Update on WA: Monolith 6 ArenaNet 14 Microsoft Game Studios (?) BlackPowder Games (?) NST (Nintendo Software Technology) (?) //Snowblind no longer exists. (Merged with other studio)
Woah! Are you sure Arena Net has 14 Fulltime employees? I recall they were looking for a lot of 6 months contractors not too long ago. If so, that's awesome!
We are around 5-6 here at Beenox activision, some are doing only character and some do some other stuff like props or environment when there is less to do
You can add another one to the Creative Assembly list . Although i'm on a different team to Marks and CW. Also, CW and Marks are on different teams. So I think thats 10 altogether for CA (6 on CW's team, 3 on Marks, 1 on mine).
depending on where we are in our project, we will vary our character artist positions. at the start of our current project we only had 2 character artists, then half a year later we got 2 more, and now that its about a year and a half later we're looking for a total of 5 or 6.