Visitors always want the new thing, whether it’s the fastest ride or the highest, or maybe the one with the most impressive new tech. Designers are also needed to create the final look of the ride.
It’s possible for someone to make a rough sketch of something with no artistic ability whatsoever, but good illustrators can help to flesh those ideas out for a fuller picture of the final park or ride.
Have a vision for a ride and its design? Then design/illustration skills will be useful. This might differ from company to company, but skills that could be helpful include: For people with technical skills, there’s the chance to get involved in the physics of how a ride works and the engineering skills that help to make it, and help to make sure that it gives people the ultimate thrill but remains perfectly safe. Ride designs usually go through many different stages and many different people before they are finalised, so it’s very unlikely that any ride will be 100% one person’s idea. Attending meetings to discuss your ideas and other people’s. 
Come up with new ideas for rides, or new scripts and ideas for existing attractions. Design the layout of a new park, taking into account which bits are likely to be most popular, and trying to make sure the flow of visitors moves smoothly between them, without any bottlenecks. It depends on the particular park, and whether you work full-time for them or if you are a freelancer who does individual projects for lots of parks, but these are the kinds of things that the head of theme park development and engineering at SeaWorld might do: But they do things like work on the layout of a park, come up with new ideas for rides, put those ideas into practice and build a ride, or work on the look and feel of a ride. Theme park design takes in a lot of different roles, and some people may do several or specialise in something really specific. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a leading theme park and entertainment company and one of the world’s foremost zoological organisations renowned for the rescue and rehabilitation of marine and terrestrial animals. Head of theme park development and engineering. How do rollercoasters work? What goes into being a theme park ride designer? If they’re the kind of questions you find yourself asking, this First Careers film is for you! We flew over to America to visit the leading theme park company SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in Florida, to find out more about what goes into building some of the world’s most famous attractions, which involved taking a terrifying walk up to the top of SeaWorld’s tallest rollercoaster.
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