Disney's Animated Storybook

Disney's Animated Storybook
The logo for the series
Genres	Point-and-click, interactive storybook
Developers	Media Station, Inc. Interactive Family Entertainment
Publishers	Disney Interactive
Creators	Marc Teren
Platforms	Windows, Macintosh
First release	The Lion King November 1994
Latest release	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too April 1999

Disney's Animated Storybook (stylized as Disney's Animated StoryBook and subtitled A Story Waiting For You To Make It Happen) is a series of point-and-click interactive storybooks developed by Media Station and published by Disney Interactive for personal computers (Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh) for young children ages 4–8 years old, beginning in 1994. The games included both Disney and Pixar licenses. They have the same plots as their respective movies, albeit abridged due to the limited medium. The series is also known as Disney's Story Studio.

The vision of Marc Teren, vice president of Disney Interactive's entertainment division, was to create games with a "true and fair representation of the original property", and aim to capitalise as "ancillary products to successful theatrical and home video releases". To achieve this, Teren helped ensure the games were animated by Disney animators. From December 1994 to February 1995, the company had hired 50 new employees.Children's Business suggests the series came into fruition because in the contemporary entertainment market, it was "customary now for entertainment companies to release CD-ROMs to support a film or TV show".

The Lion King was the very first film to be given an "interactive story life"; in Disney's Animated Storybook: The Lion King, Terem's team "worked hand in hand with the group in feature animation", while the film's directors and producers worked with the games' designers and artists.Disney Stories: Getting to Digital said that in the early days of Disney Interactive, the Storybook games were outsourced to third-party developers. According to Business Wire, Media Station, a company that produced and designed interactive CD-ROM entertainment, was the developer of the series.

Disney and Media Station collaborated to create more than 12,000 frames of digital animation for each game, as well as 300 music and vocal clips. Digital music and sound effects were composed, orchestrated, arranged, edited, mixed and synchronized at Media Station. For The Lion King, Media Station contributed 7000 new frames of animation while Disney animators contributed 5000. WinToon, which Media Station had previously developed for Microsoft, aided the projects by "reduc[ing] the amount of data actually required for larger animation playback". Creative Capers provided background art and animation for various titles within the series. While the majority of the storybooks were in a traditional animation style, the one for Toy Story used CGI graphics in order to have the "3-D animation and unique look" of the movie. Pixar animated the Toy Story game, which included around 80 percent new artwork.