Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by Rd6n6 » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

calmd wrote: post #8

Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months: - SuperAwesome, child safe games - Hyprsense, facial animation - Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool - Rad Game Tools - Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys - Reality Capture - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders) - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models) On each acquisition, they usually lower…

Like how Google has positioned itself as the interface between users and most of the internet, Epic seems to be positioning itself to be the interface between game developers and the game development ecosystem. Who will be next, Gamasutra? For Google, this makes sense because they are an advertising and tracking company. I wonder what Epic's model will be - to become a mega-platform, or something else?

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by shagmin » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

calmd wrote: post #8

Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months: - SuperAwesome, child safe games - Hyprsense, facial animation - Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool - Rad Game Tools - Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys - Reality Capture - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders) - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models) On each acquisition, they usually lower…

Thought it's worth mentioning - they also recently spent $95 million to move their headquarters to a better location.

In general they seem like an ambitious company, and one to be optimistic about.

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by app4soft » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 7:39 PM UTC

spywaregorilla wrote: post #20

app4soft wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This feels very impressive and community friendly They just pay for prevent critique. Lets see the Sketchfab price list in the next few years.

Based on the treatment of other companies they've acquired I think your assumption will age poorly.

> your assumption will age poorly

As a Sketchfab user for few years now, I'm just hope that I would be wrong.

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by app4soft » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

app4soft wrote: post #13

calmd wrote: post #8

Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months: - SuperAwesome, child safe games - Hyprsense, facial animation - Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool - Rad Game Tools - Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys - Reality Capture - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders) - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models) On each acquisition, they usually lower…

> - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders) > - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models) That is how Microsoft bought GitHub, usually developer portfolios + donation platform. TL;DR: LinkedIn

Near forget, about GitHub Copilot, which is trained on users code without GitHub users permission.

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by mixedbit » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:48 AM UTC

Congratulations! Here is a Sketchfab launch announcement from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5417043 Great work making a viable money making product from the initial idea (Sketchfab has reached profitability before the acquisition: https://albn.medium.com/getting-to-breakeven-and-how-we-made...).

Re: Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

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Post by chansiky » Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 12:04 AM UTC

calmd wrote: post #8

Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months: - SuperAwesome, child safe games - Hyprsense, facial animation - Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool - Rad Game Tools - Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys - Reality Capture - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders) - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models) On each acquisition, they usually lower…

That's a great portfolio, a very focused and intentional portfolio.

I'll be honest. I'm pretty astonished, solely from the things Unreal has put out recently.

I'm not entirely sure where Artstation fits in though, it seems to be a portfolio website for artists more than a marketplace. It has incredible potential though, if I owned the company I would turn it more into a social network, more chat/communication/group features rather than use it for its assets. I think its only serious competitor is DeviantArt and that website is well, how shall I say it, full of deviants.