Lucid Fantasy

Lucid Fantasy is an American epic high fantasy action animated series created by Elisa Callahan. An half-hour pilot aired on Cartoon Madness, and was picked up by Aura. After negotiations, the show was moved to Nicktoons Family. The animated series is a co-production between Typewriter Productions West, Firebasket Studios (until Season 3, then Firebasket Concepts took over) and NFStudios. The show premiered on September 22, 2018 on Nicktoons Family, and later moved to NFCartoons beginning January 2022. Reruns began airing on February 29th, 2020 on the OTA network Firebasket Network, as well as on cable on Nicktoons Family's parent network Nickelodeon Family, as a part of EXO.

The show entered it's final season on April 29, 2022 and the series finale will air on September 23, 2022. A film, acting as the actual series finale, will be released on August 18, 2023 by Paramount Pictures.

Development
Production of the mini short started in the spring of 2017, with writing and pre-production starting. Production then started in Firebasket Studios in Hartford, CT. Animation took place overseas at Rough Draft Korea. Post-production, cleaning up, and additional effects were handled by Typewriter Productions West. Tyler Bates and Mick Gordon composed the soundtrack for the short, while Mick Gordon composed the theme song.

Television series
In July of 2018, a 26 episode series was greenlit and production started right away. Typewriter Productions West contracted Venga Seattle and Venga Atlanta to animate the 26 episode season. Firebasket Studios did pre-production, voice studio work, touch up animation, and post-production work. Tyler Bates did not return to score the show, and Mick Gordon had other commitments but still was able to compose some music. Trevor Morris was then contracted to compose the series alongside Gordon.

Season two was greenlit by Firebasket Studios in January of 2019, and work started right away. Season two will be mostly produced by Firebasket Studios and animated by Firebasket Studios Atlanta, Firebasket Studios California, Venga California 2D, Venga California 3D, and Studio DEEN. A total of 10 episodes will be produced for the fall, while 12 episodes will be produced for the late spring.

Starting with Season three, Firebasket Concepts took over production and planning. Studio Acesky's Beta Acesky Studios took over from Venga Animation USA, Firebasket Studios Atlanta/California, and Studio DEEN. SurgeKorea, Studio Ikkou MRC, and Studio #1.3 aided Beta Acesky Studios with animation. 3D Animation was now being handled by Ravenworks Animation Russia and Firebasket Animation Texas.

Season Four was greenlit in February 2020 for a six-episode season, shorter than the usual amount due to the linear storyline and COVID-19. Season Four was also the final season with Richard Howe as showrunner.

Starting with Season Five, Alexandra Walker was promoted from series composition writer for Season Three and Four to showrunner. Firebasket Asian Animation took over support animation duties. Season Five was greenlit in March of 2020.

Season Six aired in Spring 2021 for 12 episodes and Season 7 aired in the late summer of 2021.

Despite Nicktoons Family's 2022 rebrand as NFCartoons, Aura mentioned that Lucid Fantasy would remain on the channel space for its final season, considering the show's high ratings even by the channel space's standards.

The final season, Season 8, aired in the spring of 2022 and finishing in the late summer, with a 4 hour marathon leading up to the final episode.

Characters

 * Josephus Nestor
 * Drew Gunn
 * Mirabell Hedersett
 * Maerwynn Barclay
 * Emanuel Cuttle

Season one

 * 1) - Drew and Emanuel set hold in camp, when they met Josephus. The two set out to find food for the camp, where they meet Mirabell and Maerwynn. [9/22/18] {1.7 million}
 * 2) - Drew and Mirabell scout out the area to find grunts, which they attack. [9/29/18] {1.4 million}

Film
In 2020, Firebasket Concepts and Typewriter Productions West confirmed that a theatrical film was in production for a August 18, 2023. Returning as main story writer will be Richard Howe, with Alexandra Walker and series creator Elisa Callahan assisting. Callahan will also return to direct, after deciding to take 2020 and 2021 off to focus on developing another show. NFStudios will co-produce the film alongside Paramount Animation, with Paramount Pictures distributing the film.

The film's budget is $25 million, about the same amount of money as Season 5 and Season 6's total budget.

Broadcast

 * United States: Nicktoons Family/NFCartoons, EXO (Nickelodeon Family, OTA)
 * Canada: YTV Family/YTV 2
 * Germany: Aura
 * Wales: Aura (until 2022)

Future
There was internal meetings at Firebasket Concepts and some spec scripts written by a junior writer on the team that could further the story of Lucid Fantasy, however as the film production neared it's finish, Firebasket Concepts officially called off any sequels as they decided that the movie would finish up the story, and that eight seasons was a good run for the franchise.

The spec scripts written by the junior writer would turn out to become The Lone Warrior.