Shadow Tor Studios

Multimedia studio, based in Cornwall. 3D Visualisation, Video Games, Digital Archaeology, Interactive Presentations, Reconstructions, Photography, Photogrammetry.

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Shadow Tor provides a range of multimedia services.

Gaming

Immersive narrative driven game entertainment or edutainment, featuring digital editions of real world places and props. Utilising folklore and developing storylines through user engagement and game-play.

Photogrammetry

Capturing objects and locations as digital 3D models, archaeology finds, historic monuments or details. 3D modeling dig sites, landscapes or wider environments, digital recording the layer by layer progressive stages of an archaeology dig.

Reconstruction

Recreating eras of the past through rendered and real time digital reconstructions of historic buildings, monuments, landscapes and items. Rebuilding sites as they would have looked in the past, or interpreting full items from fragmented remains.

Virtual Tours

Interactive 360 degree high resolution photos, with optional interactive multimedia elements. Capturing a location inside or out for virtual exploration.

Interactive Exhibitions

Producing engaging presentations for presenting media through interactive material, downloadable or exhibited display programs, exploring touch screen interaction or VR experiences.

Video Rendering

Creative visualisations and film renders for exhibitions or documentaries. Virtual camera flythroughs or turntables renderings of digitally captured or created content.

Wychwood Hollow

Eliza Trewithian haunts the old Wychwood Hollow, the largest ancient oak woodland in Cornwall. A place of myth and legend. You are dispatched alone to investigate the case, with help from some local Ghost-Hunters. The Cornwall Wood Witch has haunted Wychwood Hollow since her death in 1793, torn apart by the hunting hounds of Trelawney Manor. Does Eliza seek revenge, or just witnesses to remember her story?

Armed with a collection of ghost-hunting gadgets, it’s up to you to solve the case. Help is at hand, as a group of paranormal investigators have research and old documents to share. Gather evidence, decipher old documents, follow advice (or don’t!) and experience a very realistic ghost-hunt in full 360 views.

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Time Team Games

The Future Is The Past

Join the archaeology adventure in a world of Time Team Games. Time travel from your own home as you discover and resurrect the past. Investigate alongside Time Team experts, uncovering archaeology msteries and piecing together clues. Time Team Games allows you to join a dig through an interactive and guided archaeology investigation experience.

Shadow Tor Studios is proud to have been awarded support from the UK GAMES FUND towards the development of Time Team Games.

Time Team

Shadow Tor Studios brings its range of services to the new and returning archaeology TV show, Time Team.

For Time Team, Shadow Tor is creating Photogrammetry 3D models of archaeological finds and features, rendering digital model footage, 3D modeling and animating virtual reconstructions of archaeology artifacts. We are also capturing 360 degree photos, building interactive virtual tours and crafting full historic digital reconstructions of the featured sites.

Beltane

A strange encounter at Duloe 'Stone Circle' It's Beltane, at the Duloe Stone Circle. Explore the ancient standing stones, in full 360 views, and meet Rusty the local cat! But, something is happening in the circle, as Spring turns to Summer. What is behind the strange reports of UFO's and 'lights in the sky' around Cornwall? Or is it a power generated by the stones themselves?

Visit the circle yourself to find out..

Bodmin Moor: Roundhouse

Cornwall - Sunrise over the Tor; a bright morning for a Bronze Age farmer, 3500 years ago. Historical reconstruction using photogrammetry and low-poly world building and local terrain detail.

Historical reconstruction based upon the hut circles found on Bodmin Moor (still evident today), dating from the middle Bronze Age period. There were large settlements at Stowe's Pound, plus smaller farmers huts, on neighbouring hillsides.

TCARP

Tintagel Castle Archaeology Research Project TCARP. Shadow Tor Studios teamed up with Cornwall Archaeology Unit to digitaly capture and record the excavations and finds at Tintagel Castle for English Heritage.

Excavations have revealed the outlines of buildings, and provided evidence of far-flung connections. Sherds of amphorae (storage jars), pieces of fine plates and bowls and fragments of decorated glass vessels show that the people living here were trading with the Mediterranean world.More of this sort of material has been found at Tintagel than any other site in Britain. We therefore assume that this was a high-status settlement, possibly seasonally occupied by regional leaders or kings of Dumnonia.

Barrow Hill: The Dark Path

Follow the Dark Path into a world of Druidic lore and Celtic myths. It is the Autumn Equinox on Barrow Hill, a time of great power, when the ancient standing stones are at their most powerful and dangerous. You have one night to make the offerings, follow the Dark Path and escape Barrow Hill.

It is the Autumn Equinox, when day and night are equal, exactly as they were a decade ago. You have returned to the scene of the crime, seeking answers. Could such an event happen again? What trials and offerings await? As you leave the car behind, and step into the dark world of the old woods, you wonder whether you seek the truth, or you are following the Dark Path.

Reading The Hurlers

A geo-archaeological project focusing on the early Bronze Age site of the Hurlers Stone Circles, near the village of Minions, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A geological survey of the moor's granite resources aimed to identify the sources of granite which the standing stones of the Hurlers Stone Circles were hewn from.

An archaeological excavation with Cornwall Archaeology Unit, looked at a new site a potential 'fourth' Circle. Further survey work also identified and recorded Stone Row alignments crossing the moorland.

Shadow Tor Studios provided media coverage during the project, including the 3D trench scanning during the archaeological excavation.

Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

Somewhere deep within the woods of Cornwall, a timeless force is stirring. Unseen beneath the ancient burial mound, known locally as Barrow Hill, a forgotten myth awakens. Following in the footsteps of the wellknown archaeologist, Conrad Morse, you will discover that the barrow is more than just a collection of forgotten standing stones and Experience the detailed and immersive storyline yourself, in this great point-and-click adventure.

The eerie Cornish landscape is brought to life like never before. Arriving during the Autumn Equinox you have one night to unravel a sinister story. Explore the well trodden pathways across the land, seek clues in almost forgotten shrines and experience the ancient forces which exist in the standing stone monument known as Barrow Hill.

Bracken Tor

The Bloodmoon has risen. The winter wind is upon the moor. The aurora maybe enchanting, but it is a warning. This has happened before. Is there more to the Beast Sighting Story? Something is hunting, something feral, ancient and terrible. The Wild Hunt upon us and you might be the prey.

After the discovery of livestock, ripped to shreds, torn apart and devoured, there has been a murder - a vicious, brutal killing - out on the mist shrouded moorland. The beast has a taste for blood...our blood.

Survive a night on the mysterious moor, with only the canvas of your tent as protection. Listen out for the sounds, look out for the tell tale signs, or flee in fear when the pack closes in.

You are a bold journalist, always looking for the next 'big story'. Will you risk your life, for the news story? If so, the ancient rock formation known as Bracken Tor awaits your arrival. The stony outcrop dominates the moor, and boasts several unnerving stories; from unexplainable glowing lights, to this latest horrifying incident. Are some places cursed? Or are they haunted by those who went before?

Mapping The Sun

An archaeology excavation project at The Hurlers on Bodmin Moor. It was a good opportunity to 3D map some of the standing stones (The Hurlers) which make up the impressive Stone Circles at Minions.

Learning about life in the Bronze Age and visiting the remains of the roundhouses where the builders of the Hurlers may have lived, as well as Rillaton Barrow, former home of the famous gold cup. Myths and Legends, Astronomy and Archaeology workshops were enjoyed by many throughout the week along with a series of guided walks, flint knapping, small finds and woad dyeing workshops. The project re-excavated a unique pavement excavated initially in the 1930s, and under threat from erosion. During the excavation a Bronze Age cutting tool was found as well as other flakes of flint. The Roseland Observatory was on site all week leading workshops and surveying the landscape and astronomical alignments.

Dark Fall - Ghost Vigil

Join the all-night ghost vigil at Harwood House. As part of the 'OPG' paranormal team, explore the haunted buildings and investigate sightings of ghosts, long reported around the area of Wolfenden. Grab the ghost hunting gadgets and solve the mystery surrounding this abandoned building.

Harwood House is now empty as it has been for 4 decades, but you can be the eyes in the dark... watching... waiting. Discover what happened.

Glastonbury - Waking Dream of Avalon

You have been sent to investigate 'strange phenomena' at Wick Hollow Hall. The house and grounds have been recently restored, with hopes to open to the public. But, there have been 'incidents'. People have been hurt, strange elemental beings have been witnessed in the sedge marshes, churchyard and country lanes. Time slips, ghosts, visitation from 'angels'. Can the witness statements be true? Fairies? Fire spirits? The ghost of Elizabeth I?! Hundreds of thousands of people visit the legendary town and Tor each year, looking to experience the 'magic' that surrounds the famous Tor and ruins. But, is there a real reason the Tor exudes power?

Features: A complete house, gardens and grounds to explore! Realistic weather, day/night cycles and wild, random events. Monitor scientific equipment, to record 'strange phenomena'. Science vs. The Paranormal - tackle puzzles your way.. Use dowsing rods, crystals, E.S.P and other 'out there' practises. Trace ley lines; pinpoint hot spots and conjunction points. A Full cast of actors, from various times and predicaments. Esoteric original soundtrack, with songs composed for the story. Lots of puzzles! Created by Darkling Room and Shadow Tor Studios. Real 3D objects and statuery scanned in the real Glastonbury. Sounds and textures from the mysterious 'Somerset Levels'.

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