Achievements
The Animation studio is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, including:
* The multiplane camera (for Snow White, but first used in the Academy-award winning short "The Old Mill")
* The realistic animation of special effects and human characters (for Snow White)
* Advanced composition processes to combine live-action and animated elements using color film (for The Three Caballeros)
* The use of xerography in animation to transfer drawings to cels as opposed to ink-tracing (developed for One Hundred and One Dalmatians, but first tested in a few scenes in Sleeping Beauty and first fully used in the Academy-award nominated short Goliath II)
* The use of all-digital methods for painting, compositing, and recording animated features CAPS (Computer Animation Production System)
Among its significant achievements are:
* The first animated feature of the American society (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
* The first animated feature in Technicolor (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
* The highest-grossing animated feature in adjusted dollars (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
* The first major motion picture in stereophonic sound (Fantasia)
* The first animated feature in CinemaScope (Lady and the Tramp)
* The first large format animated film (the 70 mm Sleeping Beauty)
* The first animated feature to use computer-generated imagery (The Black Cauldron)
* The first animated feature using heavy use of CGI computer animation (Oliver & Company)
* The first animated feature to use digital coloring (The Little Mermaid, which introduced Disney's CAPS process)
* The earliest animated feature to gross $100 million domestically (The Little Mermaid)
* The first feature film to be shot using an all-digital process (The Rescuers Down Under, CAPS)
* The first and only animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (Beauty and the Beast)
* The first animated feature to gross $200 million domestically (Aladdin)
* The highest-grossing traditionally animated feature of all time (The Lion King)
* The largest film premiere in history with over 100,000 viewers (Pocahontas)
