Netflix has just announced the production of Odballs, a brand new animated series by popular YouTube animator James Rallison, best known for his indie animation channel TheOdd1sOut. Rallison revealed in a recent video that he has been working on Odballs with Netflix for the past two years and that the series will be available on the streaming platform later this year.
Odballs Netflix Premiere Date and Production
Taking inspiration from Rallison’s own animation Youtube channel, TheOdd1sOut, Odballs will be a comedy series focused on characters created by Rallison and produced in partnership with Netflix and Atomic Cartoons. The series is co-created by Rallison and his friend Ethan Banville, and both will serve as executive producers alongside Carl Faruolo and Michael Zoumas. The show’s voice cast will include Rallison himself, Julian Gant, Kimberly Brooks, Gary Anthony Williams, and Carl Faruolo.
The official synopsis for the Oddballs Netflix series reads:
“Odballs follows James, a bubble-shaped boy, whose observations on life fuel his comedic rants at everyday annoyances and elevates them to laughably absurd heights. Along with his best friends Max (a talking crocodile) and Echo (a girl who claims to be from the future), James’ ridiculous schemes to question norms often result in disaster.”
In 2021, videos from TheOdd1sOut Youtube channel were listed 14 times among the 50 most-viewed indie animated shorts on YouTube, and Rallison’s channel currently has over 17 million subscribers. While the release date for the show was not specified, Rallison teased in a video today that he will be attending several conventions between now and the show’s release, where he will share more information about animation from the Odballs including when it airs on Netflix.
“All the writing, storyboarding, designing, and voice acting has been done with little to no human interaction,” he said, revealing all production was done in lockdown during the height of the pandemic.
“I still have yet to work in an office. I just wanna lean against a water cooler and say things like, ‘Hey you see the game last night?’ Is that too much to ask?”
Rallison also explained that his channel will continue to release new content even when Odballs finally airs on Netflix later this year.