Lucifer from Cinderella was modeled after animator Ward Kimball’s cat. Animators were having trouble coming up with a good design for that cat, but once Walt Disney saw Kimball’s furry calico, he declared, “There’s your Lucifer.”   

Unlike the previous sequel, Cinderella III’s animators were given meticulous model sheets and extensive live-action sequences for animation reference, just like the photo above for the original Cinderella.

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time was Disney Australia’s final feature (the studio was closed and equipment auctioned off once Cinderella III production completed in July 2006). The credits for the film include the following thank you: 

“Special thanks to DisneyToon Studios Australia for their many years of producing beautiful hand-drawn animation.”

While the movie did sell extremely well, critical reception for Cinderella II: Dreams Come True was mainly mixed to negative. Many critics agreed that it looked like pieced together remains of a rejected television series (akin to Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World and Atlantis: Milo’s Return).

With an estimated to cost $5,000,000 to produce, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True was Walt Disney Pictures’ top selling animated sequel of 2002, grossing approximately $120,000,000 in direct-to-video sales.

There is some news about it. The studio bought a pitch for the project from “The Devil Wears Prada” writer Aline Brosh McKenna in 2010. At the time, it was reported that the deal was worth $1 million. As of now, Mark Romanek is set to direct the movie, and Disney is currently in talks with writer-director Chris Weitz to write the script. As of right now, no actors are attatched to the project.

Marni Nixon lent her voice to four Disney movies, but was only credited in one. She was the main title soloist in the opening of Cinderella, the singing flowers in Alice in Wonderland, the singing geese in “Jolly Holliday” in Mary Poppins, and (her only credited role) the singing voice of Grandmother Fa in Mulan. 

In The Little Mermaid, during Prince Eric’s wedding, when the animals attack Ursula (disguised as Vanessa) Max the dog runs by Cinderella’s King and his aide, the Grand Duke.

Live action references were used extensively by Disney to keep animation costs down. Cinderella was the first instance of this practice. According to Laryn Dowel, one of the directing animators of the film, roughly 90% of the film was done in live action model before animation, using basic sets as references for actors and animators alike.

To save money when animating the pumpkin coach in Cinderella, the animators drew the coach to seemingly float on air so that they would not have to animate the turning wheels or the filigrees.