Nebula Dreams

Nebula Dreams is an immersive surrealist amusement park that blends the boundaries of reality and imagination. The audience can design their own ride and embark on a psychedelic journey aboard the three-headed roller coaster, where dreamlike landscapes, vibrant colors of space, and psychedelic animations create a surreal experience. Nebula Dreams was showcased at The Royal Ontario Museum during ROM After Dark

Nebula Dreams live projection mapping.

We had a total of 2,020 drawings submitted by 498 people across 7 different projection mappings made by OCAD Students.

This project was supported and funded by the French Consulate of Toronto, Institut Francaise, Phillipe Blanchard (Chair of Animation at OCAD U) , and Maxime Touroute (French software engineer and digital artist).

3 variations of Nebula Dreams

I collaborated with French software engineer and digital artist Maxime Touroute. Maxime handled all the interactive elements and implemented his live drawing tool through the French projection mapping software Millumin. All visuals were done by me, using Blender and composited on After Effects.

Photos from the night

Nader in the control area, working moderating the submitted drawings and switching between environments

Phillipe Blanchard (Chair of Animation at OCAD U) & Anna Serrano ( President of OCAD U)

ROM guests interacting with Nebula Dreams

Testing interactivity with Maxime Touroute

One of my first tasks was to work on how the drawings would move around the roller coaster. So I rendered a rough 3D previs of the early environment with a cube roaming around the roller coaster and the cube animation alone with a black background.

Then Maxime did a tracking test using the projection mapping software Millumin. He created the drawings using the live drawing tool and tracked it to the cube animation I made. This helped us troubleshoot issues with tracking and how the drawings would move around the roller coaster.

Final Render of "Nebula Dreams" Red

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