DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
Immersive Experiences based on artist works and styles really became popular at the beginning of the pandemic, but we all know that Disney started it all. Before the Van Gogh Immersive experience and the Michelangelo immersive experience, there was Animation Academy at Disney California Adventure Park. The projection room of Animation Academy has been one of our family’s favorite places to sit and recharge for years. We love sitting with the music and large projections of some of the most beautiful Disney Animation all around us.
I am thrilled to share that the Disney Animation Immersive Experience is expanding and going on tour to cities in Canada and then the United States! You do not have to travel to a Disney Park to immerse yourself in a Disney experience anymore. We cannot wait to share the cities you can visit Disney Animation Immersive Experiences. Tickets are far more accessible than a Disney park and families will be able to enjoy hours of Disney in the round!
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
While we love Animation Academy, we know that not everyone can experience it. We live in Southern California so visiting Animation Academy is something we do a couple times a year. Not everyone can visit Southern California to visit a Disney Park. Disney is now bringing the magic to cities all across Canada, the United States, and hopefully all over the world! People will not have to travel to Anaheim California to experience Disney magic, a little bit of the Animation Academy projection room is coming to so many cities across the globe!
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
I love that kids of all ages will be able to step into a Disney Immersive experience even if they cannot get to a Disney Park. Not every family can visit Disneyland, but this is a beautiful way to bring magic to so many more people. Below we are sharing the just announced information about the immersive experience from Disney, we will share more as it becomes available! Please enjoy the gorgeous sneak peek photos and get excited with me!
Watch this GORGEOUS Trailer for the Disney Animation : Immersive Experience – it is OK to cry….
Disney Animation Immersive Experience Official Poster
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
Walt Disney Animation Studios today announced that it will team with Lighthouse Immersive Studios, the producers of the blockbuster Immersive Van Gogh, to develop Disney Animation Immersive Experience, which will receive its world premiere in Toronto this December and then can be seen across the United States and other areas of the world in the next year.
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
Creating iconic animated stories for all ages for nearly a century, Walt Disney Animation Studios will join forces with North America’s top creator of experiential projection exhibitions to present the music and artistry within Disney Animation’s canon of films—from hits of today like Encanto, Zootopiaand Frozen, to all of the classics including The Lion King, Peter Pan and Pinocchio. Audiences will feel like they’ve entered the incredible worlds of beloved Disney characters and become one with them.
Disney Animation: Immersive Experience will debut at Lighthouse ArtSpace Toronto in December 2022, and will subsequently be seen in Cleveland, Nashville, Detroit, Denver, Boston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Columbus in the first four months of 2023. Additional cities are currently being scheduled and Tokyo will be the first city outside of North America to receive Disney Animation: Immersive Experience.
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
“The collaboration with Lighthouse Immersive is a first for Disney Animation,” said Clark Spencer, president, Walt Disney Animation Studios and two-time Academy Award®-winner (Encanto, Zootopia). “It’s a dream to bring the best of animated storytelling together with the top experts in the immersive art experience. We can’t wait for audiences around the world, of all ages, to experience the great moments from our legacy of feature films in this incredible way.”
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
“Like so many of us, I have a life-long love of Disney films,” said Lighthouse Immersive founder Corey Ross. “I’ve grown up with them since childhood and so has my family. The work lends itself brilliantly to the immersive experience and I am confident this program will give our guests the opportunity to be engulfed in the world of Disney, making them feel like they’re standing next to their favorite characters and seeing the world through their eyes.”
The creative team for the Disney Animation Immersive Experience is led by Oscar®-winning producer J. Miles Dale (Best Picture 2018 –The Shape of Water) who said, “Trailblazing in a new medium is always exciting, and this is truly going to be the most challenging and rewarding project of my career. Being entrusted with Disney’s rich archive of animation is a great honor, but also a tremendous responsibility. With such a wealth of material and a treasure trove of memorable characters, it will be a thrill to bring the work of all the great Disney animators and performers to life in a 360-degree immersive environment.” Mexico City-based Cocolab is working with Dale and the Creative Legacy team at Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop the program for Lighthouse Immersive Studios. Special Projects Producer Dorothy McKim (Oscar-nominated, Get A Horse!) is spearheading the project for Disney Animation.
The audience experience will be further enhanced by Lighthouse Immersive’s Global Creative Director David Korins, (Tony Award®-nominee whose credits include more than 20 Broadway shows including Hamilton, and an Emmy Award® winner for Grease Live). Korins will develop never-before-seen interactive lobby elements that guests can enjoy before or after entering the gallery.
DISNEY ANIMATION: IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE – Immerse yourself in the magic, music and wonder as @DisneyAnimation and Lighthouse Immersive Studios team up for Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which will debut this December in Toronto. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
Ross captures the excitement both Disney and Lighthouse Immersive feel for the project as he describes how it begins: “Just imagine journeying through Zootopia with Judy Hopps, diving to the ocean floor with Ariel, flying on a magic carpet with Aladdin, and stepping into Casita with Mirabel and the family Madrigal. This is where the Disney Animation: Immersive Experience will take you.”
Collaborating with Lighthouse Immersive is the Creative Legacy team of Walt Disney Animation Studios, helping bring their library of films to audiences in a manner never before experienced. We will share dates with our audience as soon as they are announced. The schedule of openings, on-sale date for tickets and prices will be announced at a future date. The public can sign up to receive more information at disneyimmersive.com.
ABOUT WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS:
Combining masterful artistry and storytelling with groundbreaking technology, Walt Disney Animation Studios is a filmmaker-driven animation studio responsible for creating some of the most beloved films ever made. WDAS continues to build on its rich legacy of innovation and creativity, from the first fully-animated feature film, 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 2019’s Frozen 2, the biggest animated film of all time, to our 60th animated feature, the Academy Award®-winning Encanto. Among the studio’s timeless creations are Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia.
ABOUT LIGHTHOUSE IMMERSIVE:
Lighthouse Immersive creates, produces and distributes innovative digital immersive art experiences through its experiential multiplex digital art galleries, aiming to cultivate community and creativity through large-scale events and exhibitions of all art forms. Lighthouse Immersive has produced the world premieres of Immersive Van Gogh, Immersive Frida Kahlo, Immersive King Tut and Immersive Klimt: Revolution in more than 21 North American cities, including Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Boston and Denver, and is currently expanding into additional markets. To date, they have sold over 5 million tickets to Immersive Van Gogh across North America, with Artnet calling it “one of the largest coordinated art phenomena of all time.”
