The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (also known as The Little Mermaid III) is a 2008 American animated direct-to-video fantasy film produced by DisneyToon Studios, and a prequel to Disney's 1989 animated film "The Little Mermaid". Directed by Peggy Holmes, the film's story is set before the events of the original film and acts as a pilot to the television series, "The Little Mermaid: The Series", when Ariel is still young, and where all music has been banned from the underwater kingdom of Atlantica by King Triton, and Ariel attempts to challenge this law. Jodi Benson
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian is an animated anthropomorphic crab in "The Little Mermaid" film series from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, and is a servant of King Triton. Apart from his role in the film trilogy, Sebastian features in the animated series, in the "Kingdom Hearts" series of video games, and even has music albums based on him. The character was developed solely for the film, and is not derived from the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Early on in the writing and development of "The Little Mermaid", the character that would later become Sebastian was originally an English-butler