Lion King : Still The Best Animated Movie After 20 Years

Lion King movie was an American animated musical adventure film that was produced by the famous Walt Disney exactly 20 years ago today (June 15, 1994). The animated movie was the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The animated film is a story that took place in an African Lions kingdom and was influenced by the biblical tales of Joseph and Moses with the Shakespearean play the Hamlet. The cartoon animated film was all about the period known as the Disney Renaissance.

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to succeed his father Mustafa; but his uncle Scar murdered Mustafa (Simba father) and fooled him being a young cub that his the one responsible for Mustafa death, he has to fled into exile in shame of killing of his father and despair.

But he learnt some valuable perspective about life from his two friends Timon and Pumbaa. Upon his maturation, his childhood friend Nala, and his shaman ( Shaman is a medicine man or woman with the ability to heal, work with energies and see visions) gave him some valuable perspective to encourage him to go and challenge his uncle Scar to end his tyranny.

The animated movie was released on June 15, 1994 to a positive reaction from critics who praised the film for its music, story, and animation. The film finished its run as the highest grossing release of 1994.

 The Animated Movie Achievement

Lion King is the highest grossing hand drawn film in the history of animated film in the United State and the 19th highest grossing feature film of all time. The film garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) for the lion king musical and movie. The film lead to many derived works, like Broadway adaptation.

Disney Renaissance

The use of computers helped the Lion King filmmakers to present their vision in new ways. The most notable use of computer animation is in the “wildebeest stampede” sequence. Several distinct wildebeest characters were created in a 3D computer program, multiplied into hundreds, cel shaded to look like drawn animation, and given randomized paths down a mountainside to simulate the real, unpredictable movement of a herd in the cartoon animated films.
Five specially trained animators and technicians spent more than two years creating the two-and-a-half minute stampede sequence. Other usages of computer animation were done through CAPS, which helped simulate camera movements such as tracking shots, and was employed on the coloring, lighting and particle effects of the Lion King

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