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  1. "3:10 What you don't want to end up with is generic characters that don't feel real and don't feel like they live and breath somewhere. " that sentence really didn't age well.

  3. Riot did this years ago and it just landed on my homepage, frankly sad. I'm studying design and if I seriously win, I would like to continue the projects they have been passionate about for these years in this company. Nothing is impossible as long as it's enough

  5. My art is absolutely awful at the moment but I believe one day I can do something big with it I hope one day I can work on something like this animating is something I want to do one day

  9. Xayah and Rakan are actually the reason I got into playing League of Legends. I saw thier trailer and just got mesmerized. Now I'm planning on cosplaying Xayah

  11. so you have two inseparable love bird characters that are a combo one two punch (Mesmerize and Assassin) but you play them separately? Unless someone wants to play the other one there at a disadvantage or not played at all. Even if you buffed them individually their design is as a couple. I would have made this one character in which the player chooses a primary of the two and the other one follows and I would’ve made there skills trigger off each other Something like his Q triggers off of her Q (Q – stun & Q – assassinate) one two dynamic duo inseparable.

  13. 3:57 "What is love?"
    Me: "(I wanna know) How it could be as sweet as candy?
    (I wanna know) How it's like flying in the sky?
    I wanna know know know know
    What is love?
    What love feels like?
    (I wanna know) How it keeps you smiling all day?
    (I wanna know) How the whole world turns beautiful?
    I wanna know know know know
    What is love?
    Will love come to me someday?"-Twice

  19. I'd like to come here and help them show respect to 1st Indigenous Nations and include Indigenous urban mythical legend monsters. The Under Water Panthers and The Big Owl my grandma before I was put in foster care and adopted told us this story scary as heck never forgot her.

  20. I'd love to honor my indigenous native culture and create characters to honor my ancestors for LOL League of Legends. I and my Fiance play it we see characters that represent Russia but nothing for Indigenous players.

  21. Humm….. Still Riot makes no 1st Nations Indigenous Character for RIOT LOL so sad I spend $$ a month to get charcters and skins and what not but very, very sad. As a proud Indigenous Algonquin-Kickapoo and Italian Portuguese lady who loves LOL like my fiance I pray to see a group of Indigenous Characters created for LOL.
    If they can honor LBGTQ and promote characters from myth and lore of countries……
    Then why have they not honored and acknowledged 1st Nations with characters?
    Like our Ojibwe mythical and urban legends creatures the Windigo, Thunder Bird, Ogopogo or……

    Nalusa Falaya ("Long Black Being") is a ghost being of Choctaw mythology described as a tall spindly humanoid that can slither like a snake or become a shadow.
    The Underwater Panther (more accurately known as Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx), is an underwater creature from Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) folklore. Sometimes they are considered helpful and beneficial, but more often they are depicted as unpredictable and deadly guardians of their underwater kingdoms.

    The Big Owl (also known as Lechuza) is a mythological race of cannibalistic owl-women according to the folklore of the Yakama 
    The Horned Serpent (known as Uktena to the Cherokee people) is a mythological monster that recurs throughout several Native American oral histories, especially in the Great Lakes and Southeastern Woodlands regions. Described as being as large as a tree trunk and covered in magical scales, with horns and a gemstone on its forehead, the Horned Serpent could not be harmed except in a single spot on its head. Whilst its breath was poisonous.

    So why not make at least two mythical or urban legend Indigenous creatures of lore for the game so that Indigenous people feel they belong to the game like all others who play and have an character that relates to their urban legends and mythical monsters from their country…..its only fair.

  24. 3:25 that is SOSOSOS true I play characters after watching their design and their playstyles. Idc if they are meta or not, I only stick to characters I genuinely like especialllyyy if the lore is good! It helps bring them to life and makes it more fun to play 🙂
    It is why I'm considering being a concept artist

    Fun fact: Xayah was the first champion I fell in love with and bought her Day 1 after spending the first 5 hours after the tutorial just reading through all the champions and their abilities. I also met the love of my life through league 🙂 Goes to show my views on love correlate to my main XD

  31. I want to see the concept sheets for all the champs now 😅 thematic pillars, character preferences, personality. Seems interesting

  33. Riot in 2017: we make careful decisions on making characters and make sure the playerbase will like them

    Riot now: wee woo pink popstar girl coming through

  45. Riot: "what you dont want to end up with is generic characters that dont feel real and dont feel like they live and breathe somewhere"
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    MEANWHILE………SERAPHINE
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    Riot- "Lets make a fucking popstar. IN LEAGUE."
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    ME: "this thing can live and breathe in league? NECRIT couldn't even stand her shit my god"
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    BETTER QUESTION.
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    Who in riot has been watching too much kpop to create this thing?

  46. Okay but hear me out (had this idea for ages but can't draw so only got scribbles and hella notes XD):

    Someone from a shape-verse (literally a world made of 2D shapes and nothing more – all triangles, squares, rectangles, octagons pentagons n shii) who has a normal background, nothing tragic, just woke up in a different universe one day lmao. Passive is throwing shapes, any random order for laughs. Q is kinda like shuriken-shapes, throwing between 3 and 8 shapes (depending on level ofc). W could actually be a block move? A shape wall appears from the ground in front of the champion or wherever you cast it to protect the champion for 1~3 seconds? E can be a burst of light similar to Lux, but it's a kaleidoscope type thingy? R could be a trap type thing, so you lay it on the ground and it acts like quicksand, disabling the enemy champion from moving and attacking for 2 seconds.

    Someone who uses dreams as their power. Passive is throwing a wisp, Q is making the wisp into a big orb above their head and throwing it (kinda like Syndra's Q), W is a circle surrounding the target area and blowing up like a tall cylinder and disabling the target for 2 seconds, causing a percentage of damage. E is putting the target to sleep for maybe 2 seconds also? Then R is targeted towards champions and can either heal an ally champion or wound the enemy champion.

  47. Well I love Rakan, he is my main, I feel in love with his design from the cinematic and then with the gameplay, thak you to the creators <3

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