The Nexus

The Nexus is an American action animated series with military science fiction, space opera, and space western elements, with a serialized episode format. It is created by Morgan Doyle and The Bell brothers, and co-produced by Georgia Lee and Aiyana White in their first animated series project.

Development
Doyle produced a 2D pilot titled Nexus Station. It was produced in co-operation of Gunpower & Sky, who co-funded and distributed the pilot under their DUST branding.

The pilot received positive reviews and got over six hundred thousand views over the course of three weeks, and as of April 2022, currently has over five million viewers.

With the high praise in mind, Doyle would leave production of Gunblazer's final season to work on developing The Nexus. Before fully going into developing the series, Doyle hired about one hundred CG animators, artists, concept artists, camera animators, and character designers for Axtyon's in house CG studio.

Doyle would bring along The Bell brothers to help co-develop and write the series, and would bring on science fiction television writers to help write the series. Gunpowder & Sky, the pilot co-funder and distributor will act as a co-financier and co-producer on the television series, in return DUST will release The Story Begins on their YouTube channel over the course of September and early October.

Writing
Storyboarding and writing for the initial season took place between January 2021 and September 2021.

Animation
Animation was outsourced to industry leaders in visual effects and animation, such as Cinesite, Axis Studios, and CGCG. Axyton's in house CG studio also worked extensively on the project as well. Oscar-winning VFX supervisor for Avatar and The Jungle Book, Andrew R. Jones, was brought on to help supervise the animation for the first season.