Walt Disney Animation Studios (1923-2002, 2008-present)

Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS for short) also referred to as Disney Animation, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films, short films and television specials for The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1923, it is a division of the Walt Disney Studios. In 2007, Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name, Walt Disney Animation Studios. Since its foundation, the studio has produced 60 feature films, from Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Encanto (2021), and hundreds of short films. Their upcoming slate of films includes Strange World in 2022, and Foster in 2023. Its sister studios are Pixar and 20th Century Fox Animation, and they compete with Illumination, DreamWorks Animation, and Sony Pictures Animation.

Why Their Films Are Also Magical

 * 1) The man named Walt Disney who was creating and producing the films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book.
 * 2) Mickey Mouse, Disney's own creation, as their mascot and he's still popular to this day.
 * 3) Back during the Golden Age of Hollywood animation in the 1930s-1960s, Disney's animated feature films produced by the studio are essentially Golden Age animation in it's purest form, with Warner Bros' Looney Tunes, the most popular theatrical cartoon series of the time, being the only theatrical animated output of the time that ever came close to the quality (and popularity) of the Disney Animated Canon's feature films.
 * 4) The animation in their movies looks beautiful and unique, for both traditional animation and CGI.
 * 5) Great voice acting in most of their movies, with Alan Tudyk voicing at least one character in every Walt Disney Animation Studios film, starting with Wreck-It Ralph.
 * 6) The films that are great became successful, such as from their Renaissance films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and you guessed it, The Lion King, the films from the Post-Renaissance "Experimental Era" like Lilo & Stitch, and most of their films from the Revival-era are great as well.
 * 7) It was spawned into TV shows that were based on the films like mh:besttvshows:TaleSpin, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Timon & Pumbaa, Sing Me A Story With Belle, 101 Dalmatians: The Animated Series, Jungle Cubs, Hercules: The Animated Series, The Legend of Tarzan, mh:besttvshows:Lilo & Stitch: The Series, mh:besttvshows:The Emperor's New School, mh:besttvshows:Jake and The Neverland Pirates, The 7D, mh:besttvshows:The Lion Guard, mh:besttvshows:Tangled: the Series, 101 Dalmatian Street, Alice’s Wonderland Bakery and Big Hero 6: The Series and while House of Mouse has a lot of Disney animated film characters that appeared in.
 * 8) Plenty of Easter eggs from the other Disney animated films.
 * 9) The villains in most of their movies are pretty entertaining.
 * 10) It became one of the most successful animated film companies to exist.
 * 11) Dinosaur was Disney's first traditionally animated movie with animated characters combined with real-life backgrounds, which should be done more often.
 * 12) Big Hero 6 was also the first Disney animated feature film to star characters from Marvel Entertainment, which the Walt Disney Company acquired in 2009 and thus gave special thanks to that subsidiary.
 * 13) Unlike many other animation studios of today and sharing with its counterpart Pixar, WDAS is known for creating or adapting rich, diverse and original stories that blend in various genres, cultures and elements. They rarely make sequels out of their movies and don't try to appeal to a subset of audiences. This is a stark contrast to its competitors whose films suffer from staying in the comedy genre and trying to be hip and trendy, as well as sequel-ridden.
 * 14) While their movies are mostly child friendly, they are still enjoyable enough for adults to watch without getting bored and they even try to incorporate mature elements in them and aren't afraid to directly show it for target audiences.
 * 15) Believe it or not, they want to bring back 2D hand drawn animation including legacy, originals, hybrids, features, and series. Heck, even Eric Goldberg mentioned that Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gave the studio some excitement due to how 2D is played in the said film.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The studio's reputation suffered a moderate decline in quality from 2003 to 2007, as some of their films around this time were either weak/bad/mediocre (i.e. Home on the Range, Chicken Little) or suffered from massive box office failures and/or poor marketing (i.e. Treasure Planet and Meet the Robinsons). To be fair, the decline was partially out of Disney's control, as the CGI films from studios like future acquisitions Pixar and Blue Sky, as well as the independent studio turned Comcast acquisition DreamWorks  (keep in mind that Illumination didn't make movies until 2010) were increasing in popularity at the time.
 * 2) *The studio redeemed itself in 2008 but can sometimes deliver mediocre films (Ralph Breaks the Internet being their latest example, even though it was decently received).
 * 3) * Speaking of Home of the Range, that was the last Disney's traditionally-animated film until 2009, when The Princess and the Frog was released. Worse, after 2011's Winnie the Pooh underperformed at the box office, despite receiving positive reviews, Disney has killed off and cancelled the traditional hand-drawn animation they used in their films for so many years, except as small supplements to their current CG efforts (such as Maui's tattoos in Moana), and they hardly gave it full attention ever since.
 * 4) *This choice to cancel any plans of using traditional hand-drawn animation can rather be considered a bad business practice since this reason why comes off as really stupid and uncanny. However, despite this in 2019, after Lasseter's exit from the studio and Jennifer Lee as the new chief creative officer of the animation facility the previous year, she, along with producer Peter Del Vecho and director Chris Buck confirmed that making another 2D animated film is still possible, and that the different styles are driven by the filmmakers who chose what to use to tell their stories in the right way.
 * 5) *Also, most of the Disney sequels are also not as good as every Pixar sequels like The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea,  Cinderella 2, Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World, etc.
 * 6) Some films are way too melodramatic in which they use a plot with tons of drama to tangle with your emotions. While it is a good idea on paper, it ends up becoming corny and inconsistent.
 * 7) Some of their films have bombed at the box-office, most likely due to poor marketing, such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, and the list goes on.

Trivia

 * Like Pixar, the main menu designs either have scenes from the movie, a primary location, or (in recent cases) a still version of the poster.

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