Project Involvement Timeline

I learned the craft of show programming while working on Batman: Knight Flight. I took over our Unity Simulation on a Friday, and by Monday, our media partner was requesting higher resolution ride data. I quickly realized our current motion capture method in Unity wasn't going to cut it.

To deliver this request, I rapidly learned Python and wrote some tools to import and export animation curve data from Maya. I added analysis functions to calculate the velocities and accelerations of my curves. Once those functions were added, I was able to quickly iterate until we had animation that could properly run on the vehicles.

In March 2017, I flew out to Abu Dhabi to get my animation running on the ride vehicles. I fell in love with this beautiful blend of technical and creative expression while working with these robots; I've been doing it ever since.