Virtuos buys Sparx

BEIJING -- Shanghai-based vidgame company Virtuos has bought the assets and core team of VFX and animation company Sparx, and expects to reopen their Vietnam studio. The sale allows Virtuos to increase the assistance decided to clients inside the movie industry, it mentioned in the statement. Virtuos provides digital entertainment production services and contains attempted movies since 2008, creating high-quality 3d models for films such as the 2010 "Rango." Sparx might be the 3 dimensional animation and VFX shingle behind movies such as the 2008 feature "Igor," starring John Cusack and Steve Buscemi. Virtuos Boss Gilles Langourieux mentioned getting together Virtuos' art production infrastructure with Sparx understanding of film-quality animation, cinematics and VFX enables the business use a more fully integrated solution. Our roots in HD game production have provided us with the talents to create high-quality assets, including digital doubles, for your movie industry," mentioned Langourieux. The teams in Shanghai and Vietnam have formerly begun cooperating on new projects. After you have into new facilities in November, Sparx Vietnam will probably be extended to its original size more than 100 staff in 2012. Sparx utilizes greater than 100 animation professionals in Saigon and Shanghai, and aims to make use of greater than 200 with the finish of 2012. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com