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94-459: Disneytoon Studios ( DTS ), originally named Disney MovieToons and also formerly Walt Disney Video Premieres , was an American animation studio which created direct-to-video and occasional theatrical animated feature films. The studio was a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios , with both being part of The Walt Disney Studios , itself a division of The Walt Disney Company . The studio produced 47 feature films, beginning with DuckTales

188-584: A Kim Possible live action film which premiered on Disney Channel in 2019 and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers as a live-action animation hybrid film on Disney+ in 2022. In October 2023, it was reported that Atomic Monster and Disney Television Studios were developing a Gargoyles live-action series for Disney+. In February of that year, the studio greenlit two new shows Amphibia and The Owl House , to mark their return to animation. Big City Greens (initially intended to air on Disney XD) switched to Disney Channel. The remaining solely-produced shows by

282-671: A co-production with corporate sister studio Marvel Animation . The same year it was revealed that the studio was working on Monsters At Work a spin-off sequel series of the Monsters Inc. franchise from Pixar and Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe for the Disney+ streaming service. In February 2020, the studio announced that they were working on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

376-483: A deal to program a new children's block for UPN , Disney's One Too , to replace that network's internal UPN Kids block. The syndicated block ran until the debut of One Too on September 6, 1999; which aired mainly the same shows as One Saturday Morning . By April 1998, Disney MovieToons was folded in with Walt Disney Video Premieres films and network TV specials of Disney TV Animation as Morrill moved to executive vice president over her pre-existing units. At

470-533: A direct-to-video release. Thus with The Return of Jafar and its success, the direct-to-video unit was started. Then a second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), assigned work to both the Australian and Japanese animation units. In August 1994 with the departure of Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg , its filmed entertainment business was split into two, with this division moved as

564-467: A director of specials, Sharon Morrill, in 1993. The success of DuckTales also paved the way for a new wave of high-quality animated TV series, including Disney's own The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1988. Later, early that spring, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers debuted on March 4, 1989, and was paired with DuckTales in an hour-long syndicated show through the 1989-1990 television season . In

658-486: A film titled School for Sensitive Souls as part of former Disney Branded Television president Gary Marsh 's overall deal with Disney. In November 2021 it was revealed that as part of Lisa Fragner's promotion as VP of development at Disney TVA an animated feature film adaptation of Confessions Of An Imaginary Friend was in the works. In April 2022, the studio announced that it will collaborate with sister animation studio 20th Television Animation on Rhona Who Lives by

752-601: A longer running manga or animated series. As the OAV market is not adapted to the rigors that are faced by television shows or feature films, they have been known to show gratuitous amounts of violence and/or pornography. Some OAV's have registered such strong acclaim that they have been remade as anime television series as well as theatrical releases. Since most new OVA's are derived from other animated media, many animation studios that have previously worked on animated series or movies, and adaptations of Japanese manga, have now entered

846-519: A meeting at his home in which he brought up the concept of doing a series on the Gummi bear as his kids like the candy. Originally, the staff was told that they could not use the principal Disney cartoon characters in the new shows. The Walt Disney Television Animation department was formed in November 1984 with Gary Krisel as president and Michael Webster as senior vice president. This was considered

940-506: A new animation studio, Studio Ghibli , which would be used for the personal works of Miyazaki and his close friend, Isao Takahata . Many of Ghibli's works have become Japan's top-grossing theatrical films, whether in live-action or animated form. The market for 'OAV's or ' Original Anime Video ' later the acronym would be better known as 'OVA' meaning 'Original video animation' as the term 'OAV' could often be misunderstood for 'Original Adult Video', began in 1984. These are often tended towards

1034-506: A new holiday special under the name Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol. The same month during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival as part of a panel in honor of the studio's 40th anniversary Meredith Roberts mentioned that the studio was looking in future strategies who will try to meet kids where they’re consuming content, which includes gaming and web-based content as well

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1128-503: A part of Walt Disney Television Animation into the newly created Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications under chairman Richard H. Frank . Morrill was in charge of the above first Aladdin DTV film, launching Disney Video Premiere. Morrill expanded the DTV market making it more important for Disney, thus the overseas Disney studios were increased and assigned to these features. Morrill

1222-411: A risky move because animated TV series was generally considered low-budget investments for most of the history of TV cartoons up through the 1980s . Many critics say that Disney's own animation studio had lost most of its luster during the period from Walt Disney's passing in the 1960s through the 1980s . However, the studio took several risks that paid off handsomely. The studio successfully gambled on

1316-559: A sequel series of Sofia The First as part of the 10th anniversary of the original series with the project being fully greenlit in August 2024. Later the studio debuted their first stop-motion project a Christmas special named "Mickey Saves Christmas" which aired on ABC, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Jr.. Another stop-motion special “ Mickey And Friends Trick Or Treats" debuted in October 2023. A series of sequel shorts based on

1410-699: A sequel series to the original 2001 series for Disney+. In October 2020, the studio ordered a new series Hamster & Gretel for Disney Channel. In November 2020, it was announced that Point Grey Pictures would produce a Darkwing Duck reboot with Disney TVA for Disney+. The same month the studio debuted The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse , a sequel series to the original Mickey Mouse (2013) series. Late 2021 and early 2022 saw several changes in management at Disney TVA, with former Blue Sky Studios executive Lisa Fragner joining as vice-president of development for Disney+ in November 2021, alongside longtime Disney TVA executive Elizabeth Waybright Taylor, who

1504-620: A short under the WDTA name in 1997, Redux Riding Hood , which was nominated for a 1998 Academy Award . More direct-to-video sequels followed, among them Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998), The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) and Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002). By April 1998, MovieToons

1598-433: A six-month leave of absence after acknowledging what he called "missteps" in his behavior with employees in a memo addressed to the staff of Disneytoon Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Pixar. According to The Hollywood Reporter and The Washington Post , Lasseter had a history of alleged sexual misconduct towards employees. On June 8, 2018, it was announced that Lasseter would leave Disney Animation and Pixar at

1692-433: A third building for new productions for Disney Television Animation with Roberts being promoted new CEO at Disney Television Animation after the departure of long-time CEO Eric Coleman in 2019. As of 2002, the films that Disneytoon had made often had budgets less than $ 15 million for production, and had taken in $ 100 million in sales and rentals. Animation studio The idea of a studio dedicated to animating cartoons

1786-550: A very small core group. After being bought out or sold to other companies, they eventually consolidated with other studios and became larger. The drawback of this setup was that there was now a major thrust towards profitability with the management acting as a damper towards creativity of these studios, continuing even in today's scenario. Currently, the independent animation studios are looking to ensure artistic integrity by signing up with big animation studios on contracts that allow them to license out movies, without being directed by

1880-738: A water coaster for the Disney Wish in 2021, the Disney Treasure for 2024 and the Disney Destiny for 2025, DuckTales : World Showcase Adventure for EPCOT in 2022 and the Mickey's Toontown refurbishment in 2023. Beginning in 2018 several productions from the studio have gotten live-action adaptations by the Disney Channel Original Movies and Walt Disney Pictures sister studios, including

1974-444: Is an American animation production company that serves as the television animation production arm of Disney Branded Television , a division of Disney General Entertainment Content , which is a division of Disney Entertainment , which is one of the three main divisions of The Walt Disney Company . The studio was originally established in 1984, by Gary Krisel during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of Disney following

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2068-591: Is dated around 1917, but it would take until 1956 for the Japanese animation industry to successfully adopt the studio format as used in the United States. In 1961, these productions began to be aired in the US. Toei Animation , formed in 1948, was the first Japanese animation studio of importance and saw the reduction of animators as independent anime artists. After the formation of Toei Animation Co. Ltd. in 1948,

2162-606: Is subject to local intellectual property rights. The animators must also be aware of the contracts laws and labour laws prevalent in the jurisdiction to which the animation studio is subject to. There have been numerous legal battles fought over the copyright of famous franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda and SpongeBob SquarePants . This has come about as a result of the clause in Copyright contracts that states that an idea cannot be protected, only an actual piece of work can be said to be infringed upon. This means that though

2256-458: The 1964 World's Fair , at which time Disney said he hoped to "make something just like" Tezuka's Astro Boy someday, but unfortunately, nothing came of it. The hiring of a new CEO for The Walt Disney Company in 1984, Michael Eisner, led him to push to expand Disney into new areas thus the establishment of a television animation division that year, whose output would be shopped to all markets: networks, Disney Channel and syndication. Eisner held

2350-694: The Disney Princess Enchanted Tales line after the latter's first DVD. The release of The Little Mermaid 3 was put on hold. Disney Studios president Alan Bergman went to oversee day-to-day operations of DTS. Thus DTS halted production of sequels and prequels when it originally indicated that the division would shift to support various Playhouse Disney franchises with direct-to-videos. Meredith Roberts transferred from Walt Disney Television Animation to senior vice president and general manager of Disneytoon Studios in January 2008 . At

2444-470: The Jetix Play channels (internationally). Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil became the first Disney XD original animated show preceding Disney Channel's Fish Hooks . The following Disney XD cartoons were Motorcity , Tron Uprising , Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja , and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero . All of which were co-produced by other animation resources except for The 7D (which

2538-459: The Seven Dwarfs for a male-centric franchise to counterbalance the female-centric Fairies by 2005. John Lasseter joined Disney with the purchase of Pixar in 2006, and made it known that he disliked Disneytoon's sequels and prequels, as he felt that they were undercutting the value of the original feature films. Following complications relating to the production of Tinker Bell (2008),

2632-604: The 1920s to the 1950s or sometimes considered from 1911 to the death of Walt Disney in 1966, is commonly known as the Golden Age of American Animation as it included the growth of Disney, as well as the rise of Warner Bros. Cartoons and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio as prominent animation studios. Disney continued to lead in technical prowess among studios for a long time afterwards, as can be seen with their achievements . In 1941, Otto Messmer created

2726-500: The 1990–1991 season , Disney expanded the idea even further, to create The Disney Afternoon , a two-hour-long syndicated block of half-hour cartoons, which premiered much later on September 10, 1990. DuckTales was one of the early flagship cartoons in the block. On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg 's resignation, Richard Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT), which included WDTA, from units of The Walt Disney Studios . Morrill

2820-478: The April unveiling of Disney's animated feature lineup, it was announced that Disneytoon Studios would no longer produce future sequels to Disney animated films, but will instead focus on spin-offs. Also, the division was under the banner of the renamed Walt Disney Feature Animation studio, now called Walt Disney Animation Studios, led by Catmull and Lasseter. In November 2017, Lasseter announced that he would be taking

2914-494: The Barbarian , Brandy & Mr. Whiskers , Mickey Mouse Clubhouse , My Friends Tigger & Pooh , and The Emperor's New School were in already in production. At this point, animated series would have to be produced solely by the network's animation division. So Disney Channel began experimenting with newer animation techniques to reduce costs under the re-established Disney Channels Worldwide . The Buzz on Maggie

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3008-522: The Bray-Hurd Patent Company and sold these techniques for royalties to other animation studios of the time. The biggest name in animation studios during this early time was Disney Brothers Animation Studio (now known as Walt Disney Animation Studios ), co-founded by Walt and Roy O. Disney . Started on October 16, 1923, the studio went on to make its first animated short, Steamboat Willie in 1928, to much critical success, though

3102-506: The Disney Channel's interstitial shorts hosted by characters from Big City Greens , The Ghost and Molly McGee , Hailey's On It! and Kiff under the name Shorts Spectacular . In 2022 the division launched a crossover series under the name Chibiverse based on Chibi Tiny Tales. In Summer 2019, long-time Disney Television Animation Head Eric Coleman left the studio to become development executive at Illumination . Coleman

3196-504: The Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres unit moved from Television Animation to Feature Animation . The studio was then renamed Disneytoon Studios. While Stainton took over as President of Disney Feature Animation from Schumacher, Blumberg returned to WDTVA as president. Kim Possible became the first cartoon produced by Disney Channel (as Jambalaya Studio produced The Proud Family for

3290-524: The Gummi Bears , joined by an original concept The Wuzzles , both which are based upon talking animal -based conceptions. The third series in a similar vein, Fluppy Dogs , was produced as a single 45min-long TV movie pilot that aired on ABC on Thanksgiving 1986 and was loosely based a series of children's books and line of toys about a race of anthropomorphic pastel-colored dimension-hopping alien called "fluppy dogs." Dismal viewership ensured

3384-673: The Japanese studios churned out minor works of animation. But with the release of Toei's first theatrical feature, The Tale of the White Serpent released in October 1958, the animation industry in Japan came into the eye of the general public. The success of Alakazam the Great led to the finding of the artist Osamu Tezuka , who would go on to become the father of Japanese manga with his brand of modern, fast-paced fantasy storylines. He became influenced by Hanna-Barbera productions of

3478-710: The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp in 1990. Its final feature film was Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast in 2015. Disney MovieToons' first feature production was DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp in 1990, with animation by Walt Disney Animation France . Disney Television Animation hired director of specials, Sharon Morrill, in 1993. Disney began producing direct-to-video (DTV) sequels of Walt Disney Feature Animation films:

3572-462: The OVA market, looking to capitalize on the popularity of their flagship shows. Studios participating in such circumstances include Production I.G and Studio Deen . Although there are permanent/full-time positions in studios, most animators work on a contract basis. There are some animators that are considered to be in the core group of the studio, which can either be as a result of being there since

3666-567: The River for Disney+. The same month, the studio greenlit Robogobo as part of the Disney Junior Fun Fest event at Disney California Adventure . In May, the studio ordered Cookies & Milk , produced by Cinema Gypsy Productions & Jesse James Films. In June 2022, Disney Television Animation General Manager Meredith Roberts was promoted to Executive Vice President of Animation at Disney Branded Television. The same month

3760-507: The September 1, 1997 season started, the block dropped The Disney Afternoon (temporally rebranded as the "Disney-Kellogg Alliance" ), moving shows to Disney Channel . On September 13, 1997, Disney's ABC unit launched Disney's One Saturday Morning . The programming block included several new shows, such as 101 Dalmatians , Recess , Pepper Ann , Disney's Doug , and Mickey Mouse Works . In January 1998, Disney also reached

3854-469: The Westernized title of direct-to-video animations, the OVA market has spread to American animation houses. Their popularity has resulted in animated adaptations of comic characters ranging from Hellboy , Green Lantern and Avengers . Television shows such as Family Guy and Futurama also released direct-to-video animations. DC Comics have continually released their own animated movies for

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3948-599: The animation being provided by Mercury Filmworks , the collaboration as well included animations from different " The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse" characters for AR magnets within the Walt Disney World Passholder. In November 2022, the studio began developing workplace comedy series Intercats a co-production with Baobab Studios. The same month the studio started development in Sofia The First: Royal Magic,

4042-477: The animators may have forwarded ideas to the animation studios about certain characters and plots, these ideas alone cannot be protected and can lead to studios profiting on individual animator's ideas. However, this has not stopped many independent artists from filing claims to characters produced by different studios. Due to the wide range of animation techniques and styles, many animation studios typically specialize in certain types. Traditional animation employs

4136-456: The arrival of then CEO Michael Eisner that year. The division is responsible for developing and producing animated television series , films , specials and short films for broadcast on the Disney branded networks; Disney Channel , Disney XD and Disney Jr. , as well as Disney+ . The Walt Disney Company first ventured into the television industry as early as 1950, beginning with

4230-547: The bigger studios. Examples of such co-operation are the joint ventures between DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures and that of Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Studios . On August 22, 2016, Comcast's NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation , appointing Meledandri oversee Comcast's Universal Animation/DreamWorks/Illumination, Disney's Disney Animation/Pixar/20th Century Animation, & Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Animation/Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. The first known example of Japanese animation, also called anime ,

4324-530: The cancellation of all future films in production or development at Disneytoon Studios. As a result, planned or in-progress sequels to Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), The Aristocats (1970), Chicken Little (2005), and Meet the Robinsons (2007) were all cancelled, among other projects. Tinker Bell ' s animation was scrapped and was restarted while two projects that DCP formed as franchise projects were canceled, which were "Disney's Dwarfs" and

4418-399: The debut film of DCP's Fairies franchise, it led to discussions over the focus of the division. Thus, Morrill, president of the studio, moved to a new position in the company. On June 22, 2007, management of Disneytoon Studios was turned over to the control of Alan Bergman, president of Walt Disney Studios, with input from Ed Catmull and Lasseter. As chief creative officer, Lasseter called for

4512-522: The division has also been used by Disney to cross-promote multiple live action film franchises produced by Disney Branded Television for Disney Channel Original Movies and Disney+ Original Films as well making shorts based on the live action films from the Walt Disney Studios library and rides and attractions from Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort. Additionally, the division has been produced several season-themed compilation specials of

4606-414: The division is boldly entering new territory, with projects in development in genres that Disney Television Animation has yet to explore for kids and family co-viewing audience. In September 2024, it was announced that Kiff would be getting a Halloween special named The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House which debuted on October 5, 2024 alongside another holiday special set for 2025. In November 2024,

4700-404: The end of the year, but would take on a consulting role until then. Disneytoon Studios closed on June 28, 2018, resulting in a layoff of 75 animators and staff. As a result, the studio's third Planes film about the future of aviation in outer space was removed from both Disney's film release date schedule of April 12, 2019 and from development. Since 2019, the studio building has been used as

4794-577: The first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . Since then, Disney / Pixar have produced the most number of movies either to win or be nominated for the award. Though the term "direct-to-video" carries negative connotations in the North American and European markets, direct-to-video animation has seen a rise, as a concept, in the Western markets. With many comic characters receiving their versions of OVA 's, original video animations , under

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4888-476: The first animated television commercials for Botany Tie ads/weather reports. They were shown on NBC-TV in New York until 1949. This marked the first forays of animation designed for the smaller screen and was to be followed by the first animated series specifically made for television, Crusader Rabbit , in 1948. Its creator, Alex Anderson , had to create the studio 'Television Arts Productions' specifically for

4982-527: The first of which was the Aladdin (1992) sequel The Return of Jafar (1994). When Aladdin was selected as a possible candidate as an animated TV series (before the film's release), as with many animated series, the first three episodes were a multi-part story which Disney used as a potential "family movie special" for the Friday night before the series' premiere. The opening story was instead greenlit for

5076-414: The home video market, while not tending to the television or theatrical audience as such. They refer to those movies that are launched as direct-to-video releases and not meant to be released in theatres. Video productions can run from half an hour productions to well over two hours. They require that premise or story be original in order to be counted as an OVA, though sometimes, the story can be derived from

5170-520: The idea that a substantially larger investment into quality animation could be made back through both network television and over-the-air in syndication , as well as cable . The final result is a string of higher budgeted animated television productions which proved to be profitable ventures and raised the standard for the TV medium. The first productions to make it to air from the studio arrived in 1985, with Eisner's concept fleshed out into Adventures of

5264-421: The inception of the company or being talented recruits from other animation studios. These are the more secure positions in an animation studio, though the studio might have policies concerning the possible tenure of animators. Since studios can hire animators on a work for hire basis nowadays, many artists do not retain rights over their creations, unlike some of the early animators. The extent of these copyrights

5358-575: The late 1950s and made Japan's first made for television animation studio, Mushi Productions . The success of the studios' first show in 1963, Astro Boy , was so immense that there were 3 other television animation studios by the end of the year and Toei had opened their own made for television division. The greatest difference between Japanese studios and North American studios was the difference in adult-themed material to make way in Japan. Tezuka's thought that animation should not be restricted to kids alone has brought about many studios that are employed in

5452-449: The network to switch to syndicating promotions for new original shows for Disney Channel and upcoming Jetix brand (which held the previous Fox Kids library). In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. Disney then transferred all Television Animation to Disney Channels Worldwide . In this reorganization,

5546-635: The network). In 2004, Walt Disney Television Animation formed a joint venture with partner Jetix Europe to produce animated series for the Jetix Europe-owned channels globally, titled Jetix Animation Concepts . Three shows were produced by WDTA under the banner: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! , Get Ed , and Yin Yang Yo! . Throughout the 2000s, Disney continued to create new animated Disney Channel (and Playhouse Disney ) Originals such as Lilo & Stitch: The Series , Dave

5640-473: The one-hour Christmas special, One Hour in Wonderland . This was followed by the 1951 Christmas special, The Walt Disney Christmas Show , the long-running (1954–2008) anthology series , The Wonderful World of Disney (which was Disney's first regular series as a whole), the children's variety show The Mickey Mouse Club , and the adventure series, Zorro (1957–1959). However, one element

5734-564: The only shows not moved to the sister channel. In 2016 Disney XD greenlit Big City Greens (then titled Country Club ). Disney announced Milo Murphy's Law for Disney XD that same year, along with a reboot of DuckTales as early as 2015 becoming the first reboot of the studio. However, to renovate marketing, Disney ceased production of all original shows for Disney XD. The last shows created were Pickle and Peanut , Future-Worm! and Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer were all announced, as early as 2014, but would air in

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5828-560: The production of adult-themed adaptations of classic stories such as Heidi ( Heidi, Girl of the Alps ), One Thousand and One Nights and The Diary of a Young Girl and many more. In the 1980s, animation studios were led back to their theatrical roots due to the success of Hayao Miyazaki 's film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , which led publishing house Tokuma Shoten to finance

5922-426: The project never made it to series. In 1987, Disney finally unveiled the newest series yet in its cycle, and the first in their successful long-time line of syndicated animated shows, DuckTales . Though still forbidden from using the star characters, minor characters such as Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey and Louie were allowed, and Disney did concede to allow for a brief appearance by Donald Duck to establish

6016-446: The purpose of creating this series as his old studio, Terrytoons , refused to make a series for television. Since Crusader Rabbit, however, many studios have seen this as a profitable enterprise and many have entered the made for television market since, with Joseph Barbera and William Hanna refining the production process for television animation on their show Ruff and Reddy . It was in 1958 that The Huckleberry Hound Show claimed

6110-461: The real breakthrough was in 1937, when the studio was able to produce a full-length animated feature film i.e. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , which laid the foundation for other studios to try to make full-length movies. In 1932 Flowers and Trees , a production by Walt Disney Productions and United Artists , won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film . This period, from

6204-837: The reconstruction, Disney & ABC also rebranded its One Saturday Morning block to ABC Kids (a subtle tribute to the Fox Kids brand after being acquired by Disney through its purchase of Fox Family Worldwide in 2001) on September 14, 2002. On August 31, 2003, Disney discontinued the One Too block, thus ending their deal with UPN. After the relaunch as ABC Kids, many of the shows' premieres moved to sister network Toon Disney due to schedule constraints. The remaining shows included: The Weekenders , Teacher's Pet , House of Mouse , Lloyd in Space , Teamo Supremo , and Fillmore! . All new episodes finished airing by 2004, allowing

6298-711: The resulting frames are played back. Notable studios specializing in this style of animation include Aardman Animations , Laika and ShadowMachine . 3D animation is the newest of the animation techniques, using the assistance of computers and software, such as Houdini , to create 3D models that are then manipulated and rendered to create movement. Notable studios include Pixar Animation Studios , Sony Pictures Imageworks , Blue Sky Studios , Illumination , DNEG and Marza Animation Planet . Disney Television Animation Disney Television Animation ( DTVA ) (formerly known as Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group and Walt Disney Television Animation )

6392-563: The same time, Barry Blumberg was elevated to the executive vice president for network and syndicated animated TV series. Both reported to Disney Television president Charles Hirschhorn. In the second quarter of 2000, due to weak financial performance, Disney Animation Canada was closed. David Stainton took charge of the company as executive vice president in January 2000 then as president in February 2002 under Thomas Schumacher . Due to

6486-540: The sequential years. Since 2017 the studio has collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products in providing character designs and animation for various attractions in Disneyland Resort , Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line from the Mickey Mouse universe and The Disney Afternoon . These include Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway in 2020, Aqua-Mouse,

6580-465: The series, allowing them to adapt the Duck universe adventure serials by Carl Barks into animation. The show was successful enough to spawn a feature film, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp , and two spin-off series: Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack . 1990 release Treasure of the Lost Lamp was the first movie from TV Animation Disney MovieToon unit. Disney Television Animation hired

6674-417: The sole purpose of sale in the direct-to-video market. With growing worries about piracy, direct to video animation might become more popular in the near future. With the growth of animation as an industry, the trends of ownership of studios have gradually changed with time. Current studios such as Warner Bros. and early ones such as Fleischer Studios , started life as small, independent studios, being run by

6768-453: The specials " Mickey's Christmas Tales ", "Mickey's Spooky Stories" a nd "Mickey and Minnie's Christmas Carols" debuted in November 2023, October 2024 and November 2024. In January 2023, the studio announced that Phineas And Ferb would be getting a revival with two brand new seasons for Disney Channel and Disney+. In June 2023, the studio would announce StuGo , another co-production with Titmouse, for Disney Channel. The same month it

6862-667: The studio greenlit Zombies: The Re-Animated Series based on the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise . In Summer 2022 the studio started a collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Yellow Shoes for redesigns and animations of classic characters from the Walt Disney Animation Studios film and shorts library such as Dumbo , Orange Bird , Oswald The Lucky Rabbit , Hei-Hei , Stitch , Timon and Pumbaa . The redesigns where provided by Paul Rudish and Asia Ellington with

6956-403: The studio greenlit The Witchverse , a joint venture with Baobab Studios for Disney+. In January 2022, the studio announced that they had begun production on Big City Greens The Movie: Spacecation for Disney Channel and Disney+. In February 2022, it was reported that Disney TVA was developing an animated film based on Superfudge with AGBO for Disney+ . The studio is also developing

7050-454: The studio would order a slate of original series, the first ones where Kiff , a co-production with Titmouse, Inc. , Hailey's On It! and Primos for Disney Channel. Alice's Wonderland Bakery , Rise Up, Sing Out and Firebuds for Disney Jr.. In August 2021, the studio would announce two new holiday movies Mickey's Tale of Two Witches and Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas for Disney Jr. In December of that year

7144-608: The studio, such as Star vs. the Forces of Evil , DuckTales , Big Hero 6: The Series , and Milo Murphy's Law , moved their premieres as well, with many of their productions being wrapped up. In early 2019 the studio began making animated interstitial for Disney Jr. and Disney Channel based on the characters from the productions of the studio like Mickey Mornings , a revival of Minnie's Bow Toons and Me & Mickey Vlog for Disney Jr. and Chibi Tiny Tales , Broken Karaoke and How Not To Draw for Disney Channel. Since 2020

7238-623: The time the Walt Disney Company merged with Capital Cities / ABC , TV Animation was a unit of Walt Disney Television within the Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications group (WDTT). With the retirement of WDTT group president Dennis Hightower in April 1996 and ongoing post-merger reorganization, the unit (along with its Disney TV parent) was transferred to the Walt Disney Studios . When

7332-403: The title of being the first all-new half-hour cartoon show. This, along with their previous success with the series Tom and Jerry , elevated their animation studio, H.B. Enterprises (later Hanna-Barbera Productions ), to dominate the North American television animation market during the latter half of the 20th century. In 2002, Shrek , produced by DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images won

7426-513: The use of hand-drawn frames, and is used in the world of cartoons, movies and anime. Notable studios that specialize in this style include Studio Ghibli , Cartoon Saloon , Nickelodeon Animation Studio , Disney Television Animation , 20th Television Animation , Warner Bros. Animation , Cartoon Network Studios , Titmouse , Ufotable , Studio Chizu and CoMix Wave Films . Stop-motion animation uses objects that are incrementally moved and photographed in order to create an illusion of movement when

7520-568: Was also promoted as vice-president of development the same month. Fragner would oversee development on projects for Disney+, while Taylor would supervise Disney Channel projects. In February 2022, Sarah Finn was promoted to senior vice-president of production, overseeing physical production for projects across all three Disney networks. On July 22, 2022, Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia were both promoted to VP of current series; Bensimon will oversee development on original series, while Mejia will work on series based on preexisting Disney IP. In 2021,

7614-448: Was among the first Disney series to fully utilize Adobe Flash animation, thus saving costs and allowing experimentation. American Dragon: Jake Long (which premiered just months prior) and The Replacements received cleaner redesigns for their second seasons (noteworthy, as both series originated as their creator's storybooks) to ease the animation styles for fitting TV budgets. The success of Kim Possible also helped show that there

7708-498: Was announced that The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse franchise would be ending after the premiere of the special Steamboat Silly which debuted on July 28, 2023 on Disney+. In August 2023 the studio announced Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ , their first reboot based on a preschool property. In June 2024, it was announced that the studio would revive the Prep & Landing series who originated at Walt Disney Animation Studios in

7802-486: Was in charge of the first Aladdin direct-to-video sequel launching Disney Video Premiere/Direct to Video unit. Three overseas Disney studios were set up to produce the company's animated television series. Disney Animation Australia was started in 1988. In 1989, the Brizzi brothers sold Brizzi Films to Disney Television Animation and was renamed Walt Disney Animation France. Also that year, Disney Animation Japan

7896-494: Was marketing value in Disney Channel cartoons as the network ordered a fourth season (opposed to the standard three seasons of 65 episodes). Disney soon launched Phineas and Ferb soon after the closure of Kim Possible (which surpassed it as their longest-running animated series). In 2009, Disney–ABC Television Group rebranded both Toon Disney and Jetix as Disney XD with the Jetix brand officially being retired by 2010. The goal

7990-412: Was merged with the units of direct-to-video films and network TV specials as Morrill was promoted to executive vice president over her existing unit of DTV films, network TV specials and theatrical films. Ellen Gurney was promoted from director of DTV films, theatrical movies and specials to vice president in April 1999. In a January 2003 reorganization of Disney, Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres

8084-426: Was missing from Disney's expansion into television: an original animated television series. Until the early '80s, the studio had never produced its own original animated shows in-house, because Walt Disney felt it was economically impossible. Nearly all pre-1985 TV animation was wrap-around segments made to bridge the gaps on existing theatrical material on The Wonderful World of Disney . Osamu Tezuka met Walt at

8178-566: Was originally greenlit for Disney Jr.). In 2015, the studio debuted Descendants: Wicked World , their first project based on the live-action Descendants franchise by the Disney Channel Original Movies division. Despite still making original shows for the main channel by 2014, most animated shows such as Gravity Falls and Wander Over Yonder shifted as Disney XD Originals. Mickey Mouse , Descendants: Wicked World, and Tangled: The Series remained

8272-602: Was promoted to president of Disneytoon. On July 25, 2005 , Disney announced that it was closing Disneytoon Studios Australia in October 2006 after 17 years of existence, with its final feature being Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007). In the early 2000s, Disneytoon joined Disney Consumer Products (DCP) as their internal video partner within the Disney conglomerate in developing the new Disney franchises, which then only consisted of Disney Princess and Disney Fairies . While DCP eyed other potential franchises, DTS looked into

8366-555: Was promoted to vice president of the direct-to-video unit by November 1997. The Walt Disney Television group, upon the departure of its president Dean Valentine in September 1997, was split into two units, Walt Disney Television (WDT) and Walt Disney Network Television (WDNT), reporting to Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth . WDT would be headed by Charles Hirschhorn as president and consisted of Disney Telefilms and Walt Disney Television Animation, which included including Disney MovieToons and Disney Video Premiere. The unit released

8460-413: Was replaced by former general manager of DisneyToon Studios Meredith Roberts who served as senior VP animation strategy at Disney TVA since the shut down of DisneyToon Studios on 2018. The studio would inherit the former DisneyToon Studios building as a third animation unit for future productions. In 2019, Disney greenlit two new shows, The Ghost and Molly McGee and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur ,

8554-497: Was spearheaded by Raoul Barré and his studio, Barré Studio , co-founded with Bill Nolan , beating out the studio created by J.R. Bray , Bray Productions , to the honor of the first studio dedicated to animation. Though beaten to the post of being the first studio, Bray's studio employee, Earl Hurd , came up with patents designed for mass-producing the output for the studio. As Hurd did not file for these patents under his own name but handed them to Bray, they would go on to form

8648-459: Was started. Walt Disney Animation Canada was opened in January 1996 to tap Canada's animator pool and produce direct-to-video. As direct-to-video increased in importance, the overseas studios moved to making feature films. WDTT chair Frank left Disney in March 1995. With Krisel expecting to be promoted to head up WDTT but passed over, Krisel left WDTA at the end of his contract in January 1996. At

8742-515: Was to simplify the marketing of channels by merging the two brands. In 2011, the ABC Kids block closed as well. By the early 2010s, the television group started to create some original shows for newly sister channel Disney XD. The group renamed the animation studio to just Disney Television Animation (or DTVA ). Playhouse Disney was rebranded as Disney Jr. in 2011 and receiving standalone channels in 2012; by replacing Soapnet (domestically) and

8836-574: Was transferred from Walt Disney Television Animation to Walt Disney Feature Animation and renamed Disneytoon Studios (DTS) in June. Morrill continued to lead the division as executive vice president. With the split, both Disneytoon and Disney Television Animation were issuing direct to video features. Disney closed Disney Animation Japan, one of the two remaining internal overseas studios Disneytoon worked with, in June 2004, with Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) as its final DTS work. By March 2005 , Morrill

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