Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios, headquartered in Burbank, California, is an American animation studio which creates animated feature films and animated short films for The Walt Disney Company. Founded on October 16, 1923 as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the studio has produced 52 feature films, beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and most recently with Wreck-It Ralph (2012).

Walt Disney Animation Studios is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, like the multiplane camera. Among its significant achievements are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first full-length animated feature; Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only nominee for Best Picture to be traditionally-animated; The Lion King (1994), the highest grossing traditionally-animated film of all time; Tangled (2010), the most expensive animated film ever made costing $260 million; and Wreck-It Ralph (2012), the most recent animated film with the highest number of original characters ever created.

In 2006, Pixar executives Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter assumed Walt Disney Animation Studios as president and Chief Creative Officer, respectively. The studio is now producing a new animated feature called Frozen, set for November 2013.