Re: Disney Automatons
By Pete Docter
I was amazed by the Tiki Room as a child, and tried to build one in my room, back in Minnesota. Small world has great design (Mary Blair is my favorite) though they recently redid the music. It used to have great arrangements, making the song seem less redundant. One part I particularily remember was a great screaming trumpet bit towards the end. Now it's all more homogenized.
It was the Pirates of the Caribean that they originally used rotating discs to program. Apparently the animators would carve notches in cardboard discs, then later create wood or plastic discs from the cardboard templates. The discs would all rotate, stacked atop each other, by a geared motor. Naturally, these would actuate switches to activate the various hydraulic cylinders
Pete Docter
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