“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a collaboration between Disney and Steven Speilberg, the live direction was done by Robert Zemeckis, and Richard Williams directed the animation. The $45 million dollar production of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was one of Steven Spielberg’s most risky films due to its extreme cost. It was almost cancelled since it went so far past it’s original budget of $27.5 million. The hours worth of animation alone cost $250,000 a minute, done by the best animators.
The hybrid live-action/animation concept was tried in earlier films such as “Mary Poppins”, and “Song of the South”. The technique that was used in Roger solved the prior problems and gave the visuals more credibility.