History Creator / WaltDisneyAnimationUnits

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (24 episodes, plus assistance for Creator/HanhoHeungUp for "Stormy Weather")

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': All of Season Five and 9 episodes of Season Six. With the Australian unit and (for the segment "Friar Tum") Guimaraes, replacing Creator/TMSEntertainment.

* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' (15 episodes) [[labelnote:List]]"Howl Noon" (with Tama), "Southern Fried Cruella" (with Creator/AnimeWorkshopBasara), "Rolly's Egg-celent Adventure" (with Tama), "Wild Chick Chase" (with Tama), "Purred it Through The Grapevine" (with Basara), "It's a Swamp Thing", "Alive 'N Chicken", "Prima Doggy", "Treasure of Swamp Island", "Fountain of Youth" (with Basara), "My Fair Chicken" (with Tama), "The Artist Formerly Known As Spot" (with Basara), "Every Crooked Little Nanny", "Horace and Jasper's Big Career Move" (with Tama), "Animal House Party" (with Basara)[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansIIPatchsLondonAdventure''

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'': Done with Disney Australia.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'': The first of the Disney DirectToVideo sequels, done with the Australia unit. Japan animated the second half of the film.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' (16 episodes) [[labelnote:List]]"Bad Mood Rising", "Getting the Bugs Out", "Mudder's Day", "Strike Up the Sand", "Fowl Weather", "Of Ice and Men", "The Spice is Right", "Power to the Parrot", "Hero With a Thousand Feathers", "Witch Way Did She Go?", "Love at First Sprite", "Vocal Hero", "The Return of Malcho", "That Stinking Feeling"[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' (14 episodes) [[labelnote:List]]"Trains, Toons, and Toon Trains", "Tokyo Bonkers", "The Toon That Ate Hollywood", "When the Spirit Moves You", "Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers", "Calling All Cars", "Never Cry Pig", "Hamster Houseguest", "The Cheap Sheep Sweep", "Luna-Toons", "Poltertoon", "Hand Over the Dough", "Do Toons Dream of Animated Sheep?", "Cartoon Cornered"[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand: The Adventure Begins'' (with Creator/JadeAnimation and Creator/{{Pixar}})
** ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' (2 episodes)[[labelnote:list]]"NOS-4-A2", "Lost in Time"[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIDreamsComeTrue'': An aborted TV series that became a direct-to-video movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' (19 episodes) [[labelnote:List]] "Awakening, Parts 1, 2, 4 & 5", "The Edge", "Her Brother's Keeper", "Leader of The Pack", "The Mirror", "Eye of the Beholder", "High Noon", "The Price", "Shadows of the Past", "M.I.A.", "Grief", "The Green", "Future Tense", "Hunter's Moon, Parts 2 & 3", "Angels in the Night"[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'' (seven episodes, with various additional production facilities) [[labelnote:List]]"Hercules and the King of Thessady", "Hercules and the Driving Test", "Hercules and the Epic Adventure", "Hercules and the Big Sink", "Hercules and the Tapestry of Fate", "Hercules and the Bacchanal", "Hercules and the Poseidon's Cup Adventure"[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameII''

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOnceUponAChristmas'': "Stuck on Christmas" segment with Creator/AnimeWorkshopBasara. Movie with the Canadian Unit and Creator/ToonCity.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'': Disney Japan's shorts were also re-broadcast on ''House Of Mouse''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' (one short)[[labelnote:List]]"To Catch a Hiccup"[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (24 episodes, plus assistance for Creator/HanhoHeungUp for "Stormy Weather")

* OffModel:
** ''Return of Jafar'' is frequently accused of this, not so much for the bad animation, but rather the abrupt change in how the movie looks: Around the thirty minute mark, the animation suddenly switches over from the Australia unit to the Japan unit, and remains that way for the rest of the movie. This resulted in ''much'' different looking animation in the second half. (The change occurs when Abis-Mal climbs over the palace walls.)
** "Darkly Dawns The Duck", the [[FiveEpisodePilot two-episode pilot movie]] for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', was handled the same way, with the Australian unit handling the first half and the Japanese unit handling the second half. Disney would avert this with ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' by having the Australian unit animate both halves of their pilots.
** The same can be said about the Gummi Bears finale where Australia handled the first part and Japan did the second.
** The TaleSpin pilot is the most interesting case, as the first two parts were by the French unit, part three was by the Japanese and the final part was by Sunwoo.
** ''Gargoyles'''s "Seeing Isn't Believing" is also guilty of this. Though it ''does'' make up for it with its [[AnimationBump fluid animation]].
** As well as the two Creator/FreelanceAnimatorsNewZealand sub-contracted episodes - ''Darkwing Duck's'' "Heavy Mental" and ''Goof Troop's'' "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp".

* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (22 episodes) [[labelnote:List]]"To the Rescue Parts 1-5", "A Creep in the Deep", "Chipwrecked Shipmunks", "When Mice Were Men", "Weather or Not", "One-Upsman-Chip", "Love is a Splintered Thing", "Song of the Night 'n Dale", Gadget Goes Hawaiian", "Dirty Rotten Diapers", "Good Times, Bat Times", Pie in the Sky", "Le Purrfect Crime", "A Lean on the Property", "The Pied Piper Power Play", "The S.S. Drainpipe", Zipper Come Home", "Puffed Rangers"[[/labelnote]] Replacing Creator/{{TMS|Entertainment}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' - 8 episodes from the sixth season. [[labelnote:List]]"A Gummi's Work Is Never Done", "Tuxford's Turnaround", "Patchwork Gummi", "Queen of the Carpies", "Rocking Chair Bear", "May the Best Princess Win", "The Rite Stuff", and the first half of the "King Igthorn" two-parter[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': All of Season Five and 9,5 episodes of Season Six. With the Australian unit and (for the segment "Friar Tum") Guimaraes, replacing Creator/TMSEntertainment.

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (25 episodes, plus assistance for Creator/HanhoHeungUp for "Stormy Weather")

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' (1989; ink and paint)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': The TV series, season 1 and the first half of season 2.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'': Disney Japan's shorts were also re-broadcast on ''House Of Mouse''.

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' - A few ''Mickey's Mouse Works'' shorts.

Notable in the Canadian unit include Keith Ingham, Sean Newton, and Bill Speers.

Notable in the Canadian unit include Keith Ingham and Bill Speers.

Notable staff in the Japanese unit include Saburo Hashimoto, Shigeru Yamamoto, Sawako Miyamoto, Kazuyoshi Takeuchi, Hiroshi Kawamata, Yukio Okazaki and Tsuguyuki Kubo.

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' (one episode)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': One short, ''To Catch A Hiccup''

* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' (with the Australian unit)

See also Creator/TamaProductions, Creator/NakamuraProductions, Creator/JadeAnimation, and Creator/TakahashiProduction, studios that were often used by Disney Japan; Creator/PacificAnimationGroup and Creator/{{Topcraft}}, the predecessors to Walt Disney Animation Japan; and Creator/StudioGhibli and Creator/StudioGainax, the other animation studios that split off from Topcraft after the blockbuster success of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.

[=DisneyToon=] Studios Japan, (formerly Walt Disney Animation Japan, Inc.) was the biggest of the non-North American units. The studio was founded by Motoyoshi Tokunaga (an ex-Creator/{{TMS|Entertainment}} producer) in 1988 after Disney bought out Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation (a studio mostly known for doing Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}}' ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Silverhawks}}''). However, the studio was shut down in 2004 as Disney was getting rid of their non-CGI animation units (yet the Los Angeles units were saved). After that, most of their staff members went to work for Creator/{{Madhouse}}, Creator/StudioPierrot or Creator/ProductionIG. The ones who went with Tokunaga joined him when he formed Creator/TheAnswerStudio.

See also Creator/TamaProductions, Creator/NakamuraProductions, Creator/JadeAnimation, and Creator/TakahashiProduction, studios that were often used by Disney Japan.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' (1993, twenty-two minutes of animation, including the "I Just Can't Wait to be King" sequence)

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (25 episodes, with Creator/HanhoHeungUp, Jade and Tama)

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' 25 episodes(with Creator/HanhoHeungUp, Jade and Tama)

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': All of Season Five and 9 episodes of Season Six. With the Australian unit and (for the segment "Friar Tum") Guimaraes, replacing Creator/TMSEntertainment.

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (with Creator/HanhoHeungUp, Jade and Tama)

* ''WesternAnimation/NightmareNed'' (the credits list Shigeru Yamamoto as animation supervisor)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' 2 - Done with Toon City

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' - 8 episodes from the Sixth Season[[labelnote:List]]"A Gummi's Work Is Never Done", "Tuxford's Turnaround", "Patchwork Gummi", "Queen of the Carpies", "Rocking Chair Bear", "May the Best Princess Win", "The Rite Stuff", and the first half of the "King Igthorn" two-parter[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' - 8 episodes from the Sixth Season. List: A Gummi's Work Is Never Done, Tuxford's Turnaround, Patchwork Gummi, Queen of the Carpies, Rocking Chair Bear, May the Best Princess Win, The Rite Stuff and the first half of the King Igthorn two-parter.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' -- 1 episode, "April Pooh"

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': All of Season Five and 9 episodes of Season Six. With DisneyAustralia and (for the segment "Friar Tum") Guimaraes. Replacing Creator/TMSEntertainment.

* SignatureStyle: For the Japanese unit, bouncy characters and crisp, mostly precise linework. For the Australian unit, deranged eyes when a character is angry, very specific mouth movements, and wrinkled faces in certain poses. For the French unit, it seemed that they've used a combination of tactics that were found in the previous two studios such as the wrinkled faces and specific mouth movements (Australian) and the bounciness (Japanese), likely stemming from the Brizzi's work on the likes of ''WesternAnimation/SpartakusAndTheSunBeneathTheSea'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar''.

* SignatureStyle: For the Japanese unit, bouncy characters and crisp linework. For the Australian unit, deranged eyes when a character is angry, very specific mouth movements, and wrinkled faces in certain poses. For the French unit, it seemed that they've used a combination of tactics that were found in the previous two studios such as the wrinkled faces and specific mouth movements (Australian) and the bounciness (Japanese).