Embergong, a creative & technical studio

001 · The studio

A studio built on real production experience.

Embergong grew out of more than fifteen years leading art, tech, and production on AAA, indie and VR games. It's here to keep the creative, technical, and production sides of a project moving together, instead of drifting apart the way they often do.

What started as one person's experience is being built into something longer lived: a small studio made to take on creative and ambitious work and grow with it.

Alongside client work, Embergong is slowly building projects and interactive experiences of its own. The long-term aim is to make original work, not only help others make theirs.

Built on more than fifteen years of experience. Designed for more than the next fifteen.

002 · Why Embergong

Great projects rarely fail because of ideas.

They fail when the creative, technical, and production sides drift apart.

Embergong's whole job is to pull them back together, and help a team turn a complicated idea or vision into something that actually ships.

Every project is different, but the problems are usually similar: getting vision, execution, and production pointing in one direction the team can actually build.

003 · Services

The core work

Art Direction

Setting the visual identity, the quality bar, and the creative direction, from first concept through final production.

Technical Art Direction

Making the art achievable in engine: rendering, lighting, optimization, workflows, and the real-time systems that hold a production together.

Production & Pipeline Design

The pipelines, team structures, and production setup that let an ambitious project actually ship.

Also in the toolkit

Things Embergong is happy to take on when the work calls for them, alongside the core work above.

Sound Design

Sound design and atmospheres for film, games, and installations.

Music Production

Composition, arrangement, and production, from first idea to final master.

Game Design

Game systems and feel, designed alongside the art and sound.

004 · Featured projects

Selected productions that helped shape the leadership, production philosophy, and technical expertise behind Embergong.

The work here was done by Embergong's founder, in senior and leadership roles at other studios. It's the experience Embergong was built to carry forward.

Oblivion Remastered

Technical Art · 2025

Set the visual tone and quality bar for environments, and led the technical art across the VFX, lighting, and tech-art teams.

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond

Technical Art · 2022

Built the technical-art pipeline for the Quest 2 VR conversion, coordinating internal teams with multiple external partners across production.

Mahokenshi

Art Direction · 2021

Shaped the game's entire visual identity, from its signature look and style to its technical quality.

Returnal

Environment Art · 2019

Owned the modular asset pipeline and environment blockout for the Helios ship, built start to finish in Unreal Engine 4.

Hitman 2

Art Production · 2018

Ran the production and delivery of 140+ in-engine assets, from planning and assignment through QA and final hand-off.

Subnautica

Art Direction · 2017

Directed the launch trailer's visual and technical production, from pipeline and lighting to the final render.

005 · Studios & collaborations

Studios & collaborations.

Current partners

Production experience across studios & publishers

006 · Behind the studio

Andrius Balčiūnas

Founder · Art & Technical Director

Embergong was founded by Andrius Balčiūnas, after more than fifteen years leading art, technical art, and production teams on AAA and indie games. Embergong is where that work continues, now as a studio of its own, set up to take ambitious productions from first idea to delivery. It's also looking forward, building original projects and interactive experiences of its own, alongside the client work.

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