The film would also mark the full use of the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), becoming the first feature film to be completely created digitally. Research trips to Australia provided inspiration for the background designs. Following their duties on Oliver & Company (1988), animators Butoy and Gabriel were recruited to direct the sequel. Under the new management of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a feature-length sequel was approved, making it the first animated film sequel theatrically released by the studio. Scott.īy the mid-1980s, The Rescuers had become one of Disney's most successful animated releases. Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, and Joe Ranft, the film features the voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor (in her final film role), John Candy, and George C. In The Rescuers Down Under, Bernard and Bianca travel to the Australian Outback to save a boy named Cody from a villainous poacher who wants to capture an endangered golden eagle for money. It is the sequel to Disney's 1977 animated feature film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels by Margery Sharp. The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
