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Entering EPCOT: Revising an Opening Statement

The entrance of a theme park is the opening statement. Everything the park is themed to should be explained in the entrance area. Disneyland has Main Street, U.S.A. which brings a nostalgic vision of days gone by. Disney's Animal Kingdom is a lush jungle, distancing you from the human world and bringing nature to the forefront. At then end of these opening statements is the topic sentence, the central icon of the park. Either a fairy tale castle or a old fashioned movie palace, or even a gigantic tree. EPCOT has an interesting entrance in that you enter by the main icon of the park, rather than enter looking at it. There is no elaborate, laid out portion of land dedicated to slowly introduce us to the ideas of this park. Rather, we stare directly at the icon, approach it, walk underneath it, and go past it. Spaceship Earth is an imposing geodesic sphere, bringing to mind the planet Earth and the computer precision to make the metal triangles of the ...

Looking Back at Tomorrow, Part 2

Back when I first made these pictures, these pictures were just a collection of random pictures. After six future vistas, I stopped, and discovered that there was a system to what I had created. Basically, the first half are internal futures, and the latter half are external. In Horizons at Epcot, there were futures that were created by our past. They were shaped by the cultures and ideologies of yesteryear, and my first post was about that idea. This second post is the same as the latter half of Horizons, which shows how the future might be. These pictures are how we might adapt and change to our current needs, not to the needs of the past. These are the last pictures I made in the Future Vista series. While I never made more pictures, I always thought I should do more in it. Maybe I will one day. The Future of Nature ...

My Haunted Mansion Video (2008)

Have you ever seen a haunted house? In 2008, I was finishing up my time at the East Valley Institute of Technology. My final project was a ride through of Disney's Haunted Mansion. It took me four months to design, animate, and render the entire film. Since that limited time meant I would not be able to create a truly detailed film experience, I decided to focus more on the storytelling and try to make an actual film about a haunted house, rather than simply recreate the ride. The Haunted Mansion is copyright the Walt Disney Company

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