Unity Technologies Acquires Artomatix

AI-Assisted artistry solves the hard problem of creating and scaling high-quality content, enables 3D artists more time to focus on creativity

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unity Technologies (https://unity.com/), creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, today announced the acquisition of Artomatix, an Irish-based, award-winning software company that uses AI and neural networks to streamline 3D artistic workflows in top studios worldwide. Artomatix’s flagship product, ArtEngine, leverages AI to help artists accelerate their creative workflows for material creation, enhancing their ability to achieve their artistic vision and produce photorealistic content. Workflow benefits apply to every industry creating 3D content, regardless of platform or engine. Under the terms of the acquisition, Artomatix will join Unity while continuing to operate out of Dublin, Ireland where the team is expected to grow exponentially over the next two years in the areas of research and development.

“AI-assisted content creation tools empower artists by increasing their creative velocity to produce better work and get to quality faster,” said Brett Bibby, Chief Product Officer, Unity Technologies. “ArtEngine helps game studios create realistic content for the next generation of consoles and VFX studios to achieve better visuals for films, and can enable equally impressive results for creatives working in other industries. From automotive and architecture to retail marketing and more, the demand for high fidelity design visualizations is growing at an exponential rate and will benefit from ArtEngine’s capabilities.”

Advances in technology and increasing consumer expectations are driving higher demand for more high-quality content, and businesses are struggling to scale their productions to keep up with this demand. Unity is committed to solving this problem by empowering content creators with cutting-edge, AI-assisted artistic workflows so they can spend less time focusing on the repetitive minutiae and more time on creative efforts, leading to better end-user experiences. With ArtEngine today, 3D artists can rapidly create high-quality content that scales for the platforms of today, and to the technologies of tomorrow. In time, Unity and Artomatix will bring the same depth of technology and creative flexibility to all artists worldwide.

“Unity understands the value of enabling creators to do more, and that’s something we’re deeply committed to,” said Joe Blake, Chief Executive Officer, Artomatix. “AI creation tools like ArtEngine help to put AAA quality content within reach of more creators than ever before. By joining Unity, we can greatly accelerate the delivery of our industry-leading AI for creatives. ArtEngine will continue to remain platform agnostic, enabling creators to benefit from our AI technology regardless of which engine they choose for their projects.”

Unity is the complete platform for real-time 3D (RT3D) development giving everyone -- from emerging creators to global brands -- the most powerful and accessible tools to create real-time 3D experiences. There were 37B installs of Made with Unity content in 2019, which equals 3.3B installs per month -- or 1,185 installs per second. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

About Unity Technologies

Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world. Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize so that they can find success with their creations. The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus, Autodesk, and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 37 billion times in the last 12 months. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

About Artomatix

Artomatix is the leading AI-driven 3D content creation platform, used by AAA studios and 3D artists worldwide working across gaming, entertainment, industrial, and design industries. Its platform is transforming the way textures and backgrounds in 3D worlds are designed, setting the standard for scan-based and example-based workflows for high-end content generation. Founded by Graphics Ph.D, Dr. Eric Risser, and led by Chief Executive Officer, Joe Blake, Artomatix has won multiple awards such as the NVIDIA award for most promising startup. The company has been funded by Enterprise Ireland, NDRC, and other leading private Irish and UK-based investors. The company has built a talented team, under Joe Blake’s leadership, and will look to grow to over 100 people during the next two years, with a new Unity office in Dublin’s city centre. To learn more, visit www.artomatix.com.