Pixar's NEWT (Rumor: Cancelled) Concept Art released

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by pj_campbell

I really wish this was actually going to happen, the concept are looks great
But if Pixar canceled it they must have had a good reason...right?

Two squabbling but unaccustomed-to-the-real-world amphibians escaping to the nature of the swamp, and eventually falling for each other under the moonlight?....Seems like we'd just been down that road before.
(Not to mention that Pixar had cancelled it almost the same week as Snow Queen was dropped, Tangled got a title change, and other such post-Princess & the Frog panic and hysteria.)

From the art, Pixar looks like it would've added a subplot about the female scientist having her own trouble mating, and that's pure schmaltz-for-the-grownups Pixar.
The rest?...Just put it down to bad timing.