Rainbow Riot

***Rainbow Riot*** (***RR***) is an American animated web series created by HexaCryonic and Shattered Waters inspired by *Battle For Dream Island* by jacknjellify. The series centers around anthropomorphic inanimate objects.

The series was first announced on February 13, 2023 with the release of it's intro and first premiered on July 8, 2023 with the release of "A Colorful Crew". The entire series takes place on YouTube on the channel of the same name, Rainbow Riot. The series currently has one episode released.

## Overview

This series starts with three best friends, Blue, Red, and Yellow, all hosting their own gameshow together with the reward being an artifact with power beyond belief, the Prisma Core. Twenty one contestants are all brought from their homes to the set of the show from a portal, all of which accepted to compete. Many contestants vary from being regular objects to completely unique entities.

On episode 1, the teams are created based on whoever is closest to whichever secondary color. Forming the Green Guardians, Sunset Sentinels, and Victory is Violet. Every episode, the contestants are all given a challenge by the host, and the team who does the worst is put up for voting, where the viewers of the show are given a Google Form and are asked to vote for who they want to leave the game, whoever gets the most votes after four days will be removed from the competition, unable to win the Prisma Core anymore.

## Production

HexaCryonic and Shattered Waters first met on January 9, 2023 and got along really quickly. After just a few hours of discussion, the two agreed to make an object show together, which would become Rainbow Riot. The show was first announced publicly on February 13th with the release of the intro, and a crew was soon assembled. The first scene of the episode was released publicly as a sneak peek on March 8th and a Discord server for the series was created and released on March 15th.

On April 18th and 20th, the production was put on hold to find new voice actors for five characters, and new voice actors were chosen on April 22nd, and production resumed as audio was reworked into the episode. On May 17th, production was put on hold again to find a new voice actor for another character, which was selected on May 20th.

The episode 1 trailer was created on July 2nd, and soon after, animation was officially finished on July 7th, and episode 1 released the next day, July 8, nearly five months after its announcement. According to Shattered Waters, the episode only took so long due to multiple recasts and several voice actors redoing their lines as well, practically restarting audio production, and has said he wants to make episodes bi-monthly, meaning one episode per two months.

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Rainbow Riot episodes*

## Characters

*Main article: List of Rainbow Riot characters*
### Contestants

*See also: Rainbow Riot/Elimination table*

### Hosts

* Blue
* Red
* Yellow

## Teams

* RR 1
The 21 contestants are divided into 3 teams of 7.

## Trivia

* All of the team logos we're designed by different people.
	+ Green Guardians was designed by HexaCryonic.
	+ Sunset Sentinels was designed by Shattered Waters.
	+ Victory is Violet was designed by Evertone.
* Every character in Rainbow Riot falls under the LGBTQ+ umbrella in some way.
* According to "Choose Your Competitor", the idea of the host all being very similar in appearance was thought of in a dream HexaCryonic had.
* Several contestants are inspired by various video game series.
	+ CA$H MONEY came from an inside joke about *Patapon 3*.
	+ Cog was inspired by the Steamtown logo in *Poly Bridge 2*.
	+ Dodecahedron was inspired by the Crucible boss in *Nova Drift*.
	+ Drill was loosely inspired by the mobile game *Driller*.
	+ Lotus was inspired by the Ataraxia upgrade icon in *Nova Drift*.