The wedding scene at the close of the film, specifically the penultimate shot of the wedding barge leaving under the rainbow while the merfolk wave goodbye, marked one of the first use of CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) in a Disney feature. CAPS is a digital ink-and-paint and animation production system that colors the animators' drawings digitally, as opposed to the traditional animation method of tracing ink and paint onto cels. The rest of this film uses hand-painted cels. All subsequent Disney features have used CAPS instead of ink-and-paint. An earlier scene where Ariel runs down a set of stairs, also uses the CAPS system for its moving background. This film was intended to be the first Disney animated feature using all digital processes but at the time CAPS wasn't ready. Disney's next animated feature Bianca e Bernie nella terra dei canguri (1990) was going to be the first 100% digitally processed film.

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