Turmoil

Turmoil is an upcoming European-American animated series produced by Ravenworks Studios, OverFlare, and Firebasket Concepts for NFCartoons, of which will air on their SaturNight block. The show is created by Mystery of the Town creator Yuliya Yemelyanovna, with the same writing and directing team returning. It is the fourth collaboration between Aura Networks and Ravenworks Studios, following The One, Summer Camp 13, and Mystery of the Town.

The show follows a group of survivors four months after an alien invasion wiped out most of Europe and the United States, the survivors must band together to fight against the other invasion waves in order to survive. The show is overall rated TV-14 for violence and language, however a chunk of episodes are rated as a "high" TV-PG DLV for heavy suggested dialogue, violence of which the most graphic are shown off focus, and language with the TV-14 episodes being the most impactful episodes of the series.

Yuliya Yemelyanovna, who now resides in Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion, has stated that watching HBO's The Last of Us has inspired her to develop something like it for Turmoil, especially in the later seasons.

Season one
TBD

Development
After production winded down on Mystery of the Town in mid 2022, Yuliya Yemelyanovna announced that a new long form series was slated to air in the Fall of 2023, and would last at least two years, maybe three. Writing started that August, with a plan to show it 12 months later.

Yuliya Yemelyanovna and Rebecca Duran wrote the outline for the first season, with Dominik Prskalo and Soini Seppälä joining production in December of 2022 to write extra episodes to fit the 13 episode order. Writing for the first season officially finished on February 15, 2023.

Animation
Animating took place at the new primary animation vendors at Ravenworks for long form animation, France 2D (continuing from The Long Dark), Sweden (also continuing from The Long Dark), and Denmark (replaced Russia as third vendor). The animation process started in January of 2023 with personnel using Toon Boom Harmony, OpenToonz, Blender, and the Adobe suite of programs to aid in the animation process.

Firebasket Asian Animation Studios joined in February of 2023 as primary support animator for the show.

Post-production
Post production took place at Typewriter Productions West, of which focused on 2D Visual Effects, light CG work on the aliens and backgrounds, as well as clean up of frames and cutting down padded time to fit 23.5 minutes (later episodes would allow more freedom with minutes).

Cast

 * TBE

Release
The show will start airing on Saturday nights in the United States on September 2, 2023

Broadcasting
In the United States, NFCartoons will air the series as a first run program on their SaturNight block as one of the premier programs. Globally, Beta Cartoon and Beta blocks have picked up the show for broadcast.

Streaming
Globally, Flare+ have picked up SVOD streaming rights. Aura Television Productions have picked up On Demand rights as well in the United States.