Room 8 Group, an end-to-end strategic partner in external game development, has announced a strategic partnership with Motorica, a Stockholm-based animation tools company known for supporting high-quality, gameplay-ready animation generation within compressed production cycles.
Modern gameplay requires large datasets of consistent animation, which can often become a production bottleneck when iteration speed does not match design needs. Traditional keyframe and motion capture pipelines may struggle to scale predictably, leading to longer cycles and coverage gaps in motion-matching systems.
As part of its ongoing technology evaluation process, Room 8 Group conducted internal production testing of Motorica’s animation toolset within a UE5 workflow. The pilot demonstrated significantly faster authoring of locomotion and traversal sets, along with fewer retakes and cleanup cycles, and improved style consistency across different body types and movement speeds.
In testing scenarios, teams were able to move from motion generation to playable iteration within the same day, expanding coverage while reducing production overhead.
“We continuously evaluate emerging production technologies and validate them in real development conditions. Motorica expands our technology ecosystem and provides additional flexibility for projects where advanced motion generation aligns with a client’s production model, technical framework, and resource strategy. Our role is to ensure that every solution we bring into a pipeline supports both creative intent and long-term production sustainability.”
Anna Kozlova, CEO at Room 8 Group.
“Motorica was designed for studios that need scalable, gameplay-ready animation without compromising quality or control. Room 8 Group’s disciplined approach to technology validation makes them a strong partner in exploring how this capability can be deployed where it delivers real production value.”
Willem Demmers, CEO at Motorica.
The partnership reflects Room 8 Group’s continued investment in expanding its technology ecosystem and validating advanced production capabilities. It strengthens the company’s ability to support scalable, high-quality animation production tailored to the specific needs of each client and project.
About Room 8 Group
Room 8 Group is an end-to-end strategic partner in external game development. Working across all platforms, we provide creative and technical expertise across game development, technology, art, trailers, and QA for AAA and AA games. Since 2011, we’ve built creative partnerships with world-leading publishers such as Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sony, Gameloft, Take2, EA, and more. While leveraging our own cutting-edge tools and R&D capabilities, we’ve co-created a multitude of award-winning projects for video game IPs and franchises including Call of Duty, Diablo, Assassin’s Creed, Star Trek, The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, and many more.
About Motorica
Founded by researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Motorica builds on early academic breakthroughs in motion synthesis and operates on proprietary motion data captured from top motion actors in their state-of-the art mocap studio in Stockholm. The company has received an Epic Games MegaGrant and is used in production by AAA studios globally.