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Worlds sekai
Environments that hold a story in every stone.
Real-time 3D studio — Tokyo — Since 2018
Unseen craft. Unreal worlds.
Engine-ready characters, environments and technical art for AAA and indie games, plus real-time visuals for film and live stages. AAA quality, delivered on schedule, from Tokyo.
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(01) The meaning of Nin
Nin means to endure: to work unseen, with patience, until the strike is perfect. For eight years we have been the quiet hands behind worlds players remember, from Valkyrie Elysium to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Characters, environments, shaders and visuals, built to run at sixty frames. Every frame.
LIVE
Reel 2026 — rendered in real time, in your browser
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Shadows kage
Shaders, lighting and VFX tuned to the millisecond.
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Signal shingō
Audio-reactive visuals for clubs, stages and screens. Turn the sound on.
(02) Selected work
Behind the worlds you’ve played.
- 01 PokéPark KANTO Park environments & props for the official trailer · Modeling, texturingWACHAJACK · The Pokémon Company 2025
- 02 Living Hell Every human protagonist · Sculpt to game-readyStraight Back Games · Future Friends Games 2025
- 03 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Church & Graveyard map end to end, plus the Sorority House for Rush Week · Blockout to finalBlack Tower Studios · Sumo Digital · Gun Media 2023
- 04 Foamstars Character shaders & materials for the castBlack Tower Studios · Toylogic · Square Enix 2023
- 05 Predator: Hunting Grounds DLC Predators, human characters & variants · Unreal implementation, rigging integrationBlack Tower Studios · IllFonic · Sony Interactive Entertainment
- 06 Valkyrie Elysium Boss stages & propsSoleil Game Studios · Square Enix 2022
- 07 Dragon Ball: The Breakers Environment art productionCURO · Ignis Image Works · Bandai Namco
- 08 Ado “Yoru no Pierrot” 360° MV Good Design Award Interactive 360° music video in UE5, shown on the Shibuya Crossing screensSIGNIF · Google 2021
- 09 Midnight Grand Orchestra 1st LIVE “Midnight Mission” Real-time environments across multiple LED walls, as live stage backdropsMidnight Grand Orchestra 2023
- 10 YOASOBI × Vaundy “Tirori Mix” MV Supermarket environment, modeling & texturingWACHAJACK · McDonald’s Japan
- 11 Spellbreak Switch port · Whole-game profiling, environment, character & FX optimizationBlack Tower Studios · ProletariatSwitch
- 12 Kurita AQUA⁺ TANK Japan Space Design Award 2023 Houdini 360° water simulation for a 4 m cylindrical LEDKurita Industry · STU · S.C. ALLIANCE 2023
- 13 Shinobi Original IP Our own sci-fi cyborg ninja · Designed, sculpted and rendered in real time, in-houseNin-Ja Company 2024
More work Devour · Monster Hunter Stories · Disney Tsum Tsum · Katana Inu · ASCA “Shinkaron” · GEMS COMPANY “Tokimeki Dream Line” · fripSide Virtual Live · BLAME! · Naruto vs Pain · Tokyo Ghoul · Silicon Studio Enlighten & Mizuchi · ATLAS CM · SIXPAD CM · Mark the Adventurer · Shuri, our studio mascot · Fab asset packs
Much of our art is under NDA. Ask us for the private reel. 80+ projects on ArtStation ↗
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In their words
“Nin-Ja consistently delivers high-quality art assets on time and within budget. When we need external art resources, we don’t even talk to anyone else. These are our guys!”
“Working with Nin-Ja has been essential to our Devour game’s success. Without their hard work, attention to detail, and excellent communication we would not have been able to achieve our goals.”
“We have been working with Nin-Ja Company since the birth as we were the first clients and we are still collaborating with them till this day, I guess that means something. Professional, Diversified, and Quality.”
(03) What we do
Five disciplines. One frame budget.
01Characters & Worlds
Hero characters, NPCs and DLC variants, and environments from blockout to final lighting. Sculpt, retopology, textures, rig, skin and LODs with our in-house Maya tools, engine-ready for Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, stylized to photoreal.
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Maya
- Blender
- ZbZBrush
- MdMarvelous Designer
02Technical Art & Pipelines
Shaders and materials, performance and platform porting, and custom Maya, Python and UE5 tools that remove the bottlenecks from your art pipeline. Beauty that fits the frame budget.
- Unreal Engine
- Houdini
- SuSubstance
03Live Visuals
Audio-reactive visuals in Unreal Engine 5 and TouchDesigner that move with the DJ, live. Stage and LED-wall loops built to the exact size of the venue screens, VJ packs, key visuals and promo motion, battle-tested every night at UVX.
- TdTouchDesigner
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
04Cinematics & Virtual Production
In-engine cinematics, promo films, virtual production backdrops for the LED volume, 360° and immersive content, and real-time architectural visualization.
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
05Co-development & Dedicated Teams
A dedicated team that plugs into your engine, tools and review cadence, from one artist to a full content pipeline, backed by our vetted network. From Tokyo to the world, in English and Japanese.
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
Tools we master
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Houdini
- Maya
- Blender
- SuSubstance
- ZbZBrush
- MdMarvelous Designer
- TdTouchDesigner
Why studios choose us
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AAA quality, every delivery
Senior leads review every asset in engine before it leaves the studio. It lands engine-ready, with no rework on your side.
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AAA-proven artists
Credits on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Predator: Hunting Grounds, Valkyrie Elysium, Foamstars and PokéPark KANTO.
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Tokyo, bilingual
Production in Japanese and English, on Tokyo hours with overlap for studios in Europe and the Americas.
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Scales with you
A senior core team plus a vetted network of artists and partner studios, from one character to a full content pipeline.
Ways to work with us
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Project
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. Ideal for a map, a character set or a trailer.
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Dedicated team
A monthly team that plugs into your pipeline, tools and review cadence, and grows with your production.
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Pipeline sprint
We audit your art pipeline and ship the tools and fixes that save your team hours every week.
(04) Our businesses
Two businesses. One craft.
01 — Studio
Nin-Ja Studio
Game art and real-time 3D for games, film and live stages: characters, worlds, technical art and live visuals.
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02 — Nightlife
UVX is our blacklight nightlife brand in Tokyo. UVX is the stage, Nin-Ja is the visuals: every night is our live lab, where new ideas meet a real crowd before they go to work for other venues and brands.
3 worlds built · 1,500+ guests · 50+ DJs
Book the visuals alone, or a full UVX night with them for brand activations and corporate events.
Visit UVX ↗From our 3D store Modular Yatai Street Food · Japanese Street Props · Japanese Houses Kit · Sci-Fi Spaceship Kit Get the packs on Fab ↗
2018Founded in Tokyo
16.6msOur frame budget. Always.
80+Projects on ArtStation
EN/JPOne pipeline, two languages
(05) The code we keep
Four rules. No exceptions.
Our mission: AAA-quality work, on time, every time.
KAGE
Invisible craft
The best work disappears into the world. Players remember the place, not the polygon.
SOKU
Real-time, always
If it can’t run at frame rate, it isn’t finished.
WAZA
Craft over noise
Fewer, better things. Every asset earns its milliseconds.
WA
One team
We work as an extension of yours. Same tools, same goals, same deadline.
(06) How we move
Stage 1/5
From scouting to shipping.
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Scout
Brief, references and the hard technical limits, mapped before a single polygon.
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Blockout
Greybox in engine. Scale, composition and gameplay readability, validated early.
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Forge
Art, shaders and VFX built together, reviewed in engine every day.
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Polish
Profiled on target hardware until it fits the budget. Then a little more.
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Deliver
Engine-ready, documented and supported after launch.
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(07) The studio
A small clan, by design.
An international team of senior artists and technical artists, working from Daikanyama, Tokyo. Small enough to care about every pixel. Experienced enough to ship.
Led by
Rafael Rodriguez Bellot
Founder · Representative Director & Creative Director
Character artist and art director with 16+ years in games and film. Before Nin-Ja he modeled characters and cloth for Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV and Ignis’s outfit, House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn and Netflix’s Kong: King of the Apes, and has since led work on titles for Square Enix, Soleil, Sega, Gun and IllFonic. He founded Nin-Ja to bring AAA quality at indie speed.
Join the clan
We hire artists of every nationality, graduates and mid-career alike, with visa and relocation support to Tokyo. Freelancer or partner studio? Join the Nin-Ja Network and be first in line when a game, real-time or live-visual project fits your skills.
Open roles ↗ Join the network ↗ recruit@nin-jacompany.com
(08) Company profile
Who we are, on paper.
- Company name
- Nin-Ja Company Co., Ltd.
- Corporate number
- 4010701036726
- Established
- 12 November 2018
- Representative
- Rafael Rodriguez Bellot, Representative Director
- Address
- Castillo Daikanyama #403, 16-1 Daikanyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0034, Japan
- Access
- 4 min walk from Daikanyama Station (Tokyu Toyoko Line)
- Business
- CG and game art production · Real-time 3D (Unreal Engine, Unity) · Virtual production · Live and DJ visuals · 3D asset sales (Fab) · Operating UVX — Ultraviolet Experience
- Major clients
- Black Tower Studios, Straight Back Games, Figurama Collectors, Soleil Game Studios, CURO, Ignis Image Works, Silicon Studio, SIGNIF, WACHAJACK, Animation Cafe, Modeling Cafe, STU, VARK, HCA (in no particular order)
- Awards
- Good Design Award (Ado “Yoru no Pierrot” 360° MV) · Japan Space Design Award 2023 (Kurita AQUA⁺ TANK)
- Qualified invoice issuer no.
- T4010701036726
(09) Contact
Have a world in mind?
contact@Send us a brief
The button opens an email with this template filled in. Answer what you can, rough is fine. We reply in English or Japanese.
- Project and genre
- What you need: asset types and quantities
- Style and references
- Engine and platforms
- Timeline and deadlines
- Budget range (optional)
Studio
Castillo Daikanyama #403
16-1 Daikanyama-cho, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0034, Japan
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