Disney

The first animation that Disney made was Alice in Wonderland and he planned to use it as his "pilot" film to sell a series of these Alice Comedies to a distributor. On October 16, 1923, a New York distributor, M. J. Winkler, contracted to release the Alice Comedies, and this date became the formal beginning of The Walt Disney Company.

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Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it moves; a couple mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, the lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed.

The Walt Disney Studios distributes motion pictures under Walt Disney Pictures - which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and DisneyToon Studios - Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures.

The top ten highest grossing films for Disney are:
1) Finding Nemo (2003)
2) The Lion King (1994)
3) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
4) The Incredibles (2004)
5) Monsters, Inc. (2001)
6) Toy Story 2 (1999)
7) Aladdin (1992)
8) Toy Story (1995)
9) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
10) Tarzan (1999)

The Genre in which most Disneys films are is Childrens. Most films are child friendly and mainly based for that audience, however the story lines are suitable for adults also, as they have deep meanings that adults would enjoy as much as the children.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Cars 2, Winnie The Pooh and Prep and Landing are all released on DVD and Blue Ray right now.

The different software that Disney use are..
Ptex: Ptex is a texture mapping software
SeExpr: SeExpr is a language used to provide artistic control and customisation
Reposado: Reposado is is a set of tools written in Python that replicate the key functionality of Mac OS X Server's Software Update Service.
Partio: Partio Partio is an open source library for reading, writing and manipulating a variety of standard particle formats
Munki: munki is a set of tools that, used together with a webserver-based packages and package metadata, can be used by Mac OS X administrators to manage software installs
Dynamica: Dynamica is a plug-in for Maya that provides an interface to the Bullet rigid body engine.
Pythoscope: Pythoscope is a unit test generator for programs written in Python. It's open source, licensed under the MIT license.