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Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios (Уолт Дисней Энимейшн Студиос, WDFA) — американская анимационная студия (компания), которая является ключевым составным звеном компании Уолта Диснея. До 2007 года студия называлась Walt Disney Feature Animation. Студия Feature Animation была одним целым вместе с Walt Disney Productions с 1934 года (год начала работ над анимационным фильмом «Белоснежка и семь гномов») до 1986 года, когда в результате корпоративной реструктуризации была создана The Walt Disney Company, чьей дочерней компанией и стала студия.
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Анимационная студия расквартирована в городе Бербанк, штат Калифорния через улицу от основного комплекса Walt Disney Studios, в специальном здании построенном в 1995 году. Вспомогательные студии в парке развлечений «Disney-MGM Studios» в городе Лейк-Буэна-Виста, штат Флорида (1989—2003) и в Парижском Диснейленде (1995—2002) были закрыты, чтобы сосредоточить всю работу над компьютерной анимацией в Бербанке. Председателем WDFA официально был Рой Эдвард Дисней с 1985 года до отставки в ноябре 2003 года, который оказывал большое влияние на всё подразделение. Большинство решений, однако, принимались президентом WDFA, который официально подчинялся Диснею, но на практике находился в зависимости от распоряжений главы компании Уолта Диснея — Майклу Эйснеру.
В настоящее время, президентом объединённой студии Disney-Pixar является Эд Кэтмолл, а Джон Лассетер — главный креативный инспектор студии. Кэтмолл подчиняется президенту и генеральному директору Walt Disney Company Роберту Айгеру и председателю Walt Disney Studios Дику Куку. Лассетер отчитывается перед президентом и генеральным директором Робертом Айгером и консультируется с директором Disney Роем Эдвардом Диснеем.
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Анимационная студия Walt Disney Animation Studios примечательна своими инновациями, которые стали стандартами в анимационной индустрии:
Что такое walt disney animation studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios, 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.
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1923-1928: Origins & Early Years
Kansas City, Missouri native Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Los Angeles in 1923, producing a series of silent Alice Comedies short films featuring a live-action child actress in an animated world. The Alice Comedies were distributed by Margaret J. Winkler’s Winkler Pictures, which later also distributed a second Disney short subject series, the all-animated Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, starting in 1927 through Universal Pictures.
After the first year’s worth of Oswalds, Walt Disney went to New York to renew his contract with Winkler Pictures, but Charles Mintz, who had taken over the business after marrying Margaret Winkler, attempted to force Disney to accept a lower advance per short. Disney refused, and Mintz began set up his own animation studio to produce Oswald cartoons, having signed up most of Disney’s staff to come under Mintz’ employ after Disney’s contract was done.
Working in secret while the rest of the staff finished the remaining Oswalds on contract, Disney and his head animator Ub Iwerks led a small handful of remaining staffers in producing cartoons starring a new character named Mickey Mouse. The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho, made only mild ipressions when previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928. For the third Mickey cartoon, however, Disney collaborated with musician Carl Stalling and businessman Pat Powers (businessman, who provided Disney with his bootlegged «Cinephone» sound-on-film process.
Subsequently, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, became Disney’s first cartoon with synchronized sound, and was a major success upon its November 1928 debut at the West 57th Theatre in New York City. The earlier Mickeys had soundtracks created for them as well, and all future Mickeys were produced in sound. The Mickey Mouse series, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States.
Disney Television Animation
Disney Television Animation
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Disney Television Animation is an animation studio that is the TV animation production arm of the Disney Branded Television, a division of Walt Disney Television, dedicated to creating, developing and producing animated television series, films, specials, and other projects.
Established in 1984 during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of The Walt Disney Company following the arrival of then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the entity was formerly known as The Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group, the name was then later shortened to Walt Disney Television Animation starting in mid-1988 and the name remained up until 2011, when it was shortened again to Disney Television Animation.
The unit was originally formed as the animation production arm of the former Walt Disney Television group banner. Television Animation, itself part of The Walt Disney Studios, Burbank and formerly parented by the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, like all of the in-house/outsourcing television animation studios proved a commercially successful venture, as most of the animated series it produced and established were well received at best and were successful enough to gain and earn enough popularity during their initial premieres (due to virtually-acclaimed promotional campaigns and groundbreaking receptions for their animated shows). The Television Animation studio previously had some immediate eventual success in 1985, when they successfully gambled with substantially higher budgeted productions which proved profitable ventures that raised the standard for the TV medium.
In 2003, it absorbed the old U.S. Walt Disney Television group name, re-branding itself into a separate unit of its own that same year. Today, the aforementioned Walt Disney Television brand is still active as in-name-only by producing television programs internationally.
The studio is (or was) responsible for and exclusively involved in the production of animated television programming and other projects (including made-for-TV films, specials, and short subjects). The company formally produced many of the cartoon shows airing on The Disney Afternoon syndication package program and the ABC Kids Saturday morning programming block of the ABC television network, but in the present, the studio is under control and under contact from Disney’s cable television network Disney Channel to produce and program animated original content exclusively for the channel (as of late 2002).
It is headquartered since 1998 in the Frank G. Wells Building on the Studio Lot across from the Team Disney Burbank building (fronted by the Seven Dwarfs). The Frank G. Wells building was specifically designed for Television Animation, and has a film reel and filmstrip across the front of the building facing Team Disney Burbank across the parking lot. Television Animation has a secondary building located in Glendale on Sonora Street which they moved into in 2002, since the creation of Disneytoon Studios in 2003, both studios share the building.
Television Animation was formerly headquartered at the Motion Picture and Television Academy in North Hollywood, with a secondary building on Cahuenga. For a short period of time following the 1998 move, the secondary building was the Fairmont building next to Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank. Television Animation is now split between the Frank G. Wells Building (third floor), and its first floor location in Glendale at the Sonora Building.
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The Walt Disney Company first ventured into the television industry as early as 1950, beginning with the one-hour one-off special, One Hour in Wonderland. This was followed by 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 1957-1959 adventure series, Zorro. However, one element 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 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.
But under new management, the studio, (originally known as Walt Disney Productions), formed in 1985 what was originally christened the Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group, but then was later renamed as Walt Disney Television Animation, to produce high-quality animated television series. They invested far more money into the television series than had previously been spent on animated shows of the time. This was considered a risky move, because animated TV series were generally considered low-budget investments for most of the history of TV animation 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 through the 1980s.
However, the studio took a number of risks that paid off handsomely. The studio successfully gambled on 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 Disney television animation cycle began in mid-1985, with The Wuzzles (which premiered on CBS on September 14, 1985) and Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears (which had premiered on NBC on September 14, 1985 at the same time as and shown first-run back-to-back with The Wuzzles), both which are based upon funny animal-based conceptions, the Gummi Bears being named after a common candy and the Wuzzles originating as a hybrid of two animals put together into one creature. The supposedly (and possibly) final third series in the incidentally so-called «magic animal»-based «trilogy» of original character sets was going to be Disney’s Fluppy Dogs (which premiered only as an hour-long TV pilot on ABC on November 27, 1986), itself loosely based a series of children’s books and line of toys about a race of anthropomorphic pastel-colored dimension-hopping alien (fluppy) dogs. It was not a successful hit (due to low viewership and support) however, as the proposed series was not picked up after it never went beyond that one pilot episode, and the studio instead quickly fell into a routine of adapting its old properties into the new use, which ultimately, Disney coincidentally really did.
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, which premiered on September 18, 1987. 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. 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 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 series.
Most of the following shows produced by WDTA premiered on ABC and some on NBC, CBS and over-the-air in first-run syndication, and are (or were) currently being re-run almost every day on various incarnations of The Disney Channel (despite whom since 2002, the cable network now produces exclusive material of its own from WDTA) and its spin-offs, the now-defunct Toon Disney and Playhouse Disney and their successors Disney XD and Disney Junior.
Ownership and management
Originally, Television Animation was formerly part of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, it has had been since then taken on by the Disney-ABC Television Group in circa 2004. Also, since November 2005, Walt Disney Television Animation is now a unit of Disney Channel, operating as its animation sub-arm, similar to Cartoon Network’s Cartoon Network Studios and Nickelodeon’s own Nickelodeon Animation Studio. WDTA is headed by Eric Coleman, Vice President of Original Series of WDTA, he reports to Carolina Lightcap, president of Disney Channel.
Prior this president of Television Animation was Barry Blumberg, who announced his resignation in November 2005.
Tom Ruzicka, now at Universal Animation Studios, was one of the original executives in charge of this fledgling group. Other animation executives that worked at Television Animation over the years were Barbara Ferro, Sharon Morrill, Bill Gross (former President of Jumbo Pictures, creators of Doug), Maia Mattise, Lenora Hume.
List of Disney Television Animation productions
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| Title | Original running | Notes | Series Production Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse | 2020-present | ||
| Monsters at Work | 2021-present | Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios. | |
| The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder | 2022 | Co-production with Jambalaya Studio. | |
| Darkwing Duck | 2022 | Co-production with Point Grey Pictures. | |
| The Buzz on Maggie: Back to Rock! | 2023 | ||
| Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Series | TBA | ||
| Untitled Lucy Heavens and Nic Small series | TBA |
Television specials
| Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|
| Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too | December 14, 1991 |
| Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh | October 25, 1996 |
| A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving | November 22, 1998 |
| A Valentine for You | February 13, 1999 |
| O.W.C.A. Files | November 9, 2015 |
| Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special | December 9, 2016 |
| The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular | October 8, 2017 |
The first four are originally-produced first-run specials directly related to the TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Feature films
Television films
Disney television films
Disney Channel Original Movies
Disney XD original movies
Disney Junior original movies
Direct-to-video films
Disney+ original movies
Theatrical films
Short films
Only Fluppy Dogs is not related to any television series, as it is a failed pilot episode to the proposed TV series of that same name.
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Background
Walt Disney Animation Studios (formerly known as Walt Disney Animation until 1994 and Walt Disney Feature Animation until 2007) is an American animation studio formed in 1986 by the animation staff of Walt Disney Productions during the split of the company, and was renamed to The Walt Disney Company. As both Walt Disney Productions and Walt Disney Animation Studios combined, it is one of the oldest-running animation studios in the world, and was known for making feature-length movies, though it does make animated shorts as well. The company didn’t have a on-screen logo until John Lasseter took in change of the studio in 2007. The current CEO of the studio is Frozen co-director and writer Jennifer Lee since 2017. The sister companies are Pixar Animation Studios (2006-present) and Blue Sky Studios (2019-2021).
(March 30, 2007- )
2.33.1 (21:9 Widescreen)
50th Animated Feature variant
8-bit variant exclusively seen on Wreck-It Ralph
Nickname: «Steamboat Willie»
Logo: On a gold paper background, a red circle is drawn in. As the camera zooms out, more pieces of paper fold out on the screen like a flipbook (a la the 2002 Marvel logo), and quickly the red circle becomes a rough sketch of Mickey Mouse in his appearance from the 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie. Eventually, the pages stop flipping, and the sketch animates (showing Mickey happily whistling while turning the wheel on the steamboat he is driving) before slowly turning into the original scene it depicts from the short. The scene zooms out onto a yellow-gold spotlight background, and below the picture, the words «WALT DiSNEY» write themselves in a sketchier version of the signature corporate font, with «ANIMATION STUDIOS» fading in underneath.
FX/SFX: Mostly CGI. The logo was directed by Mike Gabriel and produced by Roy Conli, using Ub Iwerks’ original animation drawings from Steamboat Willie as reference.
Music/Sounds: The sound of pages turning followed by Mickey whistling a cheerful tune, in which is archived audio from the cartoon.
Editor’s Note: A very nice throwback to one of the studio’s most important films.