SIMAGE Animation

SIMAGE Animation is a Hong Kong animation and computer-graphics production studio founded in 2004. Working across 2D and 3D animation, visual effects, and motion capture, the studio develops work for feature films, television, game cinematics, advertising, and related entertainment media.

Its production capabilities span the development process from scriptwriting, concept art, character design, storyboarding, colour scripts, and look development through to animation production, visual effects, promotional artwork, and outsourced pipeline support. The studio also operates an in-house motion-capture facility for action choreography, martial-arts stunt capture, and studio rental.

Visual approach

A defining specialty is stylized 2.5D animation, combining hand-drawn visual aesthetics with 3D modelling, shading, spatial depth, and dynamic camera movement. This approach sits alongside the studio's broader CG-animation and VFX work, including game cinematics and commercial trailers.

Selected work

SIMAGE was the co-producer and primary animation studio behind the 2019 feature The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes – The Greatest Jail-Breaker. Its credited work also includes animation on McDull: Me and My Mum and McDull: The Rise of the Rice Cooker, as well as short projects including Temple Rider, Life Goes On, and Lo Hong Lane.

More recently, the studio has worked through GXS Productions, an international production partnership with Studio Giggex. Projects produced through that collaboration for Sega include Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - The Animation, and the Shinobi: The Art of Vengeance – VILLAINS DLC Trailer.

The studio remains independently operated and active, with its production base in Hong Kong.