The back cover of the Over the Garden Wall DVD has been revealed! Ā Which means I can talk about the special features now:
Behind Over the Garden Wall: A short behind the scenes video that includes some interviews with the main cast, myself, and some footage of the recording sessions. Ā
Original Pilot: The original pilot, when the show was gonna be called Tome of the Unknown and it was about Wirt and Greg looking for a magic book.
Alternate Title Cards: Before settling on using the title cards we used, Nick Cross and I got a bunch of dry ice and tried to make a foggy looking title sequence. It never really came together right, so we ended up scrapping it⦠but itās sort of interesting to see, i think. I put the full version of the end credits song over this video so you get to hear that song uncut.
Deleted Animatics: We cut a lot of stuff during the storyboard phase to make sure the episodes ended up being 11 minutes long, but we also cut some stuff during the animatic phase Ā (which is like a video of the storyboards with voices behind it). Ā Here are some of the more interesting/funny lines that were cut. Donāt expect, like, full sequences or anything⦠really just a few lines here and there. But I think theyāre worth seeing (which is why weāre including them!)
Commentaries: Full commentaries for all the episodes of the series by me and Nick Cross.
Composers Cut: Probably the coolest special feature⦠you can watch the whole series without any dialog or sound-effects; just music and visuals! Itās pretty neat! I think the composers even spiffed up a few areas, and left some easter eggs and stuff here and there!
The DVD comes out September 8th (in about a month) but you can pre-order it now if you want.
Itās $10 on Amazon and a bunch of other sites (Walmart, Best Buy, etc). Itās also available on the Cartoon Network site directly, I believe⦠and probably other places. If you donāt want to buy it at any of these places I listed you can probably find it somewhere else, or ask your local DVD salesman (?) that you want to get a copy and they can figure it out. Iāll leave the Amazon link here for your convenience though:
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Network-Over-Garden-Wall/dp/B0119RZ67O/