Bentley Systems Buys Animation Company that Worked on ‘Minions’

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E-on Software contributed to 'Minions' and several other blockbuster movies.

The minions made famous by the animated film “Despicable Me” have a new boss, and Bentley Systems in Exton is aiming to continue their pivot from evil to good by putting them to work transforming entertainment into engineering.

Well, sort of.

Bentley recently purchased animation creator e-on software with plans to infuse the same magic it applied to “Minions,” “The Hunger Games” and “Avatar” into construction software. The company will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Bentley Systems.

“E-on lately collaborated with Bentley on applying animation software to help ‘architects and engineers … tell their story in a more compelling way’ before Bentley made an offer,” e-on Founder and CEO Nicholas Phelps said in a Philly.com report. “The deal puts ‘Hollywood movie quality into the hands of engineers.”

Though no price tag was attached to the announcement of this acquisition, Bentley has invested more than $1 billion in such technologies and software capabilities since 2008.

Read more about the buyout on Philly.com here.

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