Swarm

Swarm

February 26, 2005 TV Episode Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet

Also known as: Captain Scarlet, The New Captain Scarlet (Trailer)

Studio
Gerry Anderson Productions

Synopsis

The Angels intercept and destroy a military transporter heading for Skybase, but the destruction unleashes a swarm of mechanical bugs that infiltrate Skybase and lead to a series of malfunctions.

Characters

Captain Black/Conrad Lefkon, Dr. Gold/Dr. Mason Frost, Captain Scarlet/Paul Metcalfe, Captain Blue/Adam Svenson, Captain Grey/Iain Taggart, Destiny Angel/Simone Giraudoux, Lieutenant Silver, Melody Angel/Esther Jackson, Captain Ochre/Elaine McGee, Rhapsody Angel/Caroline Foster-Finch, Lieutenant Green/Serena Lewis, Harmony Angel/Rebecca Drake, Symphony Angel/Yoko Inukai, Colonel White/Sir Charles Grey, Voice of The Mysterons, Captain Magenta/Mario Moro, Control Operative, Technician

Credits

Directing

Director
David Lane

Producing

Producer
Gerry Anderson
Executive Producer
Gerry Anderson
Line Producer
Mark Sherwood

Writing

Writer
Phil Ford
Creator
Gerry Anderson

Voices

Voice
Nigel Plaskitt (Captain Black/Conrad Lefkon, Dr. Gold/Dr. Mason Frost, Technician), Wayne Forester (Captain Scarlet/Paul Metcalfe), Robbie Stevens (Captain Blue/Adam Svenson, Captain Grey/Iain Taggart, Control Operative, Emma Tate (Destiny Angel/Simone Giraudoux, Lieutenant Silver), Heather Tobias (Melody Angel/Esther Jackson), Julia Brahms (Captain Ochre/Elaine McGee, Rhapsody Angel/Caroline Foster-Finch), Jules Dejongh (Lieutenant Green/Serena Lewis, Harmony Angel/Rebecca Drake, Symphony Angel/Yoko Inukai), Mike Hayley (Colonel White/Sir Charles Grey, Voice of The Mysterons), Jeremy Hitchen (Captain Magenta/Mario Moro)

Music

Music
Crispin Merrell

Animation

Animator
Michael Hull, Dan Lantz, Stafford Lawrence, Andrew McEvoy, Sarah Townsend, Thomas Ward
Lead Character Modeller
William Brand
Lighting Artist
Drew Cattanach
Modeler
Craig A. Clark
Senior Character Rigger
Frederick Fowles
Lighting and Effects Artist
Michael Heinz
Previs Technical Director (Lighting, Scarlet Digital)
Adrian Pinder
Visual Effects Technical Director/Modeler
Howard Margolius
Character Rigger
Simon Payne
Character Technical Director
Simon Payne
Digital Lighting Supervisor
Chris Simmons
Head of Digital Layout
David Stoten
Lead Character Rigger
Waikit Wan

Art Department

Art Director
Sam Jones
Storyboard Artists
Rasmus Norgaard, Tracey Wilson
Character Designer
Howard Swindell
Graphic Artist
Carol Kupisz
Conceptual Art Director
Dominic Lavery

Visual Effects

Visual Effects Supervisor
Jerome Fournier
Special Effects
Saham Ali
Digital Compositors
Terence Alvares, Theo Diamantis, Andrew Fletcher, Alberto Montañés, Heribert Raab, Foad Shah, Matt Willis-Jones
Visual Effects Runner
Howard Berry
Lead Digital Compositor
Marco Checa Garcia
Digital Effects Artists (Scarlet Team)
Soo Kyung Kim, Stephen Macfarlane, Duncan Price
Visual Effects Production Manager
Ellen Walder

Camera

Virtual Camera Operator
Owen Williams

Editing

Editor
David Lane, Andy Walter
Assembly Editor
Alex Creasey
On-Line Editor
Phil Stone

Sound

Sound Designers
Hugo Adams, Mark Heslop, Oliver Tarney, Keith Tinman
Foley Mixer
Sandy Buchanan

Production Management

Production Manager
Theano Kazagli
Production Coordinator
Phyl Allarie
Motion Capture Production Manager
Matt Nutley
CGI Line Producer
Ron Thornton
Episode Coordinator
Kim Phelan
Production Assistant
Paul Starkey

Crew

Operator (Junior Maya)
Patricia Johnson
Motion Capture Actor
Oliver Hollis
Motion Capture Artists
Dermot Bailie, Richard Klein, Maximilian Mallmann
Motion Capture Technicians
Dermot Bailie, Tom Conneely
Head of Character Department
Edward Chaplin
CG Director (Scarlet Team)
Mark Harrison
Motion Capture Manager
Graham Hudson
Pre-Visualization Artist
Michael Hull
CG Supervisors
Scott Kingston, Richard Morris, Lee Stringer
Systems Administrator
Tamzyn (Taz) Lodder
Hair Lead
David Antonin Mucci
CGI Director
Curt Randall
CG Director
Josh Simmonds
Digital Lighter
Christopher Taylor
Laser Scanning
Kev Stenning
Assistant Systems Engineer
Damien Cheetham
Motion Capture Performer ("Captian Scarlet")
Joseph Gatt
Consultant (Information Technology)
Jeremy Lang

Companies and other credits

  • CG Supervisor (Scarlet Digital Imaging) Gaël Seydoux

Production notes

Motion-capture computer-generated animation.

The first season cost £25 million for 26 episodes. Of these, the first 13 were each split into two parts and shown as part of CITV's Saturday morning show "Ministry of Mayhem."