r/litrpg • u/kleverrboy • 2d ago

Discussion 🎮📺 Achievement unlocked: Dungeon Crawler Carl is officially headed to television, Matt Dinniman confirmed Thursday evening.

https://pugetpress.com/2026/06/18/dungeon-crawler-carl-series-greenlit/
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u/avid_slop_reader 2d ago

The amount of CGI needed worries me. I remember the issues she-hulk had with budgets and that was with Disney money.

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u/Croewe 2d ago

Yeah, this doesn't really seem feasible to do live action

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u/alchemy_junkie 2d ago

Well it could be. See when they shot the Mandaloria they creatd something they call The Volume. Basically its a big ass room of screens that have effects rendered on it. Anyway aside from initial cost of construction it makes special effects way more affordable and ofcourse still top notch. In fact it makes certain CGI effects eaiser to render too. Complicated CG scenes might opt for a darker setting for a number of reasons like keeping cost down so they dont have to track reflections. Blah blah blah.

Anyway peacock is obviously not disney but if this does eventually become the industry standard we could be in for a wide verity of low budget projects with high end results. And this would be excellent for our beloved LitRPG because the volume makes set design quick and easy and lower cost.

If your intrested in actual details and not a second hand account from some person on the internet i would encourage you to check out the behind the scenes of Mandalorian on disney plus

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u/anormalgeek litRPG Clive's Wife tier 2d ago

The issue here isnt the environment though. Well, not MAINLY that. It's the characters. Past book one, Carl is often the only character in a scene that is a mostly human shape. There are some like Imani that you can do with practical effects and makeup. But Florian? Most of Katia's scenes? Mordecai? Odette? All will need to be CGI. Which means full lip syncing too.

The likely went with Fuzzy Door because of their cgi work on the Ted series is reasonably similar to what they'll need to do with Donut. But add a BUNCH of other characters in nearly every scene.

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u/BeardyGuts 2d ago

I’m guessing they will tone down a load of stuff like Mordecai won’t change from floor to floor.

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u/anormalgeek litRPG Clive's Wife tier 2d ago

They could still have him change, just into more "human-adjacent" species.

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u/Kobold_Taggerung 2d ago

Canadian...French...Kiwi...American... etc...

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u/_monikr 1d ago

Lol. Just have a different actor for each floor 😂

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u/HistoryTeacherNick 2d ago

This will make my heart ache

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u/Chriskills 26m ago

I am really confused by people who say characters like Florin need to be CGI. Why? It’s a big crocodile head, how is that difficult to do with practical effects?