The Roy E. Disney Animation Building
Formerly known as the Walt Disney Feature Animation Building, the Roy E. Disney building opened in 1995, moving the working animation studios out of the original animation building, into a new complex located across from Riverside Drive. During Michael D. Eisner's 1990 restructuring of The Walt Disney Company, the studio's animation division was spun off to officially create Walt Disney Feature Animation as a subsidiary of the company. The new Walt Disney Feature Animation division temporarly moved its operations away from the studio lot, into an Air Way warehouse in Glendale. The new studio is a colorful piece of architecture, adorned by a giant version of the Fantasia Sorcerer's hat, which once housed of the office of Roy E. Disney, former head of Walt Disney Feature Animation (now called Walt Disney Animation Studios). In 2009, following the death of former Walt Disney Feature Animation Chairman, Roy E. Disney, the building was renamed and rededicated in his honor by The Walt Disney Company's president and CEO, Bob Iger.
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