Video games outsourcing firm Virtuos has purchased visible results studio Past-FX.
No determine has been positioned on the deal. Los Angeles-based Past-FX was based again in 2015 by Keith Guerrette (pictured) and has labored on blockbuster IP together with Mortal Kombat, Valorant, Name of Responsibility and Riot Video games’ upcoming 2XKO preventing sport.
“Past-FX’s purpose at present, because it was after we began almost a decade in the past, is to offer builders worldwide entry to the business’s finest craft and technical VFX artists who work collaboratively as absolutely built-in members of our shoppers’ groups,” Guerrette stated.
“With this imaginative and prescient, we’ve advanced from a small boutique studio in Los Angeles to a multinational enterprise that helps builders throughout the Americas and Europe. That evolution continues as we’re thrilled to have joined Virtuos. We’ll proceed delivering groundbreaking work and fostering distinctive relationships with shoppers world wide, leveraging Virtuos’ world experience and community of gifted studios.”
“What’s much more thrilling is our shared imaginative and prescient with Virtuos of shaping the way forward for co-development in gaming. In collaboration with Virtuos’ passionate groups, Past-FX will assist outline a brand new business commonplace centered on offering high quality companies by way of sturdy partnerships, effectivity by way of versatile collaboration, and the creation of nice video games by pushing the inventive boundaries of what’s attainable in sport engines.”
Virtuos’ North American regional director Dennis Cooper added: “We significantly admire the addition of Past-FX to Virtuos. Keith and his workforce are undisputedly obsessed with their craft and like us, are closely invested in training and creating new applied sciences. Along with Past-FX, our groups at CounterPunch and Virtuos Montreal, we look ahead to increasing and deepening the companies we provide to our valued companions in North America, our largest market so far.”