Which animation technique was primarily used for Disney’s 1998 film Mulan?

Disney’s 1998 film Mulan was made primarily using traditional hand-drawn animation.

Artists drew the characters and many of the film’s environments by hand, following the production method that defined Disney’s feature-animation tradition before computer animation became dominant. The drawings were then processed and assembled into moving images.

Mulan also used computer-generated imagery for selected sequences. The large Hun army, the imperial parade, and other scenes benefited from digital tools that helped create repeated figures and complex movement. Those elements did not make the entire film computer-animated.

This distinction matters because Mulan was released during a transitional era in animation. Pixar had already popularized fully computer-generated features, but Disney continued to produce major hand-drawn musicals, combining traditional artwork with digital production assistance.