S&S AXIS Coaster Animation

In 2023, shortly after being hired at S&S Worldwide, I spent the better part of a summer trying to create my own ultimate roller coaster animation. Up until then, most of my experience with ride animations was limited to NoLimits Roller Coaster Simulation. Prior to starting this job, I had been teaching myself Blender, but I wanted to improve my skills.

After a few months of learning, I had a fully animated AXIS coaster, complete with articulating hitches, wheel carriers and physics-based seat rotations. The company had not yet made an AXIS coaster at this time, so it was fun to infer a lot of the extraneous details that had not yet been figured out. The most interesting takeaway from this project was learning my boundaries for the future.

Fun as it may be, perhaps I don’t need to render every single blade of grass.