A look at Disney's strongest franchises. As Walt Disney Animation Canada was opened in January 1996 to tap Canada's animator pool and produce Stainton was promoted in January 2000, and moved to Walt Disney Television Animation.Pacific Animation Corporation was one of two animation firms that formed after the end of The Japanese studio was set up to provide the animation services for Disney's animated television series in 1989.DAJ was closed in June 2004 with 30 employees expected to be transferred to one of the two Disney's remaining animation units.The Secret Lab's former location in Burbank, CaliforniaOriginal name for The Walt Disney Company, founded in Burbank, Hollywood, by Walt Disney and Roy Disney.3rd & original incorporation name for Walt Disney Studios partnershipname for the main feature theatrical animation divisionsubdivision of the main feature animation studio, founded to produce sequels to individual Pixar films owned by Disney before acquiring Pixar outright in 2006. Other animators created their own Steve Jobs, Pixar CEO, announced in January 2004 that Pixar would not renew their agreement with Disney and would seek out other distributors for releases starting in 2006.In October 1999, Dream Quest Images merged with Walt Disney Feature Animation's computer graphics division to form The Secret Lab,The Secret Lab produced one CG animated motion picture, The Lab being passed over for Disney work (and general industry decline) led to the unit being closed in 2001. No films were ever released by this division.StoryboarD / The Art of Laughter, August 1991, Volume 2, Number 4. Just look at how crowded and busy the timeline gets around the year 2000 and even how much it has grown since then. Additionally, Feature Animation was transferred under Some laid-off animators were offered transfers to the main studio while most chose to stay in Orlando or were recruited to work for rival animation studios. Disney is home to some of the biggest franchises of all time. Walt Disney Animation placed Max Howard in charge of starting up its Florida animation studio in 1988.In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. The Walt Disney Company has owned and operated several animation studios since the company's founding on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; the current Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California is the company's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio. Their biggest franchise successes in recent years have come from companies they’ve bought such as Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, but Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Animation has been responsible for an immense amount of the studio’s success.Now a new infographic shows how Disney’s franchises have evolved since the animation studio arrived on the scene in 1937 with Here’s the Disney franchise timeline infographic from It’s easy to see when Disney really started cashing in on all their properties in any and every possible way.