An animated feature is defined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes and characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the film's running time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcademyAwardforBestAnimated_Feature