the unaired pilot is now available for your viewing pleasure!
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In 2010 recent CalArts grad Alex Hirsch pitched “Gravity Falls” to the Disney Channel.
He wrote and drew the storyboard entirely on post-it notes and a rushed pilot was commissioned by Disney to a small low budget flash animation studio in Canada.
This rough in-house “pilot” Disney produced, though ultimately in a very different style and never fully “finished”, shows us the very first ever glimpse of Dipper & Mabel.
Unsatisfied with the look and style of this pilot, Alex Hirsch personally hired his own team when the show was greenlit to series.
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