The innovative design and assembly techniques of Walt Disney soon moved him to the forefront of the animation industry, and he produced a series of classic animated films, beginning with Snow White …

Dec 11, 2025 · Disney also produced a totally unusual and exciting film—his multisegmented and stylized Fantasia (1940), in which cartoon figures and color patterns were animated to the music of …

The franchise began with the release of the film Toy Story in 1995, made by Pixar Animation Studios. It was the first feature-length film to be created entirely using CGI (computer-generated imagery).

Jan 1, 2026 · J. Stuart Blackton (born Jan. 5, 1875, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1941, Hollywood) was a British-born U.S. film director and producer who introduced animation and other …

4 days ago · Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) may have been the first animated feature; it required more than two years of patient work and earned her the nickname “The Mistress of …

Shrek (2001), a DreamWorks Animation film based on magazine cartoonist William Steig’s book about an eponymous lovable ogre, won the first Academy Award for best animated feature.

Launching his own animation studio in 1930, he supervised dozens of entries in the Flip the Frog, Willie Whopper, and ComiColor Cartoons series. During this period he made several…

Reorganizing to accommodate its new creative focus, Pixar spent much of the next several years working on Toy Story, which opened in theaters in 1995 as the first entirely computer-animated …

At the turn of the 21st century, anime began to attain wide international popularity with television series like Pokémon, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z, as well as films such as Miyazaki’s Spirited Away …

Jan 17, 2026 · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an American animated musical film, released in 1937, that established Walt Disney as one of the world’s most innovative and creative moviemakers. …