Haunted Mansion Singing Busts Updated

[insidethemagic]

The latest update to The Haunted Mansion is a significant improvement to the singing busts in the graveyard scene.

No longer do their faces glow, clearly revealing the secret behind the effect. Now, the busts are wonderfully evenly lit, full of detail, and are quite realistic:





As you can see from these before and after video stills, the “old” busts had bright faces with dark stone surroundings, while the “new” busts don’t obviously separate the moving face from the non-moving stone parts. In order to make the busts more evenly lit, the area surrounding them is not as bright as it once was. However, it is a bit lighter than what you can see in the above “after” still image.

More stills and a video here:
http://www.attractionsmagazine.com/blog/?p=264

[kirbilicious]

That looks really cool. I heard about this a couple days but didn't know exactly what they changed or how the new effect looked. Thanks for the info. Based on these pictures, it really does look a lot better now. It's really good to see them making small updates like this.

[GhostHost2]

When did this happen? Thanks for the pics?

[nbodyhome]

I was there yesterday, and we were trying to figure out what was different.

[WDW Monorail]

When did this happen? Thanks for the pics?

Middle of last week.