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Creating a high-quality computer game on a PC or a mobile device with any operating system always implies the development of spectacular animation and digital sculpting of characters. To order such a service, many investors turn to large companies and conclude formal agreements. However, in today’s realities, this is not always convenient, and many customers have been cooperating with well-known outsourcing game animation services for a long time, and their main advantages are described in detail below.
How useful is outsourcing in the gaming industry and creating character animation?
Experts in the field identify 6 main advantages of outsourcing game animation services compared to a large game development company, and each of them is explained in detail below.
Low cost
When contacting a large company, a formal contract is drawn up with the customer for the provision of services for the development of an individual product. This contract includes such costs as the preparation of sketches, their coordination with the customer, product development, game testing, animation quality control, and transfer of finished intellectual property to the customer.
However, the customer will never see such clauses in the contract as tax burdens, office rent, purchase of furniture, depreciation of software and server equipment, salaries of auxiliary staff who never take part in the main activities of the enterprise – cleaners, secretaries, lawyers, economists, guards. This also includes the expected profit of the business owner.
When contacting software product developers directly, on outsourcing, the customer never spends extra money on all the services listed above. He pays directly to the person who helps him create his animation and digital sculpting of the character. Even if the salary of this professional is much higher than the salary of an employee of the company, it will cost less than transferring money to the company under an agreement.
Short time spending
This undeniable advantage is extremely important for the rapid introduction of the product and the start of profit from its operation. When working with a developer or a team of engineers, programmers, and graphic designers directly, the customer does not need to wait for the scheduled deadlines under the contract. Also, he will not need to coordinate every decision made with the development team, enter into additional agreements for each new position in terms of reference, or participate in the work of the internal bureaucratic machine of a large company, which takes a lot of time.
Outsourcing people immediately start work, the result of which depends only on them, as well as the money that they should receive after providing the result to the customer. These factors save the customer weeks and months, which can be spent with the efficiency of repeatedly selling a new computer game with high-quality animation.
Possibility to create a unique intellectual product
Software developers in the gaming industry and graphic design, and animation are constantly improving their skills, undergoing training for the correct use of new high-tech tools. Large companies also provide refresher courses, but given the high inertia and multiple approvals, the limited range of opportunities, and the constant segregation of duties, each employee is less prepared than an outsourced developer.
This allows you to create a high-quality and unique product with high-quality animation and other effects, as well as eliminate boring gameplay and a complex interface, which ensures the demand for a fundamentally new product among end users. Most often, outsourced private developers themselves are interested in creating unique animations, as this automatically improves their skills.
Complete versatility
Private developers from a small animation studio, most often, are ready to provide each customer with a full set of turnkey services, which is not always available in large companies, since this work on creating the final game product is distributed among many departments and performers. When ordering the development of animation for games on outsourcing, specialists provide the following list of services:
- Concept development.
- Creation of digital sculpture.
- Animation development.
- Frame overlay.
- Detailing and texturing.
- Other services for the creation of animation or 3D modeling, according to the terms of reference from the customer.
Such a set of services provides the customer with versatility, and he no longer needs to apply to different companies to assemble individual parts of animation effects and 3D characters into a single intellectual product.
Scalability
Many large companies involved in the complex development of game software products or animation, which receive a large number of orders from various investors, provided that full-time specialists are loaded with work and there are no free jobs in the office, often turn to private performers and designers for outsourcing.
These services provide companies with the opportunity to scale their business, develop new opportunities and increase profits. Also, new freelancers who have previously been trained in various programs are always ready to share their invaluable experience with a new employer supplying them with orders, to bring and implement new ideas, which will ensure creativity, uniqueness, and availability of an innovative and effective intellectual product.
With constant fruitful cooperation with outsourcing people, even a small company with limited office space and jobs can grow into a large concern, which will be known for its unique developments far beyond the country where it is registered.
Another advantage of large companies working with small outsourced animation studios is that, upon completion of the current work and the temporary absence of new orders, the employer can easily terminate the contract of remote online employees, which does not require salary or severance pay, removes a lot of responsibility and unnecessary costs to the company.
Creativity
When concluding an official contract with a large company, the investor of a new game with animation effects is severely limited in creativity, since the developer mainly uses the services of full-time specialists and provides only one portfolio. This leads to the fact that many wishes of customers are ignored, since the developer simply cannot implement them.
Outsourcing people strive to attract new customers by all means, they provide a rich portfolio, offer bold creative ideas for the development of a new intellectual product, and also strive to develop an interface that no other company has.
This allows the customer to get a unique and high-quality intellectual product, and the developers are interested in maintaining it and releasing new releases since each new work adds to their extensive portfolio.
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