The upcoming Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch DVD contains a new hand-drawn short entitled The Origin of Stitch which was produced by Toonacious, the faith-based family entertainment company begun by Tony Bancroft (Disney animator, director of Mulan). Bancroft told Animated News, “We are very proud of that little short and it was a lot of fun to do. It was supposed to be done in Flash with very limited animation but we got very involved in it and did most scenes with full 2D animation. There are not enough projects out there that you get the opportunity to do the whole project from start to finish so this was something special for us.” Stitch is animated in this short by his original animator, Alex Kupperschmidt.

Five images from the short can be viewed here: