How many ship artists are working at CIG?
TL;DRCIG has many ship artists, with the most in the UK, fewer than ten in one office and a few in Texas, but an exact number is hard to give.
A lot. We've got several here and a few in Texas, and probably the most ship artists in the UK, probably a little bit more than here and Texas combined. It's tricky to give an exact number, because we have some artists who will go back and forth between working on ships and other things. We have some ship artists who don't actually work on modeling the ships or creating them, but they're almost dedicated to bugs and support. So I'd say less than 10 here and a few in Texas, and more than that combined in the UK. I don't know how many offhand. And we usually have two people working together on a ship in the early stages. So we'll have someone working on the interior and someone working on the exterior through the white box and grey box stages, which is the majority of time when we're working on a ship. And then we'll usually both work on polishing and materials and everything together. Sometimes one person has to come in and out. After that is when all the craziness happens, because we have to have all of the designers and the engineers and the still artists helping out to tag-team the ship until it's ready.