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FreemiumAI creative operating system for game studios: train custom models and generate 2D, 3D, video and audio assets at production scale.
What is Layer?
Layer is a generative AI platform built specifically for game studios rather than general creative work, and it has grown from a 2D concept tool into a full creative engine covering concept art, UI, in-game assets, cinematics and marketing creative. Artists train custom models on their own artwork so outputs stay locked to the studio's art direction, then refine results in an integrated live canvas that gives immediate visual feedback. The platform is deliberately model agnostic, exposing more than 300 AI models across image, 3D, video and audio, with game specific templates and a node based workflow system for automating repeatable production steps. It integrates with the tools studios already use, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, Unity and Godot. Layer moved away from per seat pricing to a usage based model built on Creative Units, so an entire team gets full feature access and the studio only pays for what it actually generates. Enterprise readiness is a genuine differentiator here: SOC 2 Type II compliance, single sign on, role based access controls and full audit trails come standard.
Key Features
Custom Model TrainingStyle ConsistencyLive 2D Canvas300+ Model LibraryText To ImageImage To Image3D Asset GenerationVideo GenerationAudio GenerationNode Based WorkflowsGame Specific TemplatesBatch ProductionMarketing Asset CreationUnity PluginModel Agnostic ArchitectureSOC 2 ComplianceSingle Sign OnRole Based Access Controls
Integrations
Development
UnityUnreal EngineGodot
Design
BlenderPhotoshopIllustratorAutodesk Maya
Webhooks & API
REST API
How to Use Layer
1Create a workspace and invite your team, with no per seat charge
2Upload existing artwork and train a custom model on your studio style
3Pick a modality: image, 3D, video or audio, and choose a base model
4Generate assets and refine them in the live canvas with instant feedback
5Automate repeatable steps with node based workflows
6Export into Photoshop, Blender, Unity, Unreal or Godot, or top up Creative Units as usage grows
✅ Best For
- Game studios that want one platform covering 2D, 3D, video and audio instead of paying for four separate subscriptions
- Art teams where every contributor needs full tool access, since removing seat fees means nobody is locked out by budget
- Live service studios producing constant seasonal content that must stay visually consistent with the base game
- Marketing and UA teams generating store images and ad variants that have to match the actual in-game art
- Enterprises with procurement requirements, given SOC 2 Type II, SSO, role based access and full audit trails
❌ Not For
- Solo hobbyists who only need occasional images, where a simpler consumer image generator is cheaper and faster to learn
- Teams wanting an in-engine coding assistant, since Layer produces assets rather than writing gameplay code
- Studios needing predictable flat monthly billing, because usage based Creative Units make spend vary with output volume
- Anyone expecting production clean 3D topology straight out of generation without a manual cleanup pass
- Non game creative teams, as the templates, workflows and terminology are all built around game production
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Pricing
Free$0
- ✓Limited Creative Units for evaluation
- ✓core generation features
ProFrom $30/mo
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓expanded Creative Units
- ✓multi modal generation
StudioUsage based
- ✓No seat fees
- ✓full team access
- ✓node workflows and top ups as needed
EnterpriseCustom
- ✓SSO
- ✓SOC 2 documentation
- ✓role based access
- ✓audit trails and volume pricing
Prompts to Try
Generate a set of 12 RPG weapon icons in our trained studio style
Create a seasonal winter variant of this character skin, same silhouette
Produce five app store screenshot backgrounds matching our key art
Seamless tileable desert sand texture with wind ripples, 2K
Concept art for a floating market district, painterly, wide shot
Use Cases
Farah, an art lead at a live service studio, trains a Layer model on two years of approved skins and her seasonal drop ships with zero style revision rounds.
Kenji, a technical artist, builds a node workflow that turns one character sheet into icon, banner and store image variants automatically every time a new hero is approved.
Ravi, a studio producer, moves his eight person art team onto Layer and stops rationing licences because the pricing no longer charges per seat.
Nadia, a UA marketer, generates 40 ad creative variants that genuinely match the shipped game art and cuts her creative production timeline from two weeks to two days.
Tom, an outsourcing manager, shares a trained model with an external partner so delivered assets arrive on style instead of needing a full repaint.
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