In Plarium Kharkiv, I manage a team of six, and it’s our job to create animations and rigs, set up character skins, ensure character models match their technical requirements, and test all our assets to get rid of any errors. RAID: Shadow Legends boasts more than 400 characters, 16 factions, dozens of unique bosses, over 350 animations, and impressive visual effects. If you want to learn how we did it, well, you’re in the right place. For RAID, we had a simple choice: generate an unthinkable number of animations for a staggering number of characters, all the time, constantly… or cheat. This is the first article in a series dedicated to the animation in RAID: Shadow Legends, a dark fantasy mobile RPG. My name is Olha Korsun, I’m a Production Animation Team Lead at Plarium Kharkiv. Raid is entering a competitive market, however, as the calibre of animated video game adaptations has arguably grown considerably in the last couple of years.This article is also available in Ukrainian and Russian 'We want to establish Raid as a bankable evergreen IP, with enough strength to do more, all while appealing to our core fans and capturing interest from a broader audience.' 'We’re thrilled to be working with such a high calibre team on this exciting new series that takes Raid: Shadow Legends to the next level for our fans,” said Plarium vice president creative and executive producer Nicholas Day.

Rollman Entertainment CEO and former president of Marvel Television Eric Rollman will produce the series, Lex + Otis CEO Jay Oliva will be showrunner, and composer Jesper Kyd (who has worked on Assassin's Creed and Borderlands) will create original music for the show. Promising cinematic-quality animation, the shorts look to elevate Raid's core characters with deeper, more immersive storylines. Publisher Pixel United and developer Plarium announced that episodes of Raid: Call of the Arbiter, coming in at five minutes each, will premiere once per week starting on May 18, 2023.

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