Game Art Design Services

It’s much better to try game art outsourcing than do it inside the company. 

To begin with, it’s better to partner with a game art studio working in specific fields, such as animation or game character design. This way, you’ll have a high-quality solution in the bag. Here’re some advantages of delegating your game art to a competent vendor:

• Time-saving. Finding, interviewing, and hiring artists for an in-house team consumes tremendous time and effort. Hiring a game art outsourcing company helps you get rid of such arduous stuff. When game artists work on exclusive areas with you outside the company, you’ll be able to focus on your other projects and have more things done.
• Cost-efficiency. With an external team, you don’t have to pay for in-house employee onboarding and maintenance. Often hiring game artists from Eastern Europe (e.g. Ukraine) lets you cut costs without compromising product quality.
• Quality guarantee. After picking the right partner, you can rest assured that your project is in good hands. Reliable game art outsourcing companies like Stepico have been providing game art services to a huge number of companies, so they definitely know the ropes.
• Flexibility. Working with a game art studio allows you to scale resources up and down hassle-free. This also implies that the less exciting or repetitive activities may be simply transferred to the vendor, freeing up your internal team to focus on the tasks that are both more fun and crucial to the game’s success.

We are a trusted game art outsourcing company in the game dev market with competitive 2D/3D specialists and strong enthusiasm for game art. While you work on your part, we manage ours – so feel free to occupy your thoughts with other stuff while we take care of your art! Contact us to start making eye-catching game art for your video game right away!

The most organized approach will be to partner with a game art studio that will provide the required in-house artists for you, as this type of collaboration allows you to get multiple specialists at once. 

Here’re some tips for a victorious game art outsourcing:

• Check the vendor’s credibility and reliability. You will want a partner with a solid portfolio and a good reputation, so make sure to check these two aspects before reaching out to the vendor for game art services. ArtStation and Behance are good places to start your search.
• Specify your requirements from A to Z. The level of detail you provide in the project criteria will be one of the determining elements in the quality of the produced game art services. Your chances of being let down increase as you make your standards for game artists more unclear, leaving more opportunities for deviation. So, take your time to establish the art style for the required assets and explain it in detail, providing specific examples.
• Communicate a lot. We’ll never stop saying that communication is the key to a successful project. Communication is a crucial part of any collaboration. Hence, we advise establishing various communication channels, choosing the right specialists to get in touch with, and scheduling convenient contact times.

Stepico can bring any idea to life! Our game art studio has successfully developed dozens of video games in different genres and art styles, which allows us to create custom art orders in all shapes and sizes:

• Concept art. Visualize your idea and get inspiration with the help of Stepico’s concept artists.
• 2D and 3D characters. Get unique and stylish characters for any art style you wish.
• Animation and VFX. Add eye-catching visual effects and smooth animation to your game with our specialists’ fine craftsmanship.
• Locations & environments. Use the perks of having an intricate yet easy-to-navigate environment in your game.
• Props & objects. Make your game even more attractive with highly detailed vehicles, weapons, and other props.
• Textures. Get catchy textures carefully tailored to your game’s style and the models or environments you want them to be used on.

Stepico is your #1 choice for outsourcing your game art. We are ready to fulfill your business’s needs, relying on our vast experience in creating fantastic art projects. Let’s talk!

Yes. Our game art studio can work from established style guides, existing assets, mood boards, or reference builds to reproduce the required visual language without making the new content feel outsourced. We normally begin with a style-matching test to align proportions, shape language, materials, rendering, and quality expectations before moving into scaled production.

Our game art production model can expand or reduce around changing milestones, content roadmaps, and release priorities. This allows you to add specialists during asset-heavy phases, cover unexpected workload increases, or maintain a stable external team for ongoing content without committing to permanent internal headcount.

Yes. Our game art design services can include the preparation of optimized, game-ready assets that follow your polygon budgets, texture requirements, rigging standards, LOD structure, naming conventions, and folder hierarchy. Depending on the scope, we can also support Unity asset integration and Unreal Engine art production so your developers receive validated content rather than unprepared source files.