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At Black Swan Effect, we specialize in creating high-quality rigs that enhance gameplay and elevate the visual experience. Our team excels in providing tailored solutions for the gaming industry, ensuring that your characters and assets move with precision and realism.
Our Services
Realtime rigs
We create optimized, performance-driven rigs for use in game engines, focusing on delivering smooth, responsive animations that retain artistic integrity. Whether rigging characters, creatures, props, or vehicles, our rigs are tailored to meet the technical demands of realtime environments, ensuring seamless integration into your project. With a deep understanding of game development needs, we build rigs that enhance gameplay while supporting your creative vision, balancing efficiency and quality for maximum in-engine performance.
VR/AR
Our rigs for AR and VR strike a careful balance between performance and quality, optimized for the unique constraints of whatever platform you’ll be using. We tailor each rig to ensure smooth, immersive experiences while maintaining interactivity and realism, all within the technical limits of your project.
Trailers/Cinematics
We provide comprehensive rigging services for game trailers and cinematics, covering everything from characters and creatures to props, vehicles, and beyond. Our team is skilled in crafting rigs that bring every element of your project to life, ensuring smooth and expressive animation that enhances the visual storytelling. We work closely with your team to adapt to your specific production needs, delivering versatile and reliable rigs that seamlessly integrate into your pipeline, no matter the complexity of the asset.
Mocap Integration
Our rigs are specifically designed for easy integration with motion capture data, ensuring clean retargeting for game engines.
Addressing Your Pain Points
We are a rigging powerhouse, dedicated to deliver production-proven top-tier rigs at an exceptional value that push creative boundaries! A rigging department at your fingertips, we can ramp up or down based on your project's scale, skillfully integrating our battle tested pipeline into your existing workflows for a seamless collaboration, all while aligning with your budget, whether it is a big blockbuster or an indie darling.
Inconsistent naming and structure can cause confusion and inefficiency. Our Quality Control Tool and Asset Validator enforce client-specific standards, automating checks to ensure smooth workflow integration and high-quality deliveries.
Time zones and language barriers can lead to delays. With a team based in the US and Europe, we prioritize clear communication using project management tools and regular updates to keep projects on track.
Outsource companies delaying deliveries often lead to crunch time. We commit to incremental deliveries for continuous feedback and smoother workflows, avoiding last-minute stress.
Frequent personnel changes disrupt continuity and client-specific knowledge. We maintain consistent teams to ensure familiarity with your needs, building strong relationships and reliable results.
We work seamlessly with industry-standard tools like Perforce, Shotgun/ShotGrid, Slack, Teams, and Discord, integrating into your workflow to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
Some companies showcase top talent during art tests but assign less experienced staff later. We guarantee that the artists who handle your test also manage your project, ensuring consistent quality.