Nerdist: Have you ever wanted to explore the ins and outs of Walt Disney Imagineering? Called WDI for short, Imagineering is the place where Disney cast members imagine and engineer ideas for Disney parks and resorts. And while we can’t go to Disney theme parks at the moment, Disney’s delivering a series showing a rare behind the scenes look at Imagineering.
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When you are in the Dish, you can avoid human interaction and still be anywhere you want. This would be a perfect room to have in a house during the quarantine…. That being said, I though this technology could also be used for people who cannot go outside daily because of their health issues. Anyways, I am currently taking the course “Imagineering in a Box” by Disney and that one is super rad too. I would like to try “Journey into Imagineering” after that! I am amazed by how high the quality of contents that Disney provides during the shutdown are. They are all entertaining, educational, and also emotional. It gives me emotional support by reminding me how important the entertainment is. I just can’t wait to go to Disneyland with my friends and eat popcorn, get on rides, enjoys shows, and just enjoy the atmosphere with all other people around me!!!!!!!!!!!!
In times of hardship, we can always turn to Disney to make our days a little bit brighter and a lot more interesting. Disney has created a video series called DisneyMagicMoments for people to watch while quarantined during the pandemic. Many of these videos are of celebrities reading fairytales, while others are of Olaf the Snowman playing by himself. There are some others, like this video, that showcases behind the scenes of some of Disney's tools to create their parks and rides. The DISH is a super cool piece of VR technology that showcases the parks and rides for Disney Imagineers and other designers before the places ever get built. This helps them visualize what new rides and parks will look like and allow changes to be made before the first piece of dirt is moved. This video also compliments Disney's Imagineering in a Box, which is a really cool course that takes the reader through the process of designing and creating a theme park or ride. At least there are still fun things to do from Disney.
To answer the very first sentence in this article, yes yes YES I have wanted to explore the ins and outs of Walt Disney Imagineering!!! I practically grew up at Disneyland, and I’m pretty confident that it played a huge part in my childhood and getting to where I am now and where my passions lie. I’ve been watching the Imagineering Story on Disney+ during quarantine to get myself feeling inspired, and it sure has been working wonders for my productivity. I just watched the fifth episode, where they they talked about The DISH being used to develop rides in Cars Land, and animate walk throughs of that region of the park as it was in development. As I’ve been watching the show, it has been extremely interesting to see how the role of an Imagineer has changed over the years as technology and the industry have as well. Technology, like projections and VR have become such a huge part of project development. Yet, there’s still physical models being made, which is pretty cool. The Imagineers are amazing and so creative, and I’m so glad that their role is being put on display for young people to watch and learn.
Disney Imagineering is one of my all time dreams. The way they use technology is truly amazing. I really enjoy getting to see videos like these because they are so advanced in what they do at WDI that a majority of people do not even know what they are actually doing there. The Dish honestly seems like a really useful piece of technology for previsualization for any application. I can see this being used by scenic designers to display their 3D models to the directors to see how they would do blocking in this space, or if it fits the director’s vision. I could also see how lighting designers might be able to use this to see how their design would work in real space. I love how Disney always seems to set a standard for the creative world that everyone then tries to model later on. They really pay so much attention to detail and that is why they have such a loyal fan base.
I thought it was awesome that this article popped up today because I actually watched an episode of the Imagineering Story on Disney Plus today that covered the DISH, which stands for the Digital Immersion Showroom. Apparently, it also can stand for the Disney Holodeck, according to a person who works with it that was featured on the Disney Plus show. As we have moved to be more digital, these kinds of previsualization techniques have become very interesting to me in terms of finding ways to digitally communicate your design ideas in a very clear manner. Apparently this specific exhibit was on a different show that covers Disney's creation of theme park effects. I wonder how its content differs from the content shown in the Disney Plus show. Seeing all this information about a theme park is sobering now that we know they are all empty and that these carefully crafted experiences are not currently being enjoyed by audience members.
Woah, this Dish tool is really incredible! I’ve seen VR type rooms before at some museums or whatnot that have been really entertaining; but this is on a whole other level. Especially the fact that the hat they have will change the perspective of what’s being shown based on the height it’s held at. Looking at this reminded me of a real old scooby doo episode where they’re shown this virtual reality room that’s almost perfectly lifellike. It also sort of makes me think of the Fahrenheit 451 parlor walls. This kind of thing could be great for all sorts of designers in any field and probably good for visualizing sets. It could also work well for those who are unable to travel to different places or go on rides. Especially at a time like right now where we’re all stuck in our houses with nowhere really to go. I hope that someday I’ll be able to try out what being in one of these is like! I do think though that it could potentially play into my problem with escapism...
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