Spire Animation Studio's Century Goddess is one of the Unreal Shorts grant winners.
Spire Animation Studio's Century Goddess is one of the Unreal Shorts grant winners.
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Epic Games joins Spire Animation’s $20M round for animated metaverse films

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Spire Animation Studios has raised $20 million from Epic Games and others as it aims to produce animated films for the metaverse.

Los Angeles-based Spire will use Epic’s Unreal Engine as part of its feature film animation pipeline as it builds new cinematic worlds.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.