Baldur’s Gate 3: The Greatest Foe - A Case Study

Every June, video games publication PC Gamer put together a showcase that highlights upcoming PC games called the PC Gaming Show. Prior to their ninth, annual event, Future – PC Gamer’s parent company – reached out to us to create a Baldur’s Gate III animated short that would air during 2023’s PC Gaming Show.

After we fed back on a script that Baldur’s Gate III developer Larian Studios wrote – and once they were happy with our tweaks – we assembled our team and began bringing the much-anticipated RPG to 2D-animated life!

Something that Larian Studios were able to provide us with was access to the video game’s voice actors. This short is certainly more comedic in tone than the game, but having the genuine voices behind Astarion, Gale, Lae’zel, Shadowheart and Wyll definitely made The Greatest Foe stand out for fans of the series.

With script and dialogue finalised, our team got to work on what would become the finished product. We handled every aspect of this process: storyboards, character design, animation, backgrounds, post-production, music and sound.

The animation aired during PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show 2023 livestream on June 11th, 2023, and was posted on Larian Studios’ YouTube channel shortly afterwords. Then, months later, it went live on the Mashed YouTube channel.