![]() While doing that, I will also slide pieces into an adjacent vault that I know we will then use down the road for the art book. I collect a lot of what I see week to week and curate web galleries and a reel that plays during our episodes. “I’m the master librarian for the art that’s created every week," O’Brien says. "I am kind of always working on this, in the background of all my other duties at. Thanks to Critical Role’s efforts to highlight the art from the community, O’Brien was able to keep in mind what he sees every week from fans when deciding what to include in the book. Work began on this third installment last year with O’Brien focusing on the curation and design as fellow cast member and actor Taliesin Jaffe ( Injustice 2, One Piece) led the way on writing with production coordinator Dani Carr heavily involved with writing as well. I think we all wanted a way to remember some of it, and a big, beautiful tome of art was something we knew we all wanted to see on our bookshelves at home.” “It seemed a shame to let so much amazing work be shared for a single moment online. “We were always charmed by the waves of art we saw every week, sharing things with each other as they popped up,” O’Brien tells SYFY WIRE in an email interview. The initial idea for a curated collection began with their own love for the work they were seeing fans create in the early days and how their ideas for creating things came from what they themselves wanted. I: The Tale of Vox Machina and The Chronicles of Exandria Vol. ![]() Once they felt the Mighty Nein’s first arc emerged, they started working on this book.Ĭritical Role’s first campaign inspired two art books, The Chronicles of Exandria, Vol. The campaign, which follows the exploits of an adventuring party known as the Mighty Nein, is still ongoing, but as cast member and actor Liam O’Brien ( Star Wars Rebels, World of Warcraft) tells SYFY WIRE, their first campaign taught them that they need more than one art book to retell their stories. The Chronicles of Exandria - The Mighty Nein features more than 260 pages of artwork created by more than 130 Critters around the world, all inspired by Critical Role’s current D&D campaign. Its latest book release will be published by Dark Horse next month: Critical Role: The Chronicles of Exandria - The Mighty Nein. ![]() Critical Role acknowledges these fans and their work in many ways, from features on its talk show Talks Machina to galleries online to collecting art in beautiful bound books. The creativity of the Critical Role fanbase is seen in the incredible fan works they create, including amazing cosplay and fan art. These fans are inspired by the stories and characters created by a brand that’s grown from just a group of nerdy voice actors playing D&D at home to a company not only providing unique geeky shows but raising millions in a Kickstarter campaign to turn part of their game into an animated series - which was ultimately picked up by Amazon for two seasons - and regularly packing rooms at comic conventions around the world. Over the course of two streaming Dungeons & Dragonscampaigns and an increasing roster of original programming, Critical Role has earned a legion of dedicated fans known as Critters. ![]()
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