About Us
With 20 years of experience creating characters for feature animated movies, interactive installations and video games, Winterkewl Games has the knowledge, skills, and proven track record of delivering high quality production ready characters, as well as character pipelines, for a variety of AAA quality properties.
Kristafer Vale, founder and lead character artist has worked on feature animated movies including some of the best known animated franchises like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Puss and Boots, Trolls, Croods and more.
He has also worked on Visual FX heavy movies including Watchmen, I Am Legend, and Beowulf.
In addition to feature animated and feature film characters, Kris has also contributed high quality character rigs for a variety of interactive installations at Comic-Con and other conferences.
He’s also been principal rigger, responsible for all character rigging on a number of video game properties. Properties like, his independent game Yogventures, an escape the room game for the Lionsgate “Jigsaw” Comic-Con experience, and many other AA and indie interactive VR and AR demos and games seen at conferences all around the world.
