Concept Art From Disney Animation’s ‘Tick Tock Tale’ And Pixar’s Abandoned ‘Newt’
We’ve got lots of beautiful concept art for you on this Monday evening from two separate projects: Walt Disney Animation’s upcoming shortTick Tock Tale, and Pixar’s canceled featureNewt. I’ve been looking forward toTick Tock Talesince we got ourfirst lookat some clips and images, so I’m finding the concept art interesting to look at. But theNewtimages are just making me sad all over again that we’ll never get to see the finished product. Prepare to get happy, then sad, after the jump.
A funny little clock (something out of Geppetto’s workshop, really) is picked on by the more refined time keepers in a London store, only to find a chance at redemption when a thief breaks in one night.
The concept art forTick Tock Talehas a grandly old-fashioned feel to it, and the clock characters remind me of the animated household items fromBeauty and the Beast. Here’s hoping it gets a non-festival release date soon.
As forNewt, it was originally scheduled for a summer 2011 release, but it was announced last May that the project had been canceled — probably due to its similarities to Fox’sRio, which would’ve hit theaters first. Sad news, and it was made worse by theNewtartwork that Pixarpostedlast fall, which looked stunning even by Pixar’s already lofty standards. The new concept art sheds even more light on what we could’ve seen.
Newtwould have been the feature film debut of Academy Award-winning sound designerGary Rydstrom, who previously directed Pixar’s shortLiftedand has since gone on to direct theToy StoryshortHawaiian Vacation. Here’s theRio-esque story:
