So does anyone know how much it cost to make these Disney movies...?

[I.R Joey]

I mean their total budget, not their marketing budgets.

1.) The Little Mermaid.

2.) Beuty and the Beast.

3.) Mulan.

4.) Aladin

5.) Pochahontas.

[The Mad Hatter]

A lot. I've heard that before the Disney execs got penny-pinching, some of the animated flicks got up to about 80-90 million.

[I.R Joey]

Well I was just wondering how much some of these toons would cost if they where all Cel, no CG at all basically.

[James]

I doubt they know themselves. After the financial disaster that was Tron, they are already planning to make Tron 2.0 ....

I suggest checking www.imdb.com as they have a lot of the budget details for movies on their database!

[The Mad Hatter]

Disney won't abandon using CGI for its cel movies completely. Remember the Emperor's New Groove? That was done (relatively) cheap after a big vat of money was spent on its previous incarnation, Kingdom in the Sun. I'm not sure what the money spent solely on TENG was (since KitS gets included in the mix) but I'd be surprised if it was half that of the usual Disney production.

But despite the cheapness, TENG still had a few CGI elements. Didn't see them? It was little things like Pacha's cart, the bag the kayoed Kuzco was tied in, the tree trunk floating down the river, etc. I didn't know they were CG either, till I watched the "making of" feature on the DVD. They blended in with the cel stuff perfectly... I love that!

Since it's so easy to integrate things like that into the film, especially when it helps the animators rather than stand out with flash, I don't think Disney will ever dump CGI.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Hm. So Disney started to pennypinch? That would explain why the movies have been kinda bad lately...
....and as for CGI, I doubt it'll be abandoned. To me it's the wave of the future, what with how we're hearing about it all the time and it being used everywhere. 'Course, we should be seeing it a lot from now on in Disney's films now, since it's cheap.

[The Mad Hatter]

Yup, Disney's pennypinching. Atlantis had a couple of cool, effects-heavy sequences planned that got cut because of cash.

And the pennypinching is likely to continue, since there's the perception that 2D animation is on it's way out. Feh.