Designing Environment Art in Gaming - Super Art Power Hour Ep. 2

Nathan Rogers is a Senior 3D Environment Artist at Riot Games. He has worked on Summoner's Rift for League of Legends, contributing such pillars as the Baron Pit and the surrounding walls into which one flashes (with F). He also previously served as the primary environment texture artist on VALORANT.

So strap up and sit down for Episode 2 of the Power Hour, as Nate demonstrates his hand-painting technique and waxes poetic on the role environment plays in storytelling and bringing game worlds to life––but also the importance of balancing all that with the clear need for sub-machine-gun-toting teddy bears.

The Riot Games Super Art Power Hour is a monthly long-form educational segment spotlighting super art and super artists at Riot.

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[lynnbouchard]

Nate this is amazing!!! I am a very proud Mom!!!

[Swagbastian]

This video is so valuable for aspiring environment artists! Thank you for making this!

[APinkClown]

Love this kind of behind the scenes look into game development, only better when its a studio i have loved for 10+ years.

[kevleart]

Absolutely love this series! Despite knowing some of the tools and pipelines already, I love getting into the minds of artists like Nate and Thomas and learning more about their thought process. It definitely helps me think more critically when creating assets. I literally can't wait for next month's segment!

[silentstar]

Yay! A new episode! Thank you so much!!! ❤

[carlolazerna]

this is inspiring as someone who's also colorblind like me, as I've developed an insecurity on the color values of my 3d texturing work that led me to relying on my teammates in regards to them providing a color pallette for my work

[LatinoSoulja]

Loving these series! Can’t wait to see animation

[FFFlay]

This whole series is great, can't wait for the next episode

[sumdude]

Im in a 3D course with a friend, im technically minded so the modern workflow with all the maps and the baking and troubleshooting comes mostly naturally to me. But one of my friends struggled greatly because hes not technical at all, he came from traditional and digital painting. He has been thinking about trying 3d coat but was afraid of learning another software and have to troubleshoot more.
After watching this video i convinced him to give it a try, he took to it like fish to water, instead of having to ask me question every day, he can now bump out stunning art just grinding away at 3D coat.
Thanks Nathan for the inspiration.

[loras]

Currently at college studying 3D environment art, and holy shit is this cool to see!

[Squidmoto]

Love this. Definitely going to try this tool out. I've done a lot of texturing but it was all UV maps in Blender and this seems like it would save a significant amount of time.

[Mr.Escudero_]

Loving this series! Super helpful and inspiring <3

[dampierre]

I love these videos so much, really is a great resource for artists out there

[mu]

Lovely to listen to you explaining your process, thank you for your work

[ImHELLBERG]

Absolutely love these videos, very inspiring.

[rightoncue]

It's truly amazing that he can create all those cool stuffs despite being color-blind.

[Vexod]

I can relate how wonderful 3DCoat is. Especially when it comes to handpainting ♥

[junba]

Really nice one! I aspire the create games one day too and even though I am more on the programming side it is very useful to know the jobs of the rest of the team! I wonder if you will ever upload another Episode with programming...

[michaelgarcia]

Nice tutorial Mista Rogers! good to see you showing off them skills bro!

[bs_art]

So great! Please have more tutorials like this on riots environment art!