Shanghai Disneyland Doing It All (Including Lasers of Course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfxRERern8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfxRERern8M

I saw this video this morning and was impressed by the range of carefully choreographed media/effects combined in this show. I believe it covers a wider range of effects than I've seen Disney or other big shows. I count projection mapping, pyro/fireworks, laser beams, laser graphics/highlighting, waterscreen video projection, fountains, non-coherent lighting effects, laser lumia (specifically use of a star lens) . . what have I missed.

I noticed some of the laser graphic highlighting / effects on the castle for sharp highlighting alongside the projection mapping was pushing a lot of points, but still looked good even on amateur video. I suspect we're seeing one or more sets of Scannermax Saturns working here.

I would love to pick the brains of the guys and girls creating these shows. We need to get them to a LEM!

-David

Those are some mighty fine scanners working there *DZ >:) ;)

At 09:00 you can clearly see that 2 (or 3) lasers are used to project the lightnings on the castle.

I'm also interested to know more about the projectors being installed there [popcorn].

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Originally Posted by MIIKKKLLLL

At 09:00 you can clearly see that 2 (or 3) lasers are used to project the lightnings on the castle.

I'm also interested to know more about the projectors being installed there [popcorn].

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I would assume kvant since these were one of the few people that including me got their hands on a set of Saturn Scanners early.

Not sure I'm at liberty to discuss who received them, but it was not Kvant who purchased the scanners, nor was it Disney directly. They received over 50 sets of Saturn 1 scanners for this installation (the park as a whole, not just this attraction)

Any idea about the software technique used to create those laser particles dots following a path?

I'd really love to recreate this, I know a few softwares which can do this in video technology (like particleIllusion), but haven't found a smart way to import this into Beyond software...

If it was done by the artist I'm thinking did it, the cloud may have been done by hand. At least he used to do similar work, and is ironically a Disney trained animator.. But I'm just guessing, because it looks like his work, but may not be..

Steve

Any idea how much power was used? The cost involved must have been insane as well.

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Originally Posted by mixedgas

If it was done by the artist I'm thinking did it, the cloud may have been done by hand. At least he used to do similar work, and is ironically a Disney trained animator.. But I'm just guessing, because it looks like his work, but may not be..

Steve

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Well, if done by hands, it must be a really really long job to make it frame by frame, with realistic sparkle gravity simulation for each dot etc...

There is a whole page of similar effects provided on the LD2000 library, made by Lightspeed (/Special effects/Dots and particles), have you already seen it?

I'm pretty sure there is a smarter computer assisted way to make this, but I'm still wondering which way, hope to discover it soon.

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Originally Posted by Shadow

Any idea how much power was used? The cost involved must have been insane as well.

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I guess a good 15-20 watts of RGBY, probably all Taipan OPSL based :)

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Originally Posted by sbk

I guess a good 15-20 watts of RGBY, probably all Taipan OPSL based :)

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Thanks for the reply. I meant from the grid for the entire show, though.