Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios is the animation division of The Walt Disney Company that produces animated feature films. Founded in 1923, it helped establish animation as a major form of popular cinema.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A 1937 American animated feature film and the first full-length cel-animated feature produced in the United States. Its success established the studio’s feature-length animation model.
Walt Disney: An American animator, producer, and entrepreneur who co-founded the company that became The Walt Disney Company. He shaped the studio’s early creative direction and feature-film ambitions.
Traditional animation: Animation created by photographing successive drawings or paintings, each altered to create the illusion of movement. Hand-drawn production defined the studio’s filmmaking for much of its history.
Ub Iwerks: An American animator and cartoonist who co-created Mickey Mouse and developed influential animation techniques. His drawing and technical work helped define the studio’s earliest cartoon production.
Pixar Animation Studios: An American animation studio known for computer-animated feature films and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar developed separately before joining the same company and influencing its feature-animation transition.
Fantasia: A 1940 animated film pairing classical music with sequences of animation. It shows the studio experimenting with animation as a concert-like visual art.
Roy O. Disney: An American businessman who co-founded The Walt Disney Company and managed its finances and operations. His financial stewardship helped sustain the studio’s costly animation production.
Multiplane camera: A motion-picture camera system that photographs artwork on multiple planes to create depth and parallax. The studio used it to give painted scenes a layered sense of depth.
Frank Thomas: An American animator and one of Disney’s Nine Old Men, known for expressive character animation. His work helped develop the studio’s emphasis on emotional character performance.
DreamWorks Animation: An American animation studio producing feature films for theatrical and streaming release. It became a major competitor in the market for animated feature films.

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