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LOS ANGELES, CA — (GDC Trade Show – Booth 5416-NH) — Image Metrics, the leading provider of facial animation solutions to the entertainment industry, has assembled a new team of industry professionals with extensive experience bringing video games and video game technology to market. Art Santos has been hired as a European sales manager, with Ric Neil and Eric Peterson joining recent hire Gordon Bellamy in the Santa Monica office to improve the Company’s developer relations within the video game industry. Dario Ahdoot will focus on developing the company’s performance transfer technology into a self-service solution for film and visual effects (VFX) studios. Nick Ramsay and Beau Teora have been named technical account managers, handling client services for Europe and North America, respectively.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into the digital realm, has named digital media industry veteran Patrick Barry to the role of vice president, content alliances. In this newly created role, Barry will focus on growing partnerships with media and entertainment companies interested in developing both new digital revenue opportunities and deep consumer engagement.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into digital life, has unveiled its new iStage application that offers the company’s 3-D facial modeling and personalization system for branded mobile campaigns and games on the iPhone.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Image Metrics, which recently provided facial animation for Sony Computer Entertainment America’s God of War® III video game to be released exclusively on the PlayStation®3 system, is introducing new facial rigging services to the video game and film markets. Developed in response to client demand, the services utilize many of Image Metrics’ proprietary technologies as well as the expertise of its in-house rigging specialists to speed facial rig creation and improve the core facial structures essential for producing highly emotive facial animation.