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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I heard that Anime characters are drawn with big eyes because it's easier to show emotion in big eyes. You'll notice that in much anime, the noses and mouths are still still very Asian looking. In Disney cartoons you'll notice that the eyes are exaggerated for the exact same reason however because Asians have smaller eyes a lot of people make the mistake that they are trying to draw them white.
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I recall reading or seeing someplace that they were inspired by old Disney cartoons, so you could be right in this respect. I also heard about the emotion thing too. Like certain eye-types drawn can represent that character's being "innocent" in nature, and such.
