Talk:The Lion King (video game)/@comment-33181850-20170925103631

The sprites and backgrounds were not drawn were by Disney animators. The Disney animators drew rough animations which were used by the artist at Westwood Studios as a guide for the animations. There were problems though as the Disney animators weren't used to drawing cycilic animations, such as a 8 frame walk animation that cycled, or animations that could be started from anywhere in the cycle of another animation, attacking from any frame of the walk animation for example. The backgrounds where drawn by the Westwood Studios artists using reference cards taken from early versions of the movie because work had to be started immediatly on the game  even though the contract was still being worked out  due to the desire of the game to be released with the movie. The artist did eventually get to see several rough cuts of the movie as it was being produced and the animators were flown down to Disney Studios in Florida to help speed up the turn around of the artwork. I know all this since I was the lead artist on the game.