![]() ![]() The campaign continued to gain traction thanks to Critical Role’s passionate fanbase, becoming the most-funded TV, film or animated project in Kickstarter history and raising over $11.3M. Through it all, they learn how to function as a team, and discover they’re much more than that: they’re family.Įarlier this year, Critical Role launched The Legend of Vox Machina as a Kickstarter campaign for a 22-minute animated special produced by Emmy Award winning studio Titmouse, reaching their original funding goal within minutes. Throughout the first season, our characters will face undead giants, overthrow a sinister necromancer, and confront a powerful curse that has taken root inside their own group. Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse, Big Mouth) serves as executive producer with Sung Jin Ahn (Niko and the Sword of Light) as supervising director.Ĭritical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina follows a group of second-rate adventurers on a quest to save the realm from terrifying monsters and dark magical forces. ![]() The cast of Critical Role, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel and Travis Willingham, will reprise their roles in the series as well as executive produce and help guide the story and adapt their characters for the screen. Helming the story development and script writing for the series are industry veteran writers Brandon Auman (Star Wars Resistance, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who is also executive producing), Emmy Award winner Ashly Burch (Adventure Time), Jennifer Muro (Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Justice League Action), WGA Award winner Marc Bernardin (Castle Rock, Carnival Row), Independent Spirit Award nominee Chris “Doc” Wyatt (Star Wars Resistance, Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man), Emmy Award nominee Kevin Burke (Star Wars Resistance, Marvel’s Rocket & Groot), Daniel Thomsen (Westworld), Mae Catt (Transformers: Cyberverse, Marvel Rising), with Eugene Son (Avengers Assemble, Ben 10: Omniverse) as story editor and Meredith Kecskemety (Niko and the Sword of Light) as writer’s assistant. The fact that they’re all voice actors and actresses lends perfectly for the show, allowing them to breathe life into their own characters via this animated series.Amazon Studios, Critical Role and Titmouse today announced the writing team behind the hugely anticipated adult animated series Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, an action-comedy based on the universe of Critical Role, a leading story-driven and world-building digital media brand. Collaborative story telling at its finest.Īlso something to note, the cast members from Critical Role created their own characters for the Dungeons and Dragons campaign. If you ask me, it is amazing to see this come to life. ![]() The show is based off of a story arc from their campaign they created together around a table, rolling dice, improvising role play and playing Dungeons and Dragons. The group of players from Critical Role in this instance, named their adventuring party, “Vox Machina”. I’ve personally been apart of a few campaigns that have spanned 3 plus years and counting. ![]() A campaign, on average, is broken down into 4 hour sessions and can last years. Dungeons & Dragons is a table top role playing game where a group of players sit around a table role playing a character/adventurer as they navigate a fantasy world created by a Dungeon Master. So what the heck is Vox Machina, you might be asking yourself? To fully understand that you would need to know just a little bit about Dungeons & Dragons. Critical Role Cast What the heck is Vox Machina? ![]()
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