Autodesk acquires Tweak Software
Developers of the RV image viewer will join Autodesk's Shotgun team: tools may be integrated in future.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
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Boris FX acquires Imagineer Systems
Imagineer's mocha planar tracking system to be integrated into Boris FX's Continuum Complete plugins.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
The Carlyle Group to sell The Foundry in 2015?
Private equity firm looking to sell the firm next year for "up to £200m" reports the UK's Sunday Times.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischief
Cult $25 pen-sketching tool becomes The Foundry's first truly mass-market digital art product.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Shade3D Co buys rights to Shade 3D from e frontier
Key product staff spin out new firm to develop veteran Japanese 3D app. New English release planned.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Blackmagic Design acquires eyeon Software
And if it can do with Fusion what it has done with DaVinci Resolve, that's probably not a bad thing.
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Autodesk adds Shotgun support to Flame 2015
New Extension 2 release adds support for the Autodesk-acquired asset-management platform.
Friday, September 12th, 2014
The best of last week's CG news in brief
Read our five-minute digest, from Blender 2.71 and GPU support in Fabric Engine to Autodesk buying Shotgun.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
Autodesk buys the Bitsquid game engine
Technology from next-gen console and PC engine to be used to create new real-time 3D visualisation tools.
Monday, June 9th, 2014
Lagoa buys 3DTin
Cloud-based rendering service buys browser-based modelling tool to improve its scene-editing capabilities.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Prana Studios affiliate to buy Rhythm & Hues
Indian-American firm behind Planes and Hoodwinked! to buy bankrupt Hollywood visual effects legend.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Disney to buy Lucasfilm, make new Star Wars movies
George Lucas stays on as 'creative consultant'; ILM and LucasArts also caught up in the $4.05 billion deal.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Digital Domain sold to joint Chinese-Indian venture
Beijing's Galloping Horse Film Co. and Mumbai's Reliance MediaWorks to acquire ailing VFX business.
Monday, September 24th, 2012