#I've met the animation director on that show. friend of a friend. awesome that she landed that gig.

[krawdad]

Oh shit moon girl is like good good

Probably watch that

[felassan]

Some snippets of interest from Netflix's Toon In interview with Mairghread Scott and some of the voice cast, from the premiere of Absolution episode 1:

Mairghread: "I was asked to pitch for the show. I brought in three pitches and they were just like 'what would you do with a Dragon Age show'? I was like 'here are three different ideas' and this was the small little mean one in my heart that I was like 'they're not gonna pick this one, but like, it's fine'. It's the funny thing about writing, you're like, 'no way, no-one's gonna pick this one', and they were like, 'oh yeah, this is it', and I was like, 'ooh, okay, um'. [...] They really went for this show. This show is all about going for the jugular."

Mairghread: "We had such a fricking amazing team. Whatever you guys think of the show you gotta know that people left it on the mat. Our director actually got in trouble once because in the title sequence, we were reviewing an episode and they had the title sequence up, and there's a shot where there had just been a regular transition, instead he made it like Miriam leaping into the shot was the transition. And I was like, 'oh, hey, Bae, that's a new shot, right?' And the line producer was like 'no it's not, because he was supposed to stop working on that, because it was locked', like... and I was like 'oh... sure...' and Bae's like looking at me like, 'don't fricking -' and I'm just like 'yeah, must've been wrong, just - such a cool shot'. Like, they had to pry this show outta his hands. Everyone, the actors, we'd be like, 'yeah, great job', they're like 'no, I gotta, one more time, one more time, I really wanna nail it', like everyone just gave it." Mairghread: "We wrote this show in 2019 and we recorded this show in the summer of 2020. We never met [the voice actors], we literally recorded the show over a giant ten person Zoom call, which is insane." Ashly Burch: "The scripts are so good and we got to record everything together, so I got to hear these guys and their awesome performances." Host: "Y'all filmed the Zoom calls and some of the facial expressions were used?" Mairghread: "Yes, it was a very lucky thing where because we were on Zoom, the animation team asked, 'hey, can we just, just for reference, record this?' and it really helped get some of those, I talked about those priorities, acting and like facial acting was so important, that the fact that they could reference you guys while you actually did the lines really helped them get that extra level of facial acting into the characters." Mairghread: "For the European fans, all your ships are now canon. Like thank you so much [for staying up late to watch the premiere]." Ashly: "You have opened the box you can no longer close." Mairghread: "God, I know right. This is where BioWare's like, 'Season 2? No'." Mairghread: [on the cool intro] "Everyone was saying like, 'look, it's a Netflix show, they're gonna skip the intro, you don't have to', and we were like, 'No. We're bringing it. For everything.'" Phil LaMarr: [at the Roland-Lacklon 'no girlfriend' scene] "I don't have a girlfriend [chuckles]. Spoiler Alert!!" Host: "Why are they all so hot?" Mairghread: "We were in the writer's room, one of my friends happened to have been working on a show down the hall, and she came in and she was like, 'hey, you got any ships on your show?' And I was like 'bitch, I've got an armada'. [...] Reached out to the character's [editors/artists?], and I was like, 'they all have to be hot, just so you know'. They don't have to be the same kind of hot." Ashly: "Qwydion is so many things. She's excited by magic, she's bubbly, loving, she's a caretaker, but I just can't get over how tall she is, I love it so much because I'm very short. [...] The thing that I love about her, especially in this ensemble, she has this lightness to her, like it's so fun seeing this episode because every time she's on-screen she's smiling basically, she's happy to be there, happy to go on an adventure. I love that light-heartedness. And she also has a genuine affection for people, there's not a lot of prejudice there, she's a sweet soul. I love how funny she is, it's such a joy to be playing a character, it's my favorite type of character, the character that comes and makes you laugh, gets to scream 'shit' a bunch of times and then goes about her business."

Mairghread: "So many people, like I cannot stress how many people worked for three years, three and a half years we started to when it airs. The cast, everyone, people gave a good chunk of their lives to make this show and I'm so, so thankful and proud."

Mairghread: "Dragon Age: Inquisition is the only game I've played more than once, I loved it so freaking much. [...] Then my manager called and was like 'BioWare wants to know if you've ever heard of Dragon Age' and I'm like, 'Have I heard of Dragon Age?'"

Kimberly Brooks: [on how she found the voice for Miriam] "She's kind of close to me, just my natural voice, and I'm naturally a badass like that so, it really was just like, typecasting. We got to record as an ensemble, we had a great voice director. [...] We fine-tuned it I felt like, when we were, all of us. It was a great experience, coming up with the voice. [...] Tough but warm, it's the dichotomy." Mairghread: "You get a file [of auditions]. A lot of people could bring the badass, but she really brought the warmth, and really, your voice and performance was so warm, in like, this, quieter moments where you could feel a person instead of just a phenomenal killing machine. I knew instantly when I heard your audition, I was like 'that's it, that's absolutely it'. [...] Phil's audition was so smooth and sexy, I was like 'oh this is so nice', but actually what clinched it is there's a moment where he has to like, act badly, and it's actually really hard to get actors to act badly. A moment where he has to do a bad job of acting. And you went for it 100%, it was hilarious." Mairghread: "This has been one of the best fandoms I've ever had the privilege to interact with. I really mean it, you guys, like, there's videos of going shot-by-shot like 'look at what this means', it's like 'YES! Yes that is what that means!' You guys deep dive and you're so passionate and that just makes all the work that you put in, all the work that we put in just feel so worth it, and I really hope we do you proud. [...] You work so hard, there's some little background painter, and everyone tried so fricking hard, and I'm watching a video three years later which is like 'you know if you look at the architectural style of those columns, you can see that we are definitely in Tevinter'. And I'm like 'Fuck yeah!' Cause that background painter studied everything and worked their butt off and that IS the architectural style of Tevinter."

Phil: "Believe me, you have a lot of wonderful things to come. [...] Put on your captain's hat, because there are some ships coming." [source]