Image Metrics is creating facial animation for key characters appearing in the cut scenes of Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, Codemasters announced. Image Metrics will develop 57 shots for Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, totalling 262 seconds of animation in about one month. Without markers or makeup, the solution captures an actor's entire facial performance, analyzes it pixel-by-pixel, and then transfers it onto the computer generated (CG) character model. Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising is due to hit the store shelves in 2009, for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 - two new character art have been inserted in our gallery.