News Next Gen Animatronic Face Tech Shows Major Leap in Disney Character Realism

[splah]

they need to keep working on the materials science for the skin/screen. It's too reflective. The demonstrated head is cool but it's shiny, but when they shifted it the metallic silver skin it looked great.

the real leap forward would be something that absorbs diffuses the light like skin does, but that is by its nature counter to projection

i wonder if they could do a double layer. something like a scrim layer that lets the light through onto the reflective screen but then scatters it as it's reflected back

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

Aiden will always attack anything related to Universal and defend anything related to Disney. Reality doesn’t enter into it - the brand is enough. It’s a very familiar type of theme park poster from boards other than this one. In general our more positive posters like Penguin will engage critically with the parks even if their bias is heavily in one direction (we all have biases, myself very much included, so that shouldn’t be taken as an insult).

Nah I just started doing it to be goofy recently. I like Monsters Unleashed quite a lot actually, it's my favorite ride of that park. It was more in jest of the random comments about "but Disney..." or "Disney could never do this" on a bunch of Universal posts (not here too much, this is elsewhere)

I have my problems with Universal, I've had quite a few bad experiences there overall. I've also had some not great experiences at Disney before, just vastly less "bad".

I fully consider my bias but I know I'm already considered a pixie duster so I'll play the part ad nauseum just like the opposite complainers.

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

You were originally intimating that the AA's in Monsters Unchained (apologies for the naming error in my original post) don't exist. That it patently false. Then you back-peddled with some ridiculous "well, there are screenz on the AA's!!!" claim when called out. Outside of Victoria, this is again patently false. You don't even need to leave this site to see pics of a few:

Universal's Epic Universe Takes on Disney with Cutting-Edge Animatronics in Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

Universal's Epic Universe Takes on Disney with Cutting-Edge Animatronics in Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

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You then spew some gibberish about physical sets and screens and blending things... Monsters Unchained does EXACTLY THAT. In spades. You either are pulling things out of your nether regions or are simply ignorant as to what's going on outside of the 40-ish square miles of WDW.

Okay, I think my message came across wrong, there are definitely screens AND AA in Monster's. I've always known this and I believe I've commented about how much I liked them before.

I said the screens on animatronics thing as it was relevant to the news of the projected faces that Disney is reattempting as Universal also recently did it, albeit to slightly more success than Frozen did. What I was meaning is that if you were going to say "Universal grew out of the screen thing" I would choose a ride with that many screens being a focal point, simple as that. While there are impressive animatronics, the ride uses quite a lot of screens for any actual fight scenes/action, this is fine. Like I said, the ride is pretty solid other than my previously stated gripes with it. I'm just saying it's not the best example of a "see Universal doesn't rely on screens" because fundamentally, this ride does rely on screens.

Ministry of Magic is even more screen heavy as in Mario Kart, although both do have some good set pieces. To me, this shows that while Universal's "simulator" era is done, the screens are still a fundamental crutch for the long haul.

There is no problem with screens when used well, I think they were used well here. Not as well used in Ministry in my opinion as most of that ride uses screens in some way or another.

I know it's easy to dismiss me as someone who just only loves WDW, I have a bias but my actual opinions are far more complex than that if you were interested in actually understanding how I view things personally. But it's okay, I understand that my personal opinions are not always that popular here and I've accepted being written off as a pixie duster at this point even though I really don't think I am.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Is the drinking problem during food & wine and such really ‘that’ bad?

During every festival, yes. It’s that bad. World Showcase is just a permanent bar crawl now.