The Animation Renaissance which the disney renaissance was a big part of is more a timeline . The 2 films that followed tarzan were fantasia 2000 a commercial failure and dinosaur a cgi based film which certaintly distanced themselves from the renaissance . Thus once new groove was released , the renaissance had already ended . Another reason it doens ' t fit in the renaissance , most of the films in the area were musicals exception was rescuers down under which was a sequel to a prerenaissance film . Another big thing was that while new groove was crticially successful , it was not as commercially successful as the renaissance films . If down under is not counted , the lowest grossing film of the renaissance made at least 211 million worldwide . groove made only 161 million . It thus belongs more in the post renaissance era roughly 2000 to 2007 where disney struggled to get many hits that reached the commercial success of the renaissance films . Sidenote the budget for new groove was 100 million , not including marketing costs .