Season 4 of Critical Role’s animated series The Legend of Vox Machina is out and CEO Travis Willingham clarifies a major misconception about who is leading the writer’s room.
What does the boss say? In a recent episode of Fireside Chat (exclusive for members on beacon.tv), Travis Willingham, CEO of Critical Role, and Laura Bailey, co-founder and executive producer, answered questions from fans. Among them were questions about Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina – the animated series on Amazon based on Critical Role’s original Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
The two Critical Role members answered questions sent to them via the company’s Discord server. A particular question prompted the CEO to speak more about what happens behind the scenes.
The Legend of Vox Machina is not Amazon’s show, but Critical Role’s
What was the question? A fan asked the two if there were any scenes in the animated series that the team had to fight for. The CEO took the opportunity to clarify who really holds the reins in the adaptation of The Legend of Vox Machina – and it’s not Amazon.
I think people might have a wrong impression. We make the show; it’s us. We’re there, breaking everything down, throwing in surprises, adding things, making cuts, all of that stuff.
Critical Role is and remains in charge of the story of The Legend of Vox Machina. While the team still pitches ideas to Amazon, they have been on board with all of their suggestions. Thus, they did not have to “fight” for specific scenes or moments.
This also means that any changes to the series compared to the original campaign of Critical Role were intentional. They are not a sign that Amazon is meddling in the series unduly.
However, there was one thing Critical Role had to fight for: Laura Bailey admits to this. However, it was not about a scene, but about an armored bear – Trinket. In the series, Vex keeps her animal companion in an enchanted pendant, from which he only leaves for certain scenes – for example, when the group fights.
The resistance against the bear did not come from Amazon, but from Titmouse – the studio that animates the series. They asked Critical Role to keep the bear out of as many scenes as possible, so they wouldn’t have to animate the armored quadruped every time.
By the way, a new, iconic voice is joining the cast in the fourth season of Critical Role’s The Legend of Vox Machina. It belongs to an actor that most will likely know from The Lord of the Rings. This reveal went exactly as you would expect from Critical Role: Vox Machina gets iconic voice from The Lord of the Rings, the reveal is typical Critical Role
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