This document provides information about Walt Disney Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. It discusses their history, leadership, facilities, projects, and key pillars. For Walt Disney Animation Studios, it outlines the founding in 1923, major milestones and films produced, the acquisition of Pixar in 2006, and recent successes. It identifies the three pillars as creativity/innovation, globalization, and technology. For DreamWorks Animation, it notes the founding in 1995 through a co-production deal, films produced, the three pillars of creativity, technology, and expansion/globalization, and recent acquisitions and partnerships.

1. Walt Disney
Animation Studios
Mark and Stephen Lukridge

2. The Studio
• Burbank, CA
• 54 projects
• Ed Catmull (President)
• John Lasseter (CCO)
• Rededication to Roy. E Disney
• Original Building:Corporate
• Satellite Studios in Paris and Orlando
• Artists participate in classes, seminars, and demonstrations regularly

3. Collaborations
• Walt Disney Creative Entertainment &
WDI
• MK: Stitch’s Great Escape!, Mickey’s
PhilarMagic, Seven Dwarfs MineTrain
• DHS:The Magic of DisneyAnimation,
Fantasmic!
• Epcot: Gran FiestaTour StarringThe
Three Caballeros, Frozen Ever After
• California Adventure: World of Color
• Disneyland Paris: Disney Dreams!

4. Studio History
• 1923: Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
• Alice Comedies
• Oswald => Mickey Mouse
• 1928: SteamboatWillie employs sound
• 1929: DBCS becomesWalt Disney Productions
• 1932: Flowers andTrees employs color
• 1934: feature production begins
• SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs
• Animation Union Strike andWWII
• 1950: Xerography

5. Studio History
• 1966:Walt’s Death (Jungle Book and Aristocats)
• The “NineOld Men”
• Irony of Lasseter and Burton
• 80’s: takeover attempts => Roy E. Disney becomes Chairman
• 1983:Walt Disney Pictures is born (live-action features; Ron Miller)
• BlackCauldron – “rock bottom” ($44 million v $21 million)
• 1986:WD Productions becomesTWDC
• Animation division becomes Walt Disney Feature Animation

6. The 90’s “Renaissance Era”
• Broadway-like animation
• More drama, flavor
• Music
• The Little Mermaid,The Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, Fantasia 2000,
Hercules, Pocahantas, Mulan,Tarzan
• The Lion King (1994)

7. In RecentYears
• Decline
• CGI
• 2006: Disney purchases Pixar ($7.4 billion); WDFA becomes…
• Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar Animation Studios
• P&F (2009),Tangled (2010),Wreck-it Ralph (2012), Frozen (2013), & Big Hero 6
(2014)
• Zootopia & Moana (2016)

8. 3 Pillars forWDAS
• Creativity/Innovation: character personality, storytelling, creative eye,
audience attraction and love for characters as a gateway for revenue
(Studio Entertainement may just be largest avenue for profit for the
company thanks to characters and movies)
• Globalization: Marvel, ESPN, abcTelevision Group, Pixar, LuasFilm;
diversity & inclusion for species, habitats, cultures, and time frames that
reach across the world and gain a global sense of admiration from every
age
• Technology: groundbreaking timeline, epitomizing, evolving animation
technology – sound, color, xerography, CGI, Hyperion Rendering, Open
Source Software, and so much more!

9. Let’s Not Forget!
• Disney’s Art of Animation Resort (WDW’s most recent resort
debut and featuring 4 famous animated feature films) as a
tribute toWalt Disney Animation
• Layout and story of resort
• “DAAR”lings

10. DreamWorks
Animation, SKG
• Glendale, CA
• 31 animated feature films
• Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek, Madagascar, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda,
HTTYD, Monsters vs. Aliens, Home
• Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg (after resigning fromTWDC
in 1994), and DavidGeffen (SKG)
• 1995: Co-Production deal with Pacific Data Images (PDI), creating
CGI feature films beginning with Antz in 1998
• 2006: Distribution agreement with Paramount Pictures

11. 3 Pillars for DreamWorks
• Creativity: artists, stroytellers, and animators from Disney,
Aardman Animations (Chicken Run,W&G, and stop-motion),
and Amblimation
• All 3 forms of animation covered

12. 3 Pillars for DreamWorks
• Technology: Stereostopic 3D projection technology; these
films began in March of 2009 with Monsters vs. Aliens
• A More realistic 3D experience with Intel processors
• The Apollo Platform
• PrEMO,Torch, and other helpful tools for instant processing power
• Powerful, almost magical software tools that allow animators to
be more creative, efficient, and detailed

13. 3 Pillars for DreamWorks
• Expansion/Globalization: ongoing partnership with Hewlett-Packard,
Intel, 20th Century Fox, and Netflix (300+ hours of content)
• Acquisition of Classic Media, Oriental DreamWorks,Trolls franchise,TV library
of Chapman Entertainment, Felix the Cat
• Expanded production pipeline into Bangalore, India withTechnicolor
• DreamWorks AnimationTelevision
• The DreamWorksChannel
• Youtube channelAwesomenessTV
• DreamWorks Press
• Purchased the distribution rights from Paramount to the entire pre-2013
library
• The DreamWorks Experience
• Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best CompaniesToWork For

14. What’s next in store for Animation?

15. Questions for these guys?