Dreamworks's short-lived animation studio was located in Phoenix. They also made Anastasia and Titan A.E. Can't remember any others. I was in North Phoenix and saw a man wearing a Titan A.E. jacket and struck up a conversation with him. He worked with Don Bluth there. Bluth was ex-Disney, as you may know. Disney did some pretty cool stuff in their "dark years" and I thought The Black Cauldron was a cool movie. I only recently saw it about four years ago for the first time and realized that Gurdy's voice was copied for Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies 20 years later. Anyhow, Michael Eisner brought in the dumbed-down version of Disney.

Disney's Lion King was blatantly plagiarized from Tezuka's Kimba, The White Lion. Both animations involve a lion cub whose father was killed by a rival, gone into seclusion and made unlikely friends, only to return and get revenge. I only recently discovered that their Atlantis: The Lost Empire movie was heavily plagiarized from Miyazaki/Anno's Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water. Both entailed a beautiful, dark-skinned girl in a tube top who teams up with a nerdy, genius boy in glasses, they fall in love, it turns out that she is the lost princess of the long-lost kingdom of Atlantis, and the boy falls in love with the girl as they go on an adventure to find Atlantis. Disney even stole the whole element of submarines and sea monsters, which the Nadia show had borrowed from Jules Verne.

God, I hate Disney.