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    Start-up meets Wakanda? Disney innovation hub aims to advance technology for filmmakers

    by Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times Nov 26, 2018 4 minutes

    Inside Walt Disney Studios' original animation building, where artists once drew "Dumbo" and "Cinderella" by hand, a 15-person team of innovators is trying to create a moviemaking Tomorrowland.

    The Burbank studio's 4-month-old, 3,500-square-foot innovation hub is a short walk from Walt Disney's old office and is furnished with Kem Weber chairs reminiscent of a bygone era. But instead of pencils and light tables, visitors find experimental virtual reality editing equipment, location-scouting drones and digital projections that wrap around walls.

    The purpose of the space, dubbed StudioLab, is to use Silicon Valley-style experimentation to help studio executives and filmmakers stay ahead of rapid advances in technology by developing and showcasing new ideas for making and marketing movies.

    Some of its ideas

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