Friday 10 October 2025, 4pm BST
Hilco is seeking offers to acquire the intellectual property assets of Dimensional Imaging Limited – In Provisional Liquidation (“Dimensional Imaging”, “DI4D” or the “Company”) behalf of the Joint Liquidations of the Company, Ian Wright and Brian Milne of Quantuma.
Founded in 2003, Dimensional Imaging Limited (DI4D) is a global leader in 3D and 4D facial performance capture. Over the past two decades, the Company has developed imaging systems that combine advanced hardware with proprietary software to deliver high-fidelity facial animation with exceptional realism and efficiency.
DI4D captures subtle human expressions and motion using 4D capture and digital doubles, eliminating the “uncanny valley” and producing lifelike animation without the need for traditional facial rigs.
Its flagship technologies include:
DI4D’s technology has been deployed in leading video games, including Call of Duty, and has applications across entertainment, gaming, medical imaging, biometrics, and research.
DI4D has established itself as a pioneering and forward-thinking brand in the field of 4D facial performance capture. Renowned for its innovative approach to capturing and processing high-fidelity facial animation, the DI4D name represents cutting-edge technology solutions designed to meet the growing demand for realistic, scalable facial performance in industries such as entertainment, gaming, medical imaging, and biometrics.
High-profile deployments have reinforced the brand’s reputation. Its technology has been used in leading video game franchises, including Call of Duty, and by major film studios and research institutions worldwide. By combining proprietary hardware, machine learning, and advanced software pipelines, DI4D enables clients to achieve lifelike digital doubles and AAA-quality animation at scale, setting a benchmark for realism and efficiency.
The Company holds a portfolio of four registered trademarks covering the “DI4D” and “PURE4D” brands, with international protection.
Full details on the Company’s trademarks are available via a virtual data room.
DI4D provides a comprehensive suite of 4D facial performance capture solutions designed to create highly realistic digital humans for entertainment, gaming, medical, and biometric applications.
Its flagship DI4D PRO system is a multi-camera 4D capture platform that produces the highest fidelity digital doubles available. By capturing synchronised facial detail from multiple viewpoints, DI4D PRO generates rich geometry caches that can be used directly for animation or integrated into advanced production pipelines, establishing it as the benchmark for AAA video game franchises, feature films, and research projects.
Complementing DI4D PRO is PURE4D, an AI-driven platform that fuses 4D expression data with performance captured on head-mounted cameras (HMCs). PURE4D enables studios to scale to hours of AAA-quality animation across multi-actor environments, delivering cinematic fidelity with production-level efficiency. The technology is supported by DI4D’s proprietary software ecosystem, including DI4Dnode, DI4Dtrack, DI4Dsetup, and a suite of specialist tools for calibration, playback, rigging, transfer, and HMC integration. Together with DI4D’s patented stereo-camera HMC hardware, this ecosystem provides unmatched accuracy, scalability, and creative flexibility.
DI4D’s technology has been successfully deployed on high-profile projects such as Call of Duty and continues to expand into emerging fields including medical imaging and biometrics. This integrated approach positions DI4D at the forefront of facial performance capture, offering clients a proven pathway to the next generation of realistic, scalable, and efficient digital humans.
DI4D’s competitive edge is built on innovations that enhance the fidelity, scalability, and realism of facial performance capture. The Company holds one key patent that underpinning its technologies:
Head-Mounted Camera Design
This patent protects DI4D’s advanced stereo-camera HMC system, enabling precise synchronisation of multiple high-resolution feeds with lighting and timecode. It ensures accurate capture of subtle expressions across single- and multi-actor environments, overcoming conventional limitations in facial capture.
Full details of the Company’s patent are available in the virtual data room.
DI4D has a well-documented knowledge base underpinning its capture, processing, and animation workflows. This includes methodologies for integrating data across rigs, characters, and software tools to support scalable multi-actor projects.
The Company’s technical resources cover capture protocols, post-processing pipelines, rigging, geometry transfer, and AI-enhanced animation, and are maintained with version control and secure repositories. This infrastructure supports streamlined development, continuous improvement, and scalability.
These organisational resources represent a strategic asset, giving a potential acquirer an accelerated path to leveraging and expanding DI4D’s market-leading facial performance capture capabilities.
The primary di4d.com domain name and associated website content are available to acquire.
Full details on the Company’s domain names are available via a virtual data room.
Rights in the social media accounts are also available to acquire across LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Vimeo.
Full details on the Company’s social media accounts are available via a virtual data room.
The Company holds detailed information on previous clients, including contact details and insights into past interactions and sales opportunities.
Offers are due Friday 10 October 2025 at 4pm BST.
All expressions of interest and indicative offers are to be directed to Hilco in writing. A Bid Submission Form is available on request. Please contact Hilco to gain access to a virtual data room for further information on signing a confidentiality agreement.
The Joint Liquidators acts as an agent of the Company and without personal liability.
The bidder acknowledges that Hilco acts as an agent for the Joint Liquidators who offers for sale only what right, title and interest (if any) the Company possess in the assets. Such sale will be without any warranties, expressed or implied. The information provided has not been verified by Hilco or the Joint Liquidators, and bidders are deemed to have carried out their own due diligence.
VAT, if applicable, at 20% will be added to the price. A non-refundable deposit of 20% will be payable by the buyer within 48 hours of bid acceptance. Legal completion to occur within 5 business days of bid acceptance.
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