ForCritical Role’sVoice Cast, Adapting Their Own Work Was a Dream Come True

At New York Comic - Con 2021 , the first footage ofCritical use : The Legend of Vox Machinagot its gilded animated debut . base on the web series where voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons , the cartoon quickly took shape after a record - breaking Kickstarter , and Amazon later on picked it upfor two season . As with everything they do , the cast of the show made it clear that this only happened because of their massive fanbase . “ This is our show , in every sense of the word , ” order Travis Willingham ( voice of goliath beastly Grog Strongjaw ) on the NYCC venire .

It ’s an interesting sensation for the cast , who ’ve all spent their careers as characters from other prop . Laura Bailey and Willingham have pass yr as Marvel charactersBlack Widow and Thor , you ’ve heard Matthew Mercer as Overwatch ’s cowboy McCree , and gamers are intimately familiar with Ashley Johnson asLast of Us’zombie orca Ellie . So the chance to adapt their own textile was something of a culture shock , for sure . “ None of us at any point have take this for granted , ” said Johnson ( gnome cleric Pike ) . Liam O’Brien ( half - elf rogue Vax’ildan ) add that there ’s a special amount of investment funds in being his own world . “ You ca n’t really beat digging your fingers into your own character , and I experience more invested than I ’ve been in anything I ’ve been a part of . ”

Fans of Critical Role will be entranced that the series is start off with the Briarwood arc of the first crusade , regarded as when the show encounter its footing . In it , the hazard party bonk as Vox Machina help their inventor Percy ( voice by Talisen Jaffe ) Richard Morris Hunt down the vampires who massacre his family and quickly get in over their headway . ( Hot vampires , as the casting was speedy to charge out upon seeing a picture of Silas Briarwood , vocalise by Dungeon Master Mercer . ) “ When we got to the Briarwood discharge , ” explained Sam Riegel ( gnome bard Scanlan ) , “ it snap for all of us that we ’re tell a literal story here … At least for me , it ’s the first time that it felt like art . ” Bailey ( half - elf Sagittarius Vex’ahlia ) felt that the Briarwood spark is where character kinship truly took shape beyond the cast mess around and laughing at their own idiocy .

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adjust anything is tricky , but Critical Role is a whole different beast . The Vox campaign is century of hours of subject matter , and since the hunting expedition ended in 2017 , the cast has been sporadically voicing their heroes off and on for one - shots . Choosing what consequence to bring in the hunting expedition was n’t well-off ; Bailey explained that the cast was require about favourite instant they wanted to transition to animation . Or as Marisha Ray ( druid Keyleth ) tells it : “ The first day in the writers ’ room was basically the author interviewing us as our character … It was just us trying to explicate our characters . ” But the transition , according to Jaffe , was “ better than I opine . ” If you ’re a fan of the Vox campaign , you in all likelihood know what he ’s talking about .

Critical Role : The Legend of Vox Machina hits Amazon on February 4 , 2022 .

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