Game Character Promos Without a Capture Team

Promo art is a schedule, not a render farm

Indie teams use Pixogen for store-page stills and 6-second teaser loops, not for shipping the mesh. Keep the silhouette consistent with the in-engine character or the community will call it bait.

This page is the Pixogen-specific version of the topic. Credit numbers below match the generate button in the studio as of August 2026. If a model ships a new badge, we update the routing note here within a day — that is the newsroom rule, not a landing-page rewrite.

Credit math

12 stills + 2 motion loops. Often one Starter pack for a patch trailer still set.

Credits never expire. Failed jobs refund automatically. Do not budget as if a missed render is gone. Packs start at 200 credits for $19.99; a launch week for a persona is usually cheaper than one stock-license bundle.

Pipeline on Pixogen

/use-cases/gaming. Reference lock on the concept sheet.

Internal links that belong on this job: the matching tool landing, the pipeline hub, and one glossary term. Do not leave a guide live without those three. Related reading lives in Learn and Academy, not in a footer dump.

Model routing

Qwen or Flow depending on stylized vs photoreal. Wan 3 for cloth capes.

If you are choosing an engine for the first time, open /models/compare. Portraits, motion, lipsync and photoreal each have a different default. Wan 3.0 is the motion hero as of this writing; Nano Banana 2 still wins in-image text.

Mistakes that waste credits

• Promising gameplay footage you generated.

Publish checklist

1. Lock identity before you batch.
2. Write the credit total on the brief so the client sees the number before the job.
3. Export clean — no watermark — then brand in your editor.
4. Ping the changelog if this guide rode a model drop.

See /ai-character-generator, /image-to-video.