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The Legend of Vox Machina

…crowdfunding campaigns, that dream has come to fruition with The Legend of Vox Machina. The Legend of Vox Machina is a retelling of the adventuring party from the first campaign…

Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina enlist DC animation’s Phil Bourassa as lead character designer

…Keyleth, Vax’ildan, and Vex’ahlia The Amazon Original series The Legend of Vox Machina follows a group of second-rate adventurers on a quest to save the realm from terrifying monsters and…

Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel

…published by Dark Horse, an art exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, a campaign settings book for Dungeons & Dragons, and live shows. With their popularity growing, they started to seriously explore…

Critical Role assembles an ensemble voice cast for The Legend of Vox Machina

…forthcoming animated series The Legend of Vox Machina. In serving as Dungeon Master in the gaming sessions played by main cast members Ashley Johnson (Pike), Laura Bailey (Vex), Liam OBrien…

Watch the epic title sequence for Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina from Amazon Prime

The title sequence for Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina has launched, and can be viewed above. It was released during the panel at New York Comic Con offering…

Behind-the-scenes look at visualizing the world of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina

Critical Role Productions have released the latest behind-the-scenes video on the making of the forthcoming animated series Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina. This featurette takes a look at…

Behind the scenes look at writing Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina for animation

…staff joining main scribes, executive producer Brandon Aumon and co-producer Jennifer Muro. Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina will stream on Amazon Prime with Kickstarter backers scheduled to receive…

An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations

…cartoon shows. This allowed for experimentation with darker graphical designs one might expect from its title. From the presence of a cursed skeleton warrior to the varying magical attacks from…

Amazon to unlock Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina early on January 28th

As an early Christmas present to fans, Amazon has announced that they are unlocking the premiere of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina a week early on Friday, January…

Inside Out, Ex Machina, Bear Story win Oscars

…Write. It’ll make a world of difference.” (check out their backstage interview…) Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett won the Visual Effects prize for Ex Machina. It…

2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…organic. She noted examples with exploring Bow’s almost feral-like approach and the mysterious connections Shadow Weaver seemed to have with everyone. Discussion eventually came to the third season, which was…

Critical Role Art Exhibition and Live Show

…site in both a standard edition, featuring the Vox Machina piece by Scalera and Dinisio displayed at the Art of Exandria exhibition on the cover, and a deluxe limited edition….

Ex-Machina’s surprise Oscar win is a triumph for low budget special effects
Kung Fu Panda

…Even a deus ex machina can be forgiven! DreamWorks has never lacked in the animation department, but in Kung Fu Panda they have really outdone themselves. Yes, we have the…

Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series

…with some unexpected last-minute guest stars. I like cameos as much as anyone, but the ending has a bit of a deus ex machina feel to it. Nightmare In Green…

2021 Quick Review Recaps

…“deus ex machina-y” for my taste, but fits well enough with the manic energy of the rest of the film. What really gives the movie it’s emotional heft is something…

Yogi’s Great Escape

…Smith and Trapper are on their tails. The chase ends atop the Empire State Building, where everything is solved by a classic deus ex machina phone call from a VIP….

The Peanuts Movie

…and the ending of this film was so exactly like someone from 2015 trying to fake 1950s that it came off like a stilted, overly explained deus ex machina. It’s…

2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…Woods as Lex Luthor. Kimsey expressed how honored she was to voice Wonder Woman despite a relatively small body of work and now as the character’s popularity was shooting upward…

2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…producer of Marvel Zombies), AC Bradley (writer and executive producer of What If…?), Beau DeMayo (writer and executive producer of X-Men ’97), Kirsten Lepore (writer, director, and executive producer of…

2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

exploring the exhibit hall together. Sam Riegel (Nott) and Liam O’Brien (Caleb) talk about developing their second campaign charactersat the Talks Machina with Critical Role panel. A handful of Critical…

88th Annual Academy Awards nominations announced

Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams The Martian – Richard…

Twenty Questions with the AV Staff

exploding onto the scene with the Hazbin Hotel pilot in 2019. Among the bigger studios, Disney has built a nice collection of film and television programs that have been excellent….

The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?

…undivided attention. One thing that picked up was my attending events. As my recaps could attest to, the San Diego Comic Con and the D23 Expo were amazing, worthwhile experiences…

Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition

…job of diluting the story to its basic essence. Gone is the extended prologue with the militaristic team The Losers, as is the explanation of Dinosaur Island. We also don’t…

Turok, Appleseed DVD updates

…a “Making of” featurette. The site also reveals the two covers for Appleseed Ex Machina, which will carry DVD artwork that is different than its HD DVD and Blu-ray releases….