How animation helped Critical Role bring 'The Legend of Vox Machina' to life
Vax, Scanland, Percival, Vex, Grog, Pyke and Keyleth in "The Legend of Vox Machina," a new animated series based on "Critical Role."Within the first minute of Critical Role's new animated series "The Legend of Vox Machina" a boulder smashes an adventurer to a bloody pulp, a spellcaster is sliced into several pieces, eyeballs fly across the screen and a sword-wielding fighter is electrified into a burnt husk.
"We've seen so much critical and audience success with our animated slate," said Melissa Wolfe, head of animation and family programming at Prime Video, in an email to CNBC. "'Vox' felt like such a natural fit with the animation slate we are building here ... animation offers a unique and unexpected way to tell stories and this is really just the beginning for us at Prime Video.
"We've had our manic midnight oil sessions with chalkboards and red string deconstructing the stories and putting them back together so that not just our current fans but newcomers to Vox Machina will be intrigued and hooked," said Travis Willingham, CEO of Critical Role and the voice of Grog in the series. "We want them to stick around and see where these crazy adventurers go.
"We wanted it to feel like our story," said Laura Bailey, who voices Vex'ahlia in the series. "It would be very easy to take this kind of a story and turn it into a dramatic action with none of those comedy beats that I think really make Vox Machina who they are and make Critical Role what it is." Amazon's Prime Video streaming service meant Critical Role would create 24 episodes spread across two seasons.
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