How Walt Disney Cartoons are Made

It's hard to believe Snow White was such a big deal when it came out as the first full length motion picture from Disney because of the endless animated films we have to choose from today. Back then when if kids wanted to see a picture move, they had to make a flip book out of it. You start with a story, once your plot, conflict, resolutions, and conclusion come together, a director writes out a script. A musical composer puts together a score for the film, timing out each scene carefully so the men working with him can picture what it'll look like. Then comes the animation, drawing each picture over and over again with slight variations to make something of a flip book. Then the photographs are put into sequence and taken a photograph of, where later they're put together to create a series of fast moving pictures- video animation.

And that's only the first draft.

Animation really has come such a long way since Snow White, but it will always be the beginning of what is Disney today.