Crit Recap Animated

Crit Recap Animated is a series of short animated videos summarizing the events of Campaign 2 and Campaign 3. The show is narrated by Dani Carr with the main cast of Critical Role providing voices for their player characters, and is animated by Offworld Studio. Episodes were uploaded to YouTube approximately bi-monthly.

Production and release
Crit Recap Animated is the spiritual successor to Critical Recap, a series where Dani Carr summarized the events of the previous episode or batch of episodes on the Critical Role set and added her own commentary. Critical Recap stopped airing in video form after and continued as blog posts written by Dani available every Wednesday on the Critical Role website.

On average, Crit Recap Animated episodes were uploaded to Critical Role's YouTube channel bi-monthly and one time aired during the half-time break of.

Trivia

 * In "Meet the Mighty Nein", the order the characters were introduced in is nearly identical to the order the players introduced themselves in the game, with the exception of Fjord and Beauregard, who switched places.
 * So far, all of Campaign 2's special guests characters have been voiced by their respective players with the exception of Shakäste and Spurt, who do not have a speaking role.


 * After Nott shares her backstory in "The Gentleman's Bargain", Caleb answers with "That's rough, buddy", quoting a famous line from Avatar: The Last Airbender, where it was spoken in a similar context. The line was used again by Jester after Yasha shared her own backstory.
 * "Iron and Blood" features vignettes of Keg, Nila and Caduceus that mimic the template used to announce new playable characters in the Super Smash Bros. video game series.
 * In "Family Ties", Keyleth is briefly seen through the portal.
 * In "The Sword and the Angel", the Mighty Nein perform the Ginyu Force fighting pose from Dragon Ball when they are about to stop Obann from stealing the heart.