If there’s one custom I can depend on each fall, it’s the annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall. The leaves begin altering shade, pumpkins start to pop up all over the place, and I begin interested by venturing into the Unknown with Wirt and Greg. One thing tells me I’m not the just one. However this yr is additional particular — as we speak marks the 10-year anniversary since the miniseries debuted on Cartoon Network, and there’s a brand new stop-motion short to have fun it. The short, from Cartoon Network and Aardman Animations, options a few of the present’s unique voice actors, together with Elijah Wooden as Wirt, Collin Dean as Greg and Melanie Lynskey as Beatrice.
Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale pitched the thought for the stop-motion particular to administrators Mikey Please and Dan Ojari earlier this yr, Ojari instructed Quick Firm. All of the figures are hand-carved wood puppets, and filming passed off in miniature units (together with a “10-by-10 square meter forest”) that took two months to construct. “The only thing that’s digital is the facial animation,” Please instructed FC.
The top result’s actually lovely, and the good primer to your yearly return to the unusual world of Over the Garden Wall. It’s out there to observe now on YouTube and X.
