Concept Art in Games - Super Art Power Hour Ep. 1

Thomas Randby is a Senior Concept Artist on the League of Legends PC team at Riot Games. A member of the PIE (Personalization, Immersion, and Expression) initiative, you may remember him from such skins as Battle Academia Caitlyn, Cafe Cuties Sivir, and Spirit Blossom Cassiopeia.

Tune up and tune in to Episode 1, as Tom takes us on an adventure through a magical world of lions and pool parties, where the only limits are those of your imagination…and a never-ending list of gameplay-based constraints. We’ll see how Tom navigates these challenges as he creates a bespoke, impromptu piece of concept art in real-time, and walks us through his creative process, the craft, and how he fits into the pipeline among animators, illustrators, and technical artists, oh my!

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

0:00 Introduction
0:45 CAITLYN ASU
0:52 SPIRIT BLOSSOM CASSIOPEIA
1:19 POOL PARTY CAITLYN
6:08 OFFICER CAITLYN
6:11 SAFARI CAITLYN
12:37 BATTLE ACADEMIA CAITLYN
14:41 BASE ZOE
14:45 STAR GUARDIAN ZOE
23:15 WARRIORS' SEASON 2020 CINEMATIC
27:45 CAFE CUTIES SIVIR
29:29 STAR GUARDIAN EZREAL
37:02 SPIRIT GUARD UDYR
37:19 ADC = ATTACK DAMAGE CARRY
40:02 ARCANE
43:26 BLOOD MOON AATROX
43:33 BLOOD MOON EVELYNN
44:05 STAR GUARDIAN 2019

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[rossvaljr.]

My man never stopped talking for 50mins straight

and he always spit knowledge while making a good concept... amazing

[davewhispers]

Yay one of the Riot teams that actually carries the game.

[herlandsson]

my mans just made a skin concept looking better than 90% of skins in one hour

[dashnelson]

Absolutely love this idea for a series and can't wait to see more. I'd love to see one of these for Yorick or Ornn as some champs who are pretty bulky in build but have a lot of character to them.

[FTNChicken]

Honestly, a full circus troop skinline would be so perfect. Lion Tamers, Trapeze artists, strongmen, clowns. Its just begging to be a thematic

[additionalsky]

As a digital artist I just learnt more watching this man for 10 minutes than the last 10 years 😭

[KamyFX]

Cupcake looking clean, Cool art in less than an hour, very talented tbh.

[oscarfrancisco]

Gonna enjoying watching this series as it goes on, i've always been interested in the art for league

[qiguo]

I think if you are a concept artist who wants to get into Riot in the future, this is literally PURE GOLD, absolutely priceless! Can't wait to see an episode about 3d artist in the future!

[triagoo]

Please Riot, make this a current series, we need more art!

[udbhavshrivastava]

This is genuinely really amazing !!
really hope this is a full fledged series, I am in love it with this
whoever came up with the idea, THANK YOU

[tomodachi]

This video could actually double as an amazing ASMR video, especially his pen strokes and keyboard clacks

[AdventurousAshley]

The lighting in there looks amazing! 🤩

[nicheinzelmann]

I got really emocional watching it
one of my favorite artists showing his process of concept a skin
i cried of hapinness and joy

[lilyomp]

I’m here for my beloved Riot Hylia, my king, elderwood xayah creator, blessed concept artist, role model 🙏💖💖💖💖

[highrise]

These people are the actual SUPERSTARS of the entire fucking company, the artists. And the writers. And the music and sound design teams.

[xPrincexCarlox]

I have been wanting and waiting for a Circus skinline in years and this concept was so good. However, it destroyed me since this concept may not see the light of day so I hope the community will push Riot to make this idea canon. I really want that killer clown Sion.

[dyingcactusrofl]

It's amazing. Would love to see more of this kinda stuff.

[florent]

As a GameArt student, I do this kind of video and work. What an insparing company

[Ahribombari]

The fact that he is designing things while talking makes this a pleasant thing to watch but also very talented