The adventure begins in the hit TV series The Legend of Vox Machina! Follow Vex’halia, Vax’lidan, Keyleth, Grog Strongjaw, Scanlan Shorthalt, Pike Trickfoot, and Percy de Rolo as they set off to save Exandria from dark forces.
Experience Exandria again with character breakdowns, concept art, and a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the show with Legend of Vox Machina writer Meredith Kecskemety, along with special commentary from the cast.
An incredible look into the making of the amazing Legend of Vox Machina animated series. I really enjoyed being able to see everything they put together to make it comes to (animated) life.
Special Thanks to Dark Horse Comics and Edelweiss Plus for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.
I wasn't too disappointed in this artbook, and I enjoyed it overall, but for what I paid for it I wasn't hoping for more than this.
There are plenty of double page spreads of backgrounds and locations, as well as thumbnail sized storyboard breakdowns for certain scenes, but from an art perspective you could easily read it in 10 minutes or less. Unfortunately the written sections don't add much to the value of the book as they're largely just interviews about the making of the show and how to get into animation.
There really wasn't anything in the book itself that was worth reading, as the interviews didn't interest me or inform me of anything I didn't already know or care about, and the rest of the writings are just blurbs or synopsis about what you're seeing on the page that don't tend to go past a sentence or two. Because of that my rating has been given solely on what I deem its value as an artbook to be.
Art books are always so rad. Art books concerning Critical Role properties just as rad. Art is beautiful. The Scanlan commentary is super fun. Insight for how the whole show came about is insightful and shows how much Critters love CR. Only complaint was I thought this was for seasons 1-3 but guess I’ll just have to wait until the next Vox art book