Lackadaisy Season One!

Supporters, fans, readers, and viewers of Lackadaisy might have some questions about the recent announcement, so we’ve compiled some responses and information below.

Q. What announcement??

If you missed it, check out the GLITCH Direct video and the Lackadaisy Last Call video on YouTube!

Q. What’s the news?

The short version: Lackadaisy is now officially a GLITCH production! We’re teaming up to make a bigger, longer version of Lackadaisy Season One than we originally planned.

Q.  Why?

Glitch reached out with an opportunity to hop aboard and to produce Lackadaisy as a series for a streaming platform release. We took them up on that with great enthusiasm, because we knew this scenario would present us with the best of all worlds – funding with a larger, TV-show sized budget, the ability to expand the season, and a series that remains creator-driven. Though Glitch has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years, it marches to the beat of its own drum and retains its indie spirit – a philosophy and approach to making animation that we feel very aligned with.

We’re extremely grateful that Glitch saw potential in us (potential we were able to demonstrate to them with the help of our Backers) and we feel like the best version of Lackadaisy we can make is going to emerge from this partnership.

Q.  How many episodes will there be?

Season One will have six full-length episodes, rife with action, music, and the quality of animation you’ve all come to expect. (This amounts to a lot more than the five 10-12 minute episodes we had originally planned.)

Q.  Where will it be released?

It’ll be an announcement we make closer to release, but we know Episode One will still drop on YouTube.

Q.  Will Lackadaisy still be on YouTube?

The pilot we Kickstarted will remain on Youtube, and there are no plans to remove the other animated shorts, mini-episodes, comic dubs or anything else. We’ll continue to use the channel for communication with fans, and for livestreams and hangouts when time allows.

Q.  When does it come out, and will all the episodes come out at once?

The expected release for Season One is 2027. This is just an estimate! The exact release date schedule of episodes – whether they come out week after week or all at once – hasn’t been determined yet, but we’ll let you know when we find out!

This means Episode One won’t be out as early as we first anticipated, but it does mean we’ll be able to deliver the season on the whole much faster. (If we were doing this under our original methodology, episode releases would be many months apart.)

Q. Why is it going to take so long?

Lackadaisy is all hand-drawn animation, and that simply takes a long time to do! Factor in all of the writing, recording, music composition, storyboarding, background and design work that has to happen first, then the compositing, audio mixing, and polishing that happens afterward, and it adds up a lot of work. In fact, we’ll be teaming up with another animation studio to share the work and help things move along faster.

That said, thank you for being patient and bearing with us. We really want to make something beautiful, fun, and engaging for you to watch!

Q.  Will Backers and other supporters still get updates?

Yes! We’ll continue to share news and peeks at work in progress with Backers and other supporters whenever possible. Patrons and YouTube Channel members will continue to get private livestreams, chats, and exclusive art too.

Q.  You raised funds on BackerKit. How was that funding spent?

Our incredible Backers gave us a budget that proved absolutely vital to getting us to this point – we would not have had this opportunity without you.

While much of the funding raised went directly to fulfilling Backer rewards, it also covered all of the pre-production costs for the originally planned five episode season, plus early parts of production.

The following is a basic breakdown of expenditure:

• • Platform fees, credit card / Stripe fees, taxes, and lawyer fees
  • Book printing, shipping, and fulfillment fees – by far the most expensive part of all. This was the biggest book delivery Iron Circus has ever undertaken, and in order to deliver on it, we had to hire extra help and eat a lot of the added cost of rising shipping prices. 
  • Merch production and merch fulfillment – the manufacturing and shipping for all our physical rewards.
  • The full production of the Lackadaisy Ingenue mini-episode.
  • All of the Season One (as it existed at the time) pre-production work and early production work: script writing, character designs, set designs, prop designs, storyboards, Episode One background art and rough animation.
  • Season One music composition and recording.
  • Voice recording for all of Season One (as it existed at the time) – paying the studio, sound engineer, mixer, and all of the voice cast.

Q.  Are you keeping your voice cast?

Yes. As long as they want to keep working with us, the original Lackadaisy voice cast will be back in action for Season One. We’ll also have some new talent joining us for other characters who’ll be introduced in the full season.

Q.  What about the mini-episodes mentioned in the BackerKit campaign?

We’re still planning to make them!

Q.  Will Backers who pledged for credited tiers still be credited?

Yes!

Q.  Are you still making all the character plushies?

Yes. We’re working on designing and releasing them with Glitch’s merch company; FinalFinal_Project. They will become available at our online shop over time. You should find Viktor has recently made his way into the Lackadaisy Shop!

Q.  What about the Card Game?

Keep an eye out! It’s coming late this year (2025) from FinalFinal_Project as well! Backers will be shipped their copies first. The rest will appear in the Lackadaisy Shop.

Q.  What about a blu-ray release?

We’ll have to figure that part out when we get there. Gotta finish making the show first!

Q.  What about the comic?

During Lackadaisy pre-production and production, Tracy’s been wearing very many hats, as indie projects often require. That has left precisely zero time for anything else, and has meant the progress of the webcomic has been on hold for a while. Production will need to be her primary focus while Season One is underway, but under this new arrangement, Tracy still has full ownership of the comic at Lackadaisy.com and is free to continue when the time is right. The comic books are still published and available through Iron Circus Comics.

Q.  Are you casting voice acting roles? Are you hiring crew roles?

Sorry – not at this time.