9 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Animations From Disney Films

You can't beat the old-fashioned pencil and paper.

1. Peter Pan, from the 1953 film of the same name.

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Disney's Milt Kahl supervised the animation of the Peter character, and later admitted animating characters who fly around and suspend mid air was a tricky indeed.

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3. Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, 1967.

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Ken Anderson led the character design for Khan, who was made to resemble his voice actor, George Sanders.

4. Robin Hood, from Robin Hood, 1973.

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Ken Anderson again worked on this, as did Milt Kahl, who changed some of Anderson's designs slightly.

5. Ariel, from The Little Mermaid, 1989.

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By this point, Disney had individual animators working on each character, with Glen Keane and Mark Henn looking after Ariel,

Update: A commenter points out that this is in fact the work of a student copying Keane's work. It's a pretty good effort, we'd say.

The Beast (Benson) from The Beauty and the Beast, 1991.

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The first Disney film to the use the Computer Animation Production System, developed by Pixar, Beauty and the Beast had a huge team of animators and effects artists, including 21 people just to animate the Beast.

6. Scar and Rafiki from The Lion King, 1994.

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The first Disney film to be based on an original story, again this had a legion of animators working under art director Andy Gaskill.

7. Tarzan from the 1999 film, Tarzan

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An incredible 57 people are listed as animators just on the Tarzan character.

8. Tiana, from 2009's The Princess and the Frog.

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Tiana was animated by Tim Allen, who has also worked on Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

9. Rapunzel, from 2010's Tangled.

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Glen Keane was the directing animator for the Rapunzel character.

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