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A new series of Gerry Anderson's (Thunderbirds) classic Captain Scarlet is to be created without the strings, using 3D animation.

 

NewTek's LightWave 3D is a highly-versatile 3D animation and graphics program which uses Hypervoxel rendering technology for greatly simplifying the creation of extremely detailed 3D surfaces and creating volumetric effects such as liquids, fire, smoke, dust, ash, gelatin, rusted materials and clouds. LightWave 3D is also a true, real-time subdivision surface modeller with a renderer that computes massive amounts of data at floating-point accuracy to ensure colour depth, resulting in extremely high-quality imagery.

 

 

In addition, the software incorporates a depth of field filter which offers traditional depth of field control and optional iris shapes enabling the animators to mimic different camera styles and the aspect ratio and rotation angle of the camera lens, lending New Captain Scarlet a cinematic quality that is unusual to see in a CGI-animated television series.

 

LightWave 3D is the same animation software that Ron Thornton used on Babylon 5 and Roughnecks, and it is also currently being used to create visual effects on Star Trek - Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica, CSI Miami, JAG, NCIS and Smallville. The software has previously been used on series such as The X Files, Space: Above And Beyond, Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Star Trek - Voyager, Dark Skies, Taken, Firefly and Buffy The Vampire Slayer as well as numerous feature films including The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), Toy Story 2 (1998), X-Men (2000), Gladiator (2000), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones (2002) and Die Another Day (2002). The capabilities of LightWave 3D were most recently seen in Van Helsing (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004) and will next be seen in Spider-Man 2 (2004).

 

Production of New Captain Scarlet is now taking place entirely on-site at Pinewood Studios following the construction of a new motion-capture stage there, built specifically for Gerry Anderson Productions. Previously, motion-capture recording had taken place off-site at a studio in Shepperton. The 26-episode series will be completed in mid-2005 for an autumn 2005 screening in the UK by a terrestrial broadcaster.

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I've never seen the original Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons... But I'll watch for this one.

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