3D design studio for apps and brands
If you can have more, why not an additional dimension? Avatars, mascots, in-app illustrations, gaming assets and animated videos - 3D is the core of Makata, and the reason most of our clients found us.
What we do
We create 3D characters and worlds for digital products: a panda that lives inside a banking app for teenagers, a pickle who negotiates flash sales for a refurbished-electronics marketplace, a virtual office for remote teams, animated assets that appear in a betting app in real time during the match. Concept art, modelling, rigging, animation and rendering all happen in-house.
Beyond characters, we produce promo and product videos, social-media motion series, launch loops and 3D assets for games and web experiences - including real-time scenes built with our development team.
Who it is for
Consumer apps that want a personality users recognise, fintech and SaaS brands that need to feel warmer than their category, gaming studios that need production capacity, and marketing teams that publish motion content every week. Our 3D work has shipped for teams in France, the US, the UK and Colombia.
How we work
1. Concept
Sketches and mood boards to define the character or world - proportions, materials, expressions, the way it moves. This is where the personality is decided.
2. Modelling and look development
Modelling, texturing, shading and lighting tests. You see turntables and stills before anything is animated.
3. Animation
Rigging and animation for the shots or loops in the brief, with motion tests reviewed early. For in-app assets we deliver expression sets and states, not just one hero pose.
4. Delivery
Renders, video exports, transparent sequences, Lottie or real-time formats - whatever your product or your marketing stack needs - plus the source files.
Deliverables
Character and mascot design
In-app 3D illustrations and expression sets
Promo, product and app-update videos
Social-media motion series
Gaming and metaverse assets
Real-time 3D scenes for the web
Selected 3D work
Waldo
A 3D promo video for Waldo: concept art, modelling and animation of a llama that blows up its Mac and dances like a pro. Made by Makata.
Waldo
Honk
Concept, 3D modelling and animation of short scenes promoting new features of Honk, the really real-time messaging app.
Honk
Kard
Kardy the panda: in-app 3D assets and a dozen expressions designed for Kard, the French banking app for teenagers, since 2020.
Kard
Backmarket
Peter Pickle, a 3D mascot who negotiates flash-sale deals for Back Market, went from idea to animated promo video in three weeks.
Back Market
Cosmos
Art direction, 3D production, motion and UX/UI for Cosmos, the virtual office for remote teams, in an ongoing collaboration since 2021.
Cosmos
Family
Over twenty 3D motion videos for Family's social channels in 2024, showcasing product features and updates in Makata's signature style.
Family
Vybe
A brand identity built from scratch in June 2024 for Vybe, an early-stage social app: logo, identity system and brand imagery.
Vybe
Omada
A bundle of animated 3D assets displayed in real time during football matches inside Omada, the social betting app by Luniapp.
Omada (Luniapp)
Customuse
A 15-second 3D animation of Lil' Custo making outfits in his lab, created for the social fashion app Customuse in 2022.
Customuse
Family ConnectKit
A looping 3D animation introducing ConnectKit, Family's open-source wallet-connection tool. No Octocat was harmed.
Family
J Balvin
A 3D fan-art animation of J Balvin doing his favourite moves, made by Makata's animators in Colombia.
J Balvin (fan art)
Questions founders ask
What tools do you use?
Blender for production, After Effects for compositing, and three.js, SceneKit or Unity when the result has to run in real time.
Can 3D assets live inside our app without hurting performance?
Yes. We deliver optimised formats - sprite sequences, Lottie, compressed video with alpha, or glTF for real-time - and we test them where they will actually run.
How long does a mascot take?
A first character with a small set of expressions typically takes three to five weeks. A full promo video with story, characters and environments runs six to ten.