If there’s one custom I can depend on each fall, it’s the annual rewatch of Over the Backyard Wall. The leaves begin altering colour, pumpkins start to pop up all over the place, and I begin eager about venturing into the Unknown with Wirt and Greg. One thing tells me I’m not the one one. However this 12 months is additional particular — immediately marks the 10-year anniversary because the miniseries debuted on Cartoon Community, and there’s a brand new stop-motion brief to have a good time it. The brief, from Cartoon Community and Aardman Animations, options a number of the present’s authentic voice actors, together with Elijah Wooden as Wirt, Collin Dean as Greg and Melanie Lynskey as Beatrice.
Over the Backyard Wall creator Patrick McHale pitched the concept for the stop-motion particular to administrators Mikey Please and Dan Ojari earlier this 12 months, Ojari informed . All the figures are hand-carved picket puppets, and filming befell in miniature units (together with a “10-by-10 sq. meter forest”) that took two months to construct. “The one factor that’s digital is the facial animation,” Please informed FC.
The tip result’s actually lovely, and the proper primer on your yearly return to the unusual world of Over the Backyard Wall. It’s accessible to observe now on and .