Walt Disney Animation Studios facts for kids

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

Type	Subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios Division of Walt Disney Pictures
Industry	Animation Motion pictures Traditional animation CGI animation Flash animation
Founded	October 16, 1923 (1923-10-16) (as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio)
Founder	Walt and Roy Disney
Headquarters	2100 W Riverside Dr Burbank, California U.S.
Key people	Ed Catmull, President John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer Andrew Millstein, General Manager
Products	Animated films
Parent	Walt Disney Pictures
Divisions	Disney Television Animation DisneyToon Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio headquartered in Burbank, California. It was started in 1923 under the name, Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. In 1929 it re-established as Walt Disney Productions. In 1986, after Disney had moved into making mostly live-action movies, it was re-established as Walt Disney Feature Animation, taking on its current name in 2007. It has been known for making animated feature movies in association with Walt Disney Pictures.

Locations

Walt Disney Animation Studios is headquartered in the Sorcerer's Hat building which was completed in 1995. It is in Burbank, California close to The Walt Disney Studios where its original animated studio was located. Satellite studios were around the world in locations like Paris, France, Tokyo, Japan and even at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four theme parks in Walt Disney World, Florida. They were all closed down by 2004 because the 2D movies which the satellite studios made were unsuccessful.

Filmography

Since 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios has produced 56 movies with Walt Disney Pictures. The first one, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was released in 1937. The newest one, Frozen 2, was released in 2019, with their next released being Raya and the Last Dragon in 2020.

List of movies

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Fantasia (1940)
4. Dumbo (1941)
5. Bambi (1942)
6. Saludos Amigos (1943)
7. The Three Caballeros (1944)
8. Make Mine Music (1946)
9. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
10. Melody Time (1948)
11. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
12. Cinderella (1950)
13. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
14. Peter Pan (1953)
15. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
16. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
17. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
18. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
19. The Jungle Book (1967)
20. The Aristocats (1970)
21. Robin Hood (1973)
22. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
23. The Rescuers (1978)
24. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
25. The Black Cauldron (1985)
26. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
27. Oliver & Company (1988)
28. The Little Mermaid (1989)
29. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
30. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
31. Aladdin (1992)
32. The Lion King (1994)
33. Pocahontas (1995)
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
35. Hercules (1997)
36. Mulan (1998)
37. Tarzan (1999)
38. Fantasia 2000 (2000)
39. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
40. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
41. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
42. Treasure Planet (2002)
43. Brother Bear (2003)
44. Home on the Range (2004)
45. Chicken Little (2005)
46. The Wild (2006)
47. Meet the Robinsons (2007)
48. Bolt (2008)
49. The Princess and the Frog (2009)
50. Tangled (2010)
51. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
52. Frozen (2013)
53. Big Hero 6 (2014)
54. Zootopia (2016)
55. Moana (2016)
56. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
57. Frozen 2 (2019)

Upcoming Movies

1. Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

Achievements

The animation studio is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, including:

• The multiplane camera (for Snow White, but first used in the Academy-award winning short "The Old Mill")
• The realistic animation of special effects and human characters (for Snow White)
• Advanced composition processes to combine live-action and animated elements using color film (for The Three Caballeros)
• The use of xerography in animation to transfer drawings to cels as opposed to ink-tracing (developed for 101 Dalmatians, but first tested in a few scenes in Sleeping Beauty and first fully used in the Academy-award nominated short Goliath II)
• The use of all-digital methods for painting, compositing, and recording animated features using the CAPS (Computer Animation Production System)

Among its significant achievements are:

• The first animated feature in Technicolor (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
• The first major motion picture in stereophonic sound (Fantasia), otherwise known as Fantasound.
• The first animated feature in CinemaScope (Lady and the Tramp)
• The first large format animated movie (the 70 mm Sleeping Beauty)
• The first Disney animated feature to use computer-generated imagery (The Black Cauldron)
• The first Disney animated feature making heavy use of CGI computer animation (Oliver & Company)
• The first Disney animated feature to use digital coloring (The Little Mermaid, which introduced Disney's CAPS process)
• The first feature movie to be shot using a 100% digital process (The Rescuers Down Under, CAPS)
• The first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only nominee for Best Picture to be traditionally-animated (Beauty and the Beast)
• The first Disney animated feature to gross $200 million, and the highest-grossing movie of 1992 (Aladdin)
• The highest grossing traditionally-animated (or hand-drawn) movie of all time (The Lion King)
• The largest movie premiere with over 100,000 viewers (Pocahontas)
• The most expensive animated movie ever made costing $260 million (Tangled)
• The highest number of original characters ever created for an animated movie (188 characters) (Wreck-It Ralph)

Documentary movies about Disney animation

• A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios (1937, short)
• The Reluctant Dragon (1941, a staged "mockumentary")
• Frank and Ollie (1995)
• Dream On Silly Dreamer (2005)
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)

Images for kids

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  Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.

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  Roy E. Disney (Chairman, 1985–2003), nephew of Walt Disney, was a key figure in restructuring the animation department following the reorganization of the Disney company in 1984.

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  1400 Flower Street in Glendale, California, one of several buildings used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.

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  622/610 Circle 7 Drive (the Hart-Dannon Building), another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 1990s.

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  The south side of the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, as seen from the public park that separates it from the Ventura Freeway.