Sung Jin tapped me to work on the original Kickstarter trailer, and I painted some of our first versions of Emon and the throne room, but that was the extent of my role at the time. LBB> When did Titmouse become involved in the project? Had you heard of Critical Role before - were you fans?Īrthur> I was already a big fan, having watched most of the Vox Machina campaign. Art director Arthur Loftis and supervising director Sung Jin Ahn discussed being fans of Critical Role, animating on a crowd-funded project and working closely with Matthew Mercer and the show’s ‘impressively deep’ lore. To go behind the scenes on how the Vox Machina campaign was turned into a hugely popular animated series, LBB’s Ben Conway spoke with the animation company working on the series, Titmouse. With the original cast reprising their roles, but now with beautiful new character designs, artwork and animations, Critical Role’s success seems to be continuing and the show has already been commissioned for a second season. The show premiered this January to critical acclaim, sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and receiving praise from existing fans, new fans and critics alike. Now, five years after the first campaign’s conclusion, and following the most funded Kickstarter project for a film/animation in history (beating its $750,000 target with a record-setting $11.3mn) animation studio Titmouse and Amazon Prime have turned the campaign that started it all into an animated series.
VOX MACHINA CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONAL
The skill of Mercer’s storytelling and worldbuilding, combined with the obvious benefits of a role-playing cast of professional voice actors made Critical Role an extremely successful product, spawning multiple other campaigns and spin-offs, even branching out into graphic novels. This first campaign followed a team of seven adventurers called Vox Machina - voice actors playing characters such as a gnome cleric, two half-elves and a goliath barbarian – exploring the continent of Tal'Dorei. There have been several campaigns (or ‘series’, for us table-top muggles) in Critical Role’s history, all of which can be viewed on YouTube or listened to as podcasts, following a team of seven voice actors who are - in essence - improvising their reactions to story events, conflicts and interactions with non-playable characters, whilst the dungeon master builds a world and story for them to explore.Ĭritical Role’s first campaign premiered on March 12, 2015, consisting of a whopping 115 episodes before concluding over two years later in October 2017, not to mention the story actually starts in media res of an existing campaign that the group were already playing recreationally for years prior.
VOX MACHINA CAMPAIGN SERIES
For the uninitiated, Critical Role is a Dungeons and Dragons web series that sees a group of voice actors role-play through a campaign, created by the dungeon master - and fellow voice actor - Matthew Mercer.
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