{"id":77591,"date":"2019-01-23T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334994"},"modified":"2019-01-23T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:16:00","slug":"epic-games-acquires-digital-character-specialist-3lateral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/epic-games-acquires-digital-character-specialist-3lateral\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games acquires digital character specialist 3Lateral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/en-US\/blog\/epic-games-welcomes-3lateral-to-unreal-engine-team\">acquired 3Lateral<\/a>, a leading developer of digital human tech, for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Serbia-based company offers a variety of services including character conceptualization, face rigging, 3D scanning, and modeling. It\u00a0has worked on well-known games including <em>Hellblade<\/em>, <em>Horizon: Zero Dawn<\/em>, <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>, and <em>Batman: Arkham VR<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the deal, 3Lateral will\u00a0continue supporting its partners in the film, television, and games industries while working to advance support for virtual creatures and humans in Unreal Engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Real-time 3D experiences are reshaping the entire entertainment industry, and digital human technology is at the forefront,&#8221; commented Epic founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney.\u00a0&#8220;<em>Fortnite<\/em> shows that 200,000,000 people can experience a 3D world together. Reaching the next level requires capturing, personalizing, and conveying individual human faces and emotions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition will also see 3Lateral founder and director Vladimir Mastilovic lead Epic&#8217;s worldwide digital human efforts, while Epic also hopes its\u00a0presence in Serbia\u00a0will allow it to recruit new\u00a0technical and creative talent in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has acquired 3Lateral, a leading developer of digital human tech, for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0 The Serbia-based company offers a variety of services including character conceptualization, face rigging, 3D scanning, and modeling. It\u00a0has worked on well-known games including Hellblade, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Grand Theft Auto V, and Batman: Arkham VR.\u00a0 Following the deal, 3Lateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}