With Toy Story 3 lighting up the UK box office, it's easy to forget about Pixar's other projects on the go. It's even easier to forget about the ones they cancel. Luckily for us, though, they've decided to publish some of the artwork behind a recent ill-fated animation, Newt.

The story of a lonely newt (with blue feet) who faces extinction, it would have seen our endangered hero attempting to keep his species going through a breeding programme - despite the reluctance of the last remaining female, Brooke.

Shut down in May, Newt was going to be the feature debut of director Gary Rydstrom - in-house sound guru and director of previous short, Lifted. Pixar haven't revealed why Newt was shut down, but they have done something even rarer: given their fans a chance to see what might have been.

The full-range of beautiful artwork is online at Pixar's Facebook page, but you can read on to sample a few of the most colourful pieces.