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LAS VEGAS – April 11, 2011 - Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio editing applications, today announced the availability of a new sound effects series created by renowned production studio, The Detroit Chop Shop. Featuring broadcast quality sounds, the new software series comprises 10 complete volumes of ready-to-use sound effects.

SANTA MONICA, CA – March 17, 2011 – In a recent interview with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox, leading provider of facial animation technology Image Metrics ’ (OTC: IMGX) CEO Robert Gehorsam discussed the company’s expansion into the consumer market with its acquisition of Big Stage’s premier platform for consumer avatar creation services.

SANTA MONICA, CA – February 17, 2011 – Image Metrics Inc. (OTC: IMGX), a leading provider of facial animation technology for the entertainment industry, has acquired Big Stage’s premier platform for consumer avatar creation services. Big Stage was honored in 2009 by Forbes magazine as one of America’s top 20 Most Promising Companies. Its software allows consumers to instantly transform photographs into realistic 3-D, animated characters to represent themselves in virtual worlds, video games, video clips and online communities.

SANTA MONICA, CA – April 14, 2011 – Image Metrics Inc. (OTC: IMGX) has been presented with a best of show award for its industry-leading facial animation software FACEWARE™ 3.0, at the Game Developers Conference 2011 (GDC) in San Francisco.  Announced earlier last week by Computer Graphics World, the Silver Edge Award is for recipients whose products or services represent the best of the best at the industry’s leading trade shows.

SAN FRANCISCO – MAY 3, 2011 – Direct2Drive (D2D), the industry standard for digital distribution of PC and Mac games since 2004, today introduced a new storefront, D2D Germany, providing gamers in Germany with a fully-localized version of the digital games distribution service.  The latest regionalized storefront from the world’s 2nd largest digital distributor in games, debuts as a Beta service and features product catalogues from the industry’s largest game publishers including Activision, Electronic Arts, and Ubisoft, to name a few. 

HOLLYWOOD, CA – March 2, 2011 –The Gnomon Workshop, the industry leader in professional training for artists in the entertainment and design field, announced their first release from lead modeler Alessandro Baldasseroni. Entitled, “Stylized Character Modeling for Production,” the DVD serves as a full tutorial on the concepts and techniques used in projects such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 2, and even Halo Wars.