We failed during the Spring Season in 2019.
The long and hard days come to mind.
It was so meaningful that we won Worlds
starting from the 3rd Division in the LCK.
We felt overwhelmed before we started attacking the Nexus in Game 4.
At that time, we were so excited actually.
I was happy and secured.
This is the beginning of a new generation.
I think every player wants to have their own skin.
Our team color is mint, like more bluish.
We were talking about the colors.
God?
We talked about a god coming down from the sky.
They all had amazing ideas for the individual skins
as well as some strong directions for the skin line overall.
Finding a right visual translation mythological Greek gods
to the League style and champions was a fun challenge.
They have sended the glory among their competition
and have their own particular brand of play.
We wanted to represent this
in a more updated, cinematic, superheroic gods aesthetic.
You chose Nidalee only once in Worlds, why did you make Nidalee’s skin?
Nidalee was banned, what could he do?
Honestly, though I have some feelings for Graves,
I have achieved a lot of victories with Nidalee.
I think Jhin helped me a lot.
There are 2 reasons that I didn’t pick Pantheon,
No.1 is male character and
No. 2 is that I am Support.
I thought I should pick a champion
that played an important role in Worlds,
so I picked Twisted Fate.
I think that Kennen fits great to represent a raccoon
because he is small and looks like an animal.
I told them that I wanted him to have ears and a tail like an animal.
Nuguri really emphasized having a raccoon in his recall animation.
I tried to implement 2 keywords:
cute raccoon and falling asleep.
It was a difficult making something different out from his basic VFX
that was still lighting based while also keeping it new and fresh.
The most satisfying part about working on Kennen
was finding places to show off
and flex the Damwon logo during gameplay.
There was a period when I actually wanted to have glasses on Twisted Fate,
but it really didn’t look good, so I was like,
"Oh, I'm sorry, can you just take them off?"
I wanted Jhin to have my white face
as well as same hair color that I had at Worlds.
I also wanted to have wings moving when he uses his ult.
Ghost really wanted to incorporate his guitar into the recall.
The guns that Jhin has, both the pistol and the rifle,
those pieces with somehow in a magical animated way,
reconfigured themselves to make it an equally cool looking guitar.
When you see all the pieces explode
and then magically form into the guitar that he plays in his recall.
And to further tie in the actual skin with the esports theme
we got references from the guitar player
that was actually playing the Worlds' ‘Take Over’ theme,
which actually plays pretty accurate into the same positions
that you otherwise would play the theme.
I actually had so many many thoughts.
Twisted Fate uses cards
and my nickname is ShowMaker,
which means performing a show to the audience
so it feels like it's quite similar to a magician.
Because I really like cats I wanted to make Nidalee like a cute cat.
I requested to have these kinds of cute actions from cats
like jumping, stretching and grooming.
I thought getting MVP in the final game was a very special moment in my life,
so I wanted to have it in the recall animation
when Nidalee is in human form.
I knew it was going to be quite the challenge
to fit so many props into her recall circle.
I modeled a huge cougar statue,
pillars resembling the Damwon logo and the target she'd shoot for.
And we also used the trophy model.
Canyon requested Poseidon mastery over the element of water.
But I didn’t want it to just be normal looking water,
so I tried to incorporate some light teal color
from Damwon's team color into the mix.
I requested to make Leona similar to a character
from a game that I love to play.
I really like the ponytail style,
so I wanted her to have a ponytail
and just make it as similar as possible.
Have her stamp the sword and shield on the ground
and take out a mobile from her pocket to take a selfie.
It’s what I want for her recall animation.
It’s really pretty.
I think they really worked hard on this project.
Of course, the “Quality” of LoL is getting better and better.
I can’t believe I have my own skin.
Nidalee is the best.
No, Jhin is the best.
It’s really meaningful that the skins will remain until the end of LoL.
I watched from the illustrations to the actual in-game skins
and it’s really satisfying.
I could feel that they tried their best to meet my requests.
To all cat sitters, kitty is love.
I hope these will be beautiful skins.
I hope you guys will use these skins a lot and love them.
On a personal level, I was really excited
to work on these skins with Damwon
and I am so happy with the results.
I think our artists knocked it out of the park on the skin line.
And the Damwon players had some great ideas
and a really cool direction in mind that made it super easy
and exciting to work with.
I can’t wait to see them all in-game and on the Rift.