<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
(	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
3D	O
computer	O
graphics	O
technology	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
's	O
technologies	O
use	O
machine	O
learning	O
methods	O
to	O
automate	O
the	O
steps	O
of	O
the	O
character	O
animation	O
process	O
,	O
including	O
3D	O
modeling	O
to	O
rigging	O
and	O
3D	O
animation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
is	O
spun-off	O
of	O
Stanford	O
University	O
and	O
has	O
raised	O
over	O
$11	O
million	O
from	O
investors	O
Granite	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Keynote	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Stanford	O
University	O
and	O
AMD	O
Ventures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Adobe	O
Systems	O
in	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2008	O
by	O
Stefano	O
Corazza	O
and	O
Nazim	O
Kareemi	O
as	O
a	O
spin-off	O
of	O
Stanford	O
University	O
's	O
Biomotion	O
Lab	O
,	O
and	O
started	O
out	O
as	O
a	O
cloud-based	O
service	O
offering	O
animations	O
and	O
automatic	O
character	O
rigging	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
Mixamo	B-Application
worked	O
with	O
Evolver	O
to	O
provide	O
characters	O
to	O
customers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
Autodesk	O
acquired	O
Evolver	O
and	O
made	O
it	O
proprietary	O
,	O
but	O
Mixamo	B-Application
had	O
already	O
begun	O
work	O
on	O
its	O
own	O
character	O
creation	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
released	O
its	O
automatic	O
rigging	O
service	O
in	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
That	O
was	O
followed	O
by	O
the	O
launch	O
of	O
its	O
real-time	O
facial	O
animation	O
product	O
,	O
Face	O
Plus	O
,	O
in	O
2013	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
official	O
launch	O
of	O
its	O
Fuse	B-Application
3D	O
character	O
creator	O
software	O
in	O
March	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2014	O
,	O
Mixamo	B-Application
launched	O
a	O
new	O
pricing	O
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Adobe	O
Systems	O
on	O
June	O
1	O
,	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2014	O
,	O
Mixamo	B-Application
officially	O
launched	O
Fuse	B-Language
Character	I-Language
Creator	I-Language
at	O
Game	O
Developers	O
Conference	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fuse	B-Application
stems	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
research	O
done	O
by	O
Siddhartha	O
Chaudhuri	O
which	O
originated	O
within	O
Vladlen	O
Koltun	O
's	O
research	O
group	O
at	O
Stanford	O
and	O
Substance	O
technology	O
from	O
Allegorithmic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2014	O
,	O
Mixamo	B-Application
launched	O
Fuse	B-Application
1.0	O
on	O
Steam	O
with	O
the	O
ability	O
of	O
importing	O
and	O
integrating	O
user	O
generated	O
content	O
in	O
the	O
character	O
creation	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fuse	B-Application
was	O
updated	O
to	O
allow	O
the	O
importation	O
and	O
editing	O
of	O
character	O
models	O
generated	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Kinect	O
2.0	O
in	O
August	O
of	O
that	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
of	O
Fuse	B-Application
was	O
discontinued	O
in	O
September	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
September	O
13	O
,	O
2020	O
,	O
the	O
program	O
was	O
removed	O
from	O
the	O
Adobe	B-Operating_System
Creative	I-Operating_System
Cloud	I-Operating_System
and	O
is	O
no	O
longer	O
available	O
for	O
download	O
from	O
Adobe	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
service	O
has	O
been	O
discontinued	O
for	O
keeping	O
custom	O
3D	O
models	O
and	O
models	O
uploaded	O
via	O
fuse	B-Application
CC	O
on	O
Adobe	O
's	O
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
also	O
provides	O
an	O
online	O
,	O
automatic	O
model	O
rigging	O
service	O
known	O
as	O
the	O
Auto-Rigger	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
the	O
industry	O
's	O
first	O
online	O
rigging	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mixamo	B-Application
's	O
online	O
services	O
include	O
an	O
animation	O
store	O
featuring	O
downloadable	O
3D	O
models	O
and	O
animation	O
sequences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
animations	O
were	O
created	O
at	O
Mixamo	B-Application
using	O
motion	B-Application
capture	I-Application
and	O
cleaned	O
up	O
by	O
key	O
frame	O
animators	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
its	O
animations	O
work	O
with	O
characters	O
created	O
in	O
Fuse	B-Application
and/or	O
rigged	O
with	O
Mixamo	B-Application
's	O
AutoRigger	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
August	O
2013	O
,	O
Mixamo	B-Application
released	O
Face	O
Plus	O
,	O
a	O
game	B-Application
development	I-Application
tool	I-Application
that	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
record	O
facial	O
animation	O
data	O
of	O
themselves	O
using	O
a	O
standard	O
webcam	O
and	O
apply	O
the	O
animation	O
to	O
a	O
character	O
inside	O
the	O
Unity	B-Application
game	I-Application
engine	I-Application
in	O
real-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
and	O
uses	O
GPU	B-Architecture
acceleration	O
.	O
</s>
