As long-standing fans of Spooks we are delighted to have supplied a key CGI shot for series 5, airing on BBC 1 now.

Our work was broastcast at the end of episode 1 and involved us building and animating a 3D car door.

In space no-one can hear your computer overheating! Yes, we are back on Hyperdrive and loving it! Filming is about to begin but we are already well into modeling and animation for series 2.

This time around we'll see serveral new ships, a new space station and some new baddies!

Two years ago we produced a 3 minute pop promo featuring fairies chasing each other through an enchanted forest.

The video was so successful that we were asked to produce the next installment! On a very tight deadline we successfully completed 3 more minutes of fairy fun. Read more about it here next month.

Qurios Entertainment spent four months on the ITV production, which stars former Eastenders heart-throb Nigel Harman alongside Emmy Award winning actor Brian Cox.

The 90-minute movie is a Mission Impossible-style spy thriller, produced by Mersey Television and will be screened on Tuesday, October 3 on ITV 1.

Qurios was called upon to recreate sets from London, Paris, Malta and Scotland using computer animation from initial scenes filmed in Liverpool's docklands. The actors are not allowed into any dangerous situations so a lot of the scenes are computer generated.

There is a scene where Nigel Harman is hanging out of a helicopter. To create that we filmed the helicopter flying along with its door open, we then filmed the actress inside a helicopter in the studio leaning out and then Nigel clinging to a rope, again in the studio in front of a blue screen.

We had to put all three elements together and carefully craft the scene to make it as realistic as possible. We used a lot of colour correction, making sure the lighting was spot on and used a good creative eye. Part of Qurios' remit was to remove the Albert Dock from one scene, leaving only a clock tower in the shot and transposing the Mersey into the North Sea to recreate the North East Coast of Scotland.

Niel explained: "All of the filming was done in Liverpool but we recreated several different locations using a mix of compositing and 3D set building. "It was a great project to be part of and we hope that our work is proof that companies outside of the big cities can provide quality graphics and animation to the TV and film industry."

Jamie Hall, Group Head of Production at Mersey Television said: "This is the second occasion I have worked with Niel and the team at Qurios and it will definitely not be the last. "Qurios always become a key member of the production team. Their enthusiasm, creative vision and professional attitude are vital to producing the ambitious programmes we strive to make."

Its been 4 years already! We managed to grow over those years from humble origins into a leading force in CGI and animation in the North East. But we've still got a long way to go, a lot of growing to do and probably a lot of hard lessons to learn along the way! Just like any four-year-old really!

Qurios Entertainment has been highly commended at a television awards ceremony.

Qurios was given a ‘Highly Commended’ certificate in the Moving Image Company of the Year category at this years Royal Television Society (RTS) North East & the Borders Annual Awards, held on Saturday 4th February at the Federation Brewery in Gateshead.

Niel Bushnell, Managing Director of Qurios said, “The region has some a lot of impressive companies working in television, we were up against some very strong competition so we were thrilled to be given a ‘highly commended’ certificate.” The event, hosted by Nicolas Owen of ITV News, celebrates the achievements of companies and individuals working in television from the North East and Borders region.

Early in February we were lucky enough get a first hand look into the workings of the super-genius talents of Pixar courtesy of a visit from Mark Walsh, directing animator on 'Finding Nemo'.

Mark was visiting the North East for the Animex Festival held in Middlesbrough, while there he made time to spend half a day with the team at Qurios.

Mark described some of the methods used at Pixar to help in their character animation process. He used several examples from Disney and Pixar movies to demonstrate their techniques. The team all found this incredibly useful, we even had one model builder who was inspired enough to try his hand at animation!

After an epic struggle Qurios has successfully completed work on the second series of Hyperdrive at the end of February.

Our workload has doubled since series 1, reaching an impressive 343 shots over six half hour episodes. Although we had established the general look and feel for Hyperdrive during series 1 we were all determined to do our best to improve our work for series 2.

This started with a major overhaul and refit of the main ship, the HMS Camden Lock. We rebuilt certain areas and added in some new detail in certain sections. We also made some major adjustments to the surface textures adding in more dirt to suggest its extended tour in space.

Nick Patrick who oversaw the modeling and texturing changes notes, “We wanted the ship to feel a bit more lived in this time. In the first series she had a handful of battles which would all leave their mark. Time has taken its toll but it’s still the same ship as last time.”

For series 2 Qurios designed and built several new ships and locations. The new series starts on BBC 2 soon, come back soon for more updates.