Adobe has purchased Mixamo (San Francisco, CA), maker of a 3D character pipeline aimed at game developers, including an automatic online rigging tool designed to quickly turn 3D meshes into standardized, fully rigged skeletons. Mixamo said its software and services will become part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. The move will expand the 3D animation capabilities of Photoshop, Adobe said, while simultaneously providing users with a library of stock 3D character models.

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