March 9, 2021
Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer. Read More »
January 26, 2021
Stock image provider to acquire world's largest online 3D marketplace for $75 million in cash. Read More »
August 25, 2020
Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year. Read More »
March 13, 2020
Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos. Read More »
March 11, 2020
AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines. Read More »
December 10, 2019
Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'. Read More »
November 12, 2019
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone. Read More »
November 7, 2019
Production tracking firm buys Academy Award-winning creator of shot review tools. What does the deal do for cineSync and Frankie? Read More »
October 10, 2019
Motion capture technology firm's middleware and IKinema Action plugin for Maya are no longer available for sale on its website. Read More »
September 9, 2019
Compositing effects plugin and planar tracking developer buys Academy Award-winning rotoscoping and roto paint tool. Read More »
August 19, 2019
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets. Read More »
June 21, 2019
Veteran figure design tool sold to the parent firm of reseller and stock content marketplace Renderosity. Read More »
June 6, 2019
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code. Read More »
May 13, 2019
Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work. Read More »
April 9, 2019
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists. Read More »
April 2, 2019
Real-time broadcast graphics firm buys the LightWave developer, though the focus of the deal is NewTek's own broadcast tech. Read More »
March 19, 2019
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal. Read More »
January 24, 2019
Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4. Read More »
January 24, 2019
We assess the potential impact of the buyout on the licensing and development of key Allegorithmic software like Substance Painter. Read More »
November 5, 2018
Buyout expected to speed up development of C4D edition of the renderer, but makes it rental-only. Read More »