Who are Paul Taylor and Dave Wilson, and how were you involved in the Warhammer 40,000 cinematics?
Dave Wilson: I have been here at Blur Studio about two years and Paul’s been here forever! Paul and I were the CG supervisors on Dawn of War. Paul handled the Story/Layout and Animation Supervision as well as directing the motion capture performance, while I took care of the Modeling, Lighting and Compositing. Kirby Miller was our FX supervisor and Tim Miller was the Creative Director on the project. Tell us about the Dawn of War cinematics. What’s the story, how did you guys end up doing the cinematics? Were you given a script and designs or was there total creative freedom involved? Dave Wilson: We do a lot of Game Cinematics every year at Blur, and we’ve worked with THQ before on a couple of projects. They talked with Relic Entertainment about having us do the intro cinematic. We got a script from Relic/THQ with their initial ideas for the intro. From the outset our biggest concern was the timeframe. We had roughly 3-4 weeks to complete the piece. But after reading the script – and
