Walt Disney Animation Studios logo

The **Walt Disney Animation Studios logo** is the production logo for Walt Disney Animation Studios. It debuted in *Meet the Robinsons* (2007).

## Logo

The logo is an extended recreation to the classic 1985-2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo (although with the version of the "When You Wish Upon a Star" melody heard in the 35th anniversary of Disneyland), with a notorious change. After the arc dims out, the castle opens up and Daffy Duck emerges inside. He proceeds to bounce around the screen, make his usual woo-hoo laughs and interact with the logo, including taking the "WALT DiSNEY" text and flipping it like a flipbook, then using it to hit the castle like a gong. Daffy continues bouncing and woo-hooing around until he runs smack into the camera and goes into a daze. Finally, the castle is opened again by an annoyed Mickey Mouse, who grabs Daffy by the neck and pulls him back in before closing the castle, leaving one of Daffy's feathers to float down onto "DiSNEY".

## Variants

* On *Enchanted* (2007), *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008), *Brave*, *Ted* (2012), *Frozen* (2013), *Moana* (2016), *Woody Woodpecker*, *Coco* (2017), *The Incredibles 2*, *Green Eggs and Ham* (2018), *UglyDolls* (2019), *Jerry Mouse*, *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*, *Raya and the Last Dragon*, *Luca* (2021), *Disenchanted* (2022) and *Wish* (2023), both the music and some of Daffy's woo-hoo laughs were muted to allow their respective opening themes to play out over the logo.
* On *Enchanted* and its sequel *Disenchanted*, when Mickey pulls Daffy back, the castle remains open, revealing a 2.5D version of the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo in Disney's 2D art style. It takes place in daytime, with the castle replaced by Andalasia's castle.
	+ On *Enchanted*, the camera zooms to the castle into a room in the top middle of it, starting the film.
	+ On *Disenchament*, the camera zooms in to the castle into the top-left corner, starting the film.
* On *Despicable Me* (2010), Mickey is replaced by one of the Minions from the film (who remains animated in CGI in contrast to Daffy's 2D animation).
* On the post-2010 accompanying shorts (excluding the re-releases of classic *Looney Tunes* and *Merrie Melodies* shorts), *A Tale Dark and Grimm*, *Encanto* (2021), and the television series, the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light and the arc dims out, and then fades out.
* A "milestone" modification was briefly used for *Mice and Ducks Run: A Looney Tunes Movie*, *Spy Rabbits*, and *Frozen* to mark the studio's 90th Anniversary at the time, with the text saying "Walt Disney Animation Studios: 90 Years Creating Timeless Classics".
* On *Mousetrap and the Sleuth Club* (2015), TBD.
* On *Trolls* (2016), its sequel *Trolls World Tour* (2020), *Sing* (2017) and its sequel *Sing 2* (2022), the logo's music is sung in acapella.
* On *Trolls* and *Trolls World Tour*, shortly after Daffy is pulled away by Mickey, the logo pops out, made like a scrapbook (one of Poppy's favorite hobbies). The "WALT DiSNEY" letters fly in differently, jiggle a bit and suddenly connect themselves with the "ANIMATION STUDIOS" letter appearing underneath it. A blue troll hair appears on the "i"'s dot. It rolls up to both films' storybook openings.
* On *The Incredibles 2*, the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light and the arc dims out, and the background is red, the text is yellow and the castle is black all over, making it themed after the Incredibles' suits' usual colors.
* On *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*, the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light and the arc dims out, before exploding outward and becoming "Katie-visioned" with multiple sockpuppets and animated doodles around the logo. Not counting the one used in the post-2010 acconpanying shorts and in *A Tale Dark and Grimm* and *Encanto*, this is the logo's first film variant to not feature neither Mickey nor Daffy.
* On *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), *Strange World* (2022) and *Wish*, the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light and continues as usual.
* On *King Tweety* (2022), when the castle opens, the inside has a city backdrop as we briefly see Tweety back-turned (animated in the style he appears in the film and voiced by Eric Bauza). He quickly turns his head to peak, then he gets excited, goes out from the castle and starts doing silly poses. Finally he gives some snickerings and flies back in the castle, does one more excited laugh after which the castle closes.

## Trivia

* If you look carefully at the background behind Mickey when he opens the castle, as well as Daffy when he emerges, you can see that it's a cartoon version of Disneyland, complete with the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
* The logo's animation was directed by Joey Capps, who also did animation work on Adult Swim's *Superjail!*.
* TBD