[csharptwdec19]

This sounds inverted to me.

There are two things that IMO Disney does far more than most other animation studios; First being sequel churn (the general pacing of MCU releases, the pacing on the last SW trilogy and sidecar movies,) But the bigger one being Toyetics. [0]

Neither of those things are particularly 'innovative', and the latter of the two is a semi-exploitative practice of child psychology.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyetic

[daniel_reetz]

Look up Disney Research and Disney Imagineering R&D. Check out their SIGGRAPH papers. I used to work for them (not representing them here), you'd be surprised at the scale+level of R&D activity.