Bambi Bambi Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the book "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth Disney animated feature film. The main characters are Bambi, a mule deer; his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother); his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit); and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. For the movie, Disney
Walt Disney Animation Studios had been part of the television animation department, though transferred at this time to Walt Disney Feature Animation management. Under Stainton, the Florida studio completed "Brother Bear", which did not perform as well as "Lilo & Stitch" critically or financially. Disney announced the closing of the Florida studio on January 12, 2004, with the then in-progress feature "My Peoples" left unfinished when the studio closed two months later. Upon the unsuccessful April 2004 release of "Home on the Range", Disney, led by executive Bob Lambert, officially announced its conversion of Walt Disney Feature Animation into a fully CGI studio –