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In Collaboration with Riot Games
Client: Riot Games
Riot Games AD: Jessica Oyhenart
West Studio AD: Mingchen Shen
Final Polish: League Splash Team
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Space Groove Blitz and Crank! I've been super lucky to be part of this groovy skin line! This is the most fun character design I've seen from LoL! Figuring out the thumbnails was a bit tricky because of the need to balance out the two cats and the robot body and to be able to fit them in the game portrait crop while keeping the whole splash dynamic enough. Instead of doing the typical hyperspace, I tried for a more graphical background with light and fun colors while keeping the retro vibe.
When rendering, Riot sent me a screenshot of their 3D model matched on top of my sketch. This made it a lot easier to figure out the details. I went all out with masks when rendering this to the point that I had tons of layers without names. This helped make the image look clean and crisp. It was needed because I wouldn't be able to hide anything with shadow or dust with this type of scene. High key splash art like these are very rare for LoL so it was a very fun experience!
Thanks again to everyone at Riot and West Studio!
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