Trollhunter Dark Ride
This is a dark ride I designed during the last few weeks of summer 2017. I created this attraction in order to showcase and develop my skills in visual storytelling, set design, traditional model-building, and to learn a bit about the pipeline of designing a theme park attraction.
The project began with nothing but an idea for a ride involving troll hunting. I did a lot of background research on Norway and it's troll mythology and history, then wrote a background for the ride. This background allowed me to place a plot within the context of my idea. From the ride plot, I created a floor plan and decided upon scenery and decoration elements. This work culminated in a small-scale model of the ride.
In this world, Norway’s wilderness is inhabited by trolls of many different species and sizes. Norway’s own Ministry of the Environment has a secretive department called the Trolljegers that keeps these legendary creatures in check. Small trolls are easy to keep in their territory, but larger ones can cause some severe damage if they reach human settlement. Recently, midwestern Norway has been experiencing unnatural earthquakes, and the Trolljegers suspect that a troll is the cause of the ruckus. Since this seems like a simple problem, the Ministry is sending our guests as new trainees to help solve it. Trainees will board one of the Trolljeger’s fleet of jeeps and embark on a mission to quell the unrested population. Accompanying them will be Jorgen, the senior Trolljeger, and the most seasoned one to date. He has a suspicion that the problems are due to a giant mountain troll, but the Ministry refuses to hear him out. Maybe he’s just getting too old for the job…
For more information on this ride, please email me. I have a complete writeup of the background and plot of the ride, as well as floor plans and other components of the design that couldn’t be represented here due to space limitations. I also have more detailed pictures of the model for consideration.
This project took about a month total, including two weeks of research and development, and (a rather rushed, due to summer's end) two weeks for the model.