Imagination Studios

Imagination Studios was a Swedish motion capture, performance capture and 3D animation studio established in Uppsala in 2004. Its work supported character performances and cinematic animation for international game developers and publishers, alongside production for film, television, commercials and interactive entertainment.

The studio combined full-body optical motion capture with facial tracking, stunt performance and previsualization. Its production services extended from performance recording to character cleanup, retargeting and keyframe animation, helping translate recorded movement into finished digital characters. Multi-actor capture, prop tracking and virtual camera work supported productions involving coordinated action and complex character interactions.

Production work

Imagination Studios contributed motion capture and animation to games including Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Alan Wake and the Hitman series. Its work also included motion capture and cinematic animation for World in Conflict and Soviet Assault, plus additional motion capture for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Across these projects, the studio supplied specialist performance and animation services within larger development pipelines.

Consolidation and legacy

In 2014, Imagination Studios joined the Goodbye Kansas Holding alliance alongside Fido, Bläck Studios and Pixel Grinder. In June 2017, the four studios were consolidated under the Goodbye Kansas Studios brand, ending Imagination Studios’ independent commercial operation.

Its Uppsala capture facility initially continued as a regional operation of the successor studio. Swedish operations were subsequently centralized in Stockholm in 2019, and the former Uppsala facility closed. Imagination Studios therefore remains a historical studio identity associated with its independent production work and its contribution to the formation of Goodbye Kansas Studios.