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TIL: Blizzard commissioned Airborn Studios to make many of the event legendaries in the game, including Junkenstein and Junk's Monster, Yeti Winston, Cultist Zen, and lots more!

According to Airborn Studios' Twitter, and everywhere you can find them on the web, Blizzard outsources work on some event legendary skins to them. Edit: just to clarify, only the 3D work is outsourced, the concepts are still done in-house.

This came as a huge surprise to me because 1) Blizzard has a long standing tradition of doing 100% of the work themselves - it's well known for example that they do all their pre-rendered cinematics in-house while almost all other game companies outsource - and 2) no one seems to know. Blizzard's never advertised this fact (to my knowledge) and Airborn's Tweets get like 10 likes on average.

They appear to be based in Germany. Their team visiting Blizzard.

These are the skins they did:

Winter 17 - Avalanche Bastion, Beachrat Junkrat

Halloween 17 - Totally 80's Zarya, Corsair Ana, Cultist Zen

Summer Games 17 - Cote d'Azur, Grillmaster:76

Anniversary 17 - Cruiser D.Va, Graffiti Tracer, Dune Buggy Bastion, Bedouin Pharah

Uprising 17 - Chief Engi/Ironclad Torb, Null-sector Orisa

Winter 16 - Yeti Winston

Halloween 16 - Junkenstein, Junkenstein's Monster

Summer Games 16 - Selecau Lucio, Champion Zarya, Sprinter Tracer

They also worked on a bunch of weapons/gear/equipment for other skins, including Oni Genji, Officer D.Va and more.

Bill Warnecke

Posted 7 years, 10 months ago (Source)

actually 2014 since before we knew the game was called overwatch ;) regarding your post further down, blizzard is one of our best clients, they treat us absolutely fair. the credit for our work was by no means a secret or anything (you just have to wtach 35 minutes of credits to catch us haha). but yes we do tend to fly below radar. check out our artstation or facebook as soon as our work is public we update that gallery.

@FranniBaka so i guess you study at the Hochschule Hannover? :)

<3 Airborn Studios