Meanwhile, Critical Role is currently reaching a climactic pitch in the heart of Campaign 3. “That’s what we want: a reduced barrier to entry,” Willingham said.
CR’s newest fans then found their way to Campaign 2 (featuring the Mighty Nein band) and the current Campaign 3 (Bells Hells). “Those episode counts started to climb,” Willingham said. Critical Role has seen increased interest in the original Vox Machina campaign, as people went back and watched the archived livestream shows. Willingham said that’s definitely happened. The Critical Role team had expected that “The Legend of Vox Machina” on Prime Video would grow the Critter fanbase. In addition, a long list of guest stars lend their voices to the show, including Henry Winkler, Lance Reddick, Cheech Marin, Will Friedle, Billy Boyd, Cree Summer, Alanna Ubach, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Troy Baker, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Ralph Ineson. In addition to Riegel’s Scanlan Shorthalt, other Vox Machina members get songs including Grog (Willingham) and Vex’ahlia (Laura Bailey). “With the Critter community, it’s been fun throwing them curveballs - so they’re like, ‘Man, here it comes,’ but it’s not quite what they’re expecting,” O’Brien said.
While Season 2 is based on the hundreds of hours of D&D role-playing from the Vox Machina campaign, it in some cases deviates from the original material. “They are intelligent, they have personas… they deliver really, really good dialog.” Titmouse put together a “souped-up GG team” that “really upgraded the ability to show these dragons in a way that aren’t just hulking beasts,” Willingham said. In some scenes, the presence of the dragons required fewer characters in any given frame to reduce the processing crunch on the animators. Willingham, who also serves as Critical Role’s CEO, said the addition of the dragons in Season 2 presented a much heavier technical burden on their animation studio partner, Titmouse, compared with S1. Riegel said there’s “a lot more story to tell” for the Vox Machina crew: “We could go for five seasons - or more.” “Seasons 2 and 3 are setting up some of those endgame elements and start to reveal what the consequences of certain character choices will be within the story,” he said.
The group is cagey on the Season 3 storyline, but Travis Willingham (who provides the voice of Vox Machina goliath Grog Strongjaw) said the forthcoming season will among other things conclude the Chroma Conclave storyline and individual character story arcs. “The people want what they want, and we’re not going to stand in the way of that.” According to O’Brien, the scene has a couple of jump cuts, “but you get the meat of what you’re looking for.”Īmazon last fall renewed “The Legend of Vox Machina” for a third season, for which the Critical Role team says production is well underway, with animatics and scripts completed. “And through its intestinal tract,” Riegel added. In battling the Chroma Conclave, at one point gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt (Sam Riegel) and Vax’ildan must enter one of the dragons through… its anus. The humor is again bountifully bawdy: There are more than a couple of butt jokes, for example. “We see this new family tested in the face of insurmountable odds… and what they do to hold each other up,” said Liam O’Brien (who plays half-elf thief Vax’ildan). Without revealing any spoilers, “The Legend of Vox Machina” Season 2 features some serious conflict within the squad. I feel like everything is just turned to 11.” “I feel like it’s sillier and it’s darker - and it’s bigger and badder. “This season almost feels in some ways closer to the game,” Johnson added. The second season of “Vox Machina” let the group “get more into the nitty-gritty of the characters… Now we can get into their interpersonal relationships, their backstories,” said Ashley Johnson (who voices gnome cleric Pike Trickfoot).
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