Studios short on artists
Extra 2D or 3D art capacity that follows your style guide and naming rules.
Game Art and Level Design
Engine-ready 2D and 3D art and levels that match your style guide and stay inside your performance budget.
From $10,000 one-time
- Founder-led
- Fixed written quote in 48 hours
- Milestone payments
- NDA on request
- Lifetime bug-fix support
Who it's for
Built for teams like yours
Developers with placeholder art
Finished characters, props and environments that drop straight into your Unity or Unreal project.
Founders with a prototype
A consistent art direction and level layouts that make the game look and play like a real product.
What you get
Everything in your game art and level design project
01
Art direction and style guide
Colour, shape language, proportions and reference sheets so every asset looks like it belongs.
02
Characters and creatures
Concept, model or sprite, textures, rig and the animation set your game needs.
03
Environment and props
Buildings, terrain pieces and props built from low to high poly as your platform allows.
04
Modular level kits
Snap-together walls, floors and set pieces on a shared grid, so levels are fast to build and change.
05
UV unwrapping and texture atlases
Clean UVs and shared texture sheets that cut draw calls and memory use.
06
Rigging and weight painting
Skeletal rigs in Blender with clean deformation at knees, elbows and shoulders.
07
Collision meshes
Simple collision shapes so players do not snag on details or fall through floors.
08
Level layouts
Grey-box layouts, flow and pacing, then art-dressed levels ready to play.
09
Engine-ready files
FBX, glTF or sprite sheets imported, set up and tested in your Unity or Unreal project.
CHAPTER 01
Game art outsourcing that fits your engine and your budgets
Good game art is not only about how a model looks in a render. It has to animate cleanly, sit inside a polygon and texture budget, share materials with the rest of the scene and import into the engine without hours of fixing. Omebly’s game art outsourcing service covers 2D and 3D characters, environments, props, modular level kits and full level design, delivered ready to use in Unity or Unreal Engine 5.
01.1
Who it suits
We work with studios that need more art capacity for a deadline, developers whose prototypes still run on placeholder cubes, and founders who need a clear art direction before full production. The service is part of Omebly Game Development, so our artists work next to programmers who understand how the art will be used.
CHAPTER 02
What’s included in game art and level design
Art direction and a style guide. Before production, we agree the look: colour palette, shape language, character proportions, texture detail and lighting mood. This goes into a short style guide with reference sheets, so every asset matches, even when several artists work on the project.
02.1
Characters and creatures
For 3D, this covers concept, modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, weight painting and the animation set. For 2D, it covers concept, sprites or layered parts for bone animation, and sprite sheets. Rigs are built in Blender with attention to the joints that usually break: shoulders, elbows, knees and hips.
02.2
Environments and props
We work across the range from low-poly stylised scenes for mobile to higher-detail assets for PC. Every asset is built to the budget agreed for your platform, with level-of-detail versions where distance allows.
02.3
Modular level kits and collision
Walls, floors, corners, stairs and set pieces built on a shared grid so designers can assemble levels quickly. Each piece gets a simple collision mesh, so players move smoothly instead of catching on decorative detail.
02.4
Textures and atlasing
We paint textures in Substance 3D Painter or Photoshop and pack related assets onto shared texture atlases. Fewer materials mean fewer draw calls, which matters a great deal on phones.
02.5
Animation sets
A character usually needs more animations than people expect: idle, walk, run, turn, jump, land, actions, hit reactions and a few personality moves. We list them with you at the start, animate them in Blender or as 2D frames, and set them up so they blend smoothly in the engine.
02.6
UI and icon art
Menus, buttons, item icons and HUD elements are drawn in the same style as the world, so the game feels like one product rather than a scene with a generic interface on top.
02.7
Level design
Layout, flow, pacing and challenge are designed in grey-box form first, then playtested, then dressed with final art and a lighting pass.
CHAPTER 03
How we work: pipeline decisions that save you time
Art test before batch production. We make one sample asset in your style and test it in your engine. It sets the quality bar and catches mismatches in scale, shading or import settings before they are repeated across fifty assets.
03.1
Budgets written down
For every asset type we agree a polygon range, texture size, material count and naming convention. These budgets keep the game running smoothly and make the hand-over predictable. If your project is already too heavy, our game optimisation service can help reduce it.
03.2
Reviewed in engine, not in renders
Beauty renders can hide problems. We review every batch inside your Unity or Unreal project, with your lighting, so you see the asset as players will.
03.3
Grey-box before art
Levels are designed and played as plain shapes first. Moving a corridor at this stage takes minutes; moving it after it has been modelled and lit takes much longer.
03.4
Clean source files
You receive the Blender, Substance and Photoshop source files, not just the exports, organised and named so your team or a future artist can edit them.
03.5
Original work only
We create original art and do not copy characters or assets from other games. Where you want a familiar genre look, we take the general style, not the specific designs.
CHAPTER 04
Timelines and what affects cost
Art projects are scoped from an asset list, so your written quote lists every item and its milestone. The factors that change cost most are:
- Style and detail level, from flat low-poly to detailed hand-painted or realistic.
- Number and complexity of characters, since each needs a rig and an animation set.
- Environment sizeand how much can be built from a modular kit.
- Animation count, including idle, movement, actions and reactions.
- Engine set-up work, such as materials, prefabs and level dressing in your project.
04.1
Weekly batches
Asset batches arrive weekly, and you pay each milestone after reviewing it. Game project starting prices are shown on the parent service page.
CHAPTER 05
Why Omebly for game art
Every project is led by our founder, Nazmul Hussain, who has 10+ years building websites, apps and digital products. Because our artists sit alongside our game developers, art is made with the engine, the camera and the frame rate in mind. You get a fixed written quote within 48 hours, weekly reviews in engine and milestone payments released after review. Once fully paid, the art and source files we created are yours, and an NDA is available on request. For a complete game built around the art, see our 3D game development and 2D mobile game pages.
05.1
Talk to us
Send us your references on WhatsApp at +91 70444 33991 or request a free quote.
How we work
From first call to hand-over
- 1
Brief and art test
1-2 weeksYour references, platform and budgets reviewed, then one sample asset to agree the style and quality.
- 2
Style guide and asset list
1 weekA written list of every asset with polygon, texture and naming budgets.
- 3
Grey-box levels
1-3 weeksLevel layouts built in plain shapes and playtested before art.
- 4
Asset production in batches
4-12 weeksCharacters, environments and props delivered in weekly batches, reviewed in engine.
- 5
Level dressing and hand-over
1-3 weeksLevels dressed with final art, lighting passes and the source files handed over.
Tools we use
- Blender
- Adobe Substance 3D Painter
- Adobe Photoshop
- Aseprite
- Unity
- Unreal Engine 5
- Marmoset Toolbag
- Git
Packages
Pick a starting point
From $10,000 one-time. Every project gets a fixed written quote after a free consultation, with milestone payments.
Asset pack
From $10,000
- Agreed list of props, characters or sprites
- Style matched to your references
- Engine-ready files and textures
- Two rounds of changes per asset stage
Level art and design
Fixed quote
- Grey-box layouts and playtest notes
- Modular level kit
- Dressed levels in your engine
- Collision meshes and lighting pass
Full art direction
Fixed quote
- Style guide and concept art
- Characters, environments and props
- Rigging and animation sets
- Level design and dressing
- Hand-over of all source files
Compare
Omebly vs buying asset-store packs
| Omebly | Buying asset-store packs | |
|---|---|---|
| Look of the game | A consistent style made for your game | Packs from different artists that rarely match |
| Recognition | Original art players have not seen before | The same assets appear in many other games |
| Performance | Built to your polygon and texture budgets | Often too heavy or uneven for mobile |
| Changes | Adjusted to your levels and gameplay | You edit someone else's files yourself |
| Rights | You own the art we create once fully paid | Licence terms vary by pack |
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FAQ
Game Art and Level Design: questions people ask
What do you need from us to start outsourcing game art?
Reference images or games whose style you like, your target platforms and engine version, any existing art, and a list of what you need. If you have technical budgets for polygon counts, texture sizes or naming conventions, share them too. If you do not, we write them with you, because they decide how the art performs in the game.
Why do you start with an art test?
One sample asset made in your style shows whether our interpretation matches yours before a whole batch is produced. It is the quickest way to agree on detail level, colour and finish, and it gives you a real file to test in your engine. Production only starts once you are happy with the test.
Can you match the art style our game already has?
Yes. We study your existing assets for proportions, colour, line weight, texture detail and lighting, then write a short style sheet so new work stays consistent. Matching an existing style is common in outsourcing, and the art test confirms we have it right before we produce more.
What is a modular level kit?
It is a set of walls, floors, corners, doors and props built on a shared grid so they snap together like building blocks. Designers can build and change many levels quickly, and the game reuses the same meshes and textures, which saves memory. It suits dungeons, cities, interiors and any game with many similar spaces.
Do you design levels, or only make the art?
Both. Level design is about layout, flow, pacing and challenge; level art is about how it looks. We grey-box layouts first, playtest them to check the route, sightlines and difficulty, then dress them with art. Designing first avoids beautiful levels that are confusing or dull to play.
Is game art covered by lifetime bug-fix support?
Our lifetime bug-fix support covers code Omebly wrote, not art direction or visual changes. If an asset we delivered does not meet the agreed specification, such as broken UVs or a rig that deforms badly, we fix it as part of the project. New assets or style changes after delivery are quoted separately.
Start a project
Let's talk about your game art and level design project.
Tell us what you have in mind. You get a free consultation and a fixed quote within 48 hours.
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