Reg Hill 1950s. Hill worked in all things artistic, from set and puppet design to special effects. This collaboration ended, and the production of new programs commenced, with "Four Feather Falls", a Western featuring the voice of Nicholas Parsons as Sheriff Tex Tucker. During these early years, Hill was also involved in producing Anderson's low-budget film, "Crossroads to Crime" (1960). In 1962, AP Films was bought by Associated Television director Lew Grade, and in 1966 was renamed "Century 21 Productions". It would subsequently become "Group 3 Productions" in 1972 (named after its three founders: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, and Hill), and "Gerry
Supermarionation series "Terrahawks". The characters of this series were realised as latex hand puppets, operated from the studio floor in a process known as "Supermacromation". This was similar to the techniques employed by American puppeteer Jim Henson. In 2004, Anderson created a "Captain Scarlet" remake titled "New Captain Scarlet", which was produced using computer-generated imagery (CGI) and motion-capture techniques. Motion capture was used heavily for action sequences as it provided more convincing character movement. As a nod to Supermarionation, the series was credited as being "created in Hypermarionation". According to Anderson, Hypermarionation was not simply animation, but a "photo-real method" of