Yeah Disney's animation studio workings were unique.. and very specilized. When I was working with them, everyone had "micro tasks".. for little mermaid. one guy only animated ariel Anothe rhad a different charatcer. a third did a different character. Someone else, lined things up, another guy did nothing but bubble animations.

When i did the tinkerbell for Spectromagic, I went nuts because one guy did Tink, another did her wings, and a third did the pixie dust... I had to composit them all together, and the the only "clean" drawings were the character herself.

Actually we tossed away the pixie dust and wing pencils, since they were far worst then the digital scans I did, and to my knowledge, the only existing "hard" stuff left is the final xerographics. The originals were accedently tossed, and feature animatiobn kept one set of xerographics, and I was given the Imagineering set as a gift.

I did see the same exact animated sequence ued later on a videotape intro, so I know they did recreate the sequence digfitally, bu ti tlooked like the wing and pixie dust effects were then created digitially, rather then by hand.

It's actually a dance, really, between realistic animation, squash n stretch animation, and artistic realization.

That's what makes some films "pop" for viewers, and other appear "heartless" or cold.

Shame Disney shitcanned the 2d animation studios.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.