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#disney-imagineering

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion will soon serve as an eerie new wedding venue for brooding brides looking for a morbid place dripping with tales of mourning, dread and murder to exchange their wedding vows and begin their happily ever after. Disneyland will begin offering weddings in July for the first time in front of the Haunted Mansion starting at $25,000 to $40,000, according to the official Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings and Honeymoons website.

"Our latest Olaf is a fantastic example of representing an animated character as authentically as possible in the physical world-a challenging task because animated characters most often move in non-physical ways," Kyle Laughlin, senior vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, said in a news release . "For example, to make Olaf's snowball feet move along his body, we paired state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning with an artistic interface and advances in mechanical design."

One of Atencio's first major projects with Walt Disney Imagineering - WED Enterprises (for Walter Elias Disney), as it was known at the time - was Pirates of the Caribbean. In the mid-'60s when Atencio joined the Pirates team, the attraction was well underway, with the likes of fellow animators-turned-theme park designers Marc Davis and Claude Coats crafting many of its exaggerated characters and enveloping environments. Atencio's job? Make it all make sense by giving it a cohesive story.