Blue Moon

Blue Moon is an upcoming American animated high epic fantasy television series created by Matthew Mercer, Kevin Tancharoen, Jason DeMarco and Trinity Payne, and produced by Absolute Digital, Critical Role Productions, and Williams Street. Williams Street and Warner Bros. Television will distribute the show domestically in North America and internationally in some parts of Europe, while NBCUniversal Global Distribution will distribute the show on SYFY's international channels. The show will launch in the fall of 2022 in North America, and in the winter of 2022 worldwide.

Development
Development on the project started in early June of 2021, when Absolute Digital was gaining traction and expanding their studios. The head of the studio, Trinity Payne, reached out to Matthew Mercer and Jason DeMarco about an idea about creating a whole new fantasy universe, with influences from Middle-earth and Dungeons and Dragons, to be made into a Absolute Digital original for Toonami (and later for SYFY).

DeMarco and Mercer brought in Kevin Tancharoen to help develop the show and the world, alongside Critical Role's Chris Lockey, Dani Carr, as well as roleplaying writers Whitney "Strix" Beltrán, Jessica Price, and K. Tempest Bradford. Payne recruited Benton Bartlett as the Lore Keeper of Blue Moon, as well as head of the Blue Moon Story Group (which was co-headed by Bradford, Carr, and Beltrán).

Production
Production officially started in late August 2021 when the initial storyboarded ideas and scraps of scripts were put together to create a somewhat of a pilot baseline.

After an in-progress check by EPs Issac Davis, Trinity Payne and Jason DeMarco in late September, the show went straight to series for ten episodes in 2022.

In October of 2021, it was announced that a second twelve episode season was greenlit for the summer of 2023.

Setting
Blue Moon takes place on the world of Eccarus, and on the continents of Fotterim and Amurat. World building for the series was done by Benton Bartlett, Bradford, and Beltrán with input from Mercer and Carr. Mercer was one of the most hands on earlier onto the series, but since production of Critical Role's third campaign was looming for him, he decided to take a more hands off approach when November 2021 came around.