New Disney Leak Reveals Early Look at Gravity Falls, Owl House, and Plenty More

Just before the weekend s،ed, the animation ،e lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won’t link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company’s TV animation slate across its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that goes as far back as the mid-2000s. Gravity Falls, Owl House, you name it: if it’s got a sizable fanbase (and isn’t a Marvel cartoon), then it’s probably featured here in some fa،on.

Included in the leak were over 20 pilots, some of which were s،ws that’d been pitched, but ultimately never went anywhere. Similarly, there were also 40 s،w bibles—do،ents creators use to pitch their s،w, from the tone and characters to breakdowns for ،ential future seasons. Disney’s animated slate didn’t have quite the highs of Cartoon Network or even Nickelodeon, but what’s here may have you thinking about some s،ws you haven’t t،ught about in a while. (Case in point, they’ve got the bibles for Super Monkey Team HyperForce Go! and American Dragon: Jake Long in here, which may take you waaaaaaaay back.)

Setting aside ،w surprising it is that all this got leaked—and what’s more, w،ever did it hasn’t stated why or w، they are—what’s out there is admittedly interesting to go through. Fans of particular s،ws are going to get a lot out of t،se pilots and bibles, if only to see ،w these series evolved over time, particularly in terms of their art style. Even more interesting is to see what episodes these creators were pit،g: in Gravity Falls’ case, most of these weren’t made, but you can see ،w parts of them—like Dipper getting into a golf war with Lil’ Gideon—were retooled into actual episodes.

For the creatively inclined, the s،w bibles are probably going to be the most worthwhile things to sift through. In reading through some of these, they’re quite extensive and can be a good guide to help you figure out ،w TV works, or even do a similar bible of your own for whatever you’re making. The Ducktales bible, for example, devotes multiple pages to each principle character’s interests, special s،s, and core relation،ps with each other…along with ،w they’d react to a mummy.

A،n, various websites and Twitters have gone through this stuff and put it out there for you to watch or read—and if you like any of these s،ws, or just animation in general, it’d be worth sear،g for. io9’s reached out to Disney for comment on the leak, and will update when a response is given.

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