About Mike Best

Mike Best is a Senior Character Technical Director at Sony Computer Entertainment in London.
He has been working in the computer games and television industries for 15 years, and is an expert in character and facial animation technologies.
Mike is seeking to relocate his family back to the west-coast of North-America. 

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News

New EyePet Trailer Released!

The EyePet team at Sony are all delighted that EyePet is being shown at E3 this year.  We have a new YouTube trailer out that demonstrates some of the games amazing interactive technology.

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Recent Articles

Building a Great Facial Animation Pipeline

There are few topics amongst CG professionals and games developers that can so quickly raise a heated debate than that of facial animation for computer generated characters.  In a series of articles I discuss the aesthetic, technical, and practical considerations of building a first rate facial animation pipeline.

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Credits


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Senior Character TD

Senior Pre-viz Artist

Character TD

Senior Environment Arist

Senior Environment Artist

Art Director

Art Director

Art Director

Artist / Animator
     
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I hope you enjoy viewing my website.  From the this homepage you can view a selection of my showreels. For more detailed information on any of the videos, press the 'read more' link under the video's description for more details, shot-break downs and credits.

To view some of my more technical videos, and learn more about the research and development I have done, please visit my technical videos section. 

To learn more about me and what I do visit my about page in the info section, where you will can also find my CV and contact details.

I have also started writing some articles related to character and facial animation technology.  Please also check back soon as I am in the process of updating the site with more content, tutorials and other resources.