Amy Jupiter - The World Beyond
Amy Jupiter, AUREA VIP and Speaker, shares an exclusive glimpse on how magic is created. An expert in innovative, multimedia storytelling, who has won many awards for her excellent effects and attractions, reveals in an exclusive conversation with Michael Mack what the design of the future looks like. She also reveals which storytelling medium she will always return to and what the future of immersive experiences has in store for us.
About Amy
During her many years at Walt Disney Imagineering, Amy Jupiter lead teams in developing and creating the next generation of award-winning immersive experiences and attractions for the Walt Disney theme parks. Amy began her Disney career as an intern and worked her way up to Executive Creative Producer, Executive Visual FX Supervisor and Experience Designer for attractions in every corner of the Disney globe including; Jim Henson’s MuppetVision 3D at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland parks; The Magic Lamp Theatre at Tokyo DisneySea; and Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure at Shanghai Disneyland. The Pirates attraction won Amy Jupiter and her teams the prestigious VES award from the Visual FX Society for Outstanding Visual FX in a Special Venue. The following year, Amy and her teams were nominated for two more attractions in the same category. While James Cameron’s Avatar: Flight of Passage took home the award, making Jupiter a back-to-back winner at the VES awards, she is most proud of Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout for its unexpected transformation from its roots as the beloved Tower of Terror attraction, on which she had worked on earlier in her career. These two attractions also won THEA Awards for Outstanding Attractions in 2017 and 2018. Leading up to and through the 2020 pandemic, Amy, her team and WDI took on the design, creation and production of the real-time, interactive game media in the new attraction on the Avengers Campus at Disney’s California Adventure, Web Slingers: A Spider-man Adventure. Always pushing boundaries in immersive storytelling, Amy’s company, By Jove, is currently working with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic as a Creative Producer and Experience Designer.