Animation Storyboard worth watching.

RiotWAAARGHbobo·5/4/2019, 1:22:02 AM·52 votes·19,442 views

Fellow rioter, Seung, did this animation a while back.

It deserves a watch. (And waaaay more than 200 likes)

Please do both. You won't regret it. (His shit is always amazing)

-WAAARGHbobo

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

42 Comments

ModCaptainMårvelous5/4/2019, 2:53:30 AM14 votes

As amazing as this is, I wish you guys would commit when doing these things more often. Seeing this on the cutting room floor really sucks.

Critmaster Garen5/4/2019, 7:25:52 AM11 votes

when are we getting this though?

http://www.leifjeffers.com/directing

https://imgur.com/a/8vVe42h

watching those animation concepts about their first meeting and fighting that giant void creature was awesome.

this should at least reuse the art assets to make a comic out of the story.

Cosnirak5/4/2019, 6:15:45 AM9 votes

I'm honestly underwhelmed by this... I'm sure it took a lot of hard work and the art seems good for a storyboard but the action seems like typical anime nonsense. Most of the individual fights on their own seem fine enough but for me the silliness of an army running at one guy that somehow magically turns into a slew of 1v1s for a minute and a half is just too immersion breaking even for a storyboard.

Maybe that's not really important to it though, I don't know. If it's just an attempt to show off different camera angels and specific action shots and all that then my more useful feedback is that there are a few too many needlessly up close shots of attacks and a few too many cuts overall. Also it could use a couple sweet slowmo shots from far enough away to see both sides jumping/swinging/whatever at each other at the same time.

Chromatic Eagle5/4/2019, 2:20:43 AM8 votes

Every piece of Darius lore has me convinced that he is the Guts of Runeterra.

Opop5/4/2019, 2:12:43 AM8 votes

Really nice, though I didn't figure Darius to be this agile

The Iceborn5/4/2019, 9:36:40 AM6 votes

This does hurt, but I hope that this was scrapped for a better cinematic of something/someone else. We all want more cinematics and we noticed that Riot has hired a few more animators, so hope we get more and I know you have no influence or knowledge of that but Im still putting it out there :)

OniZetsu6665/4/2019, 6:21:50 AM4 votes

The only criticism I can think of is that there doesn't seem to be any weight to his weapon its almost like hes holding a stick.
Like it looks really good but I wish there was more OMPH to his attacks. He looks like Katarina when fighting and not so much this big bulky warlord.

mrmeddyman5/4/2019, 3:37:24 AM3 votes

I follow him on ArtStation saw this already before I came in

https://www.artstation.com/kse332

Everyone should follow the Riot artists there as you get to see a lot of content that doesn't show up in game

RyzeTheSmurfMage5/4/2019, 1:19:45 PM3 votes

Imo the naruto run was too much and Darius I don't think is that agile. But overall nice animation

Besteau5/4/2019, 12:57:17 PM1 votes

I fucking looooooove this champion and it looks great! i wanna learn how to storyboard can u get him on here to give tips? I want to learn how to animate stuff like this but idk where to start

Schoenberg5/4/2019, 4:46:21 AM1 votes

Liked and subbed!

EATARI5/4/2019, 2:17:58 PM1 votes

dat Darius booty tho

nosafterburn5/4/2019, 4:06:18 PM1 votes

this was pretty dope, and pretty true to his character. 10/10 would watch again. (in fact I am)

jurrrr5/4/2019, 4:47:53 PM1 votes

1:17 moment of silence for this fodder that got juggled by a giant axe [zombie-nunu-bummed]

destroyer227195/4/2019, 5:34:49 PM1 votes

Darius 1v9 the entire team? This is too realistic.