Just earlier than the weekend began, the animation area lit up when somebody out of the blue leaked a lot of never-before-seen inside materials from Disney. We received’t hyperlink to it, however included in that materials is a large quantity of stuff from the corporate’s TV animation slate throughout its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that goes way back to the mid-2000s. Gravity Falls, Owl House, you title it: if it’s obtained a large fanbase (and isn’t a Marvel cartoon), then it’s most likely featured right here in some style.
Included within the leak had been over 20 pilots, a few of which had been exhibits that’d been pitched, however in the end by no means went anyplace. Similarly, there have been additionally 40 present bibles—paperwork creators use to pitch their present, from the tone and characters to breakdowns for potential future seasons. Disney’s animated slate didn’t have fairly the highs of Cartoon Network and even Nickelodeon, however what’s right here could have you ever fascinated about some exhibits you haven’t thought of shortly. (Case in level, they’ve obtained the bibles for Super Monkey Team HyperForce Go! and American Dragon: Jake Long in right here, which can take you waaaaaaaay again.)
Setting apart how shocking it’s that every one this obtained leaked—and what’s extra, whoever did it hasn’t said why or who they’re—what’s out there may be admittedly fascinating to undergo. Fans of explicit exhibits are going to get loads out of these pilots and bibles, if solely to see how these sequence developed over time, significantly by way of their artwork fashion. Even extra fascinating is to see what episodes these creators had been pitching: in Gravity Falls’ case, most of those weren’t made, however you may see how components of them—like Dipper getting right into a golf struggle with Lil’ Gideon—had been retooled into precise episodes.
For the creatively inclined, the present bibles are most likely going to be probably the most worthwhile issues to sift via. In studying via a few of these, they’re fairly intensive and is usually a good information that will help you determine how TV works, and even do the same bible of your individual for no matter you’re making. The Ducktales bible, for instance, devotes a number of pages to every precept character’s pursuits, particular abilities, and core relationships with one another…together with how they’d react to a mummy.
Again, varied web sites and Twitters have gone via these things and put it on the market so that you can watch or learn—and should you like every of those exhibits, or simply animation generally, it’d be value trying to find. io9’s reached out to Disney for touch upon the leak, and will replace when a response is given.
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