ARAM!

The Freljord event finally happened this week! We released the reworks of Trundle and Sejuani, a bunch of awesome skins and our latest map: !Howling Abyss!

This map was massively challenging. This was our first attempt at an animated and destructible environment, first time trying weather FX, a lot of depth testing, ambient creatures, etc. We threw everything at this and broke it many times. hehe. Ultra props for everyone who worked hard to make this the best Riot event to date!

This is just too much fun to be considered work.  :)

Space Mustache Koala likes Dungeon Hearts

    

I picked up Dungeon Hearts on Steam for $3 a couple of days ago. Its a fun little combat puzzle game with some great simple mechanics and visuals. It started out being really simple fun and ended up being insanely stressful! I was clicking so fast desperately trying to keep my team alive as I got closer and closer to the inevitable wipe. I was on a great run with only my archer still alive. I had an amazing combo jem set up for the kill on the boss. 1 split second miss click and its all over. I jump up and scream in agony "NOOOOOO!!!!" My daughter comes in with a concerned look on her face "Whats gong on?" I sigh deeply and give her a hug. "Shhhh... Its all over now."

It is with a heavy heart and a sore finger that I approve the purchase of Dungeon Hearts.   

Howling Abyss WIP

We have our new League of Legends map in Beta! Here is a shot of the current work in progress. Its an ice themed map set in the Freljord. Its great to finally get the players on it.

Twisted Treeline Trees

I got a request to post something I worked on at Riot. I will have more to show soon, but for now here are a couple of tree concepts for Twisted Treeline. We wanted to retain the dark, whimsical vibe of the trees while making them more dynamic and aggressive.

Bros

Here are a couple of random guys. Just having fun with colors and shapes.

3 Crazy DJs from 2003

I was looking through a mess of old files and I stumbled across some fun old drawings. I did this about 10 years ago for a rave flier. I think the rave was canceled. I was heavily inspired by my favorite game at the time, Jet Set Radio Future on the original Xbox!

Trogg!

This is the last Warcraft TCG card I did. I had a great time doing these with the ol Blizzard crew. I miss the 'race for the good cards' game. Jeremy and Doug would send out an Excel sheet with the list of new cards to create with a first come first serve tag. Someone would shout through the office "New cards are up!" and all the card artists would stop whatever they were doing to race through the descriptions, pick a few that sound good and reply to the email as quick as possible.While I never got any of the Undead or monster cards I wanted to do, (because Grace, Richie and Nate were snaking them quicker than me) I always ended up with fun stuff.

At least for my final card I got a monster. :)