Our Expertise

Purple Puppet is a creative services studio focused on character solutions.

Advanced Character Rigging
Character Art & Design
Animation Pipeline Tools

Our Services

CHARACTER ART
  • Character Design & Concept
  • Variation & attachment systems
  • Realistic / Stylized / Cartoon
  • In-Game low poly / High-res Marketing
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TECH ANIMATION
  • Advanced Custom Rigs
  • Basic Rigging & Skinning
  • Unreal Control Rig & Real-time rigging
  • Realistic / Stylized / Cartoon
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PIPELINE
  • Advanced animation pipelines
  • Rigging tools and plugins
  • Unreal/Unity export pipeline
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WHO WE ARE

Purple Puppet was founded by Riham Toulan and Frederic Lierman who both are industry veterans in the games and cg industry. Our headquarters are located in the historic city of Bruges, Belgium.

Purple Puppet was first founded in 2015 and has steadily been growing since then. We believe strongly in staying true to our strengths. Doing so has lead us to becoming one of the top character focused service studios in the industry.

Our team consists of talented artists and technical animators and pipeline specialists. We welcome the unique challenges that each project offers and strife to deliver high quality professional services to each client.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How soon can Purple Puppet start on our project?

If we have availability we usually need a two week heads up before we can start collaborating on your project.

2. Can Purple Puppet develop characters and rigs using our pipeline?

Yes! We are familiar with most development pipelines and have experience developing assets and rigs for Unreal, Unity, as well as other proprietary engines. We develop using Maya, Blender, Zbrush, Substance3D, Marvelous Designer, Mari, and more.

3. Can you develop animation pipeline tools for our project?

Yes! We have extensive experience developing character pipelines and character animation pipeline tools.

4. Can Purple Puppet handle our project?

After an initial conversation about your project we will give you an honest assessment of whether and how we can collaborate with you. We never commit to a project unless we are convinced we can provide an excellent service.

5. Does Purple Puppet do more than 3d characters and rigs?

Yes! We can provide character concepts designs and character animation when the project requires it?

6. How big is Purple Puppet?

We are a service studio focused on delivering high quality specialized character solutions for your project. We are committed to scaling Purple Puppet in a responsible manner. Our core development team consists of talented rigging artists and character artists as well as a pipeline TD.

7. We need support, but we don't know the scope of our project yet. Is that a problem?

That is no problem. If you don't know when exactly you will need our services we will pencil in a rough estimate and will make sure to keep you up to date on our availability.