Disney’s Art of Animation Resort Photo Walk 2019: Photo Tour of the Resort in 200 Photos

We are turning right here at 1:20 pm, 6 minutes after we started.

I will show the Finding Nemo seagulls closer later.

On the left hand side are Finding Nemo buildings.

Nemo is shown in artwork.

But on the right hand side is the Cars section, so you see that artwork too.

Close up on some art on the building.

We are heading toward Hourglass Lake, which separates Disney’s Pop Century Resort from Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.

We are turning left up ahead.

There is signage everywhere, so you can find your way easily. I just noticed Hourglass is spelled with two words here, but it is only one.

We are walking past more of the Finding Nemo section on the left.

We will be walking past more of it as we turn left here at 1:22 p.m. Hourglass Lake is on the right and will be as we head to The Little Mermaid section.

We are passing building #4.

It is a straightforward walk here, scenic on all sides.

There are signs along the way giving information about the films the resort is based on.

There are occasionally benches as well (as on the left).

Across Hourglass Lake is Disney’s Pop Century Resort. I have stayed there more than any other resort at Walt Disney World except for possibly Disney’s Polynesian Resort, which was the resort my family stayed at each year in the 70s into the early 90s.

On the left is more Finding Nemo.

We are getting close to the bridge that will include the Disney Skyliner when it opens in fall 2019. The gondolas were testing and we will take a look at that.

The bridge is directly to my right, we arrive here at 1:24 p.m. The bridge itself used to be called the Generation Gap Bridge, it still may be but it isn’t spanning generations like it would have. I am not showing the bridge itself because it has a large construction wall right now.

This is signage for the Disney Skyliner.

The building looks mostly done. The gondolas were testing. Some will have characters on them.

Here is a look at the Disney Skyliner gondolas crossing the lake. These are scheduled to open in fall and will connect Disney’s Pop Century and Disney’s Art of Animation with Epcot International Gateway, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort and Disney Riviera Resort.

The gondolas are just months away, and we will be sharing photos and video of them when they open!

Here is another fact from the films. And fun for me, Peter Sohn played Emile in Ratatouille. When I interviewed him about The Good Dinosaur, it was really cool to hear his voice (I did tell him that).

We are walking still toward The Little Mermaid section.

We will be checking out a little more of the Finding Nemo area at the end of the article – but we are passing by buildings on the left now.

Up ahead, we can see The Lion King section.

We are passing building #5 along the way.

Timon and Pumba are on this building.

Timon on building #6.

Timon and Pumba. We arrive here at 1:26 p.m.

Another movie fact. I am showing some but not all of them.

We are still walking along the lake to the right and now Lion King to the left.

For some reason, they didn’t capitalize “scar” or “be prepared” here.

Up ahead is The Little Mermaid section.

The Little Mermaid area has standard rooms like other value resorts. It is the furthest section from Animation Hall.

We used to have a Walt Disney Animation Studios branch here in Orlando into the early 2000s.

The signs here point to The Little Mermaid area, and there is also a guest laundry down this way and the Flippin’ Fins Pool.

We are turning toward this section at 1:28 p.m.

We turned left and will be turning right up ahead.

There are trees up ahead which separate the theming of The Little Mermaid from The Lion King.

We turn right, and are heading into the section.

Building #9 is to the left.

The plants here look more like sea plants.

Everything is big here since you are under the sea.

There are all sorts of sea life icons on the buildings, and a Dinglehopper on the ground.

Ahead is a statue of Prince Eric.

A snarfblatt (pipe) is on the right.

Treasure on the left.

We will see Ursula up close later.

The statue of Prince Eric.

King Triton is on the left.

Up close on King Triton.

Ariel will be at the furthest point.

There are some fun photos to take along the way.

The pool is on the right, building #9 on the left.

Ariel is up ahead.

There is a lot to look at on the buildings.

We arrive to Ariel at 1:31 p.m. This was about a 6 minute walk for me back to Animation Hall, so it isn’t very far but if you are just wanting to run to Animation Hall quickly it will take a bit of time.

We are at building #8.

We passed Ariel and the pool is on the right.

More fish are on the left.

We will take a look at the pool once we swing around the building to the right.

We are walking toward Ursula, who is on the left.

Several more fish are here, and Ursula up ahead.

Ursula, King Triton and Ariel here are large like other icons at other Disney value resorts (The Finding Nemo section here also has large ones).

Ursula.

Sebastian can be seen to the left, King Triton ahead. We aren’t timing this area, it is just off the path.

Sebastian.

On the opposite side is the Flippin’ Fins Pool.

This photo was taken in 2013, it was probably a cold day.

These are the pool rules.

Now we are heading back the way we came, on the way to The Lion King section.

Here are the trees I mentioned earlier separating the two sections. The landscaping is very definined in each area of the resort.

We are heading to The Lion King section on Page 3!