Imagineer Bill Novey is my 204th pick to be named a Disney Legend . Created the special effects business when he built the special effects department of Walter Elias Disney (WED) Enterprises. Unofficially dubbed “Illusioneering” (to complement Imagineering), at its peak the department numbered between 100-200 people, brought on board to develop effects for Epcot Center and Tokyo Disneyland which opened in 1982 and 1983 respectively. After the completion of the latter two projects, Novey had the melancholy job of helping to dismantle his own department in the massive layoffs that sent hundreds of Disney-trained people out to try their luck in the world.
Novey was Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s, and co-founder of Art and Technology, Inc. with Disney executive Joe Garlington in the 1980s. At Disney, Novey was tasked with overseeing 6000 special effects in the Epcot Center and Tokyo Disneyland. He invented over 300 projectors and helped inspire a new wave of special effects and technological innovations including the first use of holograms and vector-scanning laser projections in a theme park
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