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Walt Disney Animation Studios (commonly nicknamed Disney

Animation and Disney) is the name of the flagship studio of The Walt Walt Disney Animation
Disney Company. Founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, Walt Studios
Disney Animation Studios was developed as Disney Brothers Cartoon
Studio after the closure of Disney’s previous venture, Laugh-O-Gram
Studio. It would later be renamed as Walt Disney Studio, Walt Disney
Productions, until being established as a subsidiary of what would
become the greater Walt Disney Company following a corporate
restructuring in the 1980s, under the name Walt Disney Feature
Animation.

For nearly a century, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been the world’s
leading animation division. Several innovation that had been pinoeered
by the studio include sound cartoons in 1928, storyboarding and color
cartoons in the 1930s, feature-length animated films in 1937, and the General information
Xerox process in 1961. After numerous accolades for its features in the Type
decades prior, in 1993, Beauty and the Beast became the first animated Division of Walt Disney Pictures
feature to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Several
of the studio’s more recent features, including Frozen and Zootopia, have Industry
become some of the highest-grossing films of all time with over 1 billion Motion pictures

at the worldwide box office. Founded

October 16, 1923 (following the closure of
Outside of feature films, the studio is most notable for introducing Mickey
Laugh-O-Gram Studio in general)
Mouse in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928. The inception of
February 6, 1986 (following a restructuring of
Mickey has been historically signified as the start of what is considered
Walt Disney Productions)
the Golden age of American animation. Today, the character serves as
The Walt Disney Company’s mascot, and one of the highest-grossing Headquarters
media franchises in the world.[1] Burbank, California, United States

In 2020, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced that they would begin Founder(s)
producing television series in-house, which was previously Walt Disney
unprecedented as the studio primarily produced short and feature-length Roy O. Disney
films (in addition to occasional collaborations with other facets of the Key people
company, such as Disney Parks, Experiences and Products). Jennifer Lee (Chief Creative Officer)
Andrew Millstein (General Manager)

Contents [hide] Products

1 History Animated films and series

1.1 The Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Parent
1.2 Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies The Walt Disney Studios
1.3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and World War II (The Walt Disney Company)

1.4 1935-1949: Pinocchio, Fantasia & WWII Predecessor(s)

1.5 1950-1970:Impact and Aftermath of Walt Disney’s Death Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923-
1926)
1.6 1970-1988: Post-Walt, Rival Studios and Corporate
Walt Disney Studio (1926-1929)
Reconstruction
Walt Disney Productions (1929-1986)
1.7 1984-1988: Corporate reconstruction
Walt Disney Animation (1986-1994)
1.8 1989-1999: The Renaissance era Walt Disney Feature Animation (1994-
1.9 2000-2005: Post-Renaissance era 2007)
1.10 2006-2008: Lasseter takes charge Website
1.11 2009-present: The New Era https://www.disneyanimation.com/
2 Filmography
Source
3 Gallery
4 External links
5 References

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In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri animator Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alice's Wonderland, which featured
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child actress Virginia Davis interacting with animated characters. Film distributor Margaret J. Winkler contacted Disney
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his brother Roy Disney moved to Los Angeles. On October 16, 1923, they officially set up shop in their uncle Robert
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Disney's garage, marking the beginning of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (currently Walt Disney Animation
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production continued on the Alice Comedies until 1927. In January 1926, the studio moved to a newly constructed studio Misty Copeland
facility on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. At the same time, Walt renamed the company Walt
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After the end of the Alice Comedies, Disney developed an all-cartoon series for Winkler and Universal Pictures - Oswald
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between Disney and Universal. Disney only completed 27 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in March 1928, when Bo Peep
Winkler's husband Charles Mintz hired away all of Disney's animators to start his own animation studio. Notable
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animators that left Disney include Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Robert McKimson, and Rollin Hamilton. Ub Iwerks was
one of the few animators who stayed with Disney.

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Following the loss of several animators, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
created Mickey Mouse. Disney's first sound film Steamboat Willie, a
cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18, 1928. It was the
third Mickey Mouse cartoon, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin'
Gaucho. It was also the first cartoon to feature synchronized sound.
Disney used Pat Powers' Cinephone system, created by Powers using
Lee De Forest's Phonofilm system. Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S.
Moss's Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre.

The Disney Studios building in the 1930s. A second Disney series of sound cartoons, the Silly Symphonies, debuted
in 1929 with The Skeleton Dance. Each Silly Symphony was a one-shot
cartoon centered around music or a particular theme.

On December 16, 1929, Walt Disney Studio's name was changed to Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. and a few
subsidiaries were established - Walt Disney Enterprises (for merchandising), Disney Film Recording Company, Ltd.
(for music), and Liled Realty and Investment Company (for real estate). On September 29, 1938, the company and
subsidiaries were combined to create a single company titled Walt Disney Productions.

In 1930, disputes over finances between Disney and Powers led to Walt Disney Productions signing a new distribution
contract with Columbia Pictures, and Powers signing away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio.

In 1932, Disney signed an exclusive contract with Technicolor (through the end of 1935) to produce cartoons in color,
beginning with Flowers and Trees (1932). At the same time, Disney released future cartoons through United Artists until
1937, when United Artists attempted to attain future television rights to the Disney shorts. From 1937 to 1956, most of
Disney's films would be distributed through RKO Radio Pictures.

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A second Disney series of sound cartoons, the Silly Symphonies, debuted
in 1929 with The Skeleton Dance. Each Silly Symphony was a one-shot
cartoon centered around music or a particular theme. In 1930, disputes
over finances between Disney and Powers led to Disney's studio,
reincoporated the year before as Walt Disney Productions, signing a new
distribution contract with Columbia Pictures, and Powers signing away Ub
Iwerks, who bean producing cartoons at his own studio.

Columbia distributed Disney's shorts for two years before Walt Disney
began production on his first feature-legnth animated film in 1934. Despite
derision from most of the film industry, who dubbed the production
"Disney's Folly", Disney proceeded undaunted into the production of
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which would become the first
animated feature in English and Technicolor.

Considerable training, and development went into the production of Snow

White, with Silly Symphonies such as The Goddess of Spring (1934) and
The Old Mill serving as experimetation grounds for new techniques,
including the animation of realistic human figures, special effects
animation, and the use of multiplane camera, an invention which split
animation artwork layers into severla planes, allowing the camera to
appear to move dimensionally through an animated scene. Snow White cost Disney a then-expensive sum of $1.4 million
to complete, and was an unprecedented success when released in February 1938, becoming the highest-grossing film of
that time. Today, it is generally considered to be Walt Disney's most significant achievement, his first-ever animated
feature. Snow White was the first major animated feature made in the United States, the most successful motion picture
released in 1938, and, adjusted for inflation, is the tenth highest-grossing film of all time. This historical moment in motion
picture history changed the medium of animation.

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Buoyed by Snow White's success, Disney began developing and
producing more features. The second Disney feature, Pinocchio, Snow
White was followed by Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, neither of which
was a financial success when first released. Much of the character
animation on these productions and all subsequent ones until the late
1970s was supervised by a braintrust of animators Walt Disney dubbed
the "Nine Old Men", many of whom also served as directors on the Disney
features: Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Woolie Reitherman, Les Clark,
Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, and Marc Davis.

Despite being a financial disappointment upon The development of the feature animation department created a caste
its initial release, Pinocchio is widely regarded
as the pinnacle of Disney animation. system at the Disney studio: lesser animators (and feature animators in-
between assignments) were assigned to work on the short subjects, while
animators higher in status at the studio worked on the features.

A bitter union strike in mid-1941 resulted in an exodus of several animation professionals from the studio, from top-level
animators such as Art Babbitt and Bill Tylta to artists more known for later works such as Frank Tashlin, John Hubley,
Maurice Noble, and Walt Kelly. The inexpensive Dumbo was released just before the United States' entry into World War
II in 1941 and became a box office success, while Bambi did not see release until mid-1942.

Work on Bambi's intended follow-ups Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan was put on hold, and the entire Disney studio
instead focused on shorts, military training films, and war propaganda such as the live-action/animated feature Victory
Through Air Power (1943). Beginning with Saludos Amigos in 1943, the Disney studio began producing inexpensive
"package films": features made up of one or more short subjects tied together by live-action or animated framing
material. Other features in this vein included The Three Caballeros (1944), Make Mine Music (1946), Song of the South
(1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).

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The feature animation department was downsized considerably after the release of Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and a
transition from hand-done inking of cels to xerography. One Hundred and One Dalmatians was Disney's first feature to
make use of xerography, which used Xerox technology to help speed up production time. In 1962, Walt Disney shut
down the studio's short subject department, focusing its attention mainly on television and feature film production (the
studio would periodically produce featurettes and shorts on a sporadic basis, including films starring Winnie the Pooh,
Mickey Mouse, and Roger Rabbit).

Walt Disney produced two more animated features during his lifetime, The Sword in the Stone (1963) and The Jungle
Book (1967). He died shortly after of lung cancer.

After Walt Disney's death in 1966, the animation department continued with the films The Aristocats (1970) and Robin
Hood (1973). During the production of Robin Hood and The Rescuers (1977), the aging members of the Nine Old Men
began training replacements in anticipation of retirement. Led by Eric Larson, the training program would bring artists
such as Don Bluth, Glen Keane, John Musker, and Ron Clements to the forefront of the studio's talent roster.

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Following two films with a mix of the younger and older animators, The Rescuers (1977) and the live-action/animated
Pete's Dragon (1978), 11 of the younger animators, led by Bluth, Gary Goldman, and John Pomeroy, all resigned,
claiming that the Disney animation studio had lost its way. Bluth went on to found his own studio, Don Bluth Productions,
which produced its first film, the mildly successful The Secret of NIMH, in 1982. Don Bluth Productions became Disney's
main competitor in the animation industry during the 1980s and early 1990s.

During the production of Robin Hood (1973) and The Rescuers (1977), the aging members of the Walt Disney studio's
longtime core group of animators, known as the Nine Old Men, began training replacements in anticipation of retirement.

In 1979, during the production of The Fox and the Hound, 11 members of the new guard of animators, led by Don Bluth,
Gary Goldman, and John Pomeroy, left the Disney studio, wanting to produce movies they felt were more in line with the
style and quality of movies of Disney's golden years of the 1930s and 1940s, left Disney, taking 11 Disney animators with
him to start his own rival studio, Don Bluth Productions. With 17% of the animators now gone, the release of The Fox
and the Hound was delayed six months to June 1981. Don Bluth Productions eventually became Disney Animation's
main competitor during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Walt Disney Productions underwent a major shakeup in the 1980s after narrowly escaping a hostile takeover attempt
from Saul Steinberg. Michael Eisner, formerly of Paramount Pictures, became CEO in 1984, and was joined by his
Paramount associate Jeffrey Katzenberg, while Frank Wells, formerly of Warner Bros., became president. After the
disappointing box office performance of the 1985 PG-rated animated feature The Black Cauldron, the future of the
animation department was in jeopardy.

The company considered shuttering its legacy animation studio. In the interest of saving what he believed to be the
studio's core business, Roy E. Disney persuaded Eisner to let him supervise the animation department in the hopes of
improving its fortunes. Eisner agreed, making Roy E. Disney chairman of the newly reorganized Walt Disney Feature
Animation. Peter Schneider became the first president of Feature Animation at the studio.

On February 1, 1985, the entire animation staff was moved out of the Animation building on the Disney studio lot in
Burbank, which was instead occupied by management and television production staff. The animation staff relocated to
the Air Way complex, a former air hanger 20 miles away in Glendale.

The next feature for the restructured WDFA team was The Great Mouse Detective, begun by John Musker and Ron
Clements as Basil of Baker Street after both left The Black Cauldron production team. Released in 1986, the film was a
moderate box office success. Later the same year, Universal Pictures released Don Bluth's An American Tail, which
outgrossed The Great Mouse Detective at the box office and became the highest-grossing first-issue animated film to
that point. Two years later, the studios released Oliver & Company and The Land Before Time on the same weekend.

The Land Before Time made more cash at the box office on opening day. However, Oliver & Company beat out The Land
Before Time at the domestic box office by $5,000,000. Earlier that same year, 1988, Disney collaborated with Steven
Spielberg, a long-time animation fan, to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a live action/animation hybrid which
featured animated characters from several 1930s/1940s studios interacting with live actors. The film was a significant
critical and commercial success, winning four Academy Awards and renewing interest in theatrical animated cartoons.
Several WDFA members were loaned out to Richard Williams and Dale Baer's animation teams to work on Who Framed
Roger Rabbit.

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Disney had been developing The Little Mermaid off
and on as an animated property since the 1930s. By
1988, after the successes of Roger Rabbit, Oliver &
Company, and The Great Mouse Detective, the studio
decided to make it into an animated Broadway-like
musical. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan
Menken, who worked on Broadway productions such as Little Shop of
Horrors, wrote the songs and score for the film, with Ashman also
producing and heavily involved in the story development process.
The story of a mermaid enthralled with the
The film was released on November 17, 1989 and garnered a higher human world would forever change Disney
animation.
weekend gross than Don Bluth's All Dogs Go to Heaven, which opened
the same weekend. It went on to beat The Land Before Time's record and
became the highest-grossing animated film at that time, earning $89 million at the US box office. The Little Mermaid was
a critical and commercial success and received two Academy Awards, for Best Song and Best Score.

The Rescuers Down Under was released one year later (sequel to the The Rescuers). The Rescuers Down Under was a
box office disappointment, earning only $47,431,461 in total box office revenue. However, the movie was notable for its'
use of Pixar's Computer Animation Production System (better known by the acronym CAPS), and became the first movie
to be 100% digitally produced.

The following year, in 1991, came Beauty and the Beast, which is often considered by many to be the crown jewel of of
all Disney animated films. It was the first animated film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, an accomplishment
which has not been matched since Pixar's 2009 film Up, only to lose out to The Silence of the Lambs.

However, the film won Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the Golden Globe Awards and won two Academy Awards for
Best Original Song and Best Original Score. The film was dedicated to Howard Ashman, who died earlier in the year
before the film's release due to AIDS-related illness. It became the most successful animated feature in motion picture
history up to that time, with domestic box office revenues exceeding $140 million.

As of 2009, ties with Disney/Pixar's WALL-E for the record of animated film with most Academy Award nominations (six).
Aladdin and The Lion King followed in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Both films were highest worldwide grosses of their
release year, but The Lion King became the highest-grossing animated film ever at the time and remains the highest
grossing traditionally animated film in history.

Along with that, the films won Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score in the footsteps of Beauty
and the Beast. Howard Ashman wrote several songs for Aladdin before his death, but only three were finally used in the
film. Tim Rice joined the project and completed the score and songs with Alan Menken. Tim Rice went on to collaborate
with Elton John in The Lion King.

Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were also in the Disney Renaissance. Despite mature subjects and
appealing more towards adults than children both were box-office successes and received general approval and acclaim.
Pocahontas received two Academy Awards for Best Score and Best Original Song for Colors of the Wind. Both were
successful with songs written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

Pocahontas was into a critical success, Hunchback was not a commercial success; Although Pocahontas was met with
mixed reception, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame was met with favorable reception. Disney continued on with
successes from Hercules with songs by Alan Menken and David Zippel, (Hercules was not a big success, but a moderate
success) Mulan with score by Jerry Goldsmith and songs by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, and Tarzan with songs by
Phil Collins.

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By 2000, the Disney Renaissance had come to an end. Disney continued to release small successes such as Dinosaur,
The Emperor's New Groove, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but also suffered box office disappointments with Treasure
Planet, Brother Bear, and Home on the Range. The other films (Fantasia 2000 and Lilo & Stitch) received very positive
reviews and were box office successes.

However, the expansion coincided with a decline in both revenue and quality of the department's output. Competition
from other studios drove animator salaries to a high level, making traditional animated features a costly proposition and,
beginning in 2000, massive layoffs brought staff numbers down to 600. Deciding that the reason for its unsuccessful box
office draw was the fact that they still used traditional animation methods in a time when Pixar Animation Studios,
DreamWorks Pictures and Blue Sky Studios were producing highly-successful CGI films, Disney converted WDFA into a
CGI studio, performing more layoffs and selling off its traditional animation equipment. The Paris studio was shut down in
2003 and the Orlando studio followed suit in 2004.

After the financial failure of their last few animated features, compared to the immense success of other studios creating
films entirely through computer animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios once announced that Home on the Range
would be the last 2D-traditional animated film. In 2005, Chicken Little, the studios' first full length CGI animated feature,
received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics, though it performed well at the box office.

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Before the release of Lasseter's first original project, several other

animated features, which were already in development before the arrival of
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used since Meet the Robinsons. Catmull and Lasseter, were in the midst of being released, these being
Meet the Robinsons and Bolt. Both films received major adjustments after
Lasseter's disapproval toward their initial pitches. Robinsons was a box office failure, and received mixed to positive
reviews, while the following Bolt received critical acclaim and was a modest box office success.

In between these films, the studio also released the animated short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, done with
traditional animation.

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“I think what's exciting is, not just bringing back hand-drawn animation, but bringing back a Disney animated film. We
haven't seen one of these in such a long time.”
―John Lasseter during a press interview for The Princess and the Frog.[2]

Back in 2006, with The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Pixar, it was announced that Lasseter's first order of
business was to revive the classic Disney "fairytale" formula, with an animated project done primarily with traditional-
animation. This was a response to the misconception that the world had grown "too cynical" for traditional fairytales,
resulting in the studio abandoning all fairytale adaptations prior.[3] To revive the genre, Lasseter rehired directors of The
Little Mermaid and Aladdin, John Musker and Ron Clements, who pitched a musical adaptation of "The Frog Prince", set
in New Orleans and with an African-American princess as the lead heroine. The Princess and the Frog became the first
project greenlit by Lasseter, and production quickly began, with many of the artists and animators from the Renaissance
era, returning to work on the film.[4]

In 2009, The Princess and the Frog was released worldwide, and reached critical acclaim 1-9 ofamongst
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alike, being praised as a "return to form" for the studio[5][6] The film transcended its initial release, with the characters
and story having been integrated in various divisions across the company, including the Disney Princess franchise, and
the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts around the world, thus becoming a staple in both the company's legacy, and pop-
culture; the first project from the studio to do so in nearly a decade. Today, some critics and pundits regard The Princess
and the Frog as the modern turning point for the studio, and the film to have ignited what is currently considered Disney
Animation's contemporary renessaince.[7][8][9]

Unfortunately, while not a bomb, the box office returns for Frog were lower than the studio expected, bringing in
$267,045,057 worldwide, and thus labeling the film as a financial disappointment. The title, which has the word
"Princess", was blamed, as it supposedly turned away male audience members. As a result, the two following fairytale
adaptation titles of "Rapunzel" and "The Snow Queen" garnered new, gender-neutral titles. In 2010, the studio released
their version of "Rapunzel", Tangled, which gained widespread positive reviews and became a box office hit. Not only
was Tangled the most successful film from the studio since 1994's The Lion King, it was also the film to have ignited a
new method of artistic style, having uniquely blended features of both computer-generated imagery and traditional
animation, while using non-photorealistic rendering, which gave the film the appearance of classic Disney animated
features, despite being crafted in computer animation. Tangled's marketing, which relied heavily on action and pop-
cultural references, was also a massive change from the studio's previous methods. Both the artistic style and marketing
featured with Tangled would go on to become an influence for all computer-animated films to follow.

In 2011, the studio released its second traditionally animated film of the contemporary regime, Winnie the Pooh. Due to
the film being released on the same date as another highly anticipated feature, the film's box office was low, however the
film gained universal acclaim and became the best reviewed animated film of 2011. Along with the film, the studio
released the short The Ballad of Nessie with it. Pooh was also significant in that it introduced songwriter duo, Kristen
Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, as well as composer Henry Jackman, to the studio; all of whom would become
recurring members of the filmaking teams of following, successful features.

On November 2, 2012, the studio would break the box-office record for the most money made on opening weekend for
the entire Disney animated canon with the computer animated Wreck-It Ralph, based on the concept of centering a film
around video games that dates all the way back to the 1980s, and was greenlit by Lasseter in 2009.[10] Along with Ralph,
the short Paperman was released, which broke ground with the use of the Meander software, which is a literal blend of
traditional and computer animation. Wreck-It Ralph would go on to win numerous accolades for the studio, while
Paperman became the first Walt Disney Animation Studios short to win the Academy Award for Best Short since 1969's
It's Tough to Be a Bird.

In April 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios laid off fewer than 10 people out of a staff of more than 800. Because a
majority of them were hand-drawn animators, there was exaggerated speculation on some animation blogs that the
studio was abandoning traditional animation once again, an idea that the studio dismissed.

In 2013, the studio released its version of "The Snow Queen', retitled Frozen, its 53rd full-length animated film, on
November 27. 2013. Like "Rapunzel" and "The Frog Prince" before it, the idea to develop an animated version of "The
Snow Queen" had been circling throughout the studio for decades, but complications with the story prevented anything
from coming to light. In 2008, however, John Lasseter approached director of Tarzan, Chris Buck, to helm a new tackling
of the project. Once again, complications with the story interfered, but the project eventually moved forward once more
in 2011, with the addition of writer Jennifer Lee, who previously worked on Wreck-It Ralph, as co-director, as well as
Kristen and Robert Lopez, who developed both the songs and key story points for the film.[11][12] Frozen broke numerous
records with widespread critical acclaim, and became a financial juggernaut, eventually surpassing The Lion King as the
studio's highest-grossing film, and soon became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. In 2014, Frozen won both
Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song with "Let It Go". The overwhelming
success of Frozen, in the eyes of various film pundits, solidified the idea that the Walt Disney Animation Studios was in
the midst of a modern renaissance.[13]

The 54th feature, Big Hero 6, was released on November 7, 2014, and is the first in the Canon series to use Marvel
Comics characters. The film performed well with critics, and though it couldn't match up with Frozen's box-office
performance, it still earned over $652 million ($222.5 million in the US) and won the Best Animated Feature Oscar for
WDAS for a 2nd straight year.

On March 4, 2016, the studio released its 55th animated feature film, Zootopia. Centered around the modern world of
anthropomorphic animals, Zootopia became a surprise hit for the studio, mirroring the success of Frozen. The film
garnered universal acclaim amongst critics, being praised for its timely and mature themes and well-written characters,
among other feats. Financially, Zootopia would go on to become Disney Animation's second highest-grossing feature,
behind only Frozen, with a worldwide box office total of over $1 billion; the fourth animated film to ever reach the
milestone. Additionally, with Zootopia's record-breaking success, Walt Disney Animation Studios became the first
animation studio in history to have more than one film pass the billion dollar mark at the global box office.

Even further cementing its critical successs, Zootopia was honored by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten
films of 2016, a feat extremely rare for animated motion pictures. Zootopia also earned the studio its third consecutive
win for the Best Animated Feature category at the 89th Academy Awards.

Eight months following Zootopia, the studio released their 56th feature film, Moana, centering the daughter of a chief
embarking on a journey to save her Polynesian island. It was the seventh film to be directed by John Musker and Ron
Celemens, and was a box office and critical success, grossing $600 million worldwide. New technology was created for
the water, lava and hair effects. Moana also featured a heavy dose of hand-drawn animation, most notably in Maui's
tattoos. The studio's next short, Inner Workings, was released alongside Moana.

In 2017, John Lasseter took a six month leave from both Walt Disney Animation and Pixar due to controversies. Olaf's
Frozen Adventure, a theatrical featurette, was released alongside Pixar's Coco in November.

In 2018, it was formally announced that Lasseter would officially step down and be replaced by Jennifer Lee as Chief
Creative Officer of the studio. Not long after, Ed Catmull announced his retirement from the Disney company. In the fall,
Ralph Breaks the Internet was released to widely positive acclaim and was a financial success, out-grossing the original
Wreck-It Ralph with over $500 million at the worldwide box office.

In 2019, Frozen II was released to mostly positive reviews and financial success, having the highest all-time worldwide
opening for an animated film and eventually becoming the second highest-grossing animated film of all time (behind
Disney’s The Lion King remake).

Currently in production at the studio are Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Encanto (2021), and several short and
long-form series being developed for the Disney+ streaming service including Baymax! (2022), Zootopia+ (2022), Tiana
(2023), and Moana, The Series (2023).

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5. ↑ Collider The Princess and the Frog review
6. ↑ Examiner The Princess and the Frog review
7. ↑ Forbes review Big Hero 6
8. ↑ The Wrap interview with John Lasseter
9. ↑ TIME Big Hero 6 review
10. ↑ Rich Moore Looks Back at the Roads Not Taken With Disney's Wreck-It Ralph
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Good-hob goblin · 23h

I wish this year they would do some clear and shade evolution characters know as "enhanced evolution
animation" where all the Disney and pixar characters are render and full body mode that way some look
like there doing a sequel. from 1937 - 2021.

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Alfonso Barajas · 11/14/2020

There Is My List of My Absolute All Time Favorite Disney Films:

10 - The Sword Of The Stone (1963)
9 - Robin Hood (1973)
8 - Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
7 - Beauty And The Beast (1991)
6 - Aladdin (1992)
5 - The Aristocats (1970)
4 - Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
3 - Princess Of The Frog (2009)
2 - The Lion King (1994)
And Finally My All Time Absolute Favorite Movie Was Extraordinary Sorcery Magic Sword Number 1 Is The
Black Cauldron
1- The Black Cauldron (1985)

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Trains4Life & NAlogofan · 8/10/2020

What’s your favorite Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film(s)?

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Trains4Life & NAlogofan · 8/6/2020

Walt Disney Animation Studios movies

WDAS’s Golden Age films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937/38), Pinocchio (1939/40),
Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942)

WDAS’s Wartime Era films: Saludos Amigos (1942/43), The Three Caballeros (1944/45), Make Mine
Music (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.
Toad (1949)

WDAS’s Silver Age films: Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Lady and
the Tramp (1956), Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in
the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967)

WDAS’s Dark Age films: The Aristocats (1970), Robin Hood (1973), The Many Adventures of Winnie
the Pooh (1977), The Rescuers (1977), The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron (1985),
The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Oliver and Company (1988)

WDAS’s Disney Renaissance “anime-influenced” films: The Little Mermaid (1989), The Rescuers
Down Under (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas
(1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998), Tarzan (1999)

WDAS’s Experimental Era “anime-influenced” films: Fantasia 2000 (1999/2000), The Emperor’s
New Groove (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Treasure Planet (2002),
Brother Bear (2003), Home on the Range (2004), Chicken Little (2005), Meet the Robinsons (2007)

WDAS’s Revival Era “anime-influenced” films: Bolt (2008), The Princess and the Frog (2009),
Tangled (2010), Winnie the Pooh (2011), Wreck-it Ralph (2012), Frozen (2013), Big Hero 6 (2014),
Zootopia (2016), Moana (2016), Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-it Ralph 2 (2018), Frozen II (2019),
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Encanto (2021)

Jpieper668 · 8/6/2020

According to this wiki The Dark Age Began with The Fox and the Hound anmd ended with Oliver &
Comapny

Trains4Life & NAlogofan · 8/7/2020

That sounds interesting. I always thought the Dark Age would begin with The Aristocats, WDAS’ first
film released after Walt Disney passed away, but good point.

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Santiago padilla · 5/8/2020

they realy got to do a sequel of big hero 6

Trains4Life & NAlogofan · 8/7/2020

I highly agree.

Aladdin 92 · 9/19/2020

heres a list it should happen in the sequel of big hero 6/ crossover and spinoff of moana
1 it focus on hiro trying to find clues about his parents
2 a new villian name kappara who wants to recruit all the monsters from the realm with slient
sparrow. and teams up with tamatoa.
3 baymax reveal to hiro that he was once a design to hiro's father before tadashi
4 big hero 6 will team up with maui to face off the monsters and kappara
5 gogo will reveal she has feelings for hiro because at the end she became his love intrest
6 tadashi is alive but brainwash into "strom fire", while abagail becomes the new yokai when she got
kidnapped and brainwashed by kappara

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Lionroleplayer402 · 1/27/2020

List of my favorite Disney films:

- Zootopia
- Bambi
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- The Jungle Book 2
- Brother Bear
- Big Hero 6
That's it for part 1. I hope you have enjoyed the list.

Tyler26 · 1/28/2020

I know. My favorite Disney movies, too.

Trains4Life & NAlogofan · 8/6/2020

Same here.

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Lionroleplayer402 · 12/29/2019

I think my username is getting old and it must be the reason why it keeps blocking me from making more
comments on every Wiki. Does anyone agree with me and is that true?

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Lionroleplayer402 · 10/18/2019

How do I edit a gallery page without messing up because I need help with that.

Tyler26 · 10/19/2019

Oh. What happened to it?

Lionroleplayer402 · 10/19/2019

I did not edit a gallery page yet. I just want some tips of how to put in a image to the gallery page
without messing up.

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Lionroleplayer402 · 10/3/2019

I want these lines from the 2008 version of Horton Hears a Who! in Frankenweenie 2:
Random male ghost of a pet below New Holland Pet Cemetary- "Has the nerve to call me a boob? I would
never call somebody a boob. He's a boob. Look at you. Yuck. Look at your face. And I bet you don't look
so good with a stapler on your head! *soon screams in pain after the stapler accident*"
Victor Frankenstein- "*after hearing the scream above New Holland Pet Cemetary* Whoa! Whoa!"
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