VALORANT animator reveals how they landed on the ‘best’ version of the dangerous alien-like Araxys skinline

Before VALORANT’s Araxys skinline truly shined with its extraterrestrial, life-like animations, the game’s animation team played with various iterations of the physics to find what exactly could fit that out-of-this-world feeling of the thematic line of cosmetics.

Billy Vu Lam, principal animator on VALORANT at Riot Games, offered players a look at the creative process behind the creation of the Araxys skinline, which debuted in the in-game store alongside the start of Episode Six Act One. This scaly skinline includes skins for the Vandal, Bulldog, Operator, and Shorty, all of which appear to react to fire as if alive.