Board Thread:End of the Clone Wars Series/@comment-24003114-20131003054441/@comment-20644-20150204222743

The animation was because it was a story reel. Story reels are part of what's known as the pre-visualization process. That rather crude animation is used to show what an episode will look like. It's essentially a computerized form of a story board. They were made for every episode of the show before they became fully animated.

The reason that those were released is because they were the reels that already had the dialogue recorded by the cast. So they were in a position to be released; it cost nothing to release them.

I would imagine that most of the remaining seasons do not have completed story reels. They for sure do not have recorded dialogue. To do either of those, or to complete the animation into a normal-looking episode, would require money that is currently being spent on Star Wars Rebels.

It's simply not practical to continue with The Clone Wars as a show. That's why some episodes are being adapted into other mediums, like the Son of Dathomir comic mini-series and the Dark Disciple novel. I would imagine we'll see more comics or more novels in the future, with important stories from The Clone Wars. The show may be over, but its stories are not.