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AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'.

Tuesday, December 10th, 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.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Production tracking firm buys Academy Award-winning creator of shot review tools. What does the deal do for cineSync and Frankie?

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Motion capture technology firm's middleware and IKinema Action plugin for Maya are no longer available for sale on its website.

Thursday, October 10th, 2019

Compositing effects plugin and planar tracking developer buys Academy Award-winning rotoscoping and roto paint tool.

Monday, September 9th, 2019

Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.

Monday, August 19th, 2019

Veteran figure design tool sold to the parent firm of reseller and stock content marketplace Renderosity.

Friday, June 21st, 2019

Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

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

Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019