The document provides a history of Walt Disney Studios and their animated shorts and films from 1921 to 2012. It discusses the evolution of Disney animation from their early live action/animated shorts called the "Alice Comedies" in the 1920s to the creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928. Over time, Disney added many beloved characters like Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy to their film universe. The style and technology of Disney animation advanced significantly over the decades from hand drawn cel animation to computer generated imagery. Different Disney films also experimented with unique animation styles tailored to their stories and settings.

2. “If you can Dream it you can do it”

3. “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing that it all started by a mouse”
Walt Disney studios started their journey in 1923 in the rear of a
small office building in Los Angeles.
It was here that Walter and his Brother Roy would produce a
short live action /animated films collectively called „The Alice
Comedies‟, And Within four months they developed to larger
facilities which above the door read „Disney Bros.studio‟
14 years later many changes had taken place at the Disney
studio. The biggest being the birth of Mickey Mouse in 1928
who was soon followed by his trusty dog Pluto and pals Donald
& Goofy and gradually the rest of the Disney family.
Mickey mouse also has
a long lost Brother!
Oswald the Lucky
rabbit

4. “Get a Good Idea and stay with it. Dog it and work at it until it’s done and done right”
Can you place the movies in order of release date?
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

6. List of Short animations
1921 – Newman Laugh-o-grams – Cleaning up 20th march –
Director Walt Disney
1922- Little Red Ridding hood – July 29th –tales laugh-o-grams
first of seven fairy tales – Director Walt Disney
1924- Alice Comedies - Alice’s day at sea – March 1st -first
produced by Walt Disney studio – Director Walt Disney The Disney shorts started in 1921, it‟s first
documented was Newman‟s Laugh-O-grams
1927- The adventures Oswald the Lucky Rabbit- Trolley troubles – „Cleaning Up?!‟ since then the Walt Disney
September 5th – Director Walt Disney company has produced over 500 shorts since
1929- Mickey Mouse – March 14th
1921 to 2012. Each of the shorts have been
created by the most famous animation styles from
1938- Donald & Goofy – The Fox hunt- July 29th – Disney it‟s hand drawn animation which started
Director Ben Sharpsteen from „cleaning Up?!‟ Up to Paperman (2012) the
only short which along with it‟s film was CGI was
1952- Chip n’ Dale- March 21st – Director Jack Hannah Tangled ever After a spin off of the film.
1966- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey tree- February 4th
1997 – Redux Ridding Hood – August 5th
2004- One by One – August 31st – direct to Disney DVD short
2009- Prep and Landing – December 8th – ABC television special
2012- Tangled ever After- January 13th – in theatres of Beauty
and the Beast 3D

7. “They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true”
Snow White : 1937 Pocahontas: 1995
Cinderella : 1950 The little Mermaid: 1989 Princess and the Frog:
Sleeping beauty: 1959 Beauty and the Beast:1991 2009
Aladdin: 1992
Since Pocahontas Disney
All of the Disney princesses apart from one studios had not released a
were created with hand drawn animation. princess film until 2009. The
This process involves drawing the character Princess and the frog was the
first with pencil and paper. The way in which turning point for hand drawn
the artists drew the detail of the princesses animation as it had not been
was by the beauty models that they use to used since „Home on the range‟
play out the scene of the princess to get her in 2004.
initial style, look and how she moves.
Before their first Disney movie The Little
Mermaid ,Music Composers Howard
Ashman and Alan Menken where composing
for the musical little shop of horrors

9. “I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters to make them personalities”
Hercules – 1997
Has a slightly different style towards it‟s
animation. Animators used a special style
when creating this film by giving it a more
The Emperors new groove- 2000 Greek realistic feel. By the way that the
As soon as you start watching you can tell there is a characters are created they look slightly
slight Animation difference from this film to others such different when compared to Hercules
as Peter pan and Snow white. This animation seems to Especially the ears
be more sharper with the shapes that it uses within the
film. Mulan- 1998
Animators created a new style for Mulan, Like
Atlantis – 2001 Hercules it has that cultural feel to the
Like the Emperors new groove, Atlantis too has a animation. In ways of characters and scenery.
sharper look about it‟s animation, when you look at the They tend to use swirls and curls within the
faces of the characters you can notice it more, though animation. Next time you watch it took at the
Atlantis animation seems to have a softer touch about it explosion clouds.
though it is a clean cut animation. It certainly has a
different style than the rest.
Lilo and Stitch- 2002
The style of this movie is that they tend to use more
rounder animation giving the characters and settings a
smooth like finish about them. The characters heads
especially seem to be more round taking the shape of
either Circle or Oval the same with the human noses.
The Spots on Shang’s horse
in ‘Mulan’ are shaped like
Brother Bear- 2003 Mickey mouse heads
Similar to Lilo and Stitch Brother bear also uses round
animation to create it‟s characters giving their
appearance a smooth cut, enough to show the
difference when compared to the „Similar Animations‟.

10. “Around here we don’t look backwards for very long , we keep moving forward opening up new doors and doing more things because
we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths”
Meet the Robinsons 2007-
The theme of Meet The Robinsons (opening March 30) aptly
ties directly to Walt Disney's own philosophy: "… We keep
moving forward”. Director Steve Anderson had to find the Tangled 2010 –
balance between a realistic and a cartoony kind of human. He
realized that the trick was to make choices that would never Glen Keane was the top animator for the first CGI
pull the audience out of the movie and distance them from Princess, a change for him considering he has
the characters. become famous from his designs of the other
”We had skin texture we had to work out, we had to grow hair princesses such as The little Mermaid and
off of characters' heads and we had to find an animation style Pocahontas.
that was still fun and loose and had some caricature to it, but “But the dream was someday to do computer
could portray humans in a believable way” animated characters that had all of the same
Meet the Robinsons was marked the first time WDFA organic feel as hand drawn. That is the story of
tackled CG humans. this film”
On a previous Pixar film „The Incredible‟s‟
Animators had difficulty when creating the hair of
Bolt 2008- their CGI characters to fall properly and naturally
especially the young woman. Now from the film
The look of the film was inspired by the paintings of Edward Tangled we can see just how far they have come.
Hopper and the cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond. New
technology in non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) was used to give it
a special visual appearance.
Bolt's characteristics are based on an amalgam of breeds, although
the designers started with the American White Shepherd. Joe
Moshier, lead character designer, said, "the American White
Shepherds have really long ears, a trait that I tried to caricature in
order to allow the animators to emphasize Bolt's expressiveness."

11. “I don’t like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things”
loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy
tale The Snow Queen, Anna must race against
A stage musician is thrown into a
time, conquer the elements and battle an army of
fantasy world where he must use
frozen warriors if she ever hopes to melt her
his wits to stay ahead of 3
frozen heart.
enchantresses .
November 27th 2013
March 8th 2013
The Story of „Sleeping Beauty‟ from the
perspective of the evil Sorceress
Maleficent -Angelina Jolie stars
14th March 2013