2XKO Rift Quest & Crime City skins

These are the Rift Quest & Crime City skins I had the pleasure to work on as Associate Art Director on 2XKO.
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Rift Quest was a challenging thematic because out of the 4 skins, 3 of them are of Epic Tier (Yasuo, Illaoi & Teemo). Epic skins reuse a significant part of the Base Champion's 3D model whereas the tiers above have completely bespoke models. The goal with Epic skins was for them to be faster to produce while still offering a new fantasy, distinct from the Base Champion.
At first, it was tricky for the concept team to dial in how much change was enough and how much was out of scope. Later in production, our concept artists got so good at this exercise that they were able to sell a completely different character fantasy with minimal model change and wise color choices.
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Crime City is a thematic we adapted from League and tried to keep as faithful as possible to the original. Our new addition to it was Darius which introduces contrast from Braum & Jinx's cleaner looks. My favourite part of working on this thematic was looking into roaring 20s and prohibition era fashion.
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As per usual, a ton of folks worked on these and here's an extended credits list:
Creative Director: Mike Henry
Art Directors: Katon Callaway, Hai Phan & Mohamed Gambouz
Associate Art Directors: Arron Simpson, Zac Berry, Vincent Ménier
Tech Art Director: Jeremy Ernst
Concept Leads: Nico Lee Lazarus, Hong Ly, Anson Tan & Brandon Vuong
3D Character Leads: Camille Delmeule, David Viola & Rafael Juárez
Animation Lead: Ron Pucherelli
VFX Lead: Brandon Zhao
VFX Art: Jonny Cadman
Tech Art: Alyssa Diaz, Mason Smigel, Waleed Boghosian
Concept Artists: Peirong Huang, Kaye Ke, Syrena Li, Yi Zhang, Marlon Zhu, Fred Wu
3D Artists: Junsheng Xu, Guochao Zhou, Dopik Yu, Jian Zhao, Jack Zheng, Bolun Yuan, Liam Liang, Yinlong Xia, Asher Liu, Allen Yan, Vivi Chen, Lei Yan, Young Xu, Diana Topalian, Killian Junk, Blair Armitage, David Bolton
Store Portraits & Banners: Arron Simpson
Outsourcing Partners: Kudos Production, Wiking & Sparx*
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Would like to also extend a special shoutout to my producers Mei Xu, Louis Chow & Vincent Chou who were instrumental in getting things done!