Face to Face with the Faceless Ones

Face to Face with the Faceless Ones was a making-off documentary for the animated reconstruction of The Faceless Ones, included on disc 3 of the DVD, Blu-ray and steelbook releases. It interviewed many members of the animation team and showed how they carried out their work.

	The Faceless Ones's animated reconstruction
	The Faceless Ones
	The Faceless Ones
	16 March 2020
	29 minutes and 28 seconds

Topics covered

• The need to animate the serial
• How Martin Geraghty designed the characters
• The storyboarding process
• Syncing the animation to audio
• How the animation process has changed over the years
• The difficulty of animation
• The animation process
• How animators model shots and poses
• The difficulties of alligning shoulders
• The compositing process
• How much different members of the team enjoyed making the animation

People interviewed

• AnneMarie Walsh, Animation Director/Producer
• Martin Geraghty, Character Artist
• Barry Baker, Storyboard artist
• Kevin Baldwin, Storyboard artist
• Kate Sullivan, 2D animator
• Tom Bland, 2D animator
• Rob Ritchie, 3D compositor artist

Crew

Executive Producer   Paul Hembury, Rebecca Richmond and AnneMarie Walsh

Directed by Toby Hadoke

General production staff Production Co-Ordinator - Peter Adamson	Camera and lighting department Camera - Dan Sierwald Camera & Editing - Johnathan Ogle Art department Character Colour Charts - Adrian Salmon Character Designs and Illustrations - Martin Geraghty	General post-production staff Camera & Editing - Johnathan Ogle

Thanks to Mark Ayres and Peter Crocker and Theo Everett Kalogerides.
BBC Studios Distribution
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Not every person who worked on this episode was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.