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Revision as of 02:33, 11 August 2022

Oswald Book Cover.png

A cover of an early book for the series, likely taken from the pilot.

Status: Lost

Oswald is a 2001-2003 Nick Jr. 2D animated series created by Dan Yaccarino and produced by HiT Entertainment. The show was notable for its uniquely surrealist style, featuring the day-to-day adventures of a good-natured, bowler-hatted blue octopus named Oswald, his sentient hot dog Weenie and their equally whimsical friends in a colourful, childlike universe. According to official sources, the show's pilot was being worked on as far back as the late 1990s. The pilot itself has never surfaced and little is known about its development process, besides concept artwork that dates from about the same time.

Background

The project's existence at least as far back as 1999 has been confirmed indirectly by the creators of fellow Nick Jr series Super Why?, who indicated that show's pilot, created around the same time, was initially passed over in favor of an Oswald pitch pilot. A while later, an Oswald book of the same vintage was discovered which shows how Oswald met all his friends, featuring slightly different character designs (Oswald is a shade darker blue, for instance, and Weenie's belly is white instead of tan). It is possible that the book was based on the original pilot.[1] Some backgrounds from the pilot were also found on a Background Design portfolio.[2]

Gallery

Images

  • Background from the pilot (City street corner).

    Background from the pilot (City street corner).

  • Background from the pilot (Daisy's apartment building).

    Background from the pilot (Daisy's apartment building).

  • Background from the pilot (Music hall).

    Background from the pilot (Music hall).

  • Background from the pilot (Pet shop).

    Background from the pilot (Pet shop).

  • Early designs for the characters.

    Early designs for the characters.

  • Possibly a screenshot

    Possibly a screenshot

Videos

Read-aloud of the book possibly based on the pilot.

Odens Movie Magic's video on the subject.

See Also

Oswald

Nick Jr. Original Pilots

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020709111744/http://danyaccarino.com/books/oswald.html
  2. ↑ http://stevelowtwait.com/oswald-the-octopus
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