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Fjord & Jester's Moment - A Critical Role C2E118 Animatic

RavenROSE_99

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!!!SPOILER WARNING!!!

If you have not seen Critical Role Campaign 2, Episode 118 yet and care about spoilers, DO NOT WATCH!
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Honestly this was so much fun to make! When I first watched this moment I fangirled so much! They are literally the perfect definition of a slow burn and honestly with one of the most satisfying first kiss (technically) moments I've seen in a while.

This is also one of my first real animatics for a semi-long scene like this, so It was definitely a new challenge for me, and I am fully aware there are issues with it, but I am really happy with the end result and honestly just want to make more now.

Music: If I Could Fly I Would Give You the Sky - ...

20 Comments

@brycevo 1 year ago

They're married. They're married with a son. And they're flirting with each other in a game like teenagers.
They're goals.

@braydenhafdahl3246 5 years ago

Laura did what she set out to do.....she seduced her husband and he said he wasnt gonna do romance...point to bailey

@StormSage13 5 years ago

One of the best things about Critical Role Campaign 2 is how we get to see Travis fall in love with his wife all over again. The romances in the last game were fun and all, but this is pure magic.

@tomatobruv76 5 years ago

Ronin is the luckiest kid. He has recorded, animated, and archived evidence of his parents falling in love for the second time

@prophetisaiah08 5 years ago

Nothing against any other scenes or actors from CR, but this is the most powerfully romantic thing that the show has ever done. I know Travis was extremely reluctant to do any romance on the show, but he absolutely NAILED it. The fact that he got to share this moment with his wife, too, made it extra meaningful.

@TheWolfchildalex 5 years ago

Lets be honest. Laura was gonna win in the end. Everyone knew Travis would eventually give in to her. Because he loves his wife and Jester is adorable.

@itsturtlefacemydudes 5 years ago

I can't believe Fjord and Jester invented tenderness

@plgrn8r683 5 years ago

Honestly the part that makes it for me is the joking immediately before the kiss.
You know Laura threw that cheekbones comment in there to give Travis a sort of lifeline, room to breathe and release tension before taking the proverbial plunge, and also possibly as a way 'out' if he needed it.

@noteblade9399 5 years ago

When the episode ended:
"I felt a great disturbance. As if millions of Widow-Jester shippers cried out in anguish and were suddenly silenced."

@sadiemcc9363 5 years ago

LET THE CANON FJORESTER ANIMATICS BEGIN!

@Anonymous-xe3kk 5 years ago

Ive never seen Critical Role but Im fucking invested now

@j-dawg4774 3 years ago

I can't imagine the intense pressure Travis was under showing of his emotions so openly while in roleplay. You can feel the difficulty in initiating the romance, but he pulled it off masterfully.

@SPACEHARICE 5 years ago

Let me tell you a story
A story of a wife flirting her husband into submission.
Slowly chipping away, breaking down a barrier he thought was unbreakable.
Leaving him stunned with the words
"You won"

@mattball8622 3 years ago

I will never be normal about Fjord. Travis just busted out an incredible Jane Austin love interest protagonist who happens to be a half orc and expected us to be normal about it and I've been presented with an unreachable standard of boyfriend.

@hunterduncan1078 5 years ago

I loved so much, how this was just a natural progression of their characters. They have always cared for each other deeply. There was no “roll to seduce” this was just the culmination of these two characters who loved each other.

@stonecoldku4161 5 years ago

I know from watching the episode that no one else is around right now, but with the angle at 4:16 I expect Beau to walk up and yell at them "Get a room!"

@Master_WannaBe_ 5 years ago

In the words of Marisha Ray: LOVE IS REAL!!!!!!

@sofiamarlasca8715 5 years ago

God, their expressions, the body language, his hair is so FLUFFY everything about this is absolutely killing me omg

@justshane9027 5 years ago

it's always fun to see different artists' interpretations of the CR characters. This one was really good. I like how you made jester's appearance and attire appear more refined and mature as it reinforces the change in her life as well as her physical change after the statue incident. Well done!

@MuraCasardis 5 years ago (edited)

I love how Fjord talks about "going back to Nicodranas" and not Port Damalis. Even before fully confessing, he was already implying he wants to go back to where Jester's from/go back with her.

Beautiful animation and music choice! The cut and timing to some of the music shift was perfect.