The Academy

The Academy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jorge Frost and Jay Bennett for Vision. The show will be produced by Frost's in-house production unit, Redbar Energy Productions, and Typewriter Productions. Set in a New England area town, at one of the largest second education and college boarding schools in the country, Edgewater Coast Academy & University. The show follows a group of friends, aged fifteen to seventeen years old as they grow up as part of the boarding school, which is filled with stereotypical cliques of people, including jocks, goths, nerds, the preppies, and more. The show was greenlit by Vision in the fall of 2020 with a late summer 2021 release date, later being revealed as August 18, 2021.

Pre-production
The show started pre-production with Jorge Frost temporarily left the production of CyberCity in order to do more research. He would visit multiple colleges and academies that had a Collegiate Gothic style of architecture, which was going to be the main influence of the show. He would also interview students at colleges about daily life and interesting stories that they might have.

Frost then started to write the world bible for the series, as well as a narrative bible for storylines based on the accounts he gathered, as well as basic original ideas he wrote up. The narrative bible would wind up being the first two seasons of the show.

Being greenlit
Redbar shopped the show started in the summer of 2020, to Vision and Adult Swim. Adult Swim couldn't afford the series, only off-network syndication rights, while Vision got the first-run rights for the series. ViacomCBS would distribute the show worldwide, as Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution would wind up distributing the show in the United States.

Writing
Both Frost and Bennett would write the majority of the storylines based off Frost's bible, with other writers writing other blocks of episodes, basing their episodes of Frost and Bennett's storylines.

Animation
Animation will take place at Redbar's in-house animation studio, of which Bennett is the creative head, while the co-director, Mya Moreno, is the head animation director for the company. Both direct the majority of the episodes, with two other directors directing the other 10 episodes.