The Legend of Vox Machina, D&D role-playing Cartoon Trailer

You grew up with the D&D animated series because this series is for you. The Legend of Vox Machina cartoon began life as a crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $11 million on Kickstarter in 2019. The Critical Role troupe — voice actors Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Tavis Willingham — are all starring in the animated series. They’re also listed as executive producers, alongside Brandon Auman (Star Wars: Resistance) and Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse). A second season is also in the works and destined for Prime Video.

It originates from Critical Role, the world’s most successful Twitch channel. There, every Thursday, some voice actors of video games and cartoons. they broadcast their D&D games. To date, only with the official campaigns, 271 chapters have been published.

Amazon Studios ordered a total of 24 episodes across two seasons, following a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign by Critical Role — backed by thousands of their fans, aka “Critters” — to fund their first animated project.

Based on the characters and adventures of Critical Role’s first live-streamed D&D tabletop campaign, “The Legend of Vox Machina” follows Vox Machina, a band of misfits with a fondness for boozing and brawling. In a desperate attempt to pay off their mounting bar tab, the unlikely heroes end up on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces. From a sinister necromancer to a powerful curse, the group confronts a variety of obstacles that not only test their skills but also the strength of their bond.

“The Legend of Vox Machina” is a production of Amazon Studios, Critical Role, and animation studio Titmouse for Prime Video.

Critical Role, which began live-streaming the Vox Machina campaign in March 2015 (and concluded in November 2017), was formed by a group of friends who met as voiceover actors and began playing D&D role-playing games together.

The series stars Critical Role founders and cast members Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Travis Willingham and game master Matthew Mercer. Brandon Auman (“Star Wars: Resistance”) and Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski (“Metalocalypse”) serve as executive producers alongside the eight CR founders.

“The Legend of Vox Machina” animation project kicked off in 2019 when Critical Role launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a 22-minute animated special. They surpassed their original funding goal of $750,000 in less than an hour — ultimately raising $11.39 million and setting the record for the most-funded film and video project in Kickstarter history. The outpouring of support from CR’s fans (aka Critters) caught the eye of execs at Amazon Studios, which picked up the series to bolster its adult-animation slate.