Outsource Art Management
MAKE — NEW WORLD
Embedded art management taking ownership of offshore team communication, cutting art cost by 37%.
Concept
New World is an open-world MMO set on the supernatural island of Aeternum, where players carve out a destiny amid danger and opportunity.
Requirement
The partner's outsource art manager needed help reviewing the art styles coming from offshore teams and identifying embedded outsource artists to work alongside them.
Approach
A partnerships director collaborated with the outsource art manager to assess the artistic output of the offshore teams and select a group of outsource artists to integrate with the partner.
The embedded team was in place within two weeks of kickoff and took ownership of all communication with the offshore teams. Growth and training plans were provided along with cost projections for the development cycle. The team ran to five outsource artists.
Delivery scope
- Art management
- Team integration
- Art oversight
Results
- Art cost 63% of plan, a 37% reduction
- Talent retention 80%
- Work output 120%
- Time to kickoff under 1 month
- Time to produce under 2 weeks
- Budget variance −37%
Art cost 63% of plan. A 37% reduction.
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