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A scene from the first episode of Esluna: The First Monolith.<\/em><\/figcaption>
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Back in high school, Denver Jackson got the idea for a science fiction and fantasy movie called Esluna: A World Beyond<\/em>, about a land ruled by people with the power to control the wind. Eventually, that idea turned into a web series that recently launched its first season\u2014something Jackson animated by himself.<\/p>\n

Jackson has released the first nine-episode season of his new web series, called Esluna: The First Monolith<\/em>, under the name Cloudrise Pictures. It centers around a young woman named Maeve who teams up with an archaeologist and a powerful young man named Bataar, who mysteriously arrived from another world when he was a boy. Together, they have to stop the land\u2019s tyrannical queen from destroying the world. It feels very much in the vein of something like Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/em><\/a><\/span>, <\/em>with a cute robot sidekick. You can watch the trailers and all the episodes below.<\/p>\n