When Critical Role isnāt busy dominating the world of actual-play streaming, or putting out what feels like five million booksābe they original fiction, behind-the-scenes collections, or straight up additions to the tabletop world they loveā its characters are on their way to being transformed into new animated iconsāand at New York Comic Con 2021, we just got a new look at them in action.
Although weāve seen brief snippets of Legend of Vox Machina and its designs for the titular Critical Role heroes (the adventuring band adopted by Critical Roleās stars for its first campaign), at NYCC the cast of the actual-play RPG show gathered to reveal the title sequence for the show itself, as well as its release dateāmeaning we now know youāll have to wait a little longer to see Grog, Percy, Vex and Vax, and the rest of the crew gather their party to venture forth into Exandria.
Executive produced by the Critical Role cast as well as Star Wars: Resistanceās Brandon Auman and Metalpocalypseās Chris Prynoski, the series was first intended to be a crowdfunded one-off specialāuntil, well, critical roles occurred and suddenly the project was one of the biggest film projects in Kickstarter history. Its scopeĀ expanded to a 10 episode series, and then, in partnering with Amazon, a two-series, 24-episode adventure. As well as executive producing, of course, the key Critical Role cast members who played the heroes of Vox MachinaāLaura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam OāBrien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willinghamāwill naturally all return to voice their characters for the animated series. Check out a preview glimpse of a live read of one of the scenes from the new show below!
Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina hits Amazon Prime Video on February 4, 2022.
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