Its current name was adopted in 2007 after Pixar was acquired by Disney in the previous year.įor many people, Disney Animation is synonymous with animation, for 'in no other medium has a single company's practices been able to dominate aesthetic norms' to such an overwhelming extent. In 1986, during a large corporate restructuring, Walt Disney Productions, which had grown from a single animation studio into an international media conglomerate, was renamed The Walt Disney Company and the animation studio became Walt Disney Feature Animation in order to differentiate it from the company's other divisions. Since its foundation, the studio has produced 62 feature films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Wish (2023), and hundreds of short films.įounded as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, renamed Walt Disney Studio in 1926 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929, the studio was dedicated to producing short films until it entered feature production in 1934, resulting in 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, one of the first full-length animated feature films and the first U.S.-based one. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney, it is the oldest-running animation studio in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928). Walt Disney Animation Studios ( WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

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