in delivering world class art assets and animation. Our deliberate streamlined art pipeline of creating and implementing art for your game, whether it be character or environment, animation or VFX, is meticulously curated keeping the final product in mind. We break down each project into categories, each with its own Product Backlog and Milestones that combine cohesively to create your dream game.  

Game Art

Our Art team works with your designers to understand the vision of your game before starting on the concept sketches for the direction you want the game to take. We also provide suggestions in areas that might need iterations to meet your deadline and budget. We utilize Maya, Max, Blender, ZBrush, and other digital tools to bring your game to life.

Services Provided: 

  • Character Design & Modelling: Crafting unique characters and creatures with detailed sketches and turnarounds, along with building high-quality 3D models. 
  • Environment Design & Modelling: Developing intricate landscapes, interiors, and world-building elements, creating immersive game environments. 
  • Prop Design & Modelling: Designing various props and objects, including weapons, vehicles, and everyday items, and creating detailed 3D models for interaction. 
  • Storyboarding: Crafting visual sequences that outline the narrative flow and key scenes of a game or animation. 
  • Lighting and Mood Exploration: Designing various lighting scenarios and mood boards to define the atmosphere and emotional tone of different scenes. 
  • UI/UX Design Concepts: Developing conceptual designs for user interfaces and user experiences, ensuring they align with the overall visual style. 
  • Costume Design: Crafting detailed costume concepts for characters, considering historical accuracy, cultural relevance, and functionality. 
  • Key Art Creation: Producing high-quality artwork for promotional purposes, including cover art, posters, and marketing materials. 

Animation 
(2D and 3D) 

Once the game concept is developed, our animation team collaborates closely with game designers to understand the required animations. We bring characters and all in-game movements to life, ensuring everything moves seamlessly and enhances the overall gaming experience. 

Services Provided: 

  • Character and Creature Animation: Creating fluid animations for characters and creatures, including walk cycles, special actions, and natural movements. 
  • Facial Animation: Developing detailed facial animations to enhance character interactions and storytelling. 
  • Motion Capture Integration: Utilizing mocap technology for realistic animations, integrating captured data into character models. 
  • Rigging: Rigging 3D characters to ensure natural movement and a wide range of actions. 
  • Cutscenes and In-Game Cinematics: Creating cinematic cutscenes and seamless in-game cinematics to advance the narrative and engage players. 
  • Environmental and Physics-Based Animation: Animating environmental elements and using physics engines for realistic in-game interactions. 
  • UI/UX: Designing creative UI that blend seamlessly with the game world while standing out at the same time to ensure easy player interaction 
  • Animation Optimization: Ensuring animations are performance-optimized for smooth gameplay across various devices. 
  • Visual FX: Creating dynamic special effects for characters, weapons, and world events, bringing the game world to life. 
  • Lighting and Rendering: Enhancing visual quality with advanced lighting and rendering techniques. 

UI/UX Design

Our expert UI designers work thoroughly on each aspect of your project to bring flawless UI/UX and we ensure that the interaction with the game is seamless for every user. We work on making our UI/UX design so intriguing such that it captures the users’ attention and makes them your sustained users. 

Our broad range of UI/UX services include:
  • UI/UX Design Consulting Services
  • UX Modelling & Prototyping
  • User Experience (UX) Design
  • User Interface (UI) Detailing & Design

Art Asset Integration 

Our artists always import the created art assets into your preferred game engine to ensure there are no errors in the model, texture, rig or animation.

Tools & Technologies we use

Frequently Asked Questions

A lot of time and effort goes into producing a quality game, especially if it is a complex one. Finding the right talent, ensuring that they are within the budget, and meeting deadlines puts a strain on in-house teams, especially as they also need to ensure that the quality of the game does not fall in the process. Outsourcing your game art production helps mitigate the above challenges since Ixie take a streamlined approach to each project allowing you to better manage your time and resources.

Any information on your vision of the game, such as budget, deadline, whether your game will be 2D or 3D, the characters, etc., will help our Team put together a plan of action. Our Team is well-versed in Unity, Maya, 3DS Max, and other digital software to help bring your game art to life. Having a detailed game design document containing the above information will also help keep the initial vision of the project intact.

While there are a lot of talented freelancers, most freelancers are specialized and you will need to manage different freelancers for different needs. This is not the case with a studio. A studio is more organized and takes an iterative approach while creating and implementing art for your game, whether it is character or environment, animation, or VFX. With a studio, you can be assured that your art needs are in good hands while focusing on other priorities.

The cost will vary from project to project depending on the complexity of the game, the level of animations needed, the number of characters, and our client’s requirements.

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