 Most of the animation of the tiger was handled by Disney animator  Milt Kahl (qv). Kahl was usually assigned the more difficult  "straight" characters (e.g. realistic human characters, like the  various fairy tale princes), and some of the other animators teased  him about not being able to handle the broader, cartoonier  characters. Kahl took this as a challenge, and once others saw his  work on the film, the teasing stopped. (Later, Kahl animated two  other tiger characters: Tigger in  _Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)_ (qv) and Shere Kahn in  _Jungle Book, The (1967)_ (qv).)