Ehhh, it’s all taste but the xeroxing isn’t a big deal to me. It’s crowd animation, there’s so many puppies! Pretty much all crowd animation has some kind of system to minimize the budget otherwise the cost would be impractical. While it doesn’t work for some of the films they used it in, Rotoscoping also works great for this film. Everything has a scratchy look that beautifully captures London and lends the dogs energy.

Visual wise we can agree on

I can enjoy Dalmatians when I’m in the mood for it, but to argue that it’s anywhere near as great of an artistic achievement as Sleeping Beauty is quite a stretch.

In other words….

What I loved about this movie was the character design, mostly for the miscellaneous human characters, including the human characters from my favorite scene in the movie, “What’s My Crime”. This sequence is a brilliant, yet stark contrast to the limited TV animation Hanna-Barbera was doing at the time. And another thing about what I loved about the character design is that other Disney films in the future, particularly “Sword in the Stone” and “Mary Poppins”, borrowed heavily from this film.

Oh, and speaking of “Mary Poppins”…did you know that the final design for Anita was modeled after Julie Andrews? Which was coincidental, since the actress wouldn’t become a household name until “Mary Poppins” a few years later.