Animation101 with Sam Riegel | The Legend of Vox Machina

interesting choice of windows last century for the presentation. "the animation is drawn by hand" = WHY ????? when it is so much faster, efficient, easier and practical to do it digitally

Overseas animation huh? So you guys are having South Koreans do it like so many anime production companies?

Please please take as long as you need, as much as I can’t wait for it I want it to be perfect! I plan to use it to introduce everyone to the wonderful world of critical role

I wonder if the auditions will be opened to the public XD I would love to try to audition for a role

I imagine that the Pandemic is screwing with the timeline.

This is so exciting!! Its so cool to learn about the process, and I’m so hyped to see the final product (even though ive never seen C1). On that note, do I attempt to watch C1? Where do I begin?

Is that how animation is always done? No wonder animated media takes soooooo long.

Do we know by now if there will be a physical copy of the series to buy? Considering it gets streamed on Amazon Prime probaly not? Does anybody know if Amazon Prime Shows get Blu-Ray releases?

What a lovely explanation!

Take your time. You’re all great!

I want "Scanlan Attacks the house" "Terry and Grog Annoy Shop Keeper" "Scanlan falls in love with Percy" and last but certainly not least "Vox's Vacation"... My mind can only do so much.

Fun to see a part of the process. I'm hoping this will be a better thing to do than the studio approach with endless amounts of tinkering making everything a hot steaming pile of offal. 2 minutes after release, there will be people calling out what player got high and mighty, had to much influence, turned this into shit.

And *that's* the Tea...

I really appreciate how much credit you give to the usually small things that big companies would not give credit too.

Sam, why are you so unnervingly handsome?

So we looking at quite awhile lol no big though. Will be a nice treat in a couple years when I forget about this entirely

I would totally love to see the table reads once the series is out!! :)

my teacher contacted me w this link to help with my project and let me tell you i had not expected him to send me Sam Riegel in the middle of college

88,887... tAKE MY MONEY SO IT'S ALL 8

Lol ADR in veterinary medicine means Ain’t Doing Right and it’s a legit term we use quite regularly 😂

Yes, making an animated series is really tough work. I have only witnessed one in the making and it was an animated short some dear friends made. They took more than a year, with only 5 or 6 people working on it, and it was all by hand and the result was gorgeous. They won an award! But it takes time, effort, carpal tunnel issues and lot of sleepless nights. Obviously our beloved team making TLOVM is bigger and it helps, but it's far more complex and it has so much detail on it, plus they also have to take precautions because COVID. Of course I'm looking forward to see the first chapters, but I respect and (most of all) I'm grateful that they are taking their time to make an awesome production. I saw the drawing of the backgrounds and they were just mind blowing. I would say "I can't wait to see it" but I will wait, because I believe it will be worthy. Thank you Sam for the update and a huge "thank you" to all the team that it's making this amazing animation. I know it's going to be epic!

i kinda want to see that folder now

could've hired a Japanese studio for the animations and stuff. Could produce a lot more than 10 episodes at a much lower cost

This is just a really good break down for general animation. Bravo CR.

I hope all the guest players they had in campaign one come back to voice their own characters. I can't wait to see Cashew.

Good luck with production :) !! & Hope that the Mighty Nein animated series will be made too :)

So, I just saw the vinyl Pop figure for Scanlan. Pretty cool, as “Scanlan” is my last name.

I'm stoked for this! I know the wait will be worth it!

Next episode: How a bill becomes a law.

Sam! Use mage hand to pick pocket and enemies weapons before combat!

you mean matts not going to do all character voices besides vox machina

Thank you so much for your Work. You have an awesome Team and its really an inspiration.

Matt better be allowed to voice AT LEAST one NPC every episode. If not, I riot.

At least give us a sneek peak...

Sam since its almost christmas can we have a full cover of "do you want to build a machine gun."

There is not enough popcorn in the world to contain my excitement!! ♡♡♡ You are just AWESOME

What happens if somewhere along the line someone wants to go back and redo one of the steps in the process?

Am I the only one that is bothered by the fact that it's not 88,888 👀 OCD hurts 😂

Nice

The Truth Revealed! For all the idiots who gave me shit in comments when I insisted CR "shows" were scripted. I haven't lived 70 years without becoming able to perceive the obvious, and to point it out without fear of reprisals.

The animation series will be done after the 3rd Book of Pat Rothfus - the doors of stone)

The song is a straight up bop! Anyone know where I can find it??

6:21 make 'em POP

please take as long as you need, good things come to those who wait

“A silent foam covered abyss” We stan

I NEEEEED MORE!!!

I know you do your own thing for red nose day but please spread awareness of what Jacksepticeye is doing. On the 13th he is doing a livestream to start donating to red nose day. #Thankmas

"And Scanlan Was His Name" appropriately climaxes on the G (string).

So this is where our 11 million dollars our going

Stop wasting your company time animating this! You just wasted a week of company time that could have been used to make it come out faster!! (I'm only joking, please don't yell at me)

the biggest plus of all this is that it seems everyone has been in this process for a long time. I find that cool.

New episode when?

Dank boobs? o.0

Marisha should voice Sam more often.

7:21 - How cruel to those with OCD. 😉

I need a musical duet with Sam and Jack Black!! Need!!

his jokes are a recycle bin becuase they are recycled

any doubters out there? Take your time make it epic!! xD

It's nice to see Sam taking a break from political commentary and talking about animation.

Honestly the new hair and scruff is pretty unnervingly handsome :D

Gives us an 8 minute video to update us on the status of the series and doesn't give us an status on the series... :(

Especially when the pandemic came into play and everyone had to adjust. It may take some time, but I know the end product will be worth the wait.

Thank you for your dedication to this project! Many of us have been aching for D&D content on the TV to help draw in even more people, and you crazy people are just the right kind of crazy to get it done!

By hand is the best way, wtg guys, doin it right!

"Animatrimony". that's a thing now.

I always knew Marisha was Sam's voice actor...

I'm still watching the first campaign and havent started the second. I have time

I need an entire episode dedicated to the troop trying to open a door. It's canon.

Wait, you’re hiring outsider voice actors? Why not just throw Matt into a dungeon until he records all the lines for all 1,500+ NPCs? I’m sure he’d be totally cool with it.

Wait...I thought Titmouse was doing the work....so why does it have to go overseas?

I'm an aspiring script-writer so this was REALLY informative!

Man, I'm so exited fpr the series. I've never watched Campaign one and the Series seems like a cool way to still experience it

Im still here for one more OBJECTION as pheonix wright

If Matt doesnt voice Clarence, I'm gonna break shit

Thank you for doing this! Clearing up confusion and educating is always worth the effort, especially when it's designed to be done so efficiently!

@2:24 I'd like to think this happened right after Travis's Cowboys lost again and he just went into the recording booth to scream it out.

“Is that upside down? NO, it’s not.”

Wooo!! Yes! The animation production pipeline is so long y'all! So excited and ready!! Thanks for sharing this and who ever made the graphics, so good!

UGH! Anyone else get the URGE to be involved in a big production like this all of a sudden?!

This is a great primer. Would have been nice to see an articulation of where you are in the process with the first few eps. I'm in for the long run, but specifics in the past few updates have been sparse. I'm a big one for transparency, especially with 2020.

Who's here from the Driftor video?

Love that you guys do these updates!

Okay "Dude"!!! When? :-) Goin' to be a day or two yet I recon. :-( OKAY THEN!!! Gidder done "Dude". Have fun and enjoy. Be well and stay safe. :-)

TIL the difference between an animatic and an animation, finally

I want that doodle of a bug-eyed Caleb casting prismatic spray or whatever on a shirt.

So it only takes 8 minutes and 1 drink. What's the hold up...?

As someone who works in animation, I really appreciate how detailed and accurate this pipeline explanation is!

This doesn't really make any sense. didn't they originally have a a release date of august this year, i remember them saying it was suppose to come out months ago but had to be delayed due to covid. so surely it should be almost done, right? but the fact they wont give a release date kinda tell me we've got at least another 6 months wait. kinda disappointing really.

Great video

88,887 god i wish I wasn't poor so I could have made it 88,888

awesomeness.

Why is the animation done over seas? or was that more of just a saying or gag?

Thanks Sam

Guess I should watch campaign 1

3:01 ... WHAT

There's gotta be a better way of doing things, cutting down a few of these steps.

Hey Sam I just recently learned you were the Voice director on Elena! I was an animator on that show! I'm so happy I got to work with you even though I never met you in person xD!

Thank you so much for making this video! I'm an illustration major and its so so intriguing to now what the whole animation process looks like.

Why is nobody talking about the C☆CKSTAR sticker on the guitar case in the background??

so, after all that we have witnessed in C1 and C2, you're gonna bleep "goddamn"??! come on!