It totally felt like an art jam session with friends. And they gave us lots of detail and inspiration to work with. Working with the Critical Role team was always a joy. Sung Jin> We spent a good six months visual developing, and almost two years in production. Matt Mercer, the DM of the campaign, executive producer and cast member of Vox Machina, gave us such a clear idea of how bestial versus how intelligent he imagined the dragon would be, by literally acting out some of its movements (much like he does during their games). One of my favourite examples from an early meeting was discussing how Brimscythe, one of our first monsters, would be characterised in animation. I was constantly impressed by the depth of their thinking behind every location and character.
Having direct access to the creators of a beloved property like this, and riffing off of their world building ideas and expanding upon them is the dream job of most designers.
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LBB> How long was the production process? How did you find it working with the Critical Role team?Īrthur> Working with the Critical Role cast and Brandon Auman who all are executive producers on the series has been a uniquely creative experience for the whole team. Sung Jin> I became involved during the Kickstarter Campaign, I was not familiar with Critical Role prior to that.
I had no idea at the time that I'd be asked to join the production, much less art direct it.
I was so excited to see the show that I watched for hundreds of hours brought to life with animation, so I decided to personally support the Kickstarter. Sung Jin tapped me to work on the original Kickstarter trailer, and I painted some of our first versions of Emon and the throne room, but that was the extent of my role at the time. LBB> When did Titmouse become involved in the project? Had you heard of Critical Role before - were you fans?Īrthur> I was already a big fan, having watched most of the Vox Machina campaign. Art director Arthur Loftis and supervising director Sung Jin Ahn discussed being fans of Critical Role, animating on a crowd-funded project and working closely with Matthew Mercer and the show’s ‘impressively deep’ lore.
To go behind the scenes on how the Vox Machina campaign was turned into a hugely popular animated series, LBB’s Ben Conway spoke with the animation company working on the series, Titmouse. With the original cast reprising their roles, but now with beautiful new character designs, artwork and animations, Critical Role’s success seems to be continuing and the show has already been commissioned for a second season. The show premiered this January to critical acclaim, sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and receiving praise from existing fans, new fans and critics alike. Now, five years after the first campaign’s conclusion, and following the most funded Kickstarter project for a film/animation in history (beating its $750,000 target with a record-setting $11.3mn) animation studio Titmouse and Amazon Prime have turned the campaign that started it all into an animated series.
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The skill of Mercer’s storytelling and worldbuilding, combined with the obvious benefits of a role-playing cast of professional voice actors made Critical Role an extremely successful product, spawning multiple other campaigns and spin-offs, even branching out into graphic novels. This first campaign followed a team of seven adventurers called Vox Machina - voice actors playing characters such as a gnome cleric, two half-elves and a goliath barbarian – exploring the continent of Tal'Dorei. There have been several campaigns (or ‘series’, for us table-top muggles) in Critical Role’s history, all of which can be viewed on YouTube or listened to as podcasts, following a team of seven voice actors who are - in essence - improvising their reactions to story events, conflicts and interactions with non-playable characters, whilst the dungeon master builds a world and story for them to explore.Ĭritical Role’s first campaign premiered on March 12, 2015, consisting of a whopping 115 episodes before concluding over two years later in October 2017, not to mention the story actually starts in media res of an existing campaign that the group were already playing recreationally for years prior. For the uninitiated, Critical Role is a Dungeons and Dragons web series that sees a group of voice actors role-play through a campaign, created by the dungeon master - and fellow voice actor - Matthew Mercer.
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