You know how I know Disney is lazy? They use templates!

Meh. Still would hit Snow White...

 

Disney made a plush, beautiful classic film in 1959 with Sleeping Beauty

After that, Disney started to cut costs and reduced their animation staff from over 500 people, to under 100.

To produce movies in faster time and at lower costs, Disney started using xerography in their animation. That new technology directly resulted in scratchy outline styles on the animated images. Also, animators were used to providing only sketchy drawings - cleanup was previously done when the drawings were transferred to the cells. With the new process, such cleanup did not occur. With the hand inkers gone, the animation remained as the animators drew it - sketchy.

Disney's next animated movie came out two years later: 101 Dalmations.

Regardless of popularity, the animation quality was complete crap compared to previous Disney releases (especially notice the backgrounds - they're terrible).

In '63 Disney came out with The Sword in the Stone with equally crappy quality.

In '66 Walt Disney died of lung cancer. Before he died, he did not like the changes that had been made after Sleeping Beauty.

Disney continued to crank out crappy quality:

Jungle Book - 1967
Aristocats - 170
Robin Hood - 173
The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh - 177

All were sketchy, sloppy, had bad backgrounds and admittedly used clips from other films.

After this, Disney augmented staff a bit and started to pay a little more attention to quality.

The Rescuers came out in 1977, and was a slight improvement
Fox and the Hound came out in 1981 and was another slight step in the right direction.

As Disney started to come out with more animated films (The Black Cauldron - 1985, The Great Mouse Detective - 1986, Oliver & Company - 1988), their quality gradually improved.

But for me, that period from the late 60's through the 70's was just a rotten time for Disney animation quality.
 

 

Wow! I never noticed
Damn if only my laziness could bring me billions.

 

If anyone knows a little bit about screenwriting, you will find out that about %70 of movies are based off of another "successful" film.

 

The animation quality may have been sub-par, but The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, and Robin Hood are, IMO, three of the best Disney movies, if not the best.

 

yeah wow
that music made me want to hang myself
disney how dare you do this to me

 

The Ho dance....

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"Crappy quality" animation doesn't mean the movies didn't appeal to the target audience. A movie can have used cheaper animation processes and still end up as a movie that people enjoy watching.

 

I agree with some of the cost cutting, time saving comments. Pre Sleeping Beauty Disney animation is basically moving works of art. After that, we went through a series of cheaper animation (even if the movie itself is great).

Beauty in the Beast was a return to quality animation and was the first in a string of great animated movies and really was a resurgence for Disney for a while.

I actually think the Beauty and the Beast dance scene that mirrors the Sleeping Beauty dance scene is more of a purposeful homage to Sleeping Beauty and not a cut corner.

 

Yeah. How popular has Hanna Barbera been with their crappy animation?!

Crappy animation does not necessarily translate to crappy movie or show (look at South Park).

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"Pre Sleeping Beauty"? Sleeping Beauty animation was awesome, you seriously think that was poorly done?

 

I think he meant to include Sleeping Beauty.
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Yes, I meant to include Sleeping Beauty, sorry for the confusion.

Sleeping Beauty is a work of art.