A Glorious Finale will bring together many of the creative people who helped create Muppet*Vision 3D. Attendees will hear from all of these special guests at the event.
Paul Osterhout
Paul was originally hired in 1980 as a production designer for EPCOT Center where he worked on all of the Future World pavilions. He was hired as a Production Designer for the Disney-MGM Studios where he provided design and art direction for The Great Movie Ride, Superstar Television, and the Monster Sound Show. Before the park was finished, he was promoted to Producer where he was the lead creative on Star Tours and MuppetVision 3D. He was also the Producer on Rock ‘N’ Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith.
Paul also produced New Tomorrowland (and in fact is the voice of the teenage boy in the last scene of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress) and a number of projects for the Magic Kingdom.
Eric Jacobson
After performing in parades at Disneyland, Eric Jacobson began his career as a Disney Imagineer at WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering), building models of attractions for EPCOT Center. He then supervised the creation of Audio-Animatronics figures for Spaceship Earth, Kitchen Kabaret, Universe of Energy, World of Motion and many other opening day shows at EPCOT as well as Tokyo Disneyland. Eric was Art Director and concept lead for The Great Movie Ride, the first of many major attractions he would lead at the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts.
Eric’s creative leadership shaped numerous projects around the world, including New Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster starring Aerosmith, Toy Story Midway Mania!, Test Track, Mission: Space, Mickey’s PhilharMagic, Blizzard Beach and New Fantasyland. He also lead the creative effort for the re-conceptualization of Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim and was responsible for resort and hotel designs in Florida and California including Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort Villas and Disney Springs.
Before retiring from Disney after nearly five decades, Eric contributed his many years of knowledge and expertise to the completion of Shanghai Disneyland.
Eric lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and Rancho Mirage, California, where he volunteers for various charity organizations including DAP Health and the USO.
Kathy Rogers
Kathy started her Disney career in the Parking Lot of Disneyland in June 1972. After working as a Disneyland Attraction Hostess for almost 10 years, she joined WED/WDI in February 1982 to work on the New Fantasyland ’83 at Disneyland as a Project Coordinator. She joined the Disney-MGM Studios Project Team in the early development as a Project Coordinator for The Great Movie Ride, Superstar Television and the Monster Sound Show.
She ended her over 44 year Disney career as an Executive Creative Show Producer for Muppet-Vision 3D, Blizzard Beach, Expedition Everest and various attraction enhancements like Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, the 2006 movie-inspired changes to Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, and the 2007 enhancements of the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion.
Jim Mulder
A 30-year veteran of the themed entertainment industry, was a Senior Principal Designer and Principal Special Effects Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering for more than twenty years. In that role, he took the creative lead on developing, designing, and installing special effects for Walt Disney Imagineering projects beginning with the opening of EPCOT Center and continuing up to Shanghai Disneyland. Among the highlights of Jim’s portfolio is his work on visual effects for Journey Into Imagination, The American Adventure, Spaceship Earth, the Living Seas, and the Norway pavilion’s Maelstrom attraction at EPCOT Center; management of design, production, and installation of visual effects and theatrical systems for Mickey’s Philharmagic 3-D show at Disney parks around the world; and management of design, production, and installation of visual effects and theatrical systems for “It’s Tough to Be a Bug” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. As part of the Disney-MGM Studios project, James contributed extensively to the design, fabrication and installation of visual effects for The Great Movie Ride and MuppetVision 3-D. For their efforts, James and his team won the TEA award winners for outstanding achieve for Special Effects for “It’s Tough to be a Bug”. James continues to work at the vanguard of visual effects technology in the themed entertainment industry for a variety of clients including work on the Shanghai Disneyland project and with Universal Studios Creative.