3D assets for game studios outsourced props and hard-surface work

We take props, hard-surface objects, environment pieces, texturing and optimisation. We do not take characters, creatures, animation, rigging, VFX or code. That boundary is deliberate: it keeps us good at one kind of work and makes us easy to slot beside your character team or another vendor. For an indie studio we can be the whole asset supply for objects. For a larger studio we are usually one of several external prop teams, working to the same style guide as the others.

External prop work fails when the first review happens too late. We front-load it.

• A one-page plan per batch: object list by size class, triangle budgets per class and LOD, texel density, naming, pivot and axis conventions, delivery order
• One object built first to the style guide, and approved by your art lead before the batch continues
• Blockouts for every object at true scale, approved before detail
• Turntables for textured objects, reviewed on a shared link
• Delivery in batches, largest and most repeated objects first
• Every file imported into your engine version by us, with a note per asset
• A short set check once a batch is placed together in a level

The more of this arrives with the brief, the fewer questions we ask. If some of it does not exist yet, say so and we propose it.

• The style guide, or finished assets from the project that define the look
• Engine and version, target platform, and a sample asset that imports correctly
• Triangle and texture budgets, or the viewing distances so we can propose them
• Naming, pivot, axis, LOD and collision conventions
• The object list, or the level brief it should come from
• Concept art and references for anything not yet designed
• Who reviews on your side, and how quickly reviews turn round

We quote per model or per set, never per hour, so the total is known before a batch starts. A set price breaks down to a price per object by size class, driven by detail tier, texture resolution and LOD count. New objects added mid-project take the same per-class price. Variants are quoted below new objects. If a batch includes optimisation of your existing assets or a texturing pass, those are listed as their own lines.

A quote for a studio also states the review points, the revision rounds per object, what happens when the object list changes, and the schedule by batch. Our cost guide sets out how to compare two vendors' quotes line by line.

Ask for the source files to be listed in the quote: the .blend, the high-poly where one was built, the texture working files and the engine exports. Ownership and usage rights are written into the quote as well, so nothing is left to assumption after delivery. On method, our models are built in Blender with our own procedural tooling and checked by hand. They are not generated by AI, and we confirm that in writing when a publisher's pipeline asks for it.