'Home on the Range' may be the last hand-drawn film for the Walt Disney Company.

In fact, most of Disney's recent hand-drawn animated films have not been successful.

Disney's film studio is under pressure in its animation division, having cut back staff and ended a partnership with Pixar Animation Studios Inc., which established new computer-animated movies like the $850 million global box office hit "Finding Nemo."

Moreover, most of the industry is moving in the direction of computer animation. "It is where things are going," studio chief Dick Cook said.

Computer animation, often called 3-D, is more than drawing with a computer pen. Designers build a character and then they can add as many layers of complexity as they want.

The cartoon star, Mickey Mouse, has already made the jump to computer graphics and has a computer-animated holiday video in the works.

Next year Disney's animation department will release the computer-animated feature, "Chicken Little," which tells the story of a chick who thought the sky was falling.

百灵编辑：茂军