THE HIVE CREATES KILLER GRAPHICS FOR ‘POISONED’

THE HIVE, a Soho-based high-end 3D animation company, have created 3D content and a 30-second title sequence for ‘Poisoned’.
Based on true-life stories, the new Channel 4 documentary series explores the effect that various poisons have on the human body.
The Hive’s brief was to construct several locations within the body, complete major organs, and illustrate the effects of both the poisons and corresponding antidotes. The finished sequences will provide an insight to the destruction caused by everyday poisons.
Paul Woolwich, Executive Producer of Poisoned, said: “The Hive, and in particular Adrian Wyer, did a fantastic job. It was a difficult brief to give realistic impression of what happens inside the body when attacked by poison and to do it in a way that would not be stunning to witness but visibly accessible to a general audience and totally factual accurate to boot.”
The Hive was also asked when creating the ‘stars’ of the show, that the different poison modules should include deadly nightshade, lead and white spirit. Wyer used Softimage3D and PhoenixTool’s Metamesh Extreme to construct a low resolution mesh that was then smoothed and subdivided to give the final model.
Compositing was carried out in After Effects and final renders made using Mental Ray.
The entire project took three months to complete. The series produced by Twenty Twenty Television is to air in November.