ABOUT DISNEY – Background slide 1

 Disney Animation Studios is almost 100 years old, starting from

a small company and evolving into a large, complicated,
structured, and hierarchical organization.
 IN 1980’S Disney began using CAPS(computer Animation
Production System) which was managed by computer As
unique layers, where those pieces will be assembled or
composited into one single page instead of the drawings made
with 24 sheets per minute.
 Added new leadership and work culture pose in 2006
Issues
RESOURCES WERE NOT SHARED
We rarely saw resources like budget and people flow between silos,
moving resources to other areas was in the best interest of the
studio.
Mindset for managers was to hoard resources instead of sharing the
competition became extremely apparent during budget season
where managers would fight with one another to obtain the most
resources they could for their goals in future years.
MANAGERS WERE MAKING TECHNICAL DECISIONS
Managers coordinated from their offices, held one to one meeting.
Once in every few weeks there will be a formal meeting for whole
group.
Final technical decisions were made by managers and then
implemented by group members.
FOCUS SHIFTED
Focus was shifted over small achievements.
 At a certain stage of development, work processes involving
multiple departments started to prevent the company from
making innovative products.
 At the company's inception, films were made manually,
whereas at present technology has taken over.
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