History ExecutiveMeddling / AnimatedFilms

* An unusual case occurred with ''{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}}''. Although the film had been in production for over four years, their internal story walk-through process kept revealing that the dark, "tame-collar" story-line was considered too dark and [[TooBleakStoppedCaring made the city of Zootopia an unappealing place that the audience did not want Nick or Judy to remain in]]. Instead of scuttling the project, Disney Animation Executives trusted the development process they had put in place and gave the creative team an opportunity to entirely rework the story just nine months before the scheduled release date. The team came up with shifting to Judy as the main protagonist, replacing the shock collars with the concept of social bias/prejudice, and rallied the animators to overhaul the movie but still make the release date. The result was the second Disney animated feature to cross a billion dollars worldwide making it their most successful animated feature after ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}''.

* Tony Cervone, the director for ''WesternAnimation/{{SCOOB}}'', said how he wasn't fond of the fact that, except for Creator/FrankWelker as Scooby Doo, the Scooby Doo and Hanna Barbera characters were recast with big name celebrities, which he attributed to studio request.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Music/BrianTyler fought tooth and nail to get an arranged version of the Super Star theme in the final film yet Nintendo and Illumination felt they wanted "Jump" by Music/VanHalen during the final battle yet Brian won. Another example is how Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto wanted to kept some of the licensed songs because he believes that they fit in the scenes despite Brian making scores for the scene and the most infamous one would be the "Drivin Me Bananas" track that got replaced by "Take on Me" by Music/{{aha}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Back when it was made by Creator/BlueSkyStudios, the heads at Creator/{{Disney}} were very concerned about the same sex kiss that Ballister and Ambrosius shared near the end of the film.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Music/BrianTyler fought tooth and nail to get an arranged version of the starman theme in the final film yet Nintendo and Illumination felt they wanted "Jump" by Music/VanHalen during the final battle yet Brian won. Another example is how Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto wanted to kept some of the licensed songs because he believes that they fit in the scenes despite Brian making scores for the scene and the most infamous one would be the "Drivin Me Bananas" track that got replaced by "Take on Me" by Music/{{aha}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'': The film was originally going to be closer to the original fairy tale, but still a different take. Chicken Little was depicted as a girl in the original draft, but was changed into a boy just because the higher ups thought that an animated movie with a girl as a main protagonist wouldn’t make a lot of money and appeal to boys. As for the story, the plot would have been about Chicken Little going to summer camp and meeting the same friends from the final film. However, there was a dark twist where the camp was run by wolves who disguise themselves as sheep and had a plan on fattening up the campers for a feast. It was scrapped as the higher ups wanted to cash in on the fractured fairy tale story that was seen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' was originally supposed to be silent movie, with no dialogue or voiceovers. The producers however would not have it as such, and thus voices were dubbed over the finished animation, presumably in an attempt to [[FollowTheLeader capture the success of]] earlier talking dinosaur films like ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime''.

** Another example happened with the marketing of the movie when it was finally released. Lionsgate forced Hasbro to show tons of ads for the movie on TV, especially on children's channels, but they instead showed more ads for [[TheMerch the toys based on the film]] rather than the film itself as the company requested. This caused the movie to underperform and for Hasbro and Lionsgate to split up to make films based on their repsective films (Hasbro went off to make films based on ''Transformers'', ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and made a fifth generation of ''My Little Pony'', while Lionsgate went off to make films based on ''Saw'', ''Norm of the North'', and ''John Wick'').