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We’re happy to share an exciting update: Epic Games is now a minority investor in SideFX. In Epic, SideFX gains a strong partner whose passion for the industry closely aligns with ours.
Kim Davidson remains the majority owner of SideFX, as well as President and CEO. He continues his strong, unwavering commitment to SideFX’s staff, customers, and partners.
SideFX and Epic are both committed to SideFX continuing its work with other industry partners - including all other content creation applications and game engines. This new development will have no impact at all on the Houdini development roadmap, as SideFX will continue to define its own path as an industry-leading procedural 3D platform for the film, TV, advertising and games sectors.
Epic Games Invests in SideFX
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One of the biggest questions is, does this investment include any sharing of IP between SideFX/Epic?
Virtual Production in Unreal is all the rage, may we see Unreal as a Delegate/ROP?
SideFX invested several months in maturing a product that describes Houdini assets to Unreal via HoudiniEngine, seems likely that some additional synergies can be realized there.
Virtual Production in Unreal is all the rage, may we see Unreal as a Delegate/ROP?
SideFX invested several months in maturing a product that describes Houdini assets to Unreal via HoudiniEngine, seems likely that some additional synergies can be realized there.
Edited by TwinSnakes007 - Nov. 15, 2020 08:19:38
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Congratulations on the investment, SideFX, and I hope this will help to hire more developers to deliver more excellent engineering to already outstanding tools you are delivering. It is great that the investment comes from another inventive company and the true power of synergy between passionate users, developers and management from both companies. I am very happy because of this and looking forward how this will effect the audiovisual industry in near future.
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There are plenty of talented developers indie wise pushing the limits of Unreal and Houdini for this to get interesting.
I love Houdini and Unreal, version 2 of the plugin, other than some crashes here and there is a really solid piece of software design wise.
Most of all SideFX, thank you for ALL your APIs, they are like the yellow brick road to Houdini. (VEX, Py and C++)
I love Houdini and Unreal, version 2 of the plugin, other than some crashes here and there is a really solid piece of software design wise.
Most of all SideFX, thank you for ALL your APIs, they are like the yellow brick road to Houdini. (VEX, Py and C++)
Think for yourself or someone else will.
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