Virtuos buys Sparx

BEIJING -- Shanghai-based vidgame company Virtuos has bought the assets and core team of VFX and animation company Sparx, and intends to reopen the business's Vietnam studio. The offer enables Virtuos to help expand the help agreed to clients within the movie industry, it stated inside a statement. Virtuos provides digital entertainment production services and it has tried movies since 2008, creating high-quality three dimensional models for films including the 2010 "Rango." Sparx may be the three dimensional animation and VFX shingle behind movies like the 2008 feature "Igor," starring John Cusack and Steve Buscemi. Virtuos Boss Gilles Langourieux stated getting together Virtuos' art production infrastructure with Sparx knowledge of film-quality animation, cinematics and VFX allows the organization to provide a more fully integrated solution. Our roots in HD game production have given us the talents to produce very high-quality assets, including digital doubles, for that movie industry," stated Langourieux. The teams in Shanghai and Vietnam have previously begun cooperating on new projects. After getting into new facilities in November, Sparx Vietnam is going to be broadened to its original size in excess of 100 staff in 2012. Sparx utilizes a lot more than 100 animation professionals in Saigon and Shanghai, and aims to use a lot more than 200 through the finish of 2012. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com