DisneyToon Studios is an American animated direct-to-video sequel production company and a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
DisneyToon Studios Australia and DisneyToon Studios France (see also Walt Disney Animation Australia and Walt Disney Animation France), formerly known as Disney Television Animation Australia and Disney Television Animation France, was in two parts of DisneyToon Studios based in Sydney, Australia and Paris, France. Originally one of several Disney television animation satellite studios, responsible for programs such as Goof Troop, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Bonkers, Quack Pack, Darkwing Duck, Timon and Pumbaa, and Aladdin. DisneyToon Studios was the main producer of the many Disney sequels and direct-to-video films (among them most of the above-mentioned films, along with the theatrically-released Return to Neverland, The Jungle Book 2, and Piglet's Big Movie). It was the last in-house Disney facility that produced traditional animation.
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History
Walt Disney Animation Australia and Walt Disney Animation Paris had worked on both feature length Disney films and television series since its debut in 1988.
Though the studio did a large amount of work in television during the 1990s, they have begun to focus entirely on film, under the DisneyToons banner. For current Disney animated series, work is usually outsourced to Rough Draft Studios, Wang Film Productions, Kennedy Cartoons, Toon City, and Sunwoo, among others. In other words, Disney TV animation is rarely animated by Disney itself anymore.
Disney Australia and Disney France was becoming well known for 2D animation, they were actually the last Disney owned 2D animation studio, according to Steve Trenbirth, who left Disney to form his own company, Mad Cow Pictures two-years before the closing of the Australian Animation Unit. A number of high quality direct-to-video sequels were produced. According to the DVD making of the film segment on Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure the unit was used for saving on production costs. Production would start in the USA and animation done in Australia.
On July 25, 2005, Disney announced that it was closing DisneyToon Studios Australia in October 2006, after 17 years of existence.[1] The closing was attributed to the rising costs of animation production in Australia. DisneyToon Studios planned to produce its animated films (both traditional and computer-generated) primarily through outsourcing in the future.
However, on February 23, 2006, due to new management brought on at Disney through the purchase of Pixar, all future films in production or due to go into production at DisneyToon which weren't connected to a Consumer Product Line were cancelled, this included highly-anticipated sequels to classic Disney property such as Dumbo and The Aristocats. [1]
On June 22, 2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter under the banner of the recently formed Walt Disney Animation Studios. The previous president of the division, Sharon Morill moved to a new position in the company. [2] DisneyToon will no longer do any sequels to Disney classics, but will instead focus on spin-offs and original films[2].
List of films produced by DisneyToon Studios
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
- The Return of Jafar (1994)
- A Goofy Movie (1995)
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
- Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
- Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
- Belle's Magical World (1998)
- Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)
- Doug's 1st Movie (1999)
- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
- The Tigger Movie (2000)
- An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
- The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)
- Recess: School's Out (2001)
- Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001)
- Return to Never Land (2002)
- Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)
- The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
- Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
- Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
- Stitch! The Movie (2003)
- Teacher's Pet (2004)
- The Lion King 1½ (2004)
- Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004)
- Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)
- Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004)
- Mulan II (2005)
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
- Tarzan II (2005)
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
- Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2006)
- Kronk's New Groove (2006)
- Bambi II (2006) (* released theatrically in some countries)
- Leroy & Stitch with Disney Channel (2006)
- Brother Bear 2 (2006)
- The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)
- Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007)
- Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
- Tinker Bell (2008)
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (fall 2009)
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