Bondware acquires Poser and Poser Pro
Veteran figure design tool sold to the parent firm of reseller and stock content marketplace Renderosity.
Friday, June 21st, 2019
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Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Epic Games buys Twinmotion
Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Maxon buys Redshift
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Vizrt buys NewTek
Real-time broadcast graphics firm buys the LightWave developer, though the focus of the deal is NewTek's own broadcast tech.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Roper Technologies acquires Foundry
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral
Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Adobe acquires Allegorithmic
We assess the potential impact of the buyout on the licensing and development of key Allegorithmic software like Substance Painter.
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Chaos Group acquires V-RayforC4D from LAUBlab
Buyout expected to speed up development of C4D edition of the renderer, but makes it rental-only.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Unity now comes with ProBuilder built in for free
Popular level design and modelling tool now part of Unity 2018.1 after buyout of original devs ProCore.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
Fabric Software discontinues Fabric Engine
Firm stops work on much-praised framework for developing custom tools for VFX and games pipelines.
Saturday, October 28th, 2017
Amazon buys Thinkbox Software
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
TurboSquid acquires TF3DM and CGStudio
Buyout consolidates TurboSquid's position as world's largest online marketplace for stock 3D models.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017