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Don Carson
Registrace 30. 09. 2010
Virtual Research - Site Visits
When you can't go physically to a specific part of the world there may be some virtual opportunities to wander the streets of exotic locals as part of your research.
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WALKABOUT: Passport VENICE - Behind the Scenes
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Here is a Behind the Scenes Tour of our newest course, Passport: VENICE. This represents a year of research and a collective desire to instill the love we all share for this amazing city. Without attempting to just recreate it we hope to let you feel what we feel about this amazing place where so many of us aspire to visit or return to one day.
WALKABOUT - ICE LAIR: Behind the Scenes Tour
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As a followup to the video tour of the in-progress Ice Lair (posted to my Patreon site), here is a quick trip through the finished course so you can compare the two. So much happens as a course goes through the production process with each person adding to the overall storytelling of the environment. You will likely see some of the differences but also note how much some of the environments sta...
Bringing .PNG Textures into 3D & VR
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This is an addendum to my previous video called "Bringing 2D Images into 3D & VR". This describes how to bring transparent .PNG textures into SketchUp for us in your models, videos, and VR projects. This example model was created for a collaborative project with my friend Cullen Vance. You can see both the finished video and a behind-the-scenes video here: Collaboration "Fezziwig's Party" video...
Bringing 2D Images into 3D & VR
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Answering a request from a Patron, I have put together a video that goes through the steps for quickly taking rough 2D concept sketches and bringing them into 3D using SketchUp. This is a way for artists that aren't familiar with 3D to be able to assemble their designs and potentially even experience them in VR without a lot of previous knowledge in these applications. This technique is especia...
WDW Splash Mountain with Commentary
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A big thank you to the SoCal Attractions 360 folks for letting me use their video POV ride-through of Splash Mountain WDW. czcams.com/users/Attractions360 With the soon-to-be-re-imagined Splash attraction coming in the near future I wanted to take an opportunity to ride you through the attraction as it was originally designed. All the best to the WDI team designing the next chapter in the histo...
Environmental Storytelling in the Physical & Virtual World
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This represents a presentations I have been wanting to do for ages that links the work I have done in the theme park industry with the virtual environment design work I am doing today for Walkabout Mini Golf. It is long winded but it hits on all aspects of our design and production process..
Walkabout Labyrinth Rough Model in Gravity Sketch
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We start out all of the Walkabout Mini Golf courses as a collaborative rough model using Gravity Sketch. This was the very first pass at creating the model that would become the Jim Henson's Labyrinth course.
Haunted Mansion Blueprint Walk-through
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I produced a ride-through video of Splash Mountain for my Patreon patrons several weeks back and they asked if I might do additional ride-through videos with commentary inside other existing attractions, even if I didn't work on these projects myself. I feel pretty shy about commenting on any attractions with any authority that I did not personally work on, but as a FAN I am happy to rattle on ...
WALKABOUT MINI GOLF - Labyrinth EASY
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Here is a short tour through the newly released Walkabout Mini Golf "Jim Henson's LABYRINTH" course. This depicts the EASY course.
Placing Assets in Gravity Sketch
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I have imported the furniture assets into Blender for texturing and then I export them into Gravity Sketch for placement. There is the beginning of that process. Really, all the building and texturing are worth the fun and rewarding step of arranging the various assets into the environment.
Building Props in Google Blocks
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The next step is to start building out the furniture and props that will be used to decorate my little test scene. I have been a user of Google Blocks since it debuted in 2017. Sadly Google has lost interest in supporting many of its VR projects so the future of Google Blocks is unknown. For now, it is my go-to place for building very low poly objects. Although technically this work could be do...
Adding Details to VR Model
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My next step is to build and bring in 3D assets into Gravity Sketch to start adding details to the walls. In this example, I created base models for the doors and the wainscotting in another 3D application that I will be wrapping around the walls of this very organic corridor.
Walkabout Mini Golf - El Dorado
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The latest creation from the talented folks at Mighty Coconut... the lost city of El Dorado!
HORIZON Cast Shadows Tutorial
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This is a quick tutorial showing a method for creating the illusion of a cast shadow using geometry. Facebook HORIZON is currently in beta so this is mostly for those pioneering world builders constructing the early environments for this virtual community.
Pumpkintown Fair Mermaid in Gravity Sketch & SketchUp
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Pumpkintown Fair Mermaid in Gravity Sketch & SketchUp
Realtime Concept Sketching in Procreate
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Realtime Concept Sketching in Procreate
Gravity Sketch - Precise Placement of Assets
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Gravity Sketch - Precise Placement of Assets
Introduction to Gravity Sketch - Shapes Creation
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Introduction to Gravity Sketch - Shapes Creation
VR Fieldtrip - A Tour of Virtual Places
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VR Fieldtrip - A Tour of Virtual Places
Walkabout Mini Golf - Shangri-La Course
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Walkabout Mini Golf - Shangri-La Course
You know the Cheshire cat in the recreation seems a lot less scary than the way. Yesterworld described it in his video🤷♂️
Where do you find a detailed plan view blueprint like that? I would love to find a scan of that to have printed on a t-shirt 😮
On the internet at some point, and it wasn’t pristine, needed lots of clean up work.
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PROVEN that imvu is shit place for working lmao
And Tokyo
Agreed, and it is likely to stay that way!
Im FINALLY getting to really play with Gravity Sketch some more. Im so grateful you took the time to upload these videos. You are great at explaining and getting to the things that matter quickly. Hopefully I can take you up on your offer sometime and get in vr with you
@@darkridearts Excellent! It isn’t a perfect tool but some of it is really magical
🂿Thank you so much! This was incredibly helpful.
I saw that I can even add in VRM models from VRoid. I keep forgetting, we can make rooms and worlds for Vrchat.
Thank your for this! Such dedication went into the making of this video.
Amazing recreation, i still hate the old ending which is just strobe lights, signs and 4 screaming doors, because there’s no Queen of Hearts garden.
The old ending used to be some explosions, pointing signs and 4 screaming doors? (Where is now the queen being upset.)
I've been wanting to design a theme park land based on the Splatoon games for a long time now and these videos are very good motivation to start turning ideas into something tangible
Do it!!
Just getting into using google blocks and I'm having a lot of fun!
It is a lot of fun! I wish Google wouldn’t have abandoned continued support for the App. I’d love it on my Quest.
@@DJCarsonCreative I am using my quest 2 with a link cable. It would be great to have the app on the headset itself.
In Florida the Water Table was NOT a factor since the whole park is actually built up onto (in essence) a second floor because the Utilidoors are the first floor. They excavated the lake out front of the park to use as fill to build up the park and cover the Utilidoors section. They just wanted to copy the original design as much as possible for the same feel, even though they aren't actually elevators.
I was under the impression that the Utilidoor corridors were not under the entire park but only a portion of it? I didn’t think it went as far as the Haunted Mansion in Frontierland ?
@@DJCarsonCreative yes, it spans the whole park.
Def want more vids like this 😊
Amazing!
Could you do one on Peter Pan’s Flight from 1955?
I would love to but I don’t have access to any of the show set documents :(
This was amazing. Thank you for creating this video.
superb job
The Tea Party scene is incorrect. The hatter was not pouring Tea; him and March Hair pop out with scarey faces and scream that you are rude and tell you to move down. Before you go through the explosions and get kicked outside. Your video is the second version of the ride made after Walt died. There have been four versions. The third version added the Queen of Hearts and caterpillar. The fourth version added cartoon clips of Alice.
You are absolutely right, I took creative license and included the second, friendlier version of the Hatter and Hare.
Then maybe you should title it 1960s version or which ever date it was changed.
Love the world you have helped build and the insightful tour around it! About to scour your channel for more of these.
I can't say that this type of design work is something that I've considered before, but I'm so glad to have come across this video. Absolutely lost my mind at your physical model, it's so cool. Thank you for the video and for detailing your thought process throughout the whole thing, it's given me a lot to think about!
This is wonderful, Don!
Looks amazing Don
I love this project. How did you render the 360 video for uploading to CZcams? I'm using Enscape in Sketchup, but it only seems to let me render single panoramas. If I export an animation from Enscape it's not 360.
I brought the model into Unity, applied a 360 camera to the vehicle model and the ran the whole thing on a spline “track”. Pretty easy to do, the output was what you see in the VR CZcams video.
@@DJCarsonCreative Thanks for the reply! I haven't used Unity but will go check it out. My son is crazy for dark rides. We have Oculus Go goggles and he's watched Pumpkin Town dozens of times. Now we are working on his own simple ride in Sketchup.
Very nice! That's what I remember! Started riding the attraction in 1962, and you got it!
As much as I love this ride, I always thought the extra short indoor portion with the cat and the tea party was a bit odd after going outside.
I didn't work on the 1984 refresh of the Alice attraction but I believe one of the goals of New Fantasyland was to plus each of the attractions and that included adding length to the track and extra show elements. For Alice that included taking a bite out of the Toad show building which happened to be located at the lower end of the exterior ramp. I have always enjoyed it but light leaks were always going to be a challenge for this area. Still, more show is always good in my book.
@@DJCarsonCreative agreed
An absolutely amazing and wonderful use of technology. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks, I hope you're successful.
There is no door when she entered to wonderland hoping the mad hatter the Cheshire Cat and the queen are still there especially the tweedles Dee and Dum
Does Scale affect the capacity levels at all?
Scale no, only the complexity and number of objects, animations, and effects in an environment limit capacity
@@DJCarsonCreative Now I feel better about scaling concepts in miniature for my builders and coders to observe as a reference. I'll make them plain without details to save space. Thanks Dj. If you're interested in doing projects in horizon worlds hit me up Bro. I'll be happy to help any way I could. I'm LouieLouieinvr 😁
What happens to the Queen of Hearts?
She didn't appear until the 1983/84 rehab of the attraction. The dark room with the explosions and the pointing signs is where the Queen is now, and I believe she also too up space that was originally a maintenance area in that scene as well.
Yes, more of these. I play this game with a friend in another state and together we marvel at how clever the design is. You folks are crazy impressive.
Great video
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only I had $2billion to spend.
I have happen to come into that 2 billion dollars maybe you could remove the mess that is the Tiana mountain and bring back splash mountain
Amazing vid
Your channel has been such an invaluable resource for me learning more about how players/guests interact with designed environments (and how they're made), please keep up the incredible work!!
2:12 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi Don. Thank you for your videos. How do you spell the "old school" camera you mentioned in 16:02 Thank you.
I don't know the product name, we just called it the "lipstick camera" because it was about the size of a lipstick but with a fat cable that connected to a nearby Video Recorder. The quality was awful but we felt like we were living in the future when we used it back in 1991.
that's SO CUTE that the puffins follow you! :D and the frozen foot puffin? the roomba puffin?!?! amazing. i've probably said it before but i get so excited when i get a notification that you've posted. i still haven't come upon an opportunity to try VR, but im still hoping that some day i can experience your environments with full immersion. i might have to get good at mini golf in the mean time!
It has been 2 1/2 years and I am still terrible at mini golf. I mostly go in for the conversations with friends that live too far away to meet in person.
Hey Don, are you still using Google Blocks or have you switched to Gravity Sketch for your modeling? I noticed the newer levels in Walkabout have much more complex characters and props. Love your work!
Google shuttered access to Google Blocks so sadly I am unable to continue using it. Gravity Sketch is now our go-to for massing new courses during the concept phase and for when we start to bring assets in to arrange them inside the environment. We do use GS for model building but mostly for organic assets as tools like Blender still give us more control over rectilinear objects and structures. The Puffins in the most recent course were all originally built in GS.
this is brilliant, Don. loving all your work!
I love that you posted this because I’m doing this right now with room layouts. I’ll have to look at Enscape, I know it’s a renderer plugin but I’m not too familiar with it otherwise.
Enscape is a marvel! Although traditionally used for architecture (like SketchUp) it is an amazing real-time rendering cinematic camera as well. I have been able to do some much slick stuff with it.
@@DJCarsonCreative ok I’m gonna have to sign up for it
Thank you for sharing and uploading this, Don
I can’t wait to do this
Amaaaazing. If you could do the oroginal Pirates ride then you would be superdoooper.
Having worked for Disney Attractions for 9 years, I can honestly say that I found this enjoyable
Hello . Im guessing this is the Mansion in California? Doesn't that mansion have the library? I really like the library. Are there any other differences. Thanks great work . I've owned copies of the blueprints for a long time and have attempted to draw 3d illustrations based on them but nothing like this .
This is the California version of the HM. The Florida Mansion does have a library, and a stairway labyrinth room that the CA does not. Florida also has many technical upgrades that the CA version has never gotten, for some reason?
Also, the California HM does not have the music room, which in Florida comes right after the library and where the piano is played by a ghost whose shadow can be seen on the floor.
Awesome video...very in depth without being overwhelming... Thanks👍🏾
This is awesome!
Nice work. What software did you use?
I used SketchUp to build the model, VR Sketch on a Quest headset to record the tour