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The Legend of Vox Machina: Created by Chris Prynoski, Critical Role. With Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer. After saving the realm from evil and destruction at the hands of the most terrifying power couple in Exandria, Vox Machina is faced with saving the world once again-this time, from a sinister group of dragons known as the Chroma Conclave.
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The Legend of Vox Machina is an American adult animated fantasy action television series produced by Metapigeon, [5] Titmouse, Inc., and Amazon Studios, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on January 28, 2022. The series is based on the first campaign of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role. It stars Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe ...
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last updated 24 January 2022
When, where and how will The Legend of Vox Machina release?
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It's official: The Legend of Vox Machina is coming to the small screen.
The Legend of Vox Machina is arriving on Prime Video January 28, 2022.
Like much of the film and TV industry throughout 2020, the show ran into production troubles in light of the ongoing pandemic. It was initially slated to start dropping episodes in "Fall 2020" (September-December), though its release date was revised to 2022.
The Legend of Vox Machina will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, after the streaming service stepped in to back the animated series for an additional 14 episodes on top of the 10 episodes funded through the Kickstarter.
Backers will still get the entire first season as part of their pledge, and early access to the opening two episodes of the season, though the exact details and timings of this remain unclear.
For those of you expecting a retread of Campaign 1, that won't quite be the case.
The Kickstarter for the show reveals that the animated series will cover a "brand new story" and "in-canon adventure", created by the cast and scripted by screenwriter Jennifer Muro, who has worked on other animated series' such as Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Spider-Man, and Justice League: Action.
The first two episodes will act as a prequel adventure, with the original members of Vox Machina at level 7 prior to the streamed episodes – which kick off with the party's arrival at the Dwarven city of Kraghammer.
However, the successful stretch goals will mean that the Briarwoods arc from the streamed campaign will also get its own batch of animated episodes.
You can get a sense of the show's art style, humor and scope in its latest trailer, which we've included below.
Prior to the above trailer's release, though, we were treated to the animated intro for the series, which shows off the party members of Vox Machina: Keyleth the druid, Percy the gunslinger, Grog the barbarian, Pike the cleric, Scanlan the bard, Vex the ranger, and Vax the rogue.
The soundtrack here is the same one used for intros to current actual play episodes, which we expect will be used in some form for the final animated series.
In mid-2020, the Critical Role team also released a behind-the-scenes video of the ongoing animation work happening at Titmouse, which included artist interviews and examples of the show's environmental art.
Naturally, the original cast for Campaign 1: Vox Machina will be reprising their roles for the animated series.
It helps that the whole cast are quite seasoned voice actors in their own right: Laura Bailey having voiced both Kat from Gears 5 and Abby from The Last of Us Part 2, Ashley Johnson voicing Ellie in The Last of Us games, Matt Mercer voicing Levi in the English dub of Attack on Titan and McCree in the PvP game Overwatch, and Sam Riegel having voiced Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney games, to name but a few of the cast's immense catalogue of credits.
There's been no word yet on guest appearances, with Critical Role often featuring outside players for one-off games or small plot arcs, with Will Wheaton and Joe Manganiello both appearing in Campaign 1. We would expect guests to reprise their roles where relevant, though.
The Kickstarter page states that, "to round out the main cast, we’ll bring in some extra special celebrity cameos, as well as voice over industry legends."
The animation studio at the heart of it all is Titmouse, an American outfit that produces a host of animated programming, including shows for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney XD, Fox, and Hulu. Some of the studio's most notable output is for Netflix, as with the Netflix show Big Mouth (starring John Mulaney) and The Midnight Gospel.
The artists working on The Legend of Vox Machina will specifically be "led by Art Director Arthur Loftis and Supervising Director Sung Jin Ahn."
For now, the Critical Role team is occupied with the animated series of their first campaign, Vox Machina, but the popularity of subsequent seasons could pave the way for more spin-off shows based on Critical Role's other campaigns and storylines.
Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein concluded in June 2021, while Campaign 3 began in October the same year, so there's no shortage of D&D adventures to translate to the small screen.
It's likely we won't hear anything about a Mighty Nein animated series for a while yet, but the overwhelming interest in the Kickstarter for Vox Machina suggests there's a lot of mileage in animated adaptations of Critical Role's ongoing hijinks.
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