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How Many AAA Character Artist Positions Are There in our Industry?

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I was wondering if anyone has actual numbers. For either studios they work at, or know the numbers of.

(I had an interesting discussion with some friends, and we feel that number is REALLY low worldwide). Not including outsourcing houses.

If you know the actual numbers for any studios, let me know.

I am NOT trying to push any kind of agenda here, so please don't be mad at me. Also, I am not including the plethora of indie studios, contract positions, or temporary work situations in this (even though there are PLENTY).


**I'll try to keep this first post updated*


Studios:
104

Character Artist Positions:
468


Montreal/Quebec:
Eidos Montreal - 7
Square Enix Montreal - 2
Warner Bros Montreal - 8
Gameloft Montreal - 10
Activision Beenox - 5
Bioware Montreal - 3
Behaviour Interactive - 2
Ubisoft Montreal - 25
Ubisoft Quebec - 3
Sarbakan - 1

Edmonton/Alberta
Bioware Edmonton - 10

Toronto/Ontario
Digital Extremes - 3
Torn Banner - 1
Ubisoft Toronto - 9

Vancouver
Capcom Vancouver - 2
Relic Entertainment - 3
EA Burnaby
Big Park
Black Tusk

Boston:
Irrational - 2

North Carolina:
Insomniac - 2
Funcom - 1
Epic - 4
Redstorm

Maryland
Zenimax - 10

California:
SledgeHammer - 4
Carbine - 7
Riot - 12
The Workshop Entertainment - 5
Naughty Dog - 8
SCEA - 4
Blizzard - 30
Concrete Games - 4
Trion - 2
Molten - 3
Ready At Dawn - 4
Cryptic - 7
Visceral - 3
Waystone - 2
Neversoft - 4
Sony Santa Monica - 7
EA Maxis - 8
Insomniac Burbank - 4
S2 Games Rohnert Park - 7
Kojima - 4
Treyarch - 9
Zindagi - 5
Crystal Dynamics - 2
Obsidian - 3
Respawn - 4
Tell Tale - 1
Toys for Bob - 1
2k Sports - 2
Double Fine -



Texas:
Id - 2
Gearbox - 5
Kings Isle - 13
Retro Studios - 2
BattleCry - 3
CryTek - 3
Arkane - 1
Bioware Austin - 5
Certain Affinity - 3
Portalarium
Edge of Reality
Red Fly

Washington
Suckerpunch - 3
Bungie - 10
Arena Net - 6
Runic Games - 1
Signal Studios - 1
Hidden Path - 1
Zombie - 1
5th Cell - 1
Her Interactive - 1
SnowBlind - 1
Airtight - 3
Cat Daddy Games - 1
Motiga - 3
5th Cell - 3
Undead Labs - 2
Valve - 6
343 - 5
Monolith - 6
Turn 10 - 1

Illinois
Volition - 5

Atlanta
Hi-Rez - 7
Xaviant - 3
Tripwire - 1
CCP

Sweden:
Machine Games - 2
Massive - 1
DICE - 5
Avalanche - 3

Finland
Remedy - 3

Poland:
People Can Fly - 5
Project Red
Techland - 3
City Interactive
cdp.pl

Amsterdam
Guerrilla Games - 3

UK
Splash Damage - 3
Creative Assembly - 10
Rocksteady - 6
Climax - 2
Crytek UK - 3
Evolution - 1
Reloaded - 2
Ubisoft Reflections - 2
Ninja Theory - 5
Codemasters Birmingham - 1
Rockstar Leeds - 2
Rare - 3
Criterion
Ghost (Although I don't think Need for Speed has Characters)
Soho
Media Molecule
Evolution
Sega Sports
Hardlight
Codemasters (although I don't think Forza have Characters)
Climax
Frontier
Headstrong
Warner
Rebellion
Sumo
Traveller's Tales

Russia:
Nival
Mail.ru

Czech Republic
2k Czech - 3

France
Quantic Dream - 7
Ubisoft Montpellier - 2
Cyanide - 3

Germany
Crytek - 7
Yager - 4
BlueByte - 2

Japan
FromSoftware - 8

Vietnam
Gameloft - 12

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