Oct 24, 2025 · The first film-based animation was made by J. Stuart Blackton, whose Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906 launched a successful series of animated films for New York’s pioneering …

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 …

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).

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.

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 …

Dec 5, 2025 · 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. …

Nov 11, 2025 · The development of cel (or cell) animation permitted the phased movements of the figures to be traced onto a succession of transparent celluloid sheets and superimposed, in turn, …

Nov 7, 2025 · Toy Story Publicity still from Toy Story (1995), the first computer-animated feature film.

No, it wasn’t Mickey Mouse. Instead, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Disney Company’s first animated character. In 1927 Disney began its first series of fully animated films, and they featured this rabbit, …

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 …