11 stories 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.
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 an…
 ”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…
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…
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 cre…
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 income. �…
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 t…
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…
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…
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…
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 camera is …
