Quy Ho on His Humble Beginnings and Work at Riot Games

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Quy Ho’s journey to becoming a concept artist wasn’t easy. Conflicting ideas and inner voices pushed this aspiration aside for a long, long time. But despite that, once he realized that nothing else is as important and that he will eventually find himself doodling in his sketchbook anyway, he came to a decision and pursued a career in entertainment art. In the beginning, he barely knew how to draw and needed to work on a few other skills like communication and being held accountable, but concept art began to show promise in due time. The process wasn’t easy and took a lot of time, but eventually, certain clients kept coming back, the tiny commissions grew to be big projects, and the door to Riot was finally open.

Ignatius Tan and The Spirit of Miyazaki

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Ignatius Tan is an Illustration Art Lead on Legends of Runeterra at Riot Games in Hong Kong. He grew up in Singapore, and as a kid, found influences in Studio Ghibli, old-school anime, and western animations like He-Man, X-Men and the ninja turtles. The signature style of Ghibli is most noticeable when you scroll through his portfolio where artworks and sketches celebrating Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away catch your attention almost immediately. It’s fun to see how the spirit of Miyazaki’s animated films lives on, shining through in the art of a whole generation of illustrators like the one we’ve interviewed here.

Grace Liu on the Art Behind Uniquely Stylized Games

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The new Battle Chasers: Night War (2017) is a unique RPG game that needs its artists to work in a very specific art style—an art style like Grace Liu’s. It’s no surprise that hand-painted low-poly 3D will always feel at home in a stylized game, and that’s why the vast majority of you might have seen Liu’s work in games like Diablo III (2012) and League of Legends (2009). With nine years’ worth of experience and the opportunity to work at Blizzard Entertainment, Riot Games and Airship Syndicate, I’m sure that she has a lot to teach us all.

R&Ding With Riot Games’ Geoffrey Ernault

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Geoffrey Ernault is a French concept artist based in Los Angeles. He’s currently working on R&D for Riot Games, so there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing his ideas come to life in the near future. Of course, this isn’t the first time Geoffrey and his team started from scratch. He was actually R&Ding for Guerrilla Cambridge when the team came up with RIGS: Mechanized Combat League—one of the first games made available on PlayStation VR. He’s only been with Riot for a little while, but in the interview, he said that, “Working at Riot felt like a natural progression to me, as I love being a part of projects at the core.” It seems that Geoffrey is a concept artist through and through.

Recenzia portfólia: Thomas Stoop

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Posúdenie portfólia väčšinou prebieha za zatvorenými dverami a možnosť pritiahnuť si stoličku medzi posudzovateľa a posudzovaného, zatiaľ nie je bežná záležitosť. Pre začiatočníkov, aj pre skúsených, ide o príležitosť naučiť sa nové veci. Práve preto články tohto typu patria medzi zaujímavé čítanie a my veríme, že ani ten dnešný nebude iný. Thomas Stoop je nezávislý koncepčný dizajnér žijúci v Haarlem, v Holandsku. Študoval na HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht) a posledné roky pracoval na vytvorení osobného portfólia. Jeho koncepčné položky bude posudzovať Geoffrey Ernault, ktorý tohto času pracuje ako senior návrhár v Riot Games. Geoffrey okrem iného učí aj to, ako vytvárať grafické práce spôsobom, aby boli atraktívne pre špecifické spoločnosti, nešetrí dobrými radami a hovorí o trikoch, ak umelecké stvárnenie vyžaduje použitie fotografií.

Interview: Alessandro Baldasseroni

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Alessandro Baldasseroni je výtvarník, 3-D návrhár charakterov z talianskeho Milána, kde sa narodil a vyrástol. Špecializuje sa na modelovanie postáv, tvorbu textúr (reálnych povrchov) tieňovanie v 3-D, a vo svojej oblasti je preukázateľne jedným z najlepších v priemysle. Alessandro začínal ako operátor počítačom podporovaného dizajnu (CAD) pracujúci pre firmu, pred tým, ako sa dostal k návrhom pre herný svet v pozícii všeobecného 3-D grafika pre spoločnosť Milestone, ktorá je jedným z najväčších miest na vývoj hier v Taliansku. Od jeho prvých experimentov so softvérom uplynulo takmer dvadsať rokov a teraz modeluje postavy v Riot Games. V minulosti mal príležitosť pracovať aj pre iné renomované spoločnosti, ako Blur Studio a Games Workshop. Dnes je s nami, aby nám povedal niečo málo o jeho ceste, a o jeho plánoch do budúcnosti.

Interview With Character Artist Alessandro Baldasseroni

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Alessandro Baldasseroni is a 3-D character artist who was born and raised in Milan, Italy. The artist specializes in character modelling, texturing and shading, and is arguably one of the best in the industry for this kind of thing. Alessandro started off as a CAD operator working for a company before he got into game art with his job as a 3-D generalist at Milestone, one of the biggest game developers in Italy. Almost twenty years have passed since Alessandro first experimented with the software and he is now working as a character modeler at Riot Games.