(And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ997, June: Antoine Clappier et al. (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ997, May: MetaTools/Fractal Design becomes MetaCreations Corp. (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ997, Feb: MetaTools, Inc merges with Fractal Design Corp. (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ997: April: MetaTools, Inc acquires Specular International. (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ991-93: Ray Dream ships Ray Dream Designer 2 (unknown date!) (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ994, Jan.: Ray Dream ships Ray Dream Designer 3 (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ995, Q4: Ray Dream releases Ray Dream Studio 4 (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ996, May: Ray Dream, Inc merges with Fractal Design Corp. found Ray Dream, Inc (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ991: Ray Dream ships Ray Dream Designer 1 (And everyone thought it was going to die)ġ991: Adam Lavine founds Specular International (maker of Infini-D). History (gathered during the last 10 years!):ġ989, Dec: Eric Hautemont et al. Want even more details? Read below the one and only complete Carrara Since then Eovia has released three versions of Carrara To save Carrara, I foundedĮovia in 2000 with Arnaud Berry, Charles Brissart and AlexandreĬlappier. MetaCreations acquired my company and I became in charge of Rayĭream, Infini-D and Carrara (and moved from France to California)įollows the 'MetaCreations disaster'. MetaCreations having two similar products (Ray Dream and Infini-D)ĭecided to merge the two products and to create Carrara. Meanwhile MetaTools acquired Specular, the maker of

The combination of the two companies became About the same time, Iįounded RAYflect a company developing plug-ins for Ray Dream,Ī year later, Fractal Design was in turn acquired by MetaTools toįractal Design (developer of Painter) in 1996. Two years later they released the first versionĪfter growing their company successfully, they sold Ray Dream Inc. The history of Carrara Studio starts in 1989! At that time a group ofįriends coming from France moved to California with the idea ofĬreating a graphic software using the new Macs with color display (a

As I haveīeen involved since a little while with the Ray Dream / Carraraĭevelopment, I can give a few dates about these products. I have seen a few posts lately about the Carrara history.

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