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Marianne McLean: VFX Producer
David Yeh
Many can only dream about stepping foot into the building where all the magic happens but I was fortunate enough to visit the offices of Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California and I wasn’t the only one celebrating! Marianne McLean, Visual Effects Producer for the long awaited Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, had not only wrapped a successful launch in both Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts, but it was also her birthday! (Happy Birthday, Marianne!) McLean has had a great career with Walt Disney Imagineering for now twenty years. Prior to WDI, she moved to Los Angeles to work with George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic but instead got tangled up in a variety of other commercial gigs that prevented her from making the move to Northern California. Her experience in visual effects lead her to work as a freelancer for WDI, working on a variety of projects such as Star Tours, Captain EO, and Muppet Vision 3D – and when Imagineering decided to create a new division devoted to creating multimedia you see in the parks, Marianne became one of the first new hires. Right place, right time! […]

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Inserted 2015-02-06