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Our story
More than twenty years of shipping software for artists, through many generations of hosts, renderers and hardware.
- 2003
Ephere is founded
Ephere starts out with Scene Manager for 3ds Max, and late in the year releases the first Ornatrix prototype.
- 2004
Ornatrix goes commercial
The first commercial version of Ornatrix ships for 3ds Max, and Blur and other studios use it in production from the first release.
- 2009
Max.NET and Zookeeper
Max.NET opens the 3ds Max SDK to .NET developers, and Zookeeper 1.0 brings a node-based scene manager to 3ds Max.
- 2012
Ornatrix V2
Ornatrix V2 ships for 3ds Max, and Blur grooms the Far Cry 3 trailer with it.
- 2016
Ornatrix comes to Maya
Ornatrix Maya brings the same grooming stack to Maya, and Lucid Physics is released for 3ds Max.
- 2020
Cinema 4D
Ornatrix C4D V1 brings procedural grooming into Cinema 4D.
- 2022
Unreal Engine
Ornatrix UE lets artists groom inside Unreal Engine.
- 2025
Free for education
Max V9 and Maya V5 add texture painting on hair, braiding and clump editing, and Ornatrix becomes free for students, teachers and schools.
- 2026
The Ornatrix App
Ornatrix C4D V4 gets the full feature set, and the standalone Ornatrix App enters its closed beta.