Best Looking Disney Hand Drawn Animated Film

[Farerb]

What is the best looking hand drawn film from Disney in your opinion and what is the worst?

[BluBonnet]

Best: Sleeping Beauty
Worst: Home on the Range

Best short film: Donald in Mathmagic Land

[ImBlu_DaBaDee]

Best Looking before CAPS - Sleeping Beauty
Best Looking after CAPS - The Lion King
Worst Looking before CAPS - Oliver and Company
Worst Looking after CAPS - Home on the Range

[kingdoxie]

Best: Sleeping Beauty
Worst: ?

[Mikezilla3k]

Best is Lady And The Tramp.

[merlinjones]

Best looking to worst:

Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
Bambi
Fantasia
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Lady and the Tramp
Alice in Wonderland
Song of the South
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Peter Pan
Cinderella
Dumbo
The Three Caballeros
Melody Time
Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Jungle Book
The Sword in the Stone
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mulan
The Little Mermaid
The Aristocats
Hercules
Pocahontas
Tarzan
Fun and Fancy Free
Saludos Amigos
Make Mine Music
Rescuers
Robin Hood
The Emperor's New Groove
The Princess and the Frog
The Lion King
Rescuers Down Under
Lilo & Stitch
Great Mouse Detective
Atlantis
The Black Cauldron
Treasure Planet
Oliver & Co.
Brother Bear
Home on the Range


Best looking short:

Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom

[Moviefan2k4]

I grew up with the classics on VHS, like Alice and Wonderland and Peter Pan. As such, those hold a special place in my heart. I was also a child when the Disney Renaissance period began, so I love those films too. My favorites are The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Tarzan.

[Mephariel]

Tarzan

[Dragon78]

Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid.

[rooboy78]

Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, and 101 Dalmatians, are some of the best and most classically beautiful.

[JonathanPM68]

Pinocchio by a long, long, long shot. Just watch the scene with all the clocks on the wall. The amount of detail there is staggering. The Monstro attack, Pleasure Island, even when Pinocchio is trapped in the cage while the cart is moving is incredibly detailed.

The only other film I have seen with that amount of detail is Akira.

Fantasia is a very close second and my personal favorite Disney film. Beethoven's Pastoral segment is a bit sloppy and that is why I knock it down a notch.

Bambi is also incredible. The first five Disney films are all top tier releases. It took them a while to find their groove again after the war finished.

The worst would maybe be Robin Hood or Sword in the Stone. Robin Hood holds a special place in my heart as it was the first Disney film I ever saw but the sketchy style animation they used during this period definitely isn't as well done as their earlier films.

[Moviefan2k4]

Robin Hood was one example of Disney reusing animation from their previous projects to save money. In this case, it was largely elements from The Jungle Book.

[JonathanPM68]

Yes, and also from Snow White.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

Robin Hood was one example of Disney reusing animation from their previous projects to save money. In this case, it was largely elements from The Jungle Book.

They had been doing it for decades by that point. Someone posted a YouTube thing in one of the other threads.

[filmbuffTX]

As far as the Walt era goes that would be Sleeping Beauty. The Blu-ray looks stunning.

For the modern age I would go with The Rescuers Down Under. It was the first Disney animated film to fully use the CAPS system. The animation and visual effects seemed really advanced at the time. The way hair, feathers, fur, and water moves. As well as all of the flying and falling aerial scenes.

Personally it's one of my favorite and most watched Renaissance era Disney films as I happened to have the VHS as a kid and didn't have the other more popular films of the era. Bambi is the only other Disney animated film that I've seen as much or more than, which I also had the VHS.

[jeangreyforever]

My top five would be Pinocchio, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Tarzan barely doesn't make the list.

[Poya]

Best Looking before CAPS - Sleeping Beauty (shame about the Blu-Ray)
Best Looking after CAPS - Beauty & the Beast
Worst Looking before CAPS - Robin Hood
Worst Looking after CAPS - Home on the Range

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by JonathanPM68

Yes, and also from Snow White.

And The Aristocats, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the short subject Goliath II, another short involving a football game...I don't blame the animators (although acclaimed animator Milt Kahl blew a gasket during production, storming down the hall of the old Disney animation studios and yelling, "You're all garbage men!" at the other animators)...see, crew has to make deliverables on the budget they're given. So don't blame the animators, blame Donn Tatum and Card Walker for downsizing the budget, and also the bug-a-boo of rushing to a release date.

To be fair, recycled animation pops up throughout the history of Disney feature animation and the shorts, even re-used F/X animation. Robin Hood is notable for so much of it in one movie, let alone one sequence.

[Ernest Rister]

Best-Looking Before CAPS -- That's a bit of a death match between Pinocchio and Fantasia, with honorable mentions to Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and 101 Dalmatians, and I'll go one farther giving some love to production designer Mary Blair, whose work was inspired and striking, especially in the post-War package films. It's also hard to resist the charm of Dumbo and those water-colors and detailed backgrounds in Snow White by Pinocchio's Gustaf Tenggren.

Worst-Looking Before CAPS -- Oliver and Co., and by a sizable margin. It's not even a contest.

[principehomura]

Best: Sleeping Beauty
Worst: Oliver & Co.