In Zombie Wars, users can cast themselves and friends in a witty tale of medical science gone awry, as one of three characters – the evil Dr. Reinhart, journalist Adrian Cooper, or a criminal turned zombie. By uploading or snapping a picture with the iPad 2’s front-facing camera and using the PortableYou processing system, Zombie Wars transforms regular photos into stylized images of user’s faces consistent with the comic artwork. 

In a special “casting” section, users can create customized, cover art posters of their characters and share them via Facebook, Twitter and email from within the app.

“Zombie Wars is our first consumer application, a great story that also gives users the ability to create and share a fun experience that takes advantage of our avatar creation software,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “Combining PortableYou’s rich feature set and ease-of-use with the iPad’s functionality, Zombie Wars also shows off a publishing engine that gives users  -- and other content creators -- the ability to create their own customized content with minimal effort or technical expertise.”

PortableYou is a groundbreaking platform for developers as well as for online and mobile entertainment, social network and communications companies. PortableYou provides end-users with the ability to instantly generate customizable 3D avatars from facial photos. Using PortableYou, Zombie Wars takes a single image of the user’s face, then utilizes server processing in conjunction with the Unity3D engine to render the image, wrapping it around an adaptive 3D wireframe that molds to fit the context-appropriate position in the comic. 

To develop the story for Zombie Wars, Image Metrics turned to the creative team of writer Jon Price (“Magus”), artist Wayne Nichols (“STAR WARS: The Force Unleashed”), colorist Charlie Kirchoff (“Doctor Who”) and designer Kurt Bieg of Simple Machine.  The result is an entertaining tour de force that fuses the iPad’s media and social capabilities with Image Metrics technology.

To download Zombie Wars for iPad, please visit:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zombie-wars/id491149222?ls=1&mt=8 

Find out more about Zombie Wars by visiting the official Zombie Wars Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ZombieWarsComic

Follow us on Twitter: @ZombieWarsComic 

For developers interested in more information about PortableYou, please contact PortableYou@image-metrics.com or visit: http://www.image-metrics.com/Portable-You/PortableYou

For more information on Unity, please visit: http://www.unity3d.com

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Media Contacts

Jacob Nahin

Bender/ Helper Impact

(310) 694-3246

jacob_nahin@bhimpact.com

Faceware is Image Metrics’ animation software and hardware solution for the video game, film, visual effects, commercial and television industries. The software utilizes a marker-less video analysis technology and artist-driven performance transfer toolset to deliver ultra-high fidelity and truly believable facial animation in a fraction of the time it takes for alternative methods. The software contains unique collaborative workflow features that enable animation teams to achieve significant productivity gains and maintain stylistic consistency.

“During our first project using Faceware, we were able to cut animation time nearly in half while still allowing our animators to add important and subtle details that brought the work to a new level,” said Jenn Emberly, Co-Founder and Performance and Animation Supervisor at Atomic Fiction. “Faceware is extremely valuable because it allowed us to bring performance consistency across multiple animators. For these reasons, Faceware reduced our shot costs by 15 to 20 percent. Atomic Fiction is always looking for ways to be more efficient, and we look forward to collaborating with the Image Metrics team on future projects.”

“I have been extremely impressed with my initial Faceware experience – it produced excellent results, even in cases where the source footage was poorly lit or of poor quality,” added Anton Dawson, Character Supervisor at Atomic Fiction. “Faceware is an incredible and intuitive software. While it performs a great number of technically complex tasks under the hood, it remains a fun and straightforward tool for animators looking to do what they do best and without the distraction of learning curves. Overall, it is a tremendous fit for our character animation pipeline.”

Atomic Fiction is a forward-looking visual effects and animation studio launched by Kevin Baillie, Ryan Tudhope and Jenn Emberly. The company’s founders have an impressive portfolio of work and are combining their experience with a fresh business model, which includes cloud computing, cross-discipline collaboration and a generalist approach. Above all, the company’s greatest asset may be what it calls its “impassioned core”, a team comprised of tremendous industry talents, which allows Atomic Fiction to be lean and agile while doing work that is bold and inventive.

“The remarkably talented team at Atomic Fiction has the highest standards, not only for their core team and work they produce, but for the tools that they use,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO at Image Metrics. “We’re very pleased they have chosen Faceware as part of their company-wide mandate for creating fantastic character animation and effects work while maintaining a significant return on investment for their clients.”

Further partnership details, including upcoming projects, will be announced later this year. For additional information, please visit www.image-metrics.com and www.atomicfiction.com.

Faceware is now available to download for free evaluation including assets at www.image-metrics.com/Faceware-Software/Overview.

About Atomic Fiction
Atomic Fiction is combining talent and technology in a way that is different from anyone else out there. The result is an innovative, efficient and artistic group committed to bringing digital characters and effects to life for today’s biggest blockbuster films, animated features and commercials. The company’s founders have supervised effects for films such as the Academy Award-winning Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, War of the Worlds, Harry Potter, Superman Returns, Sin City and Hellboy. With a team of talented artists behind them, they’ve discovered new ways to experiment, innovate and create by embracing cloud computing, cross-discipline collaboration and a generalist approach. For more information, please visit www.atomicfiction.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as Faceware and PortableYou. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Media Contacts
Jacob Nahin
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3246
Jacob_nahin@bhimpact.com

Presenter: Jay Grenier has been working as a technical artist in the visual arts industry for almost 10 years, and has video game credits that include helping design and shape the facial animation and rigging pipelines for Crytek’s Crysis 2, 2K Sports’ NBA 2K10 / 2K11, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, and the 2010 “Game of the Year,” Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption.

Dates & Times:

Demo – Friday, November 18 at 3 p.m. PST

Demo – Saturday, November 19 at 6 p.m. PST

Workshop – Sunday, November 20 at 12 p.m. PST

Location:

Burbank Marriott Hotel
Convention Center
2500 Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA

About Image Metrics

Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as Faceware and PortableYou. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com

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Funrika’s iStar is an innovative “digivision” channel – a digital online television channel – that merges media and gaming to deliver more engaging content and a new level of interactive user experience. iStar enables users to not only watch content, but also interact with them. Through the integration of PortableYou, gamers can simply transform a photograph of themselves into a photorealistic and customizable 3D character and have it instantly inserted into iStar’s video clips for selected game chapters. Players can choose to appear as both lead and supporting characters. These clips can then be shared with friends on various social networks.

“iStar serves as a personal stage for users to display customized content, but there was a missing piece in delivering a certain level of engagement and interaction among users,” said Cem Nahit Köne, CEO at Funrika. “PortableYou fills that gap by allowing users to personalize and share their experiences and performances with their online social networks. The technology enables users to easily create unique identities for themselves and generate personal content in exciting and meaningful ways.”

PortableYou is a revolutionary technology from Image Metrics that enables consumers to instantly generate high-quality, customizable 3D avatars from photographs, which can then be added and shared seamlessly across enabled applications such as social and mobile games, social networks and other connected platforms.

“PortableYou provides us with the tools and flexibility needed to support the iStar business model,” added Mehmet Öykü Bilgiseren, vice president of Business Development and Strategy at Funrika. “It integrates easily into the existing iStar infrastructure, making PortableYou the obvious platform of choice.”

Funrika’s iStar platform featuring PortableYou will launch early 2012. 

For more information on PortableYou, visit www.image-metrics.com/portable-you.

About Funrika

Funrika “Fun Factory” was founded in late 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey, as a gaming company with the vision of bringing innovative ideas into gaming world to create unique user experience and next generation social gaming to reach larger crowds besides core gamers and sharing such “Fun”. Funrika presents its first interactive gaming platform “iStar” by the beginning of 2012 with a unique concept. For more information, please visit www.funrika.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as Faceware and PortableYou. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Title: “Manageable Character Facial Performance Workflow”
Date:  Thursday, October 27, 2011
Time:  15:00 – 16:00 PM
Location:

fx.Center Babelsberg
August-Bebel-Strabe 26
14482 Potsdam
Germany

Summary:

Creating believable facial performances for digital characters can be an incredibly rewarding process, but can also be equally frustrating if the generation of the necessary assets overwhelms the creative process. This talk will focus on character facial performance techniques applicable for visual effects and animated feature production that attempt to minimize the frustration. The techniques that will be described are relevant for a large studio or a single artist working on a personal project. 

Presenters:

Jay Grenier has been working as a technical artist in the visual arts industry for almost 10 years, and has video game credits that include helping design and shape the facial animation and rigging pipelines for Crytek’s Crysis 2, 2K Sports’ NBA 2K10/2K11, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, and the 2010 “Game of the Year,” Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption.

Anton Dawson is one of the top character supervisors in the industry, having designed proprietary tools for digital humans, motion capture rigs and muscle systems used in today’s biggest blockbuster films and high profile video games. Projects include “Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “A Christmas Carol” and the award-winning 2K Sports titles.  

http://www.animago.com/

For more information about Image Metrics, visit: www.image-metrics.com.

For more information about Atomic Fiction, visit: http://atomicfiction.com.

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“As a valued partner, IMPD Productions allows our rapidly growing client base to access a broader spectrum of production-related services,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “IMPD enables us to focus on our core strengths: developing and delivering our cutting-edge technology and products to expand the way animators and consumers express themselves across the complete spectrum of digital media.”

Image Metrics, the creator of the revolutionary CG facial animation software, FACEWARE™, will focus on developing a range of 3D animation software products for both professional and consumer internet markets. IMPD is a full service animation production company with unique expertise in FACEWARE and all aspects of character animation. As an Image Metrics Certified Partner, IMPD can now work closely with Image Metrics customers that require additional full-service animation offerings. Their service offerings include:

• Character Animation (facial and body)

• Motion Capture Clean Up 

• Modeling

• Rigging

• Texturing

• Lighting

• Full Editorial Services

“From our Santa Monica facility we are capable of serving clients and projects of all sizes, with a flexible pipeline methodology that allows us to scale our resources while maintaining high quality control,” said Andrew Egiziano, executive producer of IMPD. “Additionally, we employ a highly collaborative workflow and approval process that ensures our clients are involved at every stage of production.” 

IMPD is owned and operated by Egiziano, a former director of production at Image Metrics who has an extensive career in animation, having worked on and delivered projects for Disney, Sony, Paramount and Warner Bros. Additionally, the IMPD staff has vast experience and background in film, AAA video games, TV commercials and specialized CG projects. Key staff members include Director of Animation Ido Gondelman, Producer Jake Fenske and Associate Producer Kay Arutyunyan. Their high-profile roster of animation projects can be viewed at www.impdproductions.com.  

Image Metrics and IMPD will continue to work with their international partners to offer their software and services to clients worldwide.

About IMPD Productions, Inc.

IMPD Productions, Inc. provides complete production solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its highly visible production services. Over the past decade, the IMPD team of artists and production leaders have established themselves as the go-to leader in the TV, film, AAA gaming and Web content industries with clients such as Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony, Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Crytek, Motion Theory, Fuzzy Door Ent, Believe Ent, Spring Hill Prods and Moving Picture Company. IMPD is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. For more information, please visit www.impdproductions.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as Faceware™ and PortableYou™. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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“PortableYou brings a whole new dimension of personalization to games,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “Arkadium’s large library of titles, as well as the reach of its online network of games, helps a broad audience gain exposure to PortableYou. Our partnership represents the next step toward bringing our groundbreaking new avatar creation technology to the forefront of casual, social and mobile gaming.”

Arkadium reaches more than 9 million unique players worldwide each month across multiple distribution channels, including Facebook games and a wide variety of premium web destinations. The company also owns the world’s largest Flash game library, consisting of games in a wide variety of genres for a broad demographic.

“Personalization is a key factor in creating fun and successful titles, especially in the casual, social and mobile gaming space,” said Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO of Arkadium. “Partnering with Image Metrics and integrating PortableYou in some of our upcoming projects will allow us to provide our wide user base with unique customization capabilities, and in turn, a more immersive gaming experience.”

For more information on PortableYou, visit www.image-metrics.com/Portable-You/PortableYou.

About Arkadium

Arkadium, creators of the largest library of casual games in the world, has been a top game developer for the past decade. The company’s hit games, including Mahjongg Dimensions, are distributed worldwide to over nine million gamers per month on the web, Facebook, iPhone and iPads.  A top 20 Comscore game distributor, Arkadium has been the longstanding games partner of MSN, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, ESPN, ABC, Lifetime, Discovery and many more distinguished brands. Family owned and operated, Arkadium has grown organically since 2001 to more than 100 employees in offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and Ukraine. For more information visit www.arkadium.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as FacewareÔ and PortableYouÔ. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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 – to its already strong customer base.

“In less than six months, we have grown the Image Metrics partner program to include a solid roster of industry-leading companies, and this new partnership with Motion Technologies now extends our reach to a global scale,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “Motion Technologies has successfully managed to establish a steadfast reputation as an innovative motion capture company in the Asian entertainment market, and we’re honored to work with them as we enter this new arena.”

The traditional labor-intensive keyframe animation approaches taken by most animation studios in the Asia Pacific regions have yet to be exposed to such animator-friendly tools as Faceware. Through this partnership between Image Metrics and Motion Technologies, motion capture and animation companies are now able to quickly adopt Faceware’s award-winning and intuitive workflow to produce quality animation faster and more efficiently, with an overall higher return on investment.

“There’s a rapidly growing demand for high-fidelity facial animation solutions in the Asian entertainment industry and Faceware is the ideal solution,” said Sy Shin, Sales Executive of Motion Technologies. “Our partnership with Image Metrics allows us to now meet these demands. By introducing Image Metrics’ hardware and software solutions to our own client base, we’re able to expand our catalog of offerings and reinforce our reputation as a complete 3D performance capture solution provider.”

For more information on being a reseller of Image Metrics hardware and software, please email inquiries@image-metrics.com.

About Motion Technologies, Inc.:

Motion Technologies, Inc. is majorly known as a complete solution provider in the fast and ever changing field of 3D motion capture in Seoul, South Korea. Its complete solutions have been a significant part of clients’ successful application of technology into their business, providing competitive edge in areas of entertainment such as game, film, television and commercial markets. From setup to capturing, pre-visualization to post-production, sales to maintenance, and consulting to training, Motion Technologies is known for being capable of offering hardware and software solutions that can best serve clients’ various purposes. It has provided major industry leaders such as LG Electronics, Hyundai Car, NC Soft, SK C&C, Mix Film with highly compelling motion capture contents. For more information, please visit www.motioncapture.co.kr.

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A computer scientist and seasoned entrepreneur, Pena brings to Image Metrics more than 15 years of experience in mobile, video, social networking and virtual goods. Pena will be responsible for delivering innovative new products across a range of mobile devices and networks.

“Armando’s addition to our executive team is a signal of Image Metrics’ growth and dedicated push into the consumer market,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “One of our goals is to transform the way people interact on mobile devices through our unique offerings, and Armando’s addition will help propel our efforts in this new and emerging market. His thought leadership and hands-on abilities will bring additional insight and direction as we enter this space.”

Pena’s primary level of expertise is in highly scalable and available distributed services, having successfully raised $3.5 million of private investment for two mobile startup companies. Previously, he was the CEO and CTO of Fotochatter Inc., a mobile social networking company, where he helped raise private funding and was responsible for the company’s successful launch. Pena has also served as lead technologist for Sony Corporation’s Sony Connect Video Services division. Prior to that, he was the CTO at Gopix and director of technology at Sony Pictures Digital. Pena began his career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he developed information systems for various flight projects. He is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.

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n an industry that offers numerous facilities, technologies and vendors, Image Metrics’ Faceware customers now have access to the company’s rich catalog of vendors needed to deliver high-quality solutions within time and budget constraints. Members of the Certified Partner Program receive significant benefits, including preferred pricing of services; direct access to Image Metrics’ technology consulting services; and collaboration in various marketing and promotional campaigns.

As a premier network of trusted and qualified companies, the program identifies partners in three areas: Certified Solution Provider, Certified Technology Provider and Certified Faceware Provider. Qualification for each program ensures that each provider is both proficient in Image Metrics’ technology and also has production experience utilizing Image Metrics’ best practices.

The Certified Partner Program demonstrates the growing enthusiasm for Image Metrics’ breakthrough Faceware facial animation software. The program welcomes new additions Blindlight, Eyetronics and MovementCode Studios. As new partners spanning all three categories, these companies join an impressive partner lineup featuring 15 of the most notable and innovative companies in their industries, including Atlantis Recording Group, BangZoom Entertainment, Babel Media, Centroid3D, GameOn, MetricMinds, Mixamo, MoAnima, Nevertheless Audio, Voiceover There and Xsens.

“We’re pleased to welcome Blindlight, Eyetronics and MovementCode into our family of Certified Partnters,” said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. “Their participation demonstrates the excitement companies in the animation market feel about Faceware, and means that our customers can rely on a robust network of solution providers to create amazing character animation in games, film, television or commercials.”

A summary of the new additions to Image Metrics’ partner program:

Utilizing Faceware, Image Metrics has collaborated with leading Hollywood production resource company Blindlight to develop a new library of performances by Screen Actors Guild talent. As a Certified Solution Provider within the new partner program, Blindlight’s new performance library will add more than 100 free performances in six genres for download and use within the Faceware software. To view the Blindlight performance library, please visit: http://www.image-metrics.com/performance-library

“Working with Image Metrics’ highly respected Faceware software will be monumental for enhancing our existing resources for video game development,” said Timothy Cubbison, production supervisor at Blindlight. “Through this new performance library, users will be able to gauge effectiveness of Image Metrics’ proven software, yet emphasize the value of professional talent that we can offer to studios.”

MovementCode Studios

Image Metrics is proud to recognize leading motion-capture services company MovementCode Studios as a Certified Faceware Provider, enabling the company to offer Faceware as a service to its already strong client base. As a certified provider, MovementCode can now combine Faceware and full performance capture with its ability to provide motion capture services to the industry.

Eyetronics Media & Studios

Highly acclaimed 3D digital assets producer Eyetronics Media & Studios also joins the partner program as a Certified Technology Provider, where it will team up with Image Metrics to form a state-of-the-art digital character pipeline. Faceware will be integrated with Eyetronics’ photo-grammic scanning technology to allow customers to animate with photo-real assets in cost-effective capacities for face-replacement or digital-double scenarios.   

"Through the Certified Partner Program, our clients will be offered the ability to animate extremely high fidelity results in less time," said Samuel Schoemann, business development manager at Eyetronics. "By integrating Image Metrics’ fantastic animation technology, it is now possible for studios we work with to push the envelope in digital character creation and manipulation at budget-friendly rates with our combined technologies."

For more information on the Image Metrics Certified Partner Program, please contact Image Metrics at inquiries@image-metrics.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) is revolutionizing 3D character animation through award-winning technologies such as FacewareÔ and PortableYouÔ. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and its new PortableYou platform enables online consumers to produce highly personalized immersive experiences in digital media through the instant creation of customizable 3D avatars. Image Metrics is the go-to leader for facial animation technology with a client roster that includes such industry-leading companies as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., with its R&D center located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Media Contacts

Carol Lee | Steve Willis

Bender/ Helper Impact

(310) 694-3109 | (310) 694-3256

carol_lee@bhimpact.com | steve_willis@bhimpact.com

"Qlipso's approach to lightweight and fun personal interaction in social media is really cracking the code on shared media experiences," said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. "By integrating it with Image Metrics' PortableYou and our other upcoming animation products, consumers will feel as if they are present with each other in immersive and entertaining ways more than ever."

PortableYou enables consumers to instantly create high-quality, customizable 3D avatars from photographs as well as add and share the avatars seamlessly across enabled third-party applications including social networks and other connected platforms. Qlipso's online video portal, Veoh, boasts more than 13 million unique users per month who view a variety of content including anime, sports and long form entertainment. With unique P2P technology and a combination of premium content partnerships and user generated content, Veoh provides an ideal go-to-market test bed for Qlipso's innovative social video platform.

"Image Metrics is clearly at the forefront of avatar creation and interaction for online media and we look forward to bringing those experiences to our millions of Veoh users as well as our upcoming mobile products," said Jon Goldma, CEO of Qlipso. "We are delighted that the Qlipso experience will also be available with Image Metrics offerings."

Image Metrics and Qlipso plan to introduce their first joint product offering in the fourth quarter of 2011. For more information on PortableYou, visit www.image-metrics.com/portable-you.

About Qlipso
Qlipso is a global digital media company that offers a bright new world of self expression, creativity for video fans, Facebook junkies, gamers and mobile surfers through content and social technology. Qlipso's online video portal, Veoh, boasts more than 13 million users per month who view a variety of content including anime, sports and long form entertainment, and offers a unique P2P technology and a combination of premium content partnerships along with user generated content. For more information, please visit www.qlipso.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com. For the latest stock information, please visit www.otcbb.com

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Media Contacts
Carol Lee | Steve Willis
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3109 | (310) 694-3256
carol_lee@bhimpact.com | steve_willis@bhimpact.com

PortableYou provides end-users with the ability to instantly generate customizable 3D avatars from facial photos. Users can then add and share avatars seamlessly across enabled third-party applications, including social networks and other connected platforms.

The launch of PortableYou supports Image Metrics' mission to provide both professionals and consumers with products for end-to-end character creation and animation across all digital media.

"With the growing demand for more immersive customizable online experiences, creators of digital media are seeking ways to provide users with increased creative control over their own identity and content," said Robert Gehorsam, CEO of Image Metrics. "PortableYou creates a unique platform for developers to meet these growing demands head-on and in a cost-efficient manner, while creating a brand new catalog of virtual goods to offer users."

PortableYou provides a high level of fidelity with cross-platform, cross-application capabilities and is also highly customizable by application developers. PortableYou provides complete accessibility via simple, platform-agnostic web APIs and includes render and translation services for using avatars across multiple applications and pre-created content such as still images, videos, virtual worlds and video games. No other technology provides completely automated, high quality, customizable 3D heads via an open API.

The PortableYou platform offers a rich feature set to application developers and companies in multiple markets, including promotional/advertising content, video games and virtual worlds, e-cards publishing and personalized photography. Customized avatars created through the PortableYou platform can also be used as a source of premium virtual goods-based revenue.

Through its recent acquisition of Big Stage in February 2011, Image Metrics has integrated its real-time, video-driven facial animation technology with Big Stage's avatar creation platform to create an enhanced PortableYou platform. The new platform ultimately provides consumers with a richer and more interactive experience within their digital networks.

"User generated content is an ever-evolving trend within the social online space," said Nick Ramsay, vice president of product management at Image Metrics. "Since Image Metrics acquired Big Stage, our team has continued to develop the PortableYou platform, integrating our award-winning facial animation technology. The enhanced PortableYou platform offers the emerging consumer animation market a novel 3D experience that will lead user content creation into the next generation."

Key Benefits of PortableYou Include:

• Easy 3D Avatar Creation – PortableYou allows end-users to create instant and fully rigged 3D avatars from photographs that can automatically be outputted in the rig format and topology of the intended environment. End-users can also create one avatar and then use it across any PortableYou-enabled application.
• Extended Avatar Personalization – The PortableYou accessories library allows end-users to further personalize and customize their characters with various accessories, including hair, glasses, hats and other items.
• Unique Rendering Service – This distinctive service manages render jobs and accesses previously created content, allowing avatars to star in such pre-created content as movie clips or still images.
• Cross-Platform Solution – PortableYou web services are accessible from desktop, mobile and server platforms, so a wide range of applications can benefit from its personalized avatar creation capability.
• Efficient Processing – Computationally expensive processes – like avatar creation – are offloaded to backend servers, ultimately enabling mobile and other resource-constrained applications to take full advantage of the technology.
• Client Libraries – Thin client libraries for PortableYou are available in most modern development languages. Developers can also access the platform through standard web services calls to the Web API.

The PortableYou platform is now available directly from Image Metrics and can be provided either on-site or as a hosted solution. For developers interested in PortableYou, please contact Image Metrics at PortableYou@image-metrics.com or visit www.image-metrics.com.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com. For the latest stock information, please visit www.OTCMarkets.com.

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Media Contacts
Greg Dawson
Bender/ Helper Impact
509-901-7444
greg_dawson@bhimpact.com

FACEWARE™ 3.0 is the result of more than a decade of technology innovation and animation production experience creating AAA game titles, Oscar-winning films and Grammy-winning music videos. FACEWARE™ utilizes a unique marker-less video analysis technology and artist-driven performance transfer toolset to deliver ultra-high-fidelity, truly believable facial animation in a fraction of the time of traditional and alternate methods. FACEWARE™ offers studios full creative flexibility, empowering them to handle all creative decisions and iterations in-house. Most recently, FACEWARE™ was leveraged extensively in such titles as Crysis 2 and Red Dead Redemption, winner of GDC's Game of the Year, as well as films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Splice.

"FACEWARE has become the standard in facial animation and today is utilized by major videogame, film, visual effects, and commercial houses," said Image Metrics CEO Robert Gehorsam. "We are very proud and honored to have the CGW editorial team acknowledge our software as among the best at GDC 2011. It is a testament to our company's continued dedication to pushing innovation that supports the work of creative teams around the world."

Below is a full list of the first award recipients for GDC 2011, representing products and/or technologies that are setting the trend and making a difference within the industry:

• Autodesk: 2012 Entertainment Creation Suites
• Image Metrics: FACEWARE™ 3.0
• Dassault: 3DVIA tools
• Unity: Unity game engine
• Autodesk: Project Skyline
• Adobe: Molehill

A full version of the FACEWARE™ 3.0 software is available to download for free at www.Image-Metrics.com, including character rigs and performances for evaluation.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com. For the latest stock information, please visit www.OTCMarkets.com.

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Media Contacts
Greg Dawson
Bender/ Helper Impact
509-901-7444
greg_dawson@bhimpact.com

Check below for a schedule and register for our latest Webinars:

FACEWARE WEEKLY WEBINAR #6- Animating A Shot Start To Finish With Faceware

For any questions about the webinars, please contact Peter Busch, Director of Technical Marketing, Image Metrics: peter.busch@image-metrics.com

Launching in third quarter 2011, the Portable You product suite will allow users to transform a photograph of themselves into a 3D avatar with a few simple clicks, reflecting a growing consumer-wide desire to express their identity in a pervasive way across a wide range of applications, including video games, e-cards, online video chats and mobile devices.

"There are several powerful trends driving the consumer Internet market these days," says Gehorsam. "Social networks, online gaming, online video and user-generated content—all of them have two things in common: they reflect the desire of consumers to express themselves and the desire of consumers to communicate. Given the unique way our technology can be derived easily from still and motion images, we feel that we have a number of compelling features for both the consumer and developer."

As a further step in what Gehorsam likes to calls the emerging personal animation market, Image Metrics will look towards the integration of Portable You with the company's real-time animation technology, Live Driver. Taking the company's award-winning performance-driven technology used for professional animators, Live Driver presents developers a way to provide consumers with real-time facial animation expressions for the ultimate customized experience.

"Imagine your in-game character mimics your facial expressions in realtime and in 3D via your webcam, for all the other players to instantly see," remarked Gehorsam. "It adds the missing piece of the expressiveness and immersiveness."

To view Robert Gehorsam's recent interview with Bloomberg TV, please visit the following link: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/67562928/.

With many years of experience providing leading facial animation solutions to top players within the video game and film industries such as Activision-Blizzard, Double Negative, Microsoft, Moving Picture Company, Rockstar and Digital Domain, Image Metrics' ability to create life-like digital experiences is unmatched and will be available directly to business and consumer markets.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Media Contacts
Steve Willis | Ina Dan
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3256 | (310) 694-3116
steve_willis@bhimpact.com | ina_dan@bhimpact.com

FACEWARE™ 3.0 is the result of more than a decade of animation production experience creating AAA game titles, Oscar-winning films and Grammy-winning music videos. FACEWARE™ utilizes a marker-less video analysis technology and artist-driven performance transfer toolset to deliver ultra-high-fidelity, truly believable facial animation in a fraction of the time of traditional and alternate methods. FACEWARE™ offers studios full creative flexibility, empowering them to handle all creative decisions and iterations in-house.

"Last year's launch was a direct response to our customers' desire to internally own creative control of their work. This year's release is the answer to our customers' stated definition of that creative control," said Image Metrics CEO Robert Gehorsam. "We're delighted to provide the entire creative community access to the identical technology we've used in-house to great success over the past several years."

New features include:

• Auto-Pose: Automatic pose suggestion quickly shows artists the most extreme and physically different video performance frames that should be added as relationship poses.
• Shared Pose Database: Increase efficiency and consistency with a shared pose database allowing lead animators to establish a character's 'feel' prior to the animation process.
• Curve Refinement: New curve refinement tools allow animators to take results output from the retargeting stage and adjust them to suit the intended usage.

For more information about FACEWARE™ 3.0 contact Image Metrics or visit them in meeting room #113 at the Game Developer's Conference from February 28 - March 4, 2011 in San Francisco at the Mascone Center.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the videogame, film, television and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com. For the latest stock information, please visit www.OTCMarkets.com.

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Media Contacts
Steve Willis | Ina Dan
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3256 | (310) 694-3116
steve_willis@bhimpact.com | ina_dan@bhimpact.com

Image Metrics plans to merge Big Stage's "Portable You" avatar creation platform into their existing real-time video-driven animation technology and make a new product suite available in the third quarter of 2011. This will allow online and mobile entertainment, social network and communications companies to provide their users with a simple, easy-to-use solution for integrating more realistic avatars into their consumer offerings. Image Metrics will also package and provide Portable You™ directly to consumers to allow them to customize their digital likeness and utilize it within their digital networks for a richer and more interactive experience.

"We are extremely pleased with the talent and technology coming from Big Stage," said Image Metrics CEO Robert Gehorsam. "Their advanced yet easy-to-use avatar creation technology is the perfect platform to package with our facial animation technology for a complete life-like digital solution for both consumers and developers alike."

With many years of experience providing leading facial animation solutions to top players within the video game and film industries such as Activision-Blizzard, Double Negative, Microsoft, Moving Picture Company, Rockstar and Digital Domain, Image Metrics' ability to create life-like digital experiences is unmatched and will be available directly to business and consumer markets.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Media Contacts
Steve Willis | Ina Dan
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3256 | (310) 694-3116
steve_willis@bhimpact.com | ina_dan@bhimpact.com

MEETING ROOMS:

For demos of our products or discuss how Image Metrics facial animation solutions can work for your game, find our meeting rooms on the Moscone Center business center: BMR 113.

SPONSORED SESSIONS:

LIVE DEMO Faceware 3.0; High quality & volume facial animation
TRACK: Visual Arts
WHEN: Thursday March 3, 10:30-11:30am ESPLANADE ROOM 309

SUMMARY: See a live demonstration workshop of Image Metrics FACEWARE 3.0 facial animation software, which features an array of new tools for artists and producers to tackle the most demanding of schedules. The session covers character setup, the pose-based retargeting workflow, sharing poses across a project, and how to refine your curves for embellishment.

Learn what complete animation freedom you have via near-real-time iteration on any character rig -- humanoid or not -- and how to rapidly and efficiently produce facial animation for your game.

Attendees will also receive a FREE copy of FACEWARE 3.0 for their own evaluation.

HOSTED BY: Jay Grenier, Technical Account Manager, Image Metrics & Nick Ramsay, VP of Product Management, Image Metrics

Tips and techniques for full performance capture
TRACK: Visual Arts
WHEN: Wednesday March 2: 3-4pm ESPLANADE ROOM 309

SUMMARY: Want to know if you can implement full performance capture in your game? During this session, you will see how effective capturing face, audio, and body in one session can be in your pipeline, your budget, and meet overall animation quality. Learn the steps you need to take in evaluating full performance capture so you don't make the same mistakes we have seen. You'll see in action how effective our Image Metrics headcams are in a Full Performance Capture pipeline.

We'll also show you how the Xsens MVN suits can get you from concept to in-game animation in less than a day. Centroid 3D, a mocap service provider at Pinewood Studios, will show best practices for implementing full performance capture within a service provider and optical motion capture setup.

HOSTED BY: Chris Jones, Performance Capture Supervisor, Image Metrics, Patrick Runyon, XSENS & Phil Stilgoe, Centroid 3D.

HAPPY HOUR:
Join Image Metrics and XSENS for drinks at the W hotel on Wednesday from 6-8pm. Contact us for more information to attend.

About Image Metrics, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Image Metrics (OTC BB:IMGX) has pioneered the field of 3D facial animation through its revolutionary technologies. The company provides complete solutions for the film, television, interactive entertainment and commercial markets, and through its consumer products, enables Internet users to create new immersive experiences in games and social networks. Over the past decade, Image Metrics has established itself as the go-to leader in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries with clients such as Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Double Negative, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company. Image Metrics is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with its R&D centre located in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit www.Image-Metrics.com.

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Media Contacts
Steve Willis | Ina Dan
Bender/ Helper Impact
(310) 694-3256 | (310) 694-3116
steve_willis@bhimpact.com | ina_dan@bhimpact.com