Live Design: Fisher Technical Services (FTSI) sent us some production shots of the rehearsal process of the complex aerial effects seen in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Spidey Aerial Design
Live Design: Fisher Technical Services (FTSI) sent us some production shots of the rehearsal process of the complex aerial effects seen in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
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Everyone knows how complex of a production Spider Man is but it never stops blowing my mind when I see articles like this. The most incredible for me was the FOH winch farm. The other mind blowing parts were the controllers and all of the live video screens. In some talk I attended someone from the show mentioned how they spent months programming the flying and calibrating it. It looked so easy and simple during the show but I'm sure I still haven't wrapped my mind around the complexity of it yet in its entirety.
These pictures are quite impressive. The quantity of winches and drives is pretty telling. I haven't heard any official counts of the number of axes on the show, but the level of complexity is evident. The role of computer modeling is also interesting - they are clearly becoming a bigger part of the process to program and previsualize motion cues. As it is, they say a substantial amount of time was spent on calibration and cueing, that time would probably have been doubled if they had to write all the cues live.
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