Centroid demo week!

During September 2008, Centroid opened the doors of it's Pinewood studio and invited companies from the film, television and games industries to see what we can do!

On show were numerous live pre-vis demos, including full face and body, a puppet (called Neville) and a spectacular martial arts set piece featuring a flying rig, a big gun, space and a small furry creature of unspecific origin. Behold!

The pre-vis cast.

The human cast, from left to right, Dave, Tamlyn and Brian.

Mike and Neville (with forearm supplied by Brian).

Tamlyn with the Flying FX guys.

Scan the man!

One of the many benefits of our creative partnership with face and full body scanning guru's Plowman Craven, was having our very own technical manager Mike Hedges immortalised for all time in 3D!

Sadly, his wish to be scanned naked was refused. Something about there not being a zoom.
Once the scan was complete, the model was re-topologised (nice long word, not sure what it means) and rigged so we could apply facial motion data and really bring our virtual Mike to life. God save us all.

The huge amounts of radiation involved caused Mike to loose all his hair.

Look at the size of our small balls.

Clearly unhappy.

Teetering on furious.

Ninja Theory visit!

Stuart Adcock and Andy Serkis from Ninja Theory (of Playstation3 hit Heavenly Sword fame) came down to visit the studio.

While chatting about the live face pre-vis demo we had put on with Andy, I kept losing my train of thought. Was it bad form to ask for an autograph and have it signed 'to my precious'?

From left to right, me, Phil, Andy, Carol, Stuart, Dave and who else but Mike in the suit.