Another first for recent years was that live actors and actresses were filmed for reference material for the animators. Broadway actress Jodi Benson was chosen to play Ariel, and Sherri Lynn Stoner, a former member of Los Angeles\' Groundlings improv comedy group, acted out Ariel\'s key scenes. Not all of Disney\'s animators approved of the use of live-action reference; one artist quit the project over the issue. An attempt to use Disney\'s famed multiplane camera for the first time in years for quality \"depth\" shots failed because the machine was reputedly in dilapidated condition.Aside from its main animation facility in Glendale, California, Disney opened a satellite feature animation facility during the production of Mermaid near Orlando, Florida, within the still-unfinished Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World. Though the park opened to the public a year later, work at the animation studio began in May 1988, and the Disney-MGM facility\'s first projects were to produce an entire \"Roger Rabbit\" cartoon short, and contribute ink and paint support to Mermaid.The Little Mermaid is the last Disney feature film to use the traditional hand-painted cel method of animation. Disney\'s next film, \"The Rescuers Down Under\", used a digital method of coloring and combining scanned drawings -- CAPS (Computer Animation Production System), which eliminated the needfor cels. A CAPS prototype was used experimentally on a few scenes in Mermaid, including the final wedding scene. Other CGI includes some of the wrecked ships in the final battle, a staircase behind a shot of Ariel in Eric\'s castle, and the carriage Eric and Ariel are riding in when she bounces it over a ravine. (Notice that the wheels aren\'t moving when it comes down for a landing.)\n\nGlen Keane, the supervising animator for Ariel, jokingly stated on the Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition DVD that his wife looks exactly like Ariel \"without the fins.\" The character\'s body shape and personality were based upon that of Alyssa Milano, then starring on TV\'s Who\'s the Boss? and the effect of her hair underwater was based on footage of Sally Ride, when she was in space.\n\nOn November 15, 1989, The Little Mermaid began critics\' screenings in Los Angeles and New York City. On November 17, 1989,the world premiere of The Little Mermaid took place near Orlando, Florida on all ten AMC Pleasure Island screens at Walt Disney World\'s newly-built Pleasure Island nightclub. axel, donald, final, goofy, hearts, ii, kingdom, mix, organisation, ps2, riku, roxas, sora, xemnas, xiii