Frequently Asked Questions

How do you charge? At what rate?

Alive typically does project pricing. This means we will submit a bid with a project price for your consideration. The price takes into consideration resources, time and expertise requirements. If you would prefer us to work on an hourly basis this is also possible. A discount rate is determined based on the volume of work required. Please contact us for exact pricing.

How are you different from your competitors? Why should I choose Alive?

Experience: Alive has an excellent track record of work with leading game developers

Quality: Superior-caliber artists can create flawless LODs, and state of the art high-poly marketing artwork

Easy Integration: By means of Aliveworx, our proprietary online Project Management System

Professional: We are based in Asia, and managed by Westerners conforming to Western business practices

Convenience: Art resources on demand. Convenient to switch on and off. No HR searches, interviewing or subsequent issues.

Management: Unlike working with freelancers, Alive provides a fully-managed art team prepared to implement your requirements

Why should we outsource in the first place?

If you're even considering Alive, you already know at least one reason for outsourcing. Outsourcing art production saves your company time, increases your in-house efficiency, allows you to maintain a small team size focusing on creating innovative, original titles, and provides an effective means of significantly reducing your expenses.

Your studios are on the other side of the world? Won't that be a hassle?

Not at all. Actually, it can even speed things up and increase efficiency. By means of Aliveworx, our proprietary online Project Management System (PMS), our artists can easily be integrated with your team and supervised by your project manager from his/her desktop. The fact that Alive is "on the other side of the world" is a benefit to production in that we start working when you are closing up the office. When you get into work in the morning, our team's progress will be waiting for you to review, update, and adjust. Our location, in effect, creates a virtual 24-hour workday for your company, and as such can actually reduce the total production time for your project.

What experience do you have? What about references?

We're glad you asked. Alive has a very strong project history and can provide a long list of references among happy customers. Click here to see a list of past projects we've worked, and click here for a list of customer testimonials. Contact us for a detailed reference list.