Digic – Hungarian studio creating the best CG movies

The Witcher, Final Fantasy, Assassin’s Creed, Warhammer. The common feature of these titles is the Hungarian CG animation studio that made their trailers and/or interlude cinematics.

According to IGN.hu, Digic Pictures began with only four people in 2002 who were hired to create the cinematics of a Hungarian strategy game Armies of Exigo.

15 years have passed since the humble beginning, and now the most prestigious developers and publishers approach them with assignments.

Their animations are famous for being creative, powerful, dynamic and incredibly detailed. Activision, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Square Enix, BioWare and CD Projekt RED are all returning “customers” of Digic.

Blizzard Entertainment started the tradition of publishing videos of cinematic quality about upcoming projects, thus catching the attention of the audience this way. Digic was created to apply this custom in the Hungarian market as well.

The intro of Armies of Exigo was the only video created in the Central European region that was chosen among the best projects in the international computer animation festival SIGGRAPH. It was the success that started the avalanche. Digic got a separated from Black Hole in 2006 and became a sovereign enterprise making animations.  The new studio was extended and started working with 13 employees and, also, they began to work for request. The creators of Armies of Exigo hired them once more for their next project, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. Then the studio has gone international.

They had difficulties with finding proper employees, as there were only a handful of schools teaching 3D animation and texture art in Hungary at that time. Only the most motivated artists could acquire the required knowledge, most of them by self-instruction. There is still a lack of this type of training in Hungary. That is the reason why Digic often seeks gifted people within their own sphere.

Digic does not assume projects with deadlines shorter than half a year: their famously detailed work takes a lot of time.

This time might shorten a little bit in case of a recurring partner who they already know. However, new brands require more than 6 months. Their schedule is always full for at least one year in advance, and they need some time to switch to another project after finishing the previous one.