Walt Disney Animation Studios

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## Walt Disney Animation Studios

### Formerly called

Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923–1926)
Walt Disney Studio (1926–1929)
Walt Disney Productions (1929–1986)
Walt Disney Feature Animation (1986–2007)

### Industry

Motion pictures
Animation

### Founded

October 16, 1923 (as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio)

### Founder(s)

Walt Disney
Roy O. Disney

### Headquarters

Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S

### Key people

* Clark Spencer (President)
* Jennifer Lee (CCO

### Products

Animated films
Animated series

### Parent

The Walt Disney Studios

**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. The company's production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, *Steamboat Willie* (1928). Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, it is the oldest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Since its foundation, the studio has produced 60 feature films, from *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937) to *Encanto* (2021), and hundreds of short films.

Founded 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. 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. Its current name was adopted in 2007 after Pixar Animation Studios was acquired by Disney in the previous year.

For much of its existence, the studio was recognized as the premier American animation studio and was "for many decades the undisputed world leader in animated features"; it developed many of the techniques, concepts and principles that became standard practices of traditional animation. The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. The studio's catalog of animated features is among Disney's most notable assets, with the stars of its animated shorts – Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto – becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for The Walt Disney Company as a whole.

By 2013, the studio was no longer developing hand-drawn animated features and had laid off most of their hand-drawn animation division. However, the studio stated that they would be open to proposals from filmmakers for future hand-drawn feature projects.