This is the first full-length computer-animated feature film written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who directed Basil l'investigatopo (1986), La sirenetta (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Il pianeta del tesoro (2002), and La principessa e il ranocchio (2009), all of which were animated primarily by hand. When it was initially rumored that this film would be made using "Meander," a combination of hand-drawn and computer animation introduced with Disney's short film Paperman (2012), Musker said it was "far too early to apply the Paperman hybrid technique to a feature. The Meander digital in-betweening interface still has a host of production issues (including color) that need to be perfected." More to the point, the directors said that the reason the film was to be made in computer animation was that the film's environment, including the ocean, would benefit much more from the use of CGI as opposed to traditional animation, and that three-dimensional computer animation is naturally good at generating the sculpted faces of the people of the South Pacific. Maui's tattoos, on the other hand, were animated entirely by hand.

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