Thunder Cloud Studio

Thunder Cloud Studio is a Hanoi-based game-art and CGI animation outsourcing studio founded in 2013. It provides production services for developers and publishers working across AAA, PC, console, mobile and hybrid-casual games. Its work spans individual production assets, game-ready characters and environments, gameplay animation, cinematic sequences and promotional trailers.

The studio supports both stylized and realistic visual styles, combining 2D visual development with 3D production. Character work includes high-poly and low-poly modeling, texturing, PBR shader preparation and modular character setup. Environment production covers level art, props, weapons, vehicles and the assembly of assets within game engines. Concept artists develop characters, environments, weapons, props, isometric structures and slot-game artwork.

From concept to engine

Thunder Cloud Studio’s production capabilities extend beyond modeling into rigging, skinning, keyframe character and creature animation, prop animation and real-time visual effects. Its technical services include shader configuration, look development, mesh topology requirements and multiple levels of detail. The team integrates assets into client pipelines and assembles production work in Unreal Engine and Unity.

For cinematic and marketing projects, the studio produces in-game cutscenes, CGI animation and promotional videos, including material for user acquisition campaigns. This combination of asset creation, animation and engine integration supports work across both interactive content and the imagery used to promote it.

The studio began with a core team of four artists and subsequently expanded into an in-house production organization. Its reported portfolio includes contributions to more than 300 game titles, serving developers and publishers across North America, Europe and Asia. Its published work encompasses character and creature production, environments, vehicles and cinematic assets, reflecting a business focused on providing external art-production capacity across several stages of game development.