Richard Thompson
King Karno
RICHARD THOMPSON is a 3D artist and an associate professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His career spans several decades in the creative and collaborative arts industries on a variety of award-winning projects. His animated short film, M0D3RN T1M3Z, has won awards at 28 national and international film festivals. His animated short film script, La Piazza, has been selected for nine film festivals and has won two awards. In the industry, Richard worked as an animator and 3D designer in the production pipeline for Word World, a multi-Emmy Award-winning TV series. Richard’s creative work and ongoing scholarship focus on bringing virtual characters to life, visual storytelling through animation, and the interrelation between the history of clowning and digital character performance. King Karno extends this investigation.