Studios & partners we've shipped with
Creative Co-Development for Game Studios
Senior art, animation, and story support for AA studios and funded indie teams. Lean 2–5 person strike-teams, scaling past 15 when scope demands.
Studios & partners we've shipped with
What We Do
End-to-end support across the game art pipeline — including the creative troubleshooting when the pipeline itself is the problem.
Concept through engine integration — players, NPCs, enemies — owned end-to-end or at any single stage.
Explore→Deep Unity and Unreal work: locomotion, NPC behavior, emotes, facial mocap, and in-engine cinematics.
Explore→Concept art through 3D environments, level design, and in-engine lighting. Full coverage, or any one slice.
Explore→How We Work
Based in Irvine, California. We embed into your production and collaborate across departments — our process is built around fixing the specific things that go wrong in outsourcing.
No revolving door of strangers. You work with the same senior animators, artists, and leads from kickoff through launch. Continuity is the whole point.
Each Well Told principal is both lead contributor and producer. The person you brief is the person doing the work.
Lean core team, flexible edges. We can pull in a rigging specialist for three days, or six animators for a month-long sprint.
Featured Work
Full white-label co-dev for Night School / Netflix — character pipeline, narrative, and in-engine cinematics from vertical slice to launch.
Embedded animation for Night School — large emote suites across a wide cast, each tailored to character personality.
Broadcast-quality trailer on a tight timeline. VRDB Best Sport Game of the Year — full narrative and cinematic direction.
What Studios Say
"Clear, concise communication, high-quality output and reliable production processes are vital to Night School as an agile storytelling studio. The team at Well Told has delivered on every front. I am not exaggerating when I say we trust their crew with just about any facet of our games' production."
"I can't recommend Well Told highly enough. They delivered an outstanding trailer for SkyStrikers — meeting tight deadlines without sacrificing quality. From day one they were receptive, intuitively grasped our game style, and bent their scope to make every detail align."