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Accomplished Technology Executive Will Offer Expertise to Leading Facial Animation Technology Company

LOS ANGELES, CA — April 23, 2008 — Image Metrics, the leading developer of performance-driven computer generated (CG) facial animation in video games and film, today announced that it has appointed Michael Starkenburg to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Starkenburg, who has served as a consultant to Image Metrics for the past year, will provide leadership for all operations of the company in the United States and United Kingdom.

Image Metrics’ Computer Generated Facial Animation Technology Demonstrates Graphics Processing Capabilities of Gamebryo

LOS ANGELES, CA — Feb. 19, 2008 — Image Metrics today announced that its proprietary performance capture solution was used by Emergent Game Technologies to produce a new demo of Emergent’s GamebryoTM game engine that will be showcased at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in San Francisco on February 18 – 21. The demo will be showcased in the Emergent Technologies booth #5716, North Hall.

Photorealistic Facial Performance Animation Pipeline Used to Develop Characters for Several High Profile Titles From Leading Publishers Such As 2K Games, Epic Games and Rockstar Games

Company’s Computer Performance-Driven Facial Animation System Recognized as Innovative Entertainment Industry Technology for the Second Consecutive Year

Photorealistic Computer Generated Facial Animation System Used to Develop a Hologram of the Late Richard Burton for Hit Musical

SAN DIEGO, CA — August 8, 2007 — Image Metrics today announced at the Siggraph tradeshow in San Diego that its proprietary performance capture solution will provide the modeling and animation for a photo-realistic 11-foot 3D hologram of the late Richard Burton, for the Live on Stage! production of the multi-award winning, 15 million-selling album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds.