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AMGI Studios

Animation
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Founded
2019
Employees
11-50
Offices
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About AMGI Studios

AMGI Studios is an independent creative-technology, animation and video-game development studio founded in 2019. Working at the intersection of character animation, real-time game engines and artificial intelligence, it develops original entertainment properties as well as commercial animation and interactive work.

The studio’s work is built around a proprietary five-step production pipeline in Unreal Engine 5 that combines real-time rendering, live digital puppeteering, AI-assisted performance capture and motion-capture techniques. AMGI applies this approach to episodic media, commercials, music videos, games and interactive character experiences, with an emphasis on shortening traditional animation production timelines while retaining feature-quality character performance.

Interactive entertainment and original IP

AMGI develops games and transmedia franchises alongside its animation work. Its flagship property, My Pet Hooligan, is a free-to-play PvP and PvE third-person shooter made in Unreal Engine 5 and distributed through the Epic Games Store. The franchise has expanded through the $HOOLI brand token and the animated companion mini-series Hell or High Hooli.

Its original and commercial work also includes:

  • immi, an AI-powered real-time animation application for digital-avatar and NFT puppeteering
  • Click Zero, an interactive agent platform with DAO governance tools
  • Da Hamstas and Sparkle, original character-animation projects
  • Real-time character animation and live-action integration for Coldplay and BTS’s “My Universe” music video
  • Little Kaiju Finds a Bug, an Unreal Engine real-time showcase produced with Epic Games

Capabilities

AMGI offers real-time animation production, full-cycle game development, interactive AI-character and avatar integrations, motion and facial-capture technical services, virtual-world creation, and IP licensing and merchandising. Its work spans animation and entertainment, video games and esports, advertising and music-video production, Web3 and interactive media, and AI-enabled commerce.

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Founders and recognition

AMGI was co-founded by entertainment executive Roger Paglia, animator and director Colin Brady, and producer Luke Paglia.

The company’s real-time animation and performance-capture R&D has received an Epic MegaGrant. It has also undertaken technology research collaborations with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, and reports proprietary and patent-pending innovations in full-body and facial performance capture.

Investment support

AMGI is backed by BITKRAFT Ventures, Delphi Digital and Polygon. Reported angel investors include Zoom founder Eric Yuan, Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban and Paris Hilton.

Notable credits

7 credits
  • My Pet Hooligan
  • immi
  • Da Hamstas
  • Sparkle
  • Coldplay x BTS: "My Universe"
  • Hell or High Hooli
  • Little Kaiju Finds a Bug

Offices

Where AMGI Studios is based

2 locations

  • Burbank office

    Headquarters
    4209 Vanowen Pl, Burbank, CA 91505, United StatesBurbank, California, United States

    Primary company headquarters, physical animation studio, motion-capture suite, and engineering facility.

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  • South Pasadena office

    South Pasadena, California, United States

    Secondary operational office and founding administrative location within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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