Reid Farrington
Creator/ Director/ Designer
The Return 2015
Commissioned by The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York
The Return pioneers a dynamic form of storytelling. For this piece, Farrington fuses the strengths of scripted drama with new technology to animate the complex history of Tullio Lombardo’s Adam (on display in the gallery). An actor backstage controls a digital avatar that interacts with visitors in the gallery to enliven episodes in the sculpture’s life, from its commission and meaning in the Renaissance Venice, to its movement across Europe and the Atlantic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to its damage in 202 and repair over the following years.
The innovative combination of theater with motion-capture and digital animation allows a single actor to engage with the audience and switch between characters including the biblical figure of Adam, an engineered model of the sculpture that aided its restoration, and the marble sculpture itself.
New York Times Video
Wall Street Journal Video
Time Lapse Video of Install in @ the Met
Created By
Reid Farrington
Written by
Sara Farrington
Performers
Roger Casey
Cara Francis
Jack Frederick
Catherine Gowl
Gavin Price
Stephanie Regina
Concept Development
Frank Boudreaux & R. Eric Bowers
Virtual Puppetry & Performance Design
Athomas Goldberg & Lifelike and Believable Animation Design
Creative Technologist
Todd Bryant
Sound Design
Juan Aboites
Original Music
David Van Tieghem
Digital Set Design
Todd Bryant & R. Eric Bowers
Digital Light Design
Christopher Heilman
Character Texture & Facial Animation
Jason Wiser
Yaya Play Games
Character Preparation
Daniel Bohrer
Production Manager
Art Domantay
Set Decoration
Marie Ucci
Set Fabrication
Gary Dealey
Art Domantay
Motion Capture Handler
Javier Molina
Additional Animation
Ryan Thibeault
Pratik Parija
Joseph Xin
Costume Consulting
Erin Murphy
Costume Constriction
Timberlake Studios
Dramaturgy
Connor Kalista
Production Assistant
David Herman
