Which Disney film was the last to use traditional hand-drawn animation?

Disney’s last traditionally hand-drawn animated theatrical feature was “Winnie the Pooh,” released in 2011.

Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the film returned to the storybook look associated with A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. Its animation was designed to evoke hand-drawn Disney classics, with characters appearing to move across illustrated pages. Stephen Anderson and Don Hall directed the film, which features Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood.

“Winnie the Pooh” followed “The Princess and the Frog,” released in 2009, which is often mistakenly identified as Disney’s final hand-drawn feature. The newer Pooh film came later, making it the studio’s most recent traditionally animated theatrical feature as of 2026.

The distinction matters because Disney continued using digital tools in production, even when the finished artwork retained a hand-drawn appearance. Traditional animation refers to the character-drawing method and visual process, not necessarily an entirely non-digital workflow.