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Road to RIOT: Tracking My Efforts In Becoming A Rioter!

Keagn·1/23/2015, 11:30:18 PM·1 votes·430 views

Quick Note: In a heat of passion, I realized this was originally posted in the wrong section of the Boards. I am forever sorry community :(

But here's what I was trying to accomplish, and still am:

Hello again boards, its me again. It's been several months since you last graced me with entrance, and I thank you for every second of it. This will be my story, and my journey as an artist and story teller. I know I am not unique in the sense of dreaming to join the talented artists and hard workers who occupy the various studios around the globe. When moving down to what Alaskan's refer to as "the lower 48", perhaps the most exciting thing about moving was being so close to a RIOT games studio in St. Louis, in arm's reach of my dream. But the road is long and weary, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

As for what you can expect to find here, I plan on doing monthly or bi-monthly projects relating to the League of Legends universe, as well as a variety of other small ideas I come up with. I will constantly add to this as long as I can, and my hope is that when I am finally ready to become a Rioter, this vast collection in the making will show my worth, and display my skill.

If you would like to, support me in my goal with suggestions for projects, such as champion reworks, relaunches, art, and lore writes. I'm not saying I can't do this without you, because I will either way, but I would love your support. My first project is a Lulu Visual update, in which I'm learning as much as I can about 3-D sculpting programs (currently using Sculptris), and coming up with concept art and new lore. As the yordles seem to be the main focus of RIOT, I feel this is an appropriate project to take on. For you Reds reading around and stumbling across this, I'm coming! This is only the beginning!

(This is/was my first update:)

Progress Report: January 23, 2015:

Continuing Lulu FVU (Fan Visual Update), and have a fairly solid idea of what I want her to look like. My previous versions are awful in comparison, but trial and error got me this far. I hope to post one of my final sketches, either a pen outline or a colored version. I've also taken a look at several other yordles to think over (Corki, Amumu, Veigar) . These will also be done to the extent of my Lulu project (hopefully). I also hope to self teach myself how to make mock update previews (y'know, the ability comic slide things). REALLY need to get a stylus and tablet, because sculpting with mouse/track pad is getting old, and I need to improve art quality. Any tips and tricks are most welcome :)

I cannot explain how much this all means to me. I know I have a long way to go, but I have a lot of passion for the universe Riot has created, and the way they carry out the day to day, and continue to do amazing things. I hope you guys give me a chance here, and help me move forward and get closer to achieving this dream of mine. Whether it be your suggestions, feedback, or anything else, I would be most grateful for it all. I thank you for your time, and I hope to impress you all more than I disappoint. I will most likely have Lulu's FVU concept art up tomorrow.

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Keagn1/25/2015, 9:16:43 PM1 votes

Okay. So troublesome circumstances have not allowed me to show you guys a colored version of my Lulu FVU (or any version for that matter, my photocopier went missing), but I wanted to give you something. SO...:

Amumu Back story lore (Specific to my FVU that I'm doing):

*A young boy adorned in gold and silks approached his throne, where his magus awaited. Servants gathered from across the land bowed in submission to him, ready to cater to his every wish, as they had done countless times before. The boy prince halted before the magus, who bowed, and gestured for his lord to take his place upon the throne. "My lord," the magus addressed the boy prince, "trouble stirs in your lands. Many seek to spill your blood and claim your throne. I fear the land of Shurima may no longer be safe for you." "I am well aware, magus," the prince replied with a voice far colder than what one would expect, "peace would not come for nothing less than my death, so perhaps this is what must be done." "My lord, surely you cannot be serious-" "Of course not, magus. Do you think me a fool? I have no wish to die. But perhaps the people can be tricked, and I may be sparred." There was a long, still silence in the throne chamber, nothing could be heard but the breaths of those present, and the uproars outside the palace. After some time, the magus finally broke the silence: "It may be done, my lord," the magus pondered, "but a corpse similar to your size must be presented to the masses they are to be fooled." "You are right," the boy prince decided, "but who would this be? People may question if someone were to go missing." "Unless they were unwanted, unimportant, and unknown." The boy prince thought for a moment before coming to a conclusion. "A servant." "Yes, my lord. A servant." The magus clapped, and summoned the servants in the throne room to assemble in a line, and then proceeded to inspect each of them in hopes of finding a replacement for the boy prince's corpse. Old frail men, young maids, large brutes, none of which would do. The magus may have given up, if it was not then he found a possible fit. "The rest of you are dismissed." roared the magus. The other servants bowed, before swiftly exiting, and sealing the chamber door behind them. The magus took the chosen servant in hand, a yordle boy, captured by merchants and sold into the palace. The servant kneeled before the boy prince, and the magus gestured down to him, and waited for the prince's response. Finally, the prince asked, "What are you playing at, magus? Do you insult me with this insolence? That a yordle could pose as me and the crowds would believe it?" "Never, my lord," the magus responded carefully, "but this yordle is of your size. When properly cloaked and wrapped, no one will question that it is you who lies dead before them." The boy prince pondered this, and circled the yordle. After thoroughly thinking the plan at hand over, he told the magus, "Very well. Make it so." And so the magus bowed, and left with the yordle boy, who cried and screamed. The learnt magus made short work of the task which laid at hand. He laid the yordle to rest, and removed his servant cap, and began the burial process. The corpse's fur was shaved, and the magus also bled the corpse, and removed the organs, including the heart, which was typically left within the body, and replaced it with a charm of similar size. He proceeded the wrap the cadaver in linen, until no one would be able to tell that what laid dead before them was a yordle instead of the boy tyrant. "You should thank me," the magus said allowed, "you lived a servant, but died a prince." He grasped the yordle's heart, and placed it in a jar as further evidence of the "prince's" demise. It was three days after the plan was initially conceived that the magus presented the corpse before the land, announcing the tyrant prince dead. He gave the heart to the resistance's leader, telling him to do with it as he wished. The magus was praised by the people, a savior, they called him. And indeed he was, but it wasn't them that he saved, not directly at least. As for the yordle, who laid dead within the tomb of the boy prince, the time would come when he would rise again. It was the path of resurrection that awaited him, but the path he would walk would be one filled with sorrow. When the magus stole his heart, he stole his life, his memories, he was stolen from himself. *