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Image 1

Panel 1

(The Hexsquad is still in the same room as the previous comic. Hunter has a resolute expression and is pointing to himself with his thumb. Willow stands next to him, and slightly past them are Luz, Amity, and Vee)

Hunter: We are not abandoning Gus.

            I'll go.

Panel 2

(The old Golden Guard, Bob, is still seated on the bench. He presses his fingers to his temple in a pained expression)

Bob: Oh Titan.

Panel 3

(Bob raises his hannd in an exasperated gesture)

Bob: I just saved you from those lunatics!

Panel 4

(Plain background with just Hunter and Willow looking to the side)

Bob (off-panel): Fine, throw your life away then.

Panels 5-6

(Double panel. The top panel has Hunter and Willow on the far right looking concerned, with lots of space to their left. The bottom panel has Darius on the far left speaking with an intense expression. His image and dialogue bubbles extended into the upper panel)

Darius: I doubt they will hold up their end of the bargain, Hunter.

            You'll be handing yourself over for nothing.

Image 2

Panel 1

(Plain background with just Hunter standing with his arms crossed and a confident expression)

Hunter: Nah.

            I'm just using this opportunity to infultrate their palace,

            And bust Gus out.

Panel 2

(Wide shot with just Darius looking incredulous)

Panel 3

(Darius has a skeptical expresssion)

Darius: You'll be facing thousands of soldiers,

            You won't stand a chance.

Panel 4

(Willow steps up next to Hunter, gesturing to herself. Hunter looks at her in surprise. Luz, Amity, and Vee are out of focus in the background)

Willow: I'll be going too.

Panel 5

(Plan background with just Hunter and Willow's heads. Hunter is turned away from us looking at Willow, who has a determined expression)

Hunter: Willow...

Willow: I'm not sitting this one out.

Image 3

Panel 1

(Hunter is looking at Willow with a concerned expression. We see the back of her head as she is facing Hunter)

Willow: I swore to protect everyone, and I won't fail Gus a second time.

Panel 2

(Plain background with just Hunter and Willow looking to the side. An unidentified voice is speaking from off panel)

Voice (off-panel): Count us in.

Panel 3

(Luz, Amity, and Vee look at each other with confident expressions)

Luz: A field trip to the Kneecap sounds fun.

Amity: Yeah.

Panel 4

(Plain background with just Amity, with a roguish grin)

Amity: And I happen to have some new gadgets

Panel 5

(Wide shot with just Darius on the far left. He has a blank expression and is drawn with just little black dots for eyes)

Image 4

Panel 1

(Darius raises a finger, about to interrupt. There is an [INHALE] sound effect)

Voice (off-panel): Oh, let's test the new airship while we are at it!

Panel 2

(Darius pinches the bridge of his nose in exasperation)

Darius: I won't be able to talk you all out of this, will I?

Panel 3

(Darius has his arms crossed an an earnest expression on his face)

Darius: Just... come back safe, okay?

Panel 4

(Plain background with just Willow, holding her fist up in excitement)

Willow: Don't worry, we are the Hexsquad.

Panel 5

(Dramatic shot of the whole Hexsquad. The view is tilted at an angle, and everyone has a confident pose. Vee is holding her fists up in excitement)

Willow: They won't know what hit them.

Vee: Ohoh, title drop.


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This is a series where I discuss either confirmed or supposedly cut content from the show. You can read my previous posts here:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

SOURCES:
Animation test: [1] Fandom page, [2] YouTube (full video)
Pilot: [1] Fandom page, [2] Youtube (live stream of Dana talking about the pilot), [3] Youtube (PostHoot where Dana talks about the pilot and the animation test)

So, just to make things straight: the animation test and the pilot are two different things. The animation test was created because they weren't allowed to animate the whole pilot. Please note that nothing in the pilot or the animation test was ever meant to be canon. In the words of Dana: "The pilot animation test that a lot of people see floating around on Tumblr and Twitter is actually a minute and a half animation test because we weren't allowed to animate our actual pilot. The pilot itself wasn't written to be the first episode: it was written to be a test of tone, a test of character, so we were just willy-nilly throwing stuff in there that we knew wouldn't make it into the show".

THE ANIMATION TEST

What follows is a few observations from a quick glance of the animation test reel. A timestamp is provided for each of the observations, so that it'll be more clear what I'm referring to when talking about some specific tidbits.

  • [0:05] Like in the series, humans don't have magic. Luz's desire to become a witch was always intended to be the driving force of the narrative.
  • [0:15] "King used to know magic". Although fairly ambiguous, it could mean that King was already written to have amnesia.
  • Also about King: he had brown fur and red/blue eyes. I can see why they decided to change his colour palette lol.
  • [0:37] Willow, or rather Paulina, had already been conceived as a character. She already had affinity with plants, but aside from that, we don't really know much about her role in the story.
  • Her introduction is a reference to Ron's broken wand in the Harry Potter series, but it's unknown whether the similarities end there, or if more parallels were planned. Her lab seems a bit run down to me, which could mean that maybe she was envisioned as the "poor student" like Ron, but that could just be a coincidence or me reading too much in a very short animated reel.
  • [0:48] "Sir William", an unknown character, makes an appearance. There isn't much to talk about, because the pilot doesn't tell anything about him. Fans speculate that he was a "proto Hunter" (while also being different from the other Proto Hunter), mostly because his introduction was later recycled into the "Wake up!" gag from S02 EP06. In my opinion, the chances of the two of them sharing a similar backstory are slim (if not entirely non-existent), so we should look at them as totally different characters.
  • [1:08] The dead titan's skull has a much more prominent muzzle, similar to King's. King was probably always meant to be a titan cub.
  • [1:09] Eda was already planned to be a hoarder and seller of human junk.
  • In the same shot we can see the Owl House, and a strange thing can be noticed if we look at the door: Hooty seems just an immobile, non-animated carving on the door. Maybe his character hadn't been planned at this stage yet? The fact that the house "blinks" could mean that the entire house, and not just Hooty, was a living being.
  • [1:23] An unknown enemy. Fans have dubbed him "Proto Belos" but there's really nothing that supports that theory. As far as we know, he could just be an evil side-kick or a one-off villain.
  • Of note, Luz wields the magic of Eda's magic staff, which could imply either that she was eventually meant to learn magic, or that innate magic and palisman magic were already two separate powers in this pilot like in the series.
  • [1:37] Luz performs magic in a similar way as the series, although she doesn't use glyph magic, but some kind of alchemical symbol.
  • [1:44] Maybe more important, she's learning alchemic magic from a book whose cover depicts the silhouette of an unknown demon that kind of reminds me of titans? Maybe glyph/alchemic magic was already linked to titans at this stage in development.

THE PILOT

"The pilot was in many ways similar to the first episode, but there were a couple of major differences". Please not that the pilot has NOT been released to the public, so the two livestreams of Dana talking about it and showing some concept art is all we can base our analysis on. In italics, the direct quote from the streams (when not specified, the quote is from Dana herself).

  • [57:01] Amity made an appearance in the pilot. Luz attempts to befriend her because Amity unwittingly or unknowingly stands up for her in class and, as a thank you, Luz draws her a picture, but she got a... I think the line, specifically, is "I got a paper cut while drawing it, so I just worked it into the picture".
    The concept art shows a picture of Luz and Amity together, with the words "Thanks pal!" written over their heads. Amity has a red line over her face (Luz's blood) that makes it seem like she's blushing.
    We got a bit more detail about this scene in the other video: "They were in the hallway after class, and Amity just defended her because everyone was bullying her for her project".
    I'm unsure how to read this part: was Amity a human at this stage of development? Or is Dana talking about Hexside already? The fact that this concept art is put before everything else in the episode makes it seem like it's supposed to happen early in the pilot, and in the first episode Luz shows a school project in her human school.
  • [57:35] There's a lot of similarities with, like, Eda and Luz. This was a slightly different scenario where Luz tries to run away from Eda and Eda is like "Oh, I know what you are... You are a customer!". It's kind of similar to what we got now. I think for a lot of the original words we literally used those for the first episode.
    The concept art shows Eda grabbing Luz's arm to hold her in place, then showing her some of her junk. Like Dana says, it's pretty much the same as their first meeting in S01 EP01.
  • [58:02] The Owl House looked a little differently. [...] Instead of a living room, it was more like a... (Spencer Wan) Foyer? (Dana continues) It's a beautiful drawing, we took a lot of inspiration from his [Leonard Weiss] concept pieces and worked it into the actual house.
    The concept art shows the interior of the Owl House. It's cozy, the ceiling is magically lit, and some light spheres float around, similar to those that Luz creates with the light glyph. The art is credited to Leonard Weiss, a freelancer who worked with the team in the early stages of development.
  • [58:49] Lilith made an appearance in the pilot, she... (Luz Batista) She was so early on, both her and Amity. (Dana continues) When you're making a pilot for a show, especially a pilot that's not going to be aired, and it's just going to be used for testing - because this was shown to a limited amount of kids to see if kids were into it - you kinda want to throw as much cool stuff as possible into the first episode, even if it's not the first episode you actually want to do. So I was just throwing in as many characters as I thought would be interesting, Lilith being one of them. I think, at this point, she was - at the very very beginning - she was actually the principal of Hexside, instead of Bump. That was before we figured out where we wanted to go with the story and how we wanted the characters to develop. It didn't quite work with the series, which is why we ended up changing it. (Spencer Wan) Didn't she also turn into a... (Dana silences him).
    The concept art shows beta Lilith wielding some magic. She's very similar to show!Lilith. What Spencer Wan was trying to say before he got shushed was, Lilith was able to turn into a bat. Also, "Similar to Eda turning into the Owl Beast when she gets stressed out, Lilith used to turn into a bat when she got stressed out. However, that didn't work with the story".
  • [59:55] The ending was a little different. Luz does get stuck and she has to find her way home, but in rewriting the pilot, me and my season one story editor, Rachel Vine, we thought it was more interesting if she made the conscious choice to stay and had to deal with the consequences of that later.
    The concept art shows a melancholic Luz looking at King, who's checking himself out in the mirror while wearing the Burger King crown.
  • [1:00:30] The ending hug was a little different. Eda still didn't know what a hug was. [...] I think the lines are exactly the same. Same with King.
    The concept art shows Luz crying while hugging Eda, then doing the same with King. It's a bit different than the first episode, where Luz consciously decides to stay and happily hugs Eda and King. In both the concept art and the episode, Eda is visibly not accustomed to hugs.
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Image 1

Panel 1

(The Hexsquad is inside of a large room, possibly in a police station. On the back wall is a billboard with several small pieces of paper on it. The Mysterious Stranger/old Golden Guard is sitting on a bench with his elbow resting on the back. Hunter is standing and talking to Willow, facing away from us, while Vee, Luz, and Amity are standing separately in a small circle talking)

Hunter: It's my fault Gus got captured.

Panel 2

(Closer in on just Willow and Hunter. Willow is holding Hunter's hand with both of hers and looking at him in a comforting manner)

Willow: Hunter.

Hunter: If only I was more careful...

Panel 3

(Same as before but now Willow is looking downcast)

Willow: I failed him, too.

Hunter: What, how?

Panel 4

(Plain background with just Willow looking down sadly)

Willow: You two woudn't be overwhelmed if I came along.

Panel 5

(Swapped perspective where we now see Hunter's face from over Willow's shoulder)

Willow: But I insisted on going to practice-

Hunter: There was no way you could predict that.

Panel 6

(Hunter pauses and looks to the side as something catches his attention)

Panel 7

(We see the old Golden Guard sitting on the bench with a bored look on his face. He is blowing a puff of air with a [PFFFF-] sound effect)

Image 2

Panel 1

(The old Guard's eyes go wide with surprise)

Panel 2

(The old Guard quickly turns his head away)

Panel 3

(Plain background with Hunter and Willow. Hunter places his arms on Willow's shoulders and looks to the side with an annoyed expression)

Hunter: I'll be right back.

Panel 4

(Hunter is walking over to the bench with the old Guard seated on it)

Hunter: So, you are a former Golden Guard, right?

Panel 5

(Swapped perspective where we now see Hunter from over the Guard's shoulder. His arms are crossed and he has an interested look on his face. In the background we see Willow has joined Luz, Amity, and Vee)

Hunter: What's your story?

Panel 6

(Blank background with just the old Guard sitting on the bench. He has a grumpy expression)

Old Guard: No much to tell, really.

Panel 7

(Wide shot of the bridge where the Hexsquad faced off against Belos in King's Tide. There is a black shadowed outline of Belos lifting up a struggling Golden Guard by the neck)

Old Guard: I betrayed Belos, got thrown into the pit and survived.

Image 3

Panel 1

(Back in the police station, we see Hunter with his arms crossed)

Old Guard (off-panel): Then I went ino hiding until now.

Panel 2

Hunter: What's your name?

Panel 3

(The old Guard looks away conspicuously)

Panel 4

(The old Guard looks back with narrowed eyes)

Old Guard: Bob.

Panel 5

(Hunter shrugs his shoulders and looks to the side with an annoyed expression)

Hunter: If you don't want to tell me, then fine.

"Bob" (off-panel): That is my name.

Panel 6

(Blank background with just Bob on the bench and Hunter standing next to him. An unidentified voice is speaking from off panel)

Voice (off-panel): Everyone.

Panel 7

(We see the voice belongs to Darius. He is standing in a doorway and holding a blue piece of paper with some indistinguishable writing on it)

Darius: I've got a message from the Devouts, and it says-

Image 4

Panel 1

(Darius paues, his attention caught by something to the side)

Panel 2

(Bob is sitting on the bench with an unfazed expression)

Panel 3

(Blank background with just Bob on the bench, pointing to himself)

Bob: Nah, I'm the one before that.

Panel 4

(Darius is nonplussed)

Darius: Oh.

Panel 5

(Darius is reading off the paper in his hands)

Darius: It says, "Hand over the Grimwalker, or his friend will be executed."

Panel 6

(Hunter, Willow, Luz, Amity, and Vee all have determined faces)

Darius (off-panel): "You have 48 hours."


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Image 1

Panel 1

(Mostly black panel with a thin slit in the center, as if looking out through barely open eyes)

Panel 2

(The full image of what we couldn't make out before. On an airship, there is one coven scout operating the controls, while two more are standing guard)

Scout: Hey look.

Panel 3

(Gus is seated on the floor with a defiant look on his face. His arms are secured behind him with what appears to be a restraint made of abomination goo. Behind him we can see just the feet and spear butt of a coven scout)

Scout (off-panel): The little trickster is awake.

Panel 4

(A scout is holding up Gus' illusion sigil earring and inspecting it)

Scout: We are about to land.

Panel 5

(Close in on Gus' upper body)

Gus: Where are you taking me?

Panel 6

(Wide shot of the main area of the airship. There are several coven guards in front of and behind Gus, all looking ahead in the direction the airship is flying)

Scout: See for yourself.

Image 2

Panel 1

(Blank background with just Gus' head. He has a stunned expression)

Scout (off-panel): The true capital of the Boiling Isles.

Panel 2

(Wide shot of the landscape. We appear to be somewhere high up, there is nothing but sky in the background. The central feature is a large spike coming up from the ground, as a part of the Titan. On the top is built a large castle, with further construction down towards the base. There are two large arches built on either side of the spike, as we saw previously in Bonesborough. Near the spike we can see one or two factories with tall smokestacks, and several buildings that look like a small village. On the right of the panel is the airship flying towards it)

Scout: The Kneecap.

Panel 3

(The airship is coming in for a landing. There is a coven scout on the ground with a blue magic circle around his finger, creating a large blue arrow directing them where to land. Beside him is a large crossbow aimed upwards towards the airship)

Panel 4

(Two coven scouts are walking Gus into a hallway. In the background we can see outside the entrance is the airship they came from. The walls look similar to Belos' castle)

Scout: Look alive,

Scout: We are taking you to the Emperor.

Image 3

Panel 1

(Gus looks to the side with a quizzical expression)

Gus: Who's this... Emperor you kept mentioning?

Panel 2

(The scout turns his head to look towards Gus)

Scout: What do you mean?

Panel 3

(Blank background with just Gus, eyes wide and jaw dropped with shock)

Scout (off-panel): It's Emperor Belos, of course.

Panel 4

(From behind and to the side we see Gus standing in a large room. There are several coven scouts in a row in front of him. Beyond them we see several stairs leading up to a raised dais. A larger-than-normal scout in a darker uniform is standing on the dais with their arms crossed. Near him, on the edge of the panel, we can see part of an empty throne)

Panel 5

(Front shot of Gus looking nervous. The coven scouts on either side of him have their arms raised in front of them in a formal guesture)

Panel 6

(Shot of the floor, with just a pair of boots walking towards an opening with light coming in)

Image 4

Panel 1

(Close up on Gus' face. His eyes are huge and there is a [GASP] sound effect)

Panel 2

(Emperor Belos is standing in front of the throne, wearing his mask with the tall horns. One of his arms is raised to the side in a sweeping guesture)

Panel 3

(Belos is seated on the throne, both arms resting on the sides)

Panel 4

(Blank background with just Gus looking stunned)

Gus: No no no.

Gus: It can't be!

            How could that-

Panel 5

(Wider shot of the dais. To the left we can now see Adrian Graye Vernworth, the former Head of the Illusion Coven, with a smug look on his face)

Panel 6

(Gus' eyes are narrowed with a quizzical expression)

Panel 7

Gus: Oh, okay


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