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krawdad · 2 days ago

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Yeah if you're going to put a projection effect into your theme park attraction you need to do some other stuff to distract from/disguise the screen itself. Not only do you now have to sell the scene you're crafting but you also have to find some way to make it not just look like a screen.

The aquarium section in the jurassic park ride seems like probably the best way you could do it. They've made it so that you can only really see one or two screens at a time, they made sure the protected image doesn't have anything that gives itself away, and they put the screens behind glass and added practical water effects to help sell the illusion. And like I was still sort of frustrated at the cheapness of it just being screens, until I realized that whole scene replaced a bunch of animatronics that had spent most of their time in a non-functioning state of disrepair. Screens that you're trying to make look good is better than just leaving an animatronic to rot I can't really argue that.

#i feel like theres a lot more that can be done here that theyre only starting to mess around with #star wars ride had projection of darth sequel holding a practical lightsaber #that sort of thing #where you're basically pulling off a weird magic trick #finding some convincing way to make a projected character manipulate a practical prop in a way that doesn't seem possible #or if nothing else just integrating it with enough non projected effects that it doesn't feel like they're just pointing you at a screen #like come up with some way to make it so that you cant see where the screen meets the floor at very least #i think you could make that better by just making that corner round like they do with infinity backdrops #i want to say that the zootopia ride has a projected character handling a practical flashlight somehow #but i would need to research that one a bit more i havent seen enough of it to be sure thats actually what it is #and i suspect that the nature of that park would make it unlikely i could get my eyes on a blueprint or explanation #and if i could i suspect it would not be in a language i could parse anyway #like. arguably the singing busts in the haunted mansion count #but i like that effect #the screens being face shaped does a lot to sell that one though

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