"[3] While working on The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Trousdale and Wise were fired from the project due to creative differences, most particularly after their desire to have an Aboriginal Australian child actor hired to voice Cody was ignored.

[5] Trousdale and Wise then directed the animated opening sequence for Cranium Command, an attraction ride at the Walt Disney World Resort's EPCOT Center.

[3] Trousdale and Wise received a phone call from Charlie Fink, the studio's vice president of creative affairs, requesting they board "a plane next Monday for New York".

Both men met with Katzenberg, Howard Ashman, Peter Schneider, Don Hahn, and Linda Woolverton to begin overhauling the story, and subsequently flew back to Glendale.

[8] Beauty and the Beast was released to critical acclaim, and by February 1992, it became the first animated film to gross $100 million in North America alone.

[10] That same month, Trousdale and Wise helped to rewrite The Lion King (1994), working alongside Hahn, Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, and Chris Sanders to conceive a new story outline in two days.

[11] For about a year, Trousdale and Wise developed Song of the Sea, an animated retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice but with humpback whales.

'"[13] The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) reunited most of the production team that had worked on Beauty and the Beast (1991), with the inclusion of two Parisian-based animators Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi.

Prior to the film's release, Trousdale and Wise were developing a theatrical sequel, which would have told of another attempted re-take of Atlantis, in which Milo Thatch and his crew battle Helga Sinclair.

He then directed several animated specials, including The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (2005), Shrek the Halls (2007), and Scared Shrekless (2010).