In the early 80’s, Guy Louis-XVI started a Special Effects company called Louis-XVI SFX. He specialized in foam latex appliances, props and make-up for the film and television industry. 

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Over the years, Louis-XVI SFX expanded to include plaster/resin composite sculptures, lifecastings and Hi-Realism mannequins for museums and private collectors.

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Always striving for realism, Guy began experimenting with silicones as a medium in the late 90’s. He quickly learned that working with silicones presented many challenges. For starters, painting a silicone surface to look like human skin was exceedingly difficult. Shine and adhesion, for instance, proved to be troublesome.

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An artist with a passion for color and realism, Guy gradually developed his craft through trial and error, finding out what worked and what didn't for many types of applications. Bringing his sculptures to life was one thing, making it easy was another.

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Having mastered skin coloring, Guy wanted to do away with weigh scales, measuring cups and silicone caulking, as a binder for oil paints. All this represented an inconvenience.

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Through persistent research, development and years of silicone painting experience, Guy designed a system that was as easy to use as opening a tube of artist’s oil paint.

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Thus, FuseFX was born.

Within a few years FuseFX had spread world wide and was being used for everything from medical prosthetics and special effects make-up to fine art sculptures and specialty dolls.