Project Involvement Timeline

Towards the end of Hagrid's development, Creative Director Gary Blumenstein saw an opportunity to expand the show in the final queue room. He asked the show programmers to come up with a plan to implement it.

I worked with Mike Brister to build out a pipeline to take 3D animation and play it back on an array of LED strips.

Once the pipeline was defined, I made crowd animations of birds, bats, and atmospheric effects to embellish the roughly 8 minutes of animation.

It was a quick process and an even quicker integration schedule, but it's always a lot of fun to contribute to a major new attraction.