Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (TV Series)

[Sotiris]

Mark Baldo who works as a supervising producer at Disney Digital Network revealed on his LinkedIn account that he's developing an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.


Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-baldo-b55b081/


Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10603444/

[Rumpelstiltskin]

A little off-topic, but I hope Universal don't throw away their version of Oswald, but reprints the old comics and release the cartoons. Maybe even make new material.

Oswald's design and name belongs to Disney now, but that does not include Universal's redesign of the character. If they could use that design, and give him a new name, I can't see why they shouldn't be able to use him themselves. Perhaps they could make a deal with Disney. Disney gets the rights to all the non-Disney Oswald shorts till Monkey Wretches, and in return Universal is free to do whatever they want with the redesigned character.

[Silvershade]

I understand the source anonymous, but are there other links or news articles for it?

[JeanGreyForever]

I hope this is true. Oswald needs more love and especially more promotion. I'm not saying he needs to be the face of Disney like Mickey, but I'd like him to be more prominent, especially in the Parks.

[blackcauldron85]

Might just be speculation at this point, but whoa:

REPORT: Disney+ Developing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Animated Series
https://www.cbr.com/report-disney-oswal ... it-series/

[Sotiris]

It turns out the show was cancelled following reorganization and layoffs at Disney Digital Network in 2018. Update: Two animatics by Chris Headrick as well as a pencil test and background development art by Steve Lowtwait have surfaced.

The Legend of the Three Caballeros team was going to follow up with an Oswald show for streaming. Scripts written, designs done, animation test in hand, and a pilot in production. It was beautiful! Then we got broken up and scattered to the wind.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1474996345903587330

I should note that almost all of the 3 Cabs crew were involved with this. Joe Sichta, Chris Moreno, Mark Baldo, Chris Painter, Nikki Lytton, Sam Delpilar, Matt Chapman, and the list goes on…

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923403484302283231

Someone found our Oswald development. There are technically 2 versions here 3D and 2D. We did the 3D first and pivoted to 2D to make the world characters more expansive.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923135227125252384

Q: I wanted to ask about this image, we can see a blonde bunny staring at Oswald from inside the trolley here. Was that supposed to be Fanny Cottontail reimagined?

Matt Danner: Yes. We have her floppy ears in the later versions.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923449122603909307

Q: Out of curiosity, do you still remember the names of these characters?

Matt Danner: The Fox was changed to a wolf. Wilson Wolf.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923461178941907265

Matt Danner: This is Fanny.

Q: Where's Ortensia?

Matt Danner: She’s the cat.

Q: Who’s the little turtle guy next to her?

Matt Danner: Cliff the Cabbie.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923610654491148736

Q: I wonder where Ortensia and the other Oswald characters are in this show.

Matt Danner: Ortencia is the cat. Fanny is the flop-eared rabbit.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923610956250349977

Q: Is there any chance you could tell us what Fanny & Oswald’s dynamic would have been like in the show?

Matt Danner: Fanny would keep Oswald grounded. The big city will distract him, but Fanny will always help him remember his roots.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923630925201772951

Q: Can you tell us anything about this Hawks Character? Was he like the Mayor? Or was he just some famous businessman?

Matt Danner: Howard Hawk was the visionary behind the BIG city of Coneyopolis much like a Howard Hughes.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1923943789292552339

Matt Danner: Looks like there’s more of our Oswald show development.

Q: I’m looking at that bottom left picture-was this a musical? Or at least a musical episode?

Matt Danner: We were planning on doing musical numbers for sure, but this wasn’t quite that. These are from a montage showing that you can be anything in the big city. Even famous and on every screen.

Source: https://x.com/MattyDanner/status/1926435073378672807

This was my first (and only) job in animation as a story artist and I was way over my head, but it was an incredible feeling being apart such a charming and fresh Oswald show!

Source: https://x.com/bunnyberru/status/1923826852076061160

Watching 1920s Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons on YouTube for work research.

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/595322391925886977

Some Oswald the Lucky Rabbit sketches for Disney.

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/595750826347524097

Some more late night rough animation of Oswald. Fun with poses!

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/599139687417061376

I'm cleaning up my Oswald storyboard.

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/602943299150684160

This Oswald project is eye opening. Rubber hose character posing is so rewarding. Must have been great fun to be an animator in the 1920s. And nowadays we know so much more about squash and stretch than the pioneers of animation knew. I feel like I'm meshing eras of the art form.

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/603059183538188288

I did a very minor bit of development work on this now dead Oswald project many years ago. He was a lot of fun to draw.

Source: https://x.com/Lowtwait/status/1475969055895003141

[D82]

^That's a shame.