Spring Onion Studio
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- Founded
- 2008
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- 11-50
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About Spring Onion Studio
Spring Onion Studio is an independent creative production and animation studio based in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 2008 by Ivan Pavlović and Kostadin Martić, it works across game art, cinematic production, advertising and visual effects. Its work combines assets intended for real-time games with animated content used to introduce, explain and promote those games.
The studio offers full-cycle game art development, from concept art and character design through sculpting, modeling, texturing, rigging and animation. Its capabilities cover stylized and photorealistic characters and creatures, alongside props, vehicles, modular architecture and environments. Production includes high-poly and low-poly modeling, skinning and optimization for real-time engines, connecting visual development with the technical requirements of in-game use.
Cinematics and commercial production
Spring Onion Studio develops full-CG trailers, cutscenes and game commercials. Its production pipeline encompasses storyboards, animatics and previsualization, followed by character development, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing and editing. The team also integrates computer-generated imagery with live-action footage and produces motion graphics, cloth and fluid simulations, particle effects and other visual effects for commercial projects.
Its game portfolio includes advertising and cinematic work for Forge of Empires, Elvenar and Sunrise Village, as well as the announcement reveal trailer and in-game assets for Disciples: Liberation. The studio also contributed character design, modeling and texturing to the updated Adobe Mixamo platform and produced a cinematic trailer for Lightstep Chronicles. These projects span marketing films, character development and assets used within games.
Beyond games, the studio produces animated television spots, live-action commercial integrations and visual effects for brands and advertising agencies. Its supplied portfolio includes work for McDonald’s, Devin Mineral Water, Jana and Zvijezda, while its agency relationships include BBDO, Publicis and Leo Burnett. Across these markets, the studio brings together character animation, game asset production and post-production within a single creative production business, serving game developers, publishers, agencies and audiovisual producers.
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Leadership and ownership
Ivan Pavlović is CEO, co-founder and director. Vladimir Stefanović is partner and lead artist. The supplied registry research identifies each as a 50% shareholder. Historical co-founder Kostadin Martić is described as a former animation lead.
Operating model and internal products
The studio describes an in-house production team supported by a distributed network of remote creative and technical artists worldwide.
The same team and corporate entity also operate BASEGRID, an internal commercial venture producing modular 3D architectural kitbash assets and environment packs. The report describes these assets as intended for use with Unreal Engine, Unity, Blender, 3ds Max and Maya; BASEGRID is not identified as a separate subsidiary studio.
Industry participation
Spring Onion Studio is a member of the Serbian Games Association and participated in Serbia’s national delegation as an official exhibitor at Gamescom 2023.
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Where Spring Onion Studio is based
- Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: Makenzijeva 67, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Email: office@springonionstudio.com Office webpage: https://springonionstudio.com/contact/ Headquarters and primary production studio in Vračar. --- **Office** Status: active Address: Ledinačka 4/20, 11050 Belgrade, Serbia Corporate registered office in Zvezdara; the production studio operates at a separate address.
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