23 May

The one that honoured Walt's legacy. At the dawn of the new millennium, the management of Walt Disney Company was in utter chaos and morale amongst the ranks at its animation studio was disastrously low. After a string of box office failures, the days of traditional animation were over and then-CEO Michael Eisner was fumbling his way through Disney's transition to computer animation, while also mishandling negotiations with then-Pixar CEO Steve Jobs over the future of Disney's distribution deal of Pixar titles. In late 2003, Eisner and his board of...

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22 May

The one that fumbled the launch of a new era. When production on Disney's last traditional animated film Home on the Range finished in 2002, then-CEO Michael Eisner laid off most of the employees at the Feature Animation studio in Burbank, downsizing the department to a single unit. The Paris studio closed in 2003. Walt Disney Animation Florida followed suit in 2004. And, with that, Disney was officially out of the business of producing traditional animated feature films. With the company now solely focused on producing computer animation productions, morale...

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21 May

The one that signalled the end of traditional animation. When big-budget animated space blockbuster Treasure Planet debuted in 2002, it was hoped the film would herald a new age of traditional animation for the Disney studio. After its spectacular failure at the box office, the polar opposite occurred and the Disney executive team could no longer deny the inevitable end of traditional animated feature films had finally arrived. Audiences had moved on, and, sadly, it was time for Disney to follow suit. As such, then-CEO Michael Eisner made the difficult...

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20 May

The one that arrived a decade too late. After the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the Disney studio found itself desperately attempting to find a winning formula to continue creating successful animated films without their fearless leader. When The Aristocats proved to be a surprise smash hit in 1970, the studio felt they'd uncovered the secret to success; talking animals. For the next two decades, the studio would almost exclusively focus on releasing animated films starring a menagerie of adorable animals. Despite the staggering success of The Lion King,...

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19 May

The one that flopped spectacularly. For over a decade, directors Ron Clements and John Musker had been desperately seeking approval from Disney's executives to produce their dream project, Treasure Island in Space. While no one at the studio shared Clements and Musker's unbridled enthusiasm for the pitch, the duo relentlessly pushed the idea for the better part of 15 years before they were finally given the green light. As fate would have it, Disney was entirely right to be cautious and a box office bomb like few others was...

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18 May

The one that proved Disney still had it. By the late 1990s, the Disney animation department was back on the chopping block. Despite several artistically impressive animated features, the box office results continued to dwindle. With Pixar continuing to capture huge audiences with its 3D computer animation, then-CEO Michael Eisner was beginning to question if the days of traditional animation were coming to a close. It didn't help the studio already had several big-budget titles in development, with few looking likely to elicit the hefty profits of Disney's early 90s...

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17 May

The one that offered a visual aesthetic like no other. In the early years of the new millennium, Disney animation was sharply deviating away from the lavish musical spectacles which put the studio back on top in the early 1990s. After the relatively disappointing box office results of films like Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's studio executives pushed their creative team to deliver unique projects to help stave off the uprising of both Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. While Disney animated feature films were still naturally performing well...

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16 May

The one that survived the production from hell. In the midst of its mid-1990s renaissance, Disney's executives felt they'd finally cracked the formula for success with their animation films; take a sweeping love story, add in some comical, scene-stealing supporting characters, and serve it up with several extravagant musical numbers. With films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King following this recipe, the box office results proved this was the path Disney should continue to follow. As such, when The Lion King director Roger Allers...

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15 May

The one that laid the foundation for a revolution. Since the late 1980s, the advent of computer animation had slowly changed the production methods of Disney's animated feature films. As films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast dabbled with utilising the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) to craft selected sequences, it wasn't long before entire films were being created using computer technology, blending both digital creations with hand-drawn designs. But these films were still inherently rooted in the classic traditional Disney animation style, which had seen varied...

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14 May

The one that finally fulfilled Walt's dream. After changing the landscape of cinema in 1937 with the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney set about crafting the most ambitious work of his career. With 1940's Fantasia, Walt fused animation with classical music to create one of the most daringly unique feature films cinema had ever seen. Unfortunately, the entire experiment was a total financial disaster. Walt insisted Fantasia could only be shown using a new process called Fantasound, which required the installation of new...

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