Vulcan Capital Archives - 附近上门 News /tag/vulcan-capital/ Data-driven reporting on private markets, startups, founders, and investors Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:33:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/cb_news_favicon-150x150.png Vulcan Capital Archives - 附近上门 News /tag/vulcan-capital/ 32 32 Epic Games Adds Cubic Motion Startup To Company Portfolio /startups/epic-games-adds-cubic-motion-startup-to-company-portfolio/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:27:26 +0000 http://news.crunchbase.com/?p=26488 鈥淔ortnite鈥 maker bought facial animation tech startup , the company Thursday.

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Cubic Motion鈥檚 technology helps make facial animation in video games and movies more lifelike. The startup鈥檚 tech has been used for other games including 鈥 鈥淢arvel鈥檚 Spider-Man鈥 and 鈥檚 鈥淕od of War.鈥

The startup, which is based in Manchester, United Kingdom, has more than $20 million in funding, according to 附近上门. Epic Games did not disclose a purchase price.

The acquisition of Cubic Motion will complement , another company Epic Games bought in January 2019, the company said in a statement. 3Lateral makes technology to digitize human appearance and motion to look lifelike.

鈥淒igital humans are not only the next frontier of content creation, but also the most complex endeavor in computer graphics,鈥 Epic Games CEO said in a statement. 鈥淲ith Cubic Motion bringing their computer vision and animation technology and expertise to our digital human efforts, Epic along with our team at 3Lateral are one step closer to democratizing these capabilities for creators everywhere.鈥

Cubic Motion is Epic Games鈥 , according to 附近上门. Its last acquisition was in November 2019.

Based in Cary, North Carolina, Epic Games makes video games including 鈥淔ortnite鈥 and 鈥淚nfinity Blade.鈥 It also makes Unreal Engine, a suite of tools for game development.

Epic Games鈥 investors include and , according to 附近上门.

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