Based at Manchester Science Park’s Bright Building, Epic Games Animation UK Ltd (formerly Cubic Motion) is the leading provider of automated performance-driven facial animation to the global video games market. The company has a reputation for ultra-high quality, and an extensive list of triple-A clients, leading to their aquistiion by Epic Games, the world renowned nteractive company behind games like Fortnite and developers of Unreal Engine.
Epic Games Animation UK’s team of international award-winning PhD computer vision scientists have been at the forefront of image analysis for more than 20 years.
Their partnership with Epic Games unites the world’s most powerful game engine and the world-leading character creation technology of 3Lateral, with Cubic’s state-of-the-art vision and animation technology.
Together, they boundaries of digital human technology, bringing ever more realism and immersive content to all forms of visual entertainment.
Epic Games Animation UK is particularly excited to bring Epic Games to Manchester, the birthplace of modern computing and once home to Alan Turing. The wealth of talent in the city and its many universities will be invaluable to Epic’s story as we continue to make breakthroughs in computing.
Epic Games Animation UK’s high-fidelity facial animation has been seen across film, TV, video games and immersive media, including Call of Duty, Hellblade, Spider-Man, Kiss Me First, and many more.
