Open beats clever
We share our tools, our rigs and our mistakes. Half our pipeline is built on free and open software, and we send fixes back upstream. Nobody here has ever been made smaller for asking a basic question.
HELLO π
The rest of this website is very composed. It talks about divisions and refinement and it keeps a straight face throughout. This page is where we admit the truth: we're a room full of nerds who never got over the first time a cube turned into a character.
HOW WE GOT HERE
Venxun Labs began in 2017 in a flat in South London, with two friends, one overheating desktop, and a contract we were probably underqualified for. We delivered it. Then someone told someone, and that has essentially been our entire marketing strategy ever since.
Nine years later there are more than a hundred and forty of us β modellers, riggers, engineers, concept artists, technical directors, and a producer who keeps us honest about Fridays. We've built worlds for studios you've heard of and for studios you'll hear of soon. We're still the same two people at heart, just with better cooling.
We're an outsourcing studio, which is a slightly cold word for what actually happens: someone brings us something they love and can't finish, and we help finish it. That's the job. It's a good one.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE
We share our tools, our rigs and our mistakes. Half our pipeline is built on free and open software, and we send fixes back upstream. Nobody here has ever been made smaller for asking a basic question.
Every other Saturday the studio fills with kids aged 9β15 who leave having built something that spins. It's free, it always will be, and it's the best thing on our calendar.
If a deadline needs someone's weekend, we quoted it wrong β and that's our problem to fix, not yours to absorb. We schedule for humans who'd like to see their families.
If a scope worries us, you'll know on day one, not in week nine. Awkward early conversations are cheaper than heroic late ones. We'd rather lose the job than oversell it.
THE WALL BY THE KITCHEN
Someone keeps a camera by the coffee machine. This is what it catches.
Two of us started this in a flat with one computer.
Now the Saturday kids club has a waiting list.
WE'RE HIRING π
Nine roles are open right now β artists, engineers, a producer, a paid junior programme, and mentors for the Saturday club. Portfolio over CV. Test tasks always paid.
US, IN NUMBERS
Bring a brief, a half-finished idea, or a question you think is too small. A human replies β usually within a day or two, and never with a template.
P.S. β WE READ EVERY ONE. YES, EVEN THAT ONE.