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
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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
Microsoft buys Simplygon
Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.
Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Dassault Systèmes acquires Next Limit Dynamics
CAD firm buys division of Next Limit behind its XFlow fluid dynamics software. RealFlow unaffected.
Monday, December 12th, 2016
Boris FX acquires GenArts
Buyout will put the competing Boris Continuum Complete and Sapphire collections of compositing and editorial plugins under a single roof.
Friday, September 9th, 2016
Autodesk buys Solid Angle
Acquisition of Arnold renderer will help drive a 'more aggressive' move to the cloud, firm tells CG Channel.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Autodesk acquires iDraw, rebrands it as Graphic
Indeeo's GPU-accelerated vector drawing tool rebranded Graphic 3.0 and pressure sensitivity added.
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Microsoft acquires Havok from Intel
Real-time physics system used on Assassin's Creed: Unity expected to help power the Xbox One Cloud.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Bentley Systems acquires e-on software
So who is e-on's new owner, and what are its plans for tools like LumenRT, Vue and PlantFactory?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
Adobe acquires Mixamo
Online animation platform's core tech to be integrated into Photoshop; other services to be migrated to Creative Cloud.
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015