Paper Snake

Paper Snake is an independent animation and rigging studio founded in 2021, working with video game developers on gameplay animation, cinematics and character production. Based in the United Kingdom, it operates remotely and supports indie, AA and AAA projects through outsourcing and co-development partnerships.

The studio began as an art and asset outsourcing vendor before expanding into closer collaboration with development teams. Its work includes establishing animation styles across a project, creating character movement and gameplay animation sets, and producing cinematic sequences. These services combine animation direction with the technical preparation needed to bring characters into games.

Animation and technical production

Paper Snake develops game-ready character rigs for a range of animation styles, including realistic movement and exaggerated squash-and-stretch. Its reported capabilities extend to flexible spline-based limbs, bespoke rigging pipelines and custom workflow tools. This combination allows the studio to contribute both finished animation and the production infrastructure used to create it.

Its co-development offering centres on integration with a client's existing team. Rather than supplying assets alone, the studio can contribute animation direction, style development, rigging and ongoing animation production within a broader game project.

Selected collaboration

Paper Snake is an animation and rigging co-development partner on Ghost Town Games' co-op adventure Stage Fright. Its official portfolio also identifies collaborations with Creative Assembly, Ninja Theory, Sumo Digital, The Multiplayer Group, Frontier Developments and Big Thursday Creative. These are client and development relationships with independent studios.