Nunu Teaser is here

Now that the video has been out a bit - here's how we went about making this one - we'd love feedback on it!

We started as always with some ideation. We concluded the best thing about this new Nunu (or internally NewNu) was their friendship. So we wanted the video to really showcase that.

We went through a bunch of variations of the script trying to really make a wholesome story which is the story essentially of a boy and his dog. Only in this case his dog is a giant intelligent Yeti.

Once we had a script we were happy with (which is more or less what is in this video), we went about creating the custom animations in the beginning and end. We wanted them to really feel like this was just another conversation they'd have. We thought it would be fun if they were standing on a ledge in the Freljord overlooking SR (that part was later cut because it didn't make sense). Champion team animators really nailed the feelings we wanted, and then we just needed to make the environment feel like it belonged in game, but also was very much Freljordian as well.

So we custom made the overlook, the trees, the background and the sky, much in the same way that we did the Irelia trailer, only this time we went WAY more ham.

Now that we had our bookends, we had to really capture the gameplay. Hint at his old trolliness (blue buff steal), his ganks (poor Brand), his general supportiveness (with Ashe), and his Ult. The pace was such that we wanted to start it off with something familiar (his Q chomp) and end with something familiar (his ult) but include quick snippets of the rest of his kit throughout.

The Voice actor was FANTASTIC with this, and really helped land Nunu into a space where he just felt innocent, and fun, and friendly, and imaginative. Willump voice actor is a lot of post processing, but also came out sorta understandable ;)

All in all, we are pretty happy with the outcome of this piece. We feel like New Nunu is a great evolution of the character, the trailer does justice to both old and new Nunu, and hopefully will get people interested in trying out his new kit.

What did you all think?