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Congratulations to Clark Jellison of Palmdale, CA for winning the
2012 Design Contest. His winning design is depicted on the
right. Clark has designed six previous floats for Burbank
including:
1973 Neptune's Daughter
1974 The Beauty of Birds
1976 Let's Celebrate
America's Natural Beauty
1977 High Adventure!
2000 To The Future...At Full
Throttle!
2001 The All American
Barbershop Quartet
Clark also rode on the 1972
Burbank float titled "I Love You For All Seasons". |
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After our first Design Committee meeting, we discussed the story the
float was trying to depict. Was our sleeping child dreaming of one
thing dream (above left) or multiple dreams (above right).
We also wanted to see how the float would look if the bed crane was
removed and the bed lowered (left). After seeing these drawings at
our second Design Committee meeting, the direction was to leave the bed
crane in and work on a single dream. The Design Committee felt
this presented a story that has a beginning (the child sleeping) a
middle (the dream machine) and and ending (the final dream). |
| On the March 12, 2011 Design Committee Meeting, three new drawings
were presented. These drawings includes the changes
discussed at the last Design Committee meeting, which includes moving
the bed crane forward and making it a little bit smaller, removing the
planets, adding more machine elements and adding a "dream meter" to show
which dream the child has picked.
The Design Committee reviewed these drawings and decided to combine
elements from all three into the next version of the design. |
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The Design Committee was presented with the next version, which
included a new "ending". |
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| After looking at these two drawings, the Design committee liked the
change from the astronaut to the rocket ship, however as drawn, it would
be difficult to lower to under 15 feet, which is required to get out our
building and under bridges. The Design Committee was also
interested in a version without the front crane. |
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| The Design Committee meet on Saturday, April 2 and
decided to keep the front crane, but turn the hook into a claw--which
will help better explain the float story. Below shows the claw
version. |
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Work continues on refining the design, especially on the font of the
float. This version shows the dreams being picked up by hoses. |
| Work continues on refining the design, especially the
front of the float. The next four drawings show two options with
each option shown in Black and White and in color. Please note
these colors are not the final colors, but just put in to highlight the
various sections. Since these drawings were done in pencil, they
did not reproduce very well. |
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| In the drawing to the right shows a simple front end along with
"smoke stacks" in the front to hide float operators. |
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The picture on the left is the first mock-up test for the color
rendering |
| However, minor changes continue to be made. |
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| The two drawings below are the same, however the left
side is shaded. These are the final line drawing. Next step
final color rendering. |
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The picture below is our final color rendering. |
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Construction Photos |
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Mechanical Inspection and
Test Drive #1 (MI/T1) Photos |
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Test Drive #2 (T2) Photos |
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2012 Parade Line-up (.pdf) |
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Judging
Schedule (.pdf) |
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2012 Float Trophy
Winners (.pdf) |
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Judge's
Comments (.pdf) |
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Various photos by Jeff Helgager |
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2012 Rose Parade Photos |
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Burbank Float Parade Photos |
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Audio Description of the
Float (.MP3) |
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Driver's Compartment Heat Sensor |
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Parade Day Video
(YouTube) |
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