A story as old as time has to get started on somewhere and for Disney it is at the mid 1980’s when development work started off on Beauty and the Beast. Set in and around a smaller French community in the delayed 18th century, Beauty, and the Beast represented only the fifth Disney cartoon movie to be designed from a story book. The others were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and THE TINY Mermaid.
Beauty and the Beast developer Don Hahn. At the right time Beauty and the Beast premiered Jeffrey Katzenberg, now an executive and owner with Disney rival DreamWorks, was Disney Studios Chairman. 144.8 million, and garnishing a Best Picture Oscar Academy Award nomination. Even today it remains really the only animated movie to possibly achieve such a nomination. Audiences and Critics alike were almost unanimous in their praise for the overall strength of the visuals, story telling, character development, and music. It had been a long road to get at the idea of success that Beauty and the Beast achieved. The movie got practically four years to produce with the full-time help of over about 600 animators, music artists, and technicians.
There were over 226,000 colored gels and over one million drawings separately. Over 1,300 backgrounds were designed for Beauty and the Beast. Some of Disney’s best animators, like Glen Keane, did Beauty and the Beast. Keane was a supervising animator who drew and designed the Beast while overseeing six animators that caused …