And this becomes very important when she confronts Steven about his identity and turns out to be wrong. It’s emphasized by Rebecca that the developmental materials ARE NOT CANON (and especially are not MORE canon) compared the final show.

The writing process gets a great deep dive here, including fun tidbits like how the orb in the moon base was inserted by Joe Johnston and they literally had no idea what it was for when they wrote the episode. Steven Sugar and Mary Nash discuss how the Human Zoo incorporated this imagery, trying to look like Homeworld with a Pink Diamond touch. Promotional art, planning documents, character sketches, and concept art from the lighthearted to the stone serious is included, along with some very cool (sort of famous) timeline charts that track major characters’ developments. Some low-quality images are included with my review just to give you an idea of what’s there–it’s not a good substitute for getting your own copy, but here’s a tour! Its organization is different from the previous book in that it shares applicable work in chunks associated with groups of episodes rather than pertaining to different aspects of building the show.There are notes on how the Diamonds have a responsibility to their children and should attend to it before just continuing to make more. One of the concept art images for the Off Colors features Rhodonite crouching by Padparadscha saying “Don’t worry, I won’t let them hurt you. The interior covers are decorated with tons of amazing sketches of Steven and Connie on the front, and a bunch of Gem sketches on the back. We share only the finest artworks, the best tutorials and the greatest animated shorts with an international community of over 1 million artists, art enthusiasts and animation fans.

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Sadie was also supposed to be sending letters to Lars via Steven, which is funny since the “Letters to Lars” episode is just a montage Steven letter.