<Li> Ritchie Montgomery, Don Hall, and Paul Briggs as Reggie, Darnell, and Two - Fingers, three bumbling frog hunters who try to catch Tiana and Naveen as frogs . Their resemblance to The Three Stooges has been noted . </Li> <Li> Kevin Michael Richardson and Emeril Lagasse as Ian and Marlon, the two alligators . </Li> <P> Disney had once announced that 2004's Home on the Range would be their last traditionally animated film . After the company's acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Ed Catmull and John Lasseter, the new president and chief creative officer of Disney Animation Studios, reversed this decision and reinstated hand - drawn animation at the studio . Many animators who had either been laid off or had left the studio when the traditional animation units were dissolved in 2003 were located and re-hired for the project . Lasseter also brought back directors Ron Clements and John Musker, whose earlier works include The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), and Treasure Planet (2002). The duo had left the company in 2005, but Lasseter requested their return to Disney to direct and write the film and had let them choose the style of animation (traditional or CGI) they wanted to use . </P> <P> The story for the film began development by merging two projects in development at Disney and Pixar at the time, both based around "The Frog Prince" fairy tale . One of the projects was based on E.D. Baker's The Frog Princess, in which the story's heroine (Princess Emma) kisses a prince turned frog (Prince Eadric), only to become a frog herself . The Princess and the Frog returns to the musical film format used in many of the previously successful Disney animated films, with a style Musker and Clements declared, like with Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, had inspiration from Golden Age Disney features such as Cinderella . </P>

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