Disney
Released in color in 1937, this was the studio's first theatrically released animated movie.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The extra time to perfect Mike Myers' Scottish accent in this movie supposedly cost the studio "$4 million of animation."
Shrek (2001)
The first movie released by Studio Ghibli.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
The first Disney princess without an American accent, and also Pixar's first addition to the Disney princess lineup.
Merida (from Brave)
This film is supposed to have taken inspiration from the times when holiday displays in stores overlap and mix them together.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
This film's infamous animal murder scene made Disney reconsider putting dark scenes in their films, even pushing them to remove a death scene from their later film, Lady and the Tramp (1955).
Bambi
The studio's first film, often compared to be the inferior bug-related to film to Pixar's "A Bug's Life," also released in 1998. You must get the spelling right of this movie.
Antz
This film is the only non-English film in history to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Spirited Away (2001)
This character in WALL-E was also designed by Jonnathan Ive, designer of the iPod.
EVE
This 2009 American stop motion animated film was based on a 1970 children's novel of the same name.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The biggest flop in Disney animated history.
Strange World (2022)
The studio's first 2D animated film included a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and Stephen Schwartz featuring Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, which was nominated for Best Score and won Best Original Song.
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The amount of times has Hayao Miyazaki announced retirement from animation, only to return and make one more movie.
3 times (late 90s, 2013, 2018)
After being accidentally deleted off of Pixar's servers, this movie was saved because Supervising Technical Director Galyn Susman was on maternity leave and had a backup on her home computer.
Toy Story 2 (1997)
A transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation.
A cel
This was Disney's last traditionally animated (2D) film not based on existing IP.
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Animated films didn't win major categories at the Oscars until the best animated feature award was created. This was the first film to take home the award in this category, winning out against Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Pixar's Monster's Inc.
Shrek (2001)
This film was the first time that Studio Ghibli employed CGI in one of their movies.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
The name of this villain in Up (2011) came from the man who stole Walt Disney's production right sin 1928.
Charles Muntz (from Charles Mintz who stole Oswald the Rabbit)
The term for tracing over and interpreting live action footage for use in animation.
Rotoscoping.
Controversial even by 1946 standards, this film served as the thematic basis for the ride "Splash Mountain" until recently.
Song of the South
The Penguins from the franchise Madagascar were scrapped concepts for an animated movie starring which music group?
The Beatles
This historical event inspired mining town setting of Castle in the Sky.
The 1984 Wales Miners' Strike
The first Pixar feature to utilize "ray tracing," which properly renders the way light passes through and collides with surfaces. More simply, it enables artists to accurately depict reflections (important to this film) without having to go through and "paint" them individually.
Cars (2006)
This film used 327 different colors, a record for animated films. 50 of those colors were exclusively created for the film. The reason for this statistic is that most of the movie takes place at night, a setting that was traditionally avoided by animators because of increased color requirements.
AKIRA (1988)