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Image Metrics Debuts Emily's Game Face
Image Metrics recently unveiled an aspirational demonstration of hyper-realistic facial animation rendered in real-time. The demo, called “Real-Time Emily”, was debuted in front of a room full of bloggers at the 2009 Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Six months ago, at SIGGRAPH 2008...More
2008 Video Game Awards: Gears of War 2
When Epic Games needed facial animation to help promote its new Gears of War 2 Combustible Map Pack at the 2008 VGAs, the company turned to Image Metrics. Epic and Image Metrics had previously worked together on Unreal Tournament 3. As a result, Epic Games was familiar with their process...More
Image Metrics Puts Extreme Face on “Rock Band 2” Commercials
Image Metrics, the leading provider of facial animation solutions to the entertainment industry, has provided facial animation to Passion Pictures for two commercials promoting the Rock Band 2 video game. The project, which includes some extreme facial expressions from the animated characters, marks...More
The Emily Project
When we first started working on Emily, our goal was to create an exact replica of the real actress Emily O'Brien. Why? Because there was no other way to determine how close we had come to reality if we did not replicate a "real" person. Judging from the reaction of people at SIGGRAPH 2008...More
