Silly Symphonies

Silly Symphonies is a hand-drawn animated series of shorts produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios for Disney+. Similar to the original shirt series of the same name, the shorts are adaptations of fairy tales and folklore. Each short was helmed by a different production team, and they all serve to experiment and innovate with hand-drawn animation, much like the original series.

Silly Symphonies was released in July 1, 2031, and was a critical success, with critics lauding its storytelling, use of hand-drawn animation, and sense of nostalgia.

Production
Wanting to resurrect work on hand-drawn animation within Walt Disney Animation Studios, chief creative officer Jennifer Lee began looking for ways to develop new hand-drawn projects. During her search, Lee began watching old Disney shorts for inspiration, including the Silly Symphonies series. Interested in the storytellling and hand-drawn innovations done within the shorts, Lee choose to ressurrect the Silly Symphonies series as a series of shorts for Disney+.

The series was announced in April 2031, and has already entered production by that point. In order to stay true to the original series, each short was developed independently from the rest, althrougth some share a few members of the production crew. Lee described the series as an opportunity to both restart work on hand-drawn animation and "finally adapt a few tales [the studio] always wanted to adapt". The studio also gave the filmmakers to use many preexisting Disney characters, as they also wanted to evoke the feeling of other non-Silly Symphonies short.

Episodes

 * 1) The Emperor's New Clothes: A naive but egocentric emperor is conned into hiring con artists Foulfellow and Gideon to make him clothes they claim "only the smart ones can see", and refuses to admit his stupidity when he cam't see them.
 * 2) Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A young girl, lost in the forest, enters a house she assumes to be abandoned, unaware that three bears are living in it.
 * 3) Reynard the Fox: A young fox starts a series of pranks around his farm.

Trivia

 * According to executive-producer Jennifer Lee, the shorts feature professional voice actors over celebrities to further evoke the feeling of the original shorts and "not make audiences think of somebody else when hearing these characters".