Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Science of Disney Imagineering - Follow-up

For those of us who couldn't be in NYC for the World Science Festival and to attend the session on the Science of Disney Imagineering, there is a fairly decent coverage of it (and the linked blog) from the New York Times.

Audience members could also see how live human beings provide the movements and gestures for animated characters like skeleton pirates. Other volunteers took an elephant-sized G.P.S. tracking device and trekked out to Washington Square Park, while the audience tracked their movements via satellite.

What was great about these demonstrations is that they showed kids that sometimes science can be used to produce the things they love — wild rides, engaging stories, beautiful art and more.


It also sounds like Lucky the Dinosaur was there outside of the auditorium to entertain the attendees.

Zz.

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