A 2009 documentary that chronicles the history of Disney animation from 1981 to 1994 is titled as Waking which much-loved character?
"studio. ""Waking Sleeping Beauty"" debuted at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival, and played at film festivals across the country before its limited theatrical release on March 26, 2010 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The documentary is narrated by animator and film producer Don Hahn, with numerous audio interviews from company animators and executives. The documentary begins in the early 1980s, when The Walt Disney Company was led by Walt Disney's son-in-law Ron W. Miller. Many new animators had joined the company after graduating from CalArts, but were hired in a time where animation was considered a dying art. Roy"
"is the central character. This does not include comic books or activity books such as coloring books. Donald Duck Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in ""TV Guide""s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of"
"Donald Duck Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in ""TV Guide""s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is"
"Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the Disney media franchise based on A. A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Pooh is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002 and also has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Disney's Pooh was originally voiced by Sterling Holloway (1966–1977) in three featurettes that were later used as segments in ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the"
"until Disney was able to boost Mickey's popularity further by making him a top merchandise icon by the end of 1934. Animator Chuck Jones observed, ""That was the first time that anybody ever brought characters to life [in an animated cartoon]. They were three characters who ""looked"" alike and ""acted"" differently"". (Other animation historians, particularly admirers of Winsor McCay, would dispute the word ""first,"" but Jones was not referring to personality as such but to characterization through posture and movement.) Fifer and Fiddler Pig are frivolous and care-free; Practical Pig is cautious and earnest. The reason for why the film's"
"Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Snow White, Tinker Bell, Winnie the Pooh, Shrek, The Simpsons, the Rugrats, and Snoopy. The star inscribed Charlie Tuna honors not the animated advertising mascot, but Art Ferguson, the long-time radio personality and game show announcer. Other fictional characters on the Walk include the Munchkins (as mentioned), two individual Muppets (Kermit the Frog and Big Bird) and the Muppets as a group, one monster (Godzilla), and three non-animated canine characters (Strongheart, Lassie, and Rin Tin Tin). Ten stars recognize cartoonists and animators: Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Walter Lantz, Hanna–Barbera, Charles M. Schulz,"
"interacted (e.g. the Big Bad Wolf and the fairies from ""Sleeping Beauty""). The tradition was revived in the mid-1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1992), ""Aladdin"" (1993), ""The Lion King"" (1994), ""Pocahontas"" (1995), ""Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996) and ""The Little Mermaid"" (for its re-release, 1997). Newspaper Enterprise Association offered a similar holiday themed special strip from 1936 to 2010. The following writers and artists worked on the Disney comic strips: Norman, in an article, listed the writers working in the comic strip department in the 1980s and mentions Cal Howard, Del Connell, Bill"
"Keane working on ""Tangled"", Claire gave birth to his first grandchild, Matisse, whose appearance served as the animator's inspiration for the infant Rapunzel. Rapunzel was the first blonde-haired Disney animated heroine since Aurora in ""Sleeping Beauty ""(1959). Animating Rapunzel's hair using computer-generated imagery has been regarded as the most challenging aspect in the development process of ""Tangled"". According to the ""Los Angeles Times"", supervising animator Glen Keane has become well known for animating some of Walt Disney Animation Studios' ""greatest hair hits"" since 1989, including Ariel from ""The Little Mermaid"", the Beast from ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991) and Pocahontas"
"26, 1973). His bronze grave marker reads "" According to his granddaughter Hilda Levine, Walt Disney, who would die just a few months later, served as one of his casket bearers. Red Skelton, who was discovered by Wynn, stated: ""His death is the first time he ever made anyone sad."" Wynn's distinct voice was deliberately emulated by Alan Tudyk for the character King Candy in Disney's animated film ""Wreck-It Ralph"". Wynn was posthumously named a Disney Legend on August 10, 2013. Ed Wynn Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an"
"was named a Disney Legend. He was also the recipient of the much-coveted Mousecar (the Disney equivalent of an Oscar). Davis died on January 12, 2000. That same month, the Marc Fraser Davis Scholarship Fund formally was established at the California Institute of the Arts. Marc Davis (animator) Marc Fraser Davis (March 30, 1913 – January 12, 2000) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics. After his work on"
"distant past, such as ""Old Yeller"", ""The Shaggy Dog"", ""Swiss Family Robinson"", ""Bon Voyage!"", and ""Savage Sam"". As most of Disney's cel animation artists were laid off after the computer graphics boom of the late 1990s, the 13 minutes of animation were not done in-house but by the independent Pasadena-based company James Baxter Animation, which was started by noted lead animator James Baxter. Baxter had previously worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios, bringing to life many memorable Disney animated characters like Jessica Rabbit (""Who Framed Roger Rabbit""), Belle (""Beauty and the Beast""), Rafiki (""The Lion King""), and Quasimodo (""The Hunchback"
"usually seen as an honest and bodacious hero. In 2009, Disney began to rebrand the character again by putting less emphasis on his friendly, well-meaning persona and reintroducing the more menacing and stubborn sides of his personality, beginning with the video game ""Epic Mickey"". In August 2018, ABC television announced a two-hour prime time special, ""Mickey's 90th spectacular"", in honor of Mickey's 90th birthday. On November 18, 2018 has celebrations ""Mickey Mouse 90th Anniversary"" around the World. Mickey Mouse was created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an earlier cartoon character created by the Disney studio for Charles"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"
"has been licensed by Disney to appear on many different kinds of merchandise. Mickey was produced as plush toys and figurines, and Mickey's image has graced almost everything from T-shirts to lunchboxes. Largely responsible for Disney merchandising in the 1930s was Kay Kamen (1892–1949) who was called a ""stickler for quality."" Kamen was recognized by The Walt Disney Company as having a significant part in Mickey's rise to stardom and was named a Disney Legend in 1998. At the time of his 80th-anniversary celebration in 2008, ""Time"" declared Mickey Mouse one of the world's most recognized characters, even when compared"
"inducted as a Disney Legend in 1992. Roy Williams (artist) Roy Williams (July 30, 1907 – November 7, 1976) was an artist and entertainer for The Walt Disney Studios, perhaps best known as ""Big Roy,"" the adult mouseketeer for four seasons on the ""Mickey Mouse Club"" television series. Williams was born in Colville, Washington and raised in Los Angeles, where he attended Fremont High School. After graduating, he was hired as an artist by Walt Disney in 1930. He worked on animated shorts while attending Chouinard Art Institute at night. He later also developed story ideas for Disney. He also"
"""Good Morning, Mickey!"" on the Disney Channel. 1.Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938 (VHS) 1985 2.Storybook Favourites Shorts: Three Little Pigs (VHS) (UK) 3.""The Rescuers"" (DVD) 2003 4. (DVD) 2006 5.Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 2: Three Little Pigs (DVD) 2009 6.""The Rescuers"" 35th Anniversary Edition (""The Rescuers""/""The Rescuers Down Under"") 2012 Three Blind Mouseketeers Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme ""Three Blind Mice"" and the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy"
"Aladdin (Disney character) Aladdin is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of Walt Disney Pictures's 31st animated feature film ""Aladdin"" (1992) based on Aladdin, a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin. He is voiced by American actor Scott Weinger, while his singing voice is provided by Brad Kane. He also stars in the two direct-to-video sequels ""The Return of Jafar"" (1994) and ""Aladdin and the King of Thieves"" (1996), as well as the animated television series based on the film. Mena Massoud is set to play a live-action version of the character in a live action adaptation of the"
"Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey for theatrical cartoons. Walt Disney had been the original voice of Mickey and for the original 1954—1959 run provided the voice for animated introductions to the original TV show but had died in 1966. Allwine would keep providing the voice for the character up to his death in 2009. Future rock musician Courtney Love claims to have auditioned for a part on the show, reading a poem by Sylvia Plath; she was not selected. Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and Mouseketeer serial star Tim Considine guest starred in one episode; Former Mouseketeers Darlene Gillespie"
"a loving individual. Walt Disney challenged his animators to make the film's characters appear ""as real as possible"". Animator Marc Davis was the supervising animator for Aurora, responsible for animating the character's most important scenes. By the time he started working on ""Sleeping Beauty"", Davis' prior work experience had already established him as ""one of Walt Disney’s go-to animators for pretty girls,"" having previously animated Snow White and Cinderella, as well as Alice from ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951) and Tinker Bell from ""Peter Pan"" (1953). Although heroines are among the most difficult characters to animate, Davis' knowledge of the human"
"anecdotes relating to Kahl. The centenary of Kahl's birth was honored by the Academy on April 27, 2009, with a tribute entitled ""Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo"" and featured Brad Bird as a panelist. Kahl died of pneumonia, aged 78, in Mill Valley, California. Characters animated by Kahl include the following. Milt Kahl Milton Erwin ""Milt"" Kahl (March 22, 1909 – April 19, 1987) was an American animator. He was one of (and often considered the most influential of) Walt Disney's supervisory team of animators, known as Disney's Nine Old Men. Kahl was born in San Francisco, California, to Erwin,"
"Art Babbitt Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as an animation director and animator, and also developed the character of Goofy. Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as ""The Three Little Pigs"" (1933), ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Fantasia"" (1940), and ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" (1964), among others. Outside of Disney, he also animated ""The Wise Quacking Duck"" (1943) for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Babbitt was"
"Marc Davis (animator) Marc Fraser Davis (March 30, 1913 – January 12, 2000) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics. After his work on ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" he permanently retired from animation. Marc Davis was responsible for many Disney characters. The ones he mainly designed and animated are : Davis, a brilliant draftsman, also designed the characters for many Disneyland rides and show animatronics: In 1989, he"
"13, 2012, aged 86 at a Washington nursing home. Ginny Tyler Merrie Virginia Eggers (née Erlandson; August 8, 1925 – July 13, 2012), known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993. In 2006, she was named a Disney Legend. Tyler was born the elder of two children of Erland Alfred and Harriet (nėe Ruttenberg) Erlandson in 1925 in Berkeley, California, United States. The family moved to Seattle, Washington, where her brother Donald was born. Later her parents were divorced and her mother remarried and Ginny's"
"also ranked Nala eighth on the website's ""Definitive Ranking of Disney Cats"" list. In a 2014 interview, actor Eddie Redmayne admitted that Nala was his first ""celebrity crush"", having been specifically attracted to the character's ""sweet"" face and singing voice, referring to the experience as his ""sexual awakening"". Nala (The Lion King) Nala is a fictional character who appears in Disney's ""The"" ""Lion King"" franchise. Introduced in the animated film ""The Lion King"" in 1994, Nala subsequently appears as a less prominent character in the film's sequels """" (1998) and ""The Lion King 1½"" (2004), and serves as a recurring"
"Foxy (Merrie Melodies) Foxy is an animated cartoon character featured in three 1931 animated shorts in the ""Merrie Melodies"" series distributed by Warner Bros. He was the creation of animator Rudy Ising, who had worked for Walt Disney in the 1920s. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew images of mice on a portrait of Walt Disney. Disney and Ub Iwerks would then use it as the basis for their creation of Mickey Mouse, the character who eventually became Disney's most popular. Comics historian Don Markstein, calling Warner Bros. animator Rudolf Ising's subsequent Foxy ""perhaps the leading Micky Mouse imitator"", observed that,"
"on Disney stock certificates. He appears as a summon in the video game Kingdom Hearts, and as one of the guests in the animated television series ""House of Mouse"". He also makes cameos in ""No Hunting"" (1955), ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), and ""The Lion King 1½"" (2004). In the first film, Bambi is not very strongly personalized to strengthen the environmental perspective of the film. Bambi, as with most of his friends, could be any deer in any forest. In his early youth, Bambi has wide eyes, spindly legs, a curious nature and high-pitched voice. As he grows, he"
"regained their popularity, with Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, ""Toy Story"", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became"
"remain with him. To replace Oswald, Disney and Iwerks developed Mickey Mouse, possibly inspired by a pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear. Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian thought it too pompous, and suggested Mickey instead. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, ""Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."" Mickey Mouse first appeared in May 1928 as a"
"and Merrie Melodies cartoons. From 1929 to 1934, he animated the Bosko character in the Harman and Ising studio. He was one of the few animators who remained with Leon Schlesinger after Harman and Ising left in 1933. In Schlesinger's studio, he animated Buddy, Beans the Cat, and Porky Pig. He then worked as a freelance animator until 1940. He died in 1951 of a heart attack. Rollin Hamilton Rollin Clare (Ham) Hamilton (October 28, 1898, South Dakota – June 3, 1951 Los Angeles, California) was an early motion picture animator. He was Walt Disney's first hire, and from 1924"
"Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed"
"Pete (Disney) Pete (also called Peg-Leg Pete, Pistol Pete and Black Pete, among other names) is an anthropomorphic cartoon character created in 1925 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He is a character of The Walt Disney Company and often appears as a nemesis and the main antagonist in Mickey Mouse universe stories. He was originally an anthropomorphic bear but with the advent of Mickey Mouse in 1928, he was defined as a cat. Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon ""Alice Solves the Puzzle"" (1925). Pete appeared in 67"
"Goofy Goofy is a funny-animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog with a Southern drawl, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and is one of Disney's most recognizable characters. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and dimwitted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive, and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way. Goofy debuted in"
"in his street rat clothes. Aladdin, Jasmine, Carpet, Abu and Genie make cameo appearances in the Hong Kong Disneyland version of It's a Small World. In the Broadway musical adaptation, Aladdin is played by actor Adam Jacobs. Aladdin (Disney character) Aladdin is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of Walt Disney Pictures's 31st animated feature film ""Aladdin"" (1992) based on Aladdin, a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin. He is voiced by American actor Scott Weinger, while his singing voice is provided by Brad Kane. He also stars in the two direct-to-video sequels ""The Return of Jafar"" (1994) and"