Riot Games – VALORANT Console Launch

Mill+ director David Lawson partnered with Riot Games once more to craft the stunning launch trailer for VALORANT’s highly awaited…
Riot Games "VALORANT Console Launch"
Case Study

Mill+ director David Lawson partnered with Riot Games once more to craft the stunning launch trailer for VALORANT's highly awaited debut on consoles!

It was an incredible opportunity to help Launch VALORANT on console. we loved the idea of choreographing action across multiple different battles in different maps with a massive cast of Characters but with a through line of Jett's battle with her Omega self.

Director, David Lawson

Riot's IP and characters are so well defined, that it was extremely fun for us to craft situations we haven‘t seen these agents in and events that have never been shown cinematically before - pushing the boundaries while staying true to the look and style of the brand. The repeat collaboration with our counterparts at Riot and in house with our Director of the film, David Lawson, was so seamless that it was a joy to spitball ideas back and forth and go through several iterations of a shot to wittle down the perfect version of what we wanted to show in the final piece.

We worked both in studio and remotely, and had a virtual suite set up that allowed all artists the option to hop in and out of to discuss any ideas, thus maximizing creative input and collaboration from everyone. Our strong teamwork made the combination of concept art, matte paintings, CG renders, design elements, FX and 2D animations, seamless, and result in a film we‘re massively proud of.

2D Supervisor, Toya Drechsler

This fully CG cinematic in Riot's art-style is a blast to create . It's a unique and very cool aesthetic to achieve, and I could feel that my own enthusiasm was matched by the excitement of the team as we saw the project come together in this style. As a team leader, it's amazing to bring together The Mill's international team to create something so awesome. It's also fun to solve unique creative challenges that a cinematic of this scale presents. For Riot, focusing extra emphasis on our previs payed extra dividends throughout the course of the show. It was a very rewarding project to be a part of.

CG Supervisor, Chase Webb
Credits
Credits

Agency
Agency: Riot Games Global Marketing
Creative Director: Drew Stauffer
Producers: Matt Salkin, Kat Nimmervol
Video Director: Mike Berry
Consulting Director: Christopher Eaton
Screenplay: Shannon Denton
Art Direction: Brandon Meier, Ke Su
Storyboards: Jon Lam

Production Company

Production Company: Mill+
Director: David Lawson
Executive Producer: Moira Mahoney
Senior Producer: Esther Montgomery
VFX Production Coordinator: Isaias Yetemegn

Editorial
Editorial: The Mill
Editor: Natalie Wozniak

VFX
VFX: The Mill
Creative Director: David Lawson
Executive Producer: Moira Mahoney
Senior Producer: Esther Montgomery
VFX Production Coordinator: Isaias Yetemegn
CG Supervisor: Chase Webb
2D Supervisor: Toya Drechsler
Asset Supervisor: Dustin Leon, Alek Vacura
Rigging Lead: Peter Christensen
Previs Lead: Matt Connolly
Animation Supervisor: Jacob Bergman
Matte Painting Supervisor: Itai Muller
Lighting Lead: Nitesh Nagda
FX Lead: Daniel Soo
Rigging: Navin Pinto, Olesya Gurezova, Daishi Takishima
CG Previs Animation: Gustavo Gonzalez, Tommy Taylor, Iva Carrasquillo
CG Generalist: Gabrielle Harder, Raul Brossy, Niko Larsson, Joel Durham, Isaias Yetemegn
Matte Painting: Henrik Holmberg, Bill Lu, Nathan McKenna, Gary Inloes
CG Lighting: Nick Carvalho
CG FX: Sparsh Kumar, Aryan Sachdeva
2D Compositors: Abigail Riegel, Dylan Streiff, Patrick Reilly, Pujan Chheda, Piotr Bednarczyk
Technical Director: Nicholas Love, Ken Mohammed
Animation Vendor: Little Zoo
DFX Supervisor: Mahesh M S
BLR Producer: Diiwakar Selvamani
BLR Production Coordinator: Manish Kumar Tripathi
2D Lead Artist: Srilakshmi Narasimha Hanumath Prasad Kondep (Comp)
3D Lead Artist: Sunil Manohar Mohapatra (Assets); Sandipan Majumder (DMP); Garlapati Yeswanth (Rigging); Rakesh Herurkar (FX); Vishwajeet Sideshwar Nandagawle & Chokkarapu Sai Pradeep (Lighting)
Asset Lead: Sunil Manohar Mohapatra
Assets Artist: Dayanandh Varatharaj, Debdutta Gayen, Jagdish Singh Yadav, Karthikeyan M, Kulkarni Aditya, Manukuru Manikanteswara, Piyush Sharma, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Sandeep Pannalal Vishwakarma, Sandip Dhole, Sanju Sankar, Shahid Hussain, Sudalai Muthu Ramesh Pillai, Sunil Manohar Mohapatra, Tushar Sethi, Venkatesan R, Vishal Vijay Patil, Jigna Chandulal Saparia, Madhusudan Patel, Mohit Kattar
RIG Lead: Garlapati Yeswanth
RIG Artists: Manthena Sainitesh Reddy, Ravirala Ram Mohan, Sandeepkumar Madival, Sunkari Praveen, Vaibhav Vijay Patil, Vivekkumar Shobhnath Pal
Lighting Supervisor: Aritra Sarkar
Lighting Lead: Vishwajeet Sideshwar Nandagawle, chokkarapu Sai Pradeep
Lighting Artists: Manjunatha Chandrashekar, Rajesh Sudhanshu Patra, Ravikanth Raju, Stacie Fina Dsouza, Surya Chetan
Comp Supervisor: Mayank Shekhar Tiwari
Comp Lead: Hanuma Narasimha Hanumath Prasad Kondepi
Comp Artists: Akhil A S, Anuj Bhandari, Ashique T, Bhaskar Reddy Kappeta, Chilka Souji, Gangadharam Raja, Haris V K, Jeril C Joseph, Karthikkeyan M D, Rushabh Ramesh Madalkar, Sravanam Gnaneswar
DMP Supervisor: Gowri Velusamy D
DMP Lead: Sandipan Majumder
DMP Artists: Abhimanyu Singh Tanwar, Amrut Somashekhar Agasi, Chandan Mandal, Jibin Baby P, Mohan Rao, Sitaram Nilkanth Wankhede, Srivarman D
Fx Supervisor: Biswajit Tarafder
Fx Lead: Rakesh Herurkar
Fx Artists: Ashutosh Shivdas Maurya, Himanshu Solanki, Mahadev Ganpat Sawant, Neeraj Kumar Patel, Rajesh Prakashrao Mahakalkar
Animation Supervisor: Sukanta Chakraborti
Animation Lead: Santosh Thippeswamy
Animation Artists: Subharanjan Jena, Vishesh Kashmira, Binu Das, Dhruba Sinha, Gokul G S, Manu Raj, Mithun Narayanan, Ravi Panwar,

Design
Design: The Mill
Lead Concept Artist: Gary Inloes
Art Director, Graphics: Geoffrey Skrajewski
Art Director, Cel Animation: Hana Yean
Animators: Greg Rubner, Mikhail Pakhomov, Aly Tain, Jahmad Rollins

Colour
Colour: The Mill
Colourist: Yerlan Tanayev
Executive Producer, Colour and Finishing: Krista Staudt
Head of Colour Production: Brandee Probasco
Colour Producer: Jackson Winkler
Colour Assist: Alexandra Makarenko

Music and Sound
Sound: Riot Audio Post Production
VO: Riot Voices
Music Supervision: Riot Music Group
Finishing Editor: Chris Miller

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