The second challenge for Fisher Technical Services was how to achieve believable, high speed, superhero-level flight sequences over the audience, often involving more than one performer at a time. Traditional 3D flight systems are very good at this type of movement, but it’s difficult to coordinate the rigging for a multi-line system with other objects in the space, as the lines will “sweep” through the entire volume of the flight space during motion. Since the main flight sequence involved Spider Man actually engaging in full-contact, mano-a-mano aerial combat with the Green Goblin over the audience, an alternative had to be devised.
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Fisher Technical Services Flies High With Spider-Man
Bouncing Off The Walls
Probably the first thing to clear up on the performer flight systems for Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark is this: Spider-Man can’t actually fly. “Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man refers to himself as a ‘webslinger,’ which is not the same as flying—he can jump very high and very far, and he can swing on a web line from location to location, but unlike a lot of other superheroes (and supervillians, for that matter) he does not possess the power of flight,” says Scott Fisher, principal of Fisher Technical Services (FTSI) of Las Vegas, NV, who were contacted to provide the performer flight systems for the show.
Spider-Man Creative Team
Photo Jacob Cohl
Original Director: Julie Taymor
Choreography and Ariel Choreography: Daniel Ezralow
Additional Choreography: Chase Brock
Resident Director: Keith Batten
Resident Choreographer: Jason Snow