there are in no way 25 AAA studios in the uk... tho there are quite a few holes still i would guess the number is probably closer to 500-600 in the western world when all is said and done, sad we don't get many Asian studio devs on here to chime in for their part...damn language barriers!
I think you guys might be right, somewhere around 300-500 but that's if you broaden the definition to anyone who makes characters for any kind of game, if you look in the mobile market you have artists who make characters but wear a lot of other hats too. If you limit it to just full time character artists its probably a…
but character artist maps to a game team the same way a kicker or qb or w/e would in the nfl if we pick 300 as a magic number of character artists, figure theres also 200 weapon artists, 1500 env/prop artists, 500 lighting/vfx artists, 1000 animators, etc etc. those numbers are probably way wrong but i'm saying character…