Image Metrics Announces Expansion of Industry-Leading Certified Partner Program for 3D Character Animation
June 28 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Image Metrics Inc. (OTCBB:IMGX), a leading provider of facial
animation technology, today announced its Certified Partner Program
for leading vendors and technology providers looking to develop
facial animation resources. Each certified partner provides a
complementary offering to studios working with Image Metrics to
help build their respective facial animation pipelines.
In 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 Partners,” 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:
Blindlight
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
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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