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Friday, May 2, 2014

Ground Control by Fasterthannight

Major Tom gets all the airtime, but there’s a whole lot more going on backstage at mission control. Meet some of the amazing tech crew on Faster than Night.

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:10AM

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Organic Thoughts from an Artificial Intelligence by Fasterthannight

by Melee Hutton Working on Faster Than Night has been a literal education for me. Not just in the field of social media, where my knowledge hovers somewhere around my own Facebook page and …

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:29PM

Monday, April 28, 2014

Supernaturalism by Fasterthannight

”Naturalism is a good word for a bad idea. Art is to do with transformation” – Ariane Mnouchkine by Alison Humphrey In our first and latest posts, we explored how motion capt…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:33AM

Friday, April 18, 2014

Masks, Morphing and Motion by Fasterthannight

by Alison Humphrey As far as we’re aware, Faster than Night is one of the first handful of theatre productions in the world to use facial performance capture live on stage. But while f…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:34AM

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Design Team Work-in-Progress by Fasterthannight

A longer post is coming soon with details on the 3D facial model work being done by Centaur Digital and Dynamixyz, but to tide you over, here are a few more elements from our talented creat…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 07:59AM

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Performance, Capture and Interactivity by Fasterthannight

by Pascal Langdale In the UK, I’d be called a “jobbing actor”. That means that I work across all sorts of media, picking up a wide variety of acting work that provides a steady incom…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:58PM

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Interactive Story by Fasterthannight

by Alison Humphrey “Interactivity” is one of those words. What does it mean in theatre? What does it mean in storytelling? What does it mean to you? As we develop Faster than …

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:51AM

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Mind, Muscle and the Music of the Spheres by Fasterthannight

When you’re writing a science fiction story about time travel and wormholes, sooner or sooner you’re going to bump into Stephen Hawking. The world-famous physicist and Brief Hist…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:49AM

Friday, March 21, 2014

#Fasterfood by Fasterthannight

Earlier this week, ISMEE, the artificial intelligence on board the starship Envoy, issued an invitation and a challenge: Want to travel faster than light? Apply to #Fastronauts today: includ…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:32AM

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

#Fastronauts wanted! by Fasterthannight

By now, if you live anywhere on the planet but under a rock, you’re probably aware that billionaire Caleb Smith and his faster-than-light spaceship the Envoy will be blasting off on Ma…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 07:21AM

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Facial Capture by Fasterthannight

by Heather Gilroy It looks like he’s wearing a bike lock on his head. A protruding horizontal rectangle shadows the actor’s face—it’s attached to him by a black headband. The tiny ca…

SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:55PM

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