VICON FILM FESTIVAL 14 DAY COUNTDOWN
Two weeks left to submit Film Festival entries and a chance to win an iPod

17 January 2008 – Oxford, UK: Vicon, developer of Academy Award-winning motion capture systems and part of the Oxford Metrics Group plc, today announced there are now only 14 days to go for animators to get their entries submitted for the $10,000 Film Festival cash prize. All films must be uploaded through the Film Festival site here by 31 January 2008.

The Film Festival organisers will also be conducting a daily prize draw. For each of the 14 days leading up to the deadline Vicon will randomly pick one of the entries - submitted on that day - out of a hat to win an iPod Shuffle.

The judging will then be done in three stages. The long list of films will be selected by the Film Festival organisers. Then the chosen films will be uploaded onto the Film Festival Gallery and YouTube in March 2008 for the public to cast their verdict.

Finally the 10 films that have received the most public votes will be assessed by the Film Festival judging panel, which is made up of experts from movies, motion capture and animation including: Mike Sanders (Industrial Light & Magic), Eric Furie (USC School of Cinematic Arts), Takashi Fukamoto (Links Digiworks), Gary Roberts (House of Moves), Chris Mais (writer and director of the award-winning Smile), Mick Morris (Audiomotion) and Darren Waters (BBC Interactive). The winner will be announced in June 2008. Media sponsors for the competition include VFXWorld.com, Computer Graphics World and Digital Arts Magazine (UK).

Nick Bolton, Chief Executive at Vicon said: “We’re really excited to see some of the entries start coming in. Our aim has always been to try and help young animators realise their potential. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll hopefully really start to see this talent coming through.”

For further information please visit www.vicon.com/filmfestival

Vicon Film Festival Terms and Conditions apply.

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About Vicon
Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, serving customers and CG animation applications in film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters, a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Vicon’s service company House of Moves as well as 125 Vicon MX40 cameras.

Vicon is the largest holding of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defense, life science and engineering markets. Other holdings include Emmy Award®-winning 2d3 and newly founded Geospatial Vision Ltd.

Vicon’s and OMG’s global clients include: life science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, National Pitching Association; engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.yotta.tv, www.vicon.com, or www.2d3.com.