Beauty and the Beast
(1991)INNOVATION Computer-assisted animation. Though most of Beauty was hand-drawn, animators used computers to enhance colors, add shadows, and simulate camera movements in complex environments, like the Beast's expansive ballroom.
MEMORABLE MOMENT Beast and Belle's whirling waltz to the title tune
POSITIVE IMPACT Similar computer-assisted imagery in 'toons like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan
NEGATIVE IMPACT Made hand-drawn animators look expendable, a perception later exacerbated by Pixar's all-CGI cartoons
EW GRADE B
