Disney Animations’ First Original Series Announcement: Tiana on Disney+

Disney recently announced that their Disney Animation division is set to make a new animated original series called Tiana, based on their previously released 2D animated film The Princess and the Frog. The series was announced along with 3 other upcoming Disney Animation series: Baymax!, Zootopia+, and Moana.

We were first introduced to Tiana in Disney’s The Princess and The Frog in 2009. When the always-partying, never-thoughtful Maldonian Prince Naveen comes to New Orleans, he gets turned into a frog by the power hungry voodoo witch doctor, Doctor Facilier.

A classic myth tells you that if a princess kisses a frog, he turns back to into a human; but when Naveen mistakes the entrepreneurial restaurant-owner-to-be Tiana for a princess, it has the opposite effect: Tiana turns into a frog! The two amphibians make their way through the bayou on a journey to reclaim their bodies and save New Orleans from the sinister Facilier.

*SPOILER ALERT… for a 10 year old movie*

The movie ends with Tiana finally owning that restaurant she always dreamed about. And to make it even brighter, she becomes a princess by marrying Naveen. While we don’t know where the story will go next, we do know that we’ll be following Tiana’s continued adventures in her own self-titled show!

Just Announced: @DisneyAnimation’s first-ever original animated series are coming to @DisneyPlus: Baymax!, Zootopia+, and Tiana are coming in 2022, and Moana, the series, in 2023. pic.twitter.com/s7aOht4uU6

— Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was the company’s last feature length film to be traditionally animated- meaning each cell was drawn individually by hand, rather than rendered together digitally.

Since then, we have also seen Tiana realized in 3D in Wreck It Ralph: Ralph Breaks the Internet. Disney has not shared any updates about the series, nor have they revealed which animation style we will see her in.

Disney’s Tiana is set to premiere on Disney+ some time in 2022.