I found the How Walt Disney Cartoons are Made video to be very informative. The video shows how how much time, coordination, and effort goes into making children's cartoons. The drawing is done by several different people who can all the draw the characters exactly the same. Each scene requires hundreds of images. Luckily the artists can draw on top of what they drew before because of their backlit tables. Even the coloring of the images was more complex than I originally thought. After the artists draw the initial images they are sent through several steps. First a completely separate department traces the images lines onto a clear piece of plastic with ink. Next another department very carefully colors in the tracings. Even the amount different colors they have in the color department is ridiculous, the video says it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500.
The coloring and drawing process alone are lengthy and time consuming by themselves but no Disney cartoon is complete without music. On top of all the drawing Disney writes, produces, and records all of the music for their cartoons. This also means that the music must be coordinated with the storyboard so there is no room for error when it comes to timing. The cartoon creation process is a truly unique and interesting one. This video did an excellent job of explaining the finer intricacies of the cartooning process and served as an excellent learning tool.
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