

I mean, it is them reprising their roles. Getting the chance to see the opening sequence was fantastic! The animation is second to none and of course, the voice acting is perfect. Most of the Kickstarter revenue was transferred to Amazon Prime in exchange for distribution rights and an additional second season. By the end of the Kickstarter campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina had raised over $10 million, becoming the fifth-largest Kickstarter project of all time. When the Kickstarter exceeded all of its stretch goals within 24 hours, the company decided to turn the animated special into an entire season of an animated series. RELATED: Be sure to check out all of our NYCC 2021 coverage! However, it will lead to a chain of events that will ultimately save all of Exandria from dark magic.

Their adventure starts as simply a desperate attempt to pay off their bar tab. Your typical fantasy party: a band of misfits that prefers to drink and fight. Vox Machina is the name of the “heroic” player characters from Campaign 1 of Critical Role. “So last we left off”: Critical Role, the highly successful weekly live-streamed Dungeons and Dragons campaign, decided to turn Vox Machina into a professionally animated special in 2019. But that’s not all! They gave us a look at the opening sequence and a table read for a scene that happens in episode one! How generous of them and it isn’t even Critmas yet. They announced when we would be able to dive into this adventure. Amazon Prime announced at New York Comic Con 2021 that The Legend of Vox Machina (made possible by Critical Role‘s record-breaking Kickstarter) is coming in 2022! Erika Ishii hosted the panel alongside Critical Role members Matt Mercer, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray and Sam Riegel.
