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.