POC in Play North Launch Night Success!

Middlesborough, November 2019.

POC in Play & Teesside University launches the first 'POC in Play North' event in Middlesbrough.

Dr. Satish Shewhorak kicked off the first event following his appointment to the POC in Play team.

Satish Shewhorak ran moShine, a diverse animation studio where he produced work for MTV, the Beijing Olympics and The Great North Run. He has previously supported games studios in the North of England through the trade association GameHorizon and ran the Animex Games Festival in 2018 including Animex Live, a concert of video game music.

Satish has a PhD in motion capture and games animation and is a Senior Lecturer at Teesside University teaching performance capture and games business and marketing. He has also been supporting Konsoll, the Norwegian games developers conference including helping to launch Konsoll Connect, a day dedicated to supporting local indie developers. Most recently he has launched a fully funded scholarship programme for underrepresented games students to attend the Games Developers Conference.

This event was a huge success and featured three guest mini-talks from Wei Xing Yong (Lead Animator, CubicMotion), Darren Yeomans (Art Manager, atomhawk) and Frederic Barbord (Technical Director at Radical Forge).

Thank you to Oodles for supplying food and to every single one of the guests who made this night special!

POC in Play Team