Unity Acquires Artomatix

Unity announced it has acquired Artomatix. The team now owns ArtEngine, an artist-friendly, 3D content creation tool that is based on Creative AI for scan- and example-based material-creation workflows. The toolkit save time on minutiae material creation work: photoconversion to PBR materials, up-resing, deblur, seam removal, unwarping, color matching, and more.

ArtEngine lets artists deliver realistic content for the next generation of consoles, helps VFX studios deliver better visuals for films, and more.

"At Unity, we have talented developers working to solve problems using AI and machine learning. This talent, combined with the solution-oriented and production-validated approach of the ArtEngine team, means we can accelerate our ability to build an exceptional set of tools that help artists and creatives in many different ways," wrote the Unity team. "Content creators can expedite their process and get infinite variations of their materials in the blink of an eye. Immediate benefits apply to every industry exposed to 3D content, regardless of platform or engine."

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