After an incredibly long hiatus, the LEGO Witcher short film gets a highly anticipated part two.
Polish YouTuber "Ondrejkarol" dabbles in a niche genre of stop motion short films with LEGO characters on their channel. Ondrejkarol has roughly around two thousand subscribers but gets a pretty significant amount of viewers ranging up to about half a million. Ondrejkarol primarily started out in making World War 2 related short films, but decided to branch out to the world of the Witcher with their original video "LEGO The Witcher: Wolf's Path."
Surprisingly, OndreJkarol took an unexplained four-year hiatus from their original Witcher video, including a two year gap from making videos in general. Now it seems that they're back and better than ever. Ondrejkarol took the time to hone their craft and up the cinematic production value to their videos with the sequel.
According to the video description, the video takes place two years subsequent to the events from the first episode when Lambert and Geralt reunited in Novigard. When the two of them save a witch from being killed, they are exiled from the village and forced to start their journey on the road. After a lot of traveling, and heavy drinking at the pub, the duo comes across a merchant's daughter who is kidnapped by a Griffin with a hefty bounty attached to it.
The video is primarily voiced in Polish, but Ondrejkarol has created subtitles in both Slovak and English. Ondrejkarol also pays a lot of homage to the series by including known staples to the series such as the Drowners, Griffins, and even the trophy animation after beating important enemies in the Witcher 3 video game.
Now is probably the best time ever to get back into hobbies that people are passionate about, and many are glad that Ondrejkarol decided to keep making his videos. The dedication indeed shows through the cleaner animations, claymation, and the use of green screen. The community that watches his videos has also noticed and taken a particular interest in the project, with someone even volunteering to provide Russian subtitles. Ondrejakrol really put a huge effort into making this video, and one hopes people enjoy and support what he does.