DreamWorks Animation has dropped the first image from Guillermo del Toro’s next Netflix series Trollhunters and its looking mysterious and epic.

The series has been in development for the better part of the last five years so having something to show the public is beyond awesome. The project originally started as a film adaptation of the novel that del Toro worked on with author Daniel Kraus but now will be a animated series.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

DreamWorks TROLLHUNTERS will unleash a new, fantastical world wrapped around the residents of the fictional suburb of Arcadia who make a startling discovery that the world beneath their hometown is as vast and mind-blowing as anything on the surface. A global must-see viewing event for the entire family, DreamWorks TROLLHUNTERS will bring viewers of all ages around the world into the rich and creative mind of Guillermo del Toro.

del Toro also adds a little of his own imput on the series in a recent interview:

“I wanted very much to develop a story that could be written for kids but dealt with a genre that was scary. It essentially combines fairy tales with modern times and is about how difficult it is to be kid. Normally, kids are idealized in animated films. But the growing pains, married with the notion that there is a world right next to us that is completely plagued by creatures of ancient lore, it’s thematically fitting with the rest of my stuff.”

So far we think this would make a great series (I mean, look at that critter and the giant sword wielding hero, we’re pretty much sold)  and we can’t wait to check it out when it gets released sometime later this year.