Press

Mr. T’s Pretty Handy With Computers

By Olga Kay
Ford Fiesta Movement

Mr. T may be a Night Elf Mohawk, but who cares? What would you be if you were a videogame character? Meet the team behind Big Stage to be photographed and inserted into a game environment. Share the new you with the world.  Read More

Smithsonian taps virtual world technology to take us to Blue Mars

By Dean Takahashi
VentureBeat (June 9, 2009)

By 2150, it might be possible to breathe air on Mars — that’s if humans are able to develop an atmosphere on the planet. That’s pretty far off. But by next year, you should be able to explore what life on Mars would be like in a virtual world that’s drawing a great deal of attention.  Read More

Blue Mars 2150 Moves Closer to Launch

By Virtual Worlds News Staff
Virtual Worlds News (June 9, 2009)

Today, VSE and a handful of partners, including the Smithsonian Institution, The National Geographic Society, NOVA, and Big Stage Entertainment announced a number of milestones and dates attached to the release of both a Blue Mars online virtual world as well as a museum exhibit to be housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.  Read More

Your Digital Clone For Games, Videos, and More

By Steven Cherry
IEEE Spectrum Online (April 2009)

The folks at Big Stage want you to fit in perfectly as you wander through Second Life, or Facebook, or Grand Theft Auto.  But more than that, they want you to be the same person in Grand Theft Auto as Second Life, with the same face – even if you have a mohawk in one and a business suit in the other.  And they want to be at the center of that.  Your ‘digital home’ or at least your digital coat closet…  If they can pull that off, there’s probably some good money in it, and probably a lot of fun along the way. Read More

You Oughta Be In Pictures: New Software Puts Your Face In Movies And Games

By Popular Science Staff
Popular Science (April)

Big Stage takes CIA-funded technology that creates 3-D models of faces for security systems – and repurposes it for entertainment…it figures out where to paste your head in one of the available TV clips, such as on top of Mr. T’s body in scenes from The A-Team.

iStage Makes You the Star of iPhone Campaigns

By Mobile Content Today Staff
Mobile Content Today (March 17, 2009)

Brand marketers and advertisers are always looking for new ways to engage consumers and keep them interested. How better to do this than to make the consumer the star of the campaign? Big Stage Entertainment has come out with a solution that does just that. Read More

Personalized 3D Marketing

By James Quintana Pearce
moocoNews.net (March 16, 2009)

iStage then maps the contours of the face from the photo and inserts into a marketing campaign. That’s possibly the most interesting part of the service—using the 3D images as part of a campaign generates revenue for Big Stage and gives marketers the ability to personalize their campaign with someone’s face. Read More

Interwebs: This Month’s Online Pics

By Saturday Night Magazine Staff
Saturday Night Magazine (March 16, 2009)

Big Stage is a media tech service that allows you to project yourself photo-realistically into…a huge library of TV and movie clips, video games, social networks and still images.….Hours of fun!

Big Stage Entertainment brings 3-D facial animations to the iPhone

By Terence Russell
Venture Beat (March 16)

The Los Angeles company’s newest app (dubbed iStage) is all about mobile marketing. Company executives are betting it will appeal to brands interested in creating personalized mobile media campaigns. Read More

As Others Dig In, The Venturesome Set Out

By James Flannigan
The New York Times (February 18, 2009)

[Big Stage CEO Phil Ressler] said he was raising the additional capital from Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels investors and others “because in bad times you have to move forward; you can’t save your way to success.” Read More