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
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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
Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion
Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.
Sunday, August 27th, 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
Blackmagic Design acquires Ultimatte
Fusion developer buys Ultimatte's multi-Academy-Award-winning greenscreen keying technology.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016