Walt Disney Imagineering has created a brand-new transforming Audio-Animatronic debuting today on Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland.
New Pirates of the Caribbean Animatronic
Tech Radar got an exclusive first look at the animatronic in Walt Disney Imagineering’s R&D lab. The animatronic body uses classic technology while the face is a 3D-printed shell with no visible moving parts. The expression is created by a high-fidelity projection system mapped onto the surface.
With this tech, the character’s face transforms from a living human to a skeleton with no cuts or edits.
Leslie Evans, Executive R&D Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development told Tech Radar’s Jacob Krol, “We’re really going after more tools to just tell stories in an incredible way.”
Evans said they chose Pirates of the Caribbean to showcase this new tech because the team was “looking for a figure where creatively we could do a great transformation,” and decided “this pirate transformation would be a great, great first place to do it.”
Pirates of the Caribbean reopens on Friday after a refurbishment that began in early May.
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