'Owl House' Creator Dana Terrace Teams With 'Amazing Digital Circus' Studio For Next Series
'Knights of Guinevere' is gearing up to be the first 2D-animated series for Glitch Productions
It’s been nearly two years since we said bye to the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House, created by DuckTales and Gravity Falls alum Dana Terrace. After something like a dozen years at Disney Television Animation, she and two Owl House writers, John Bailey Owen and Zach Marcus, are teaming with Glitch Productions, the studio behind The Amazing Digital Circus for a new indie animated series, Knights of Guinevere. A teaser has been released for the pilot they hope to release by the end of the year.
Knights of Guinevere as whole is described as “an indie animated, sci-fi psychological thriller”. The teaser opens on fairytale-level serenity of a blue-haired princess napping in a forest surrounded by animal friends, but when we seemingly take a peek inside the smiling girl’s dreams, it’s of a red-lit room with a restrained android struggling to get off a machine as she waves her wiry arms. “S***! She’s waking up!” is heard.
The Owl House starred Sarah-Nicole Robles, Wendie Malick, Alex Hirsch, Tati Gabrielle, Issac Ryan Brown, Mae Whitman, Cissy Jones, Zeno Robinson and ran for three seasons from 2020 to 2023, infamously truncated by short-sighted executives. It was about Luz Noceda who sought magic from a witch named Eda in the magical Boiling Isles. The show was beloved for its storytelling, characters, and LGBTQ+ representation. It won the Peabody Award for Children’s & Youth Programming in 2021, and was nominated for Daytime Emmys, Annies and GLAAD Media Awards.
Terrace’s other prior credits include Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure and The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Owen, who was a story editor/writer/co-producer on The Owl House came aboard after writing for Future-Worm! and Clarence, while Marcus was a staff writer who had been a writer/storyboarder on Star vs. the Forces of Evil. The Knights of Guinevere teaser has already garnered nearly 2 million views in under three days.
Source: Animation Magazine
This tends to be the pattern in television animation these days. A creator gets fucked over by a major studio and decides to go independent.