Katie Lofts MA Blog

  Kevin Manning -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/staticcurve/ Principal 3D Artist at Riot Games Kevin Manning is the first industry practitioner I contacted and also the first to reply back, out of two I've contacted so far (26/01/24). He is currently a Principal 3D Artist at Riot Games, with his profile stating: '20 year entertainment industry vet with a passion for storytelling, art and the tech that connects them.' I knew I definitely wanted to contact a 3D artist at Riot to pick at their brains because, as you might know from previous blog posts, I really do adore Riot's art for pretty much anything and their approach to creation.  For my questions, I tried to open with a fun, simple one and lead into more specialised ones for my MA topic. To finish off with, I just had a fun one - his favourite character in League of Legends. I also tried to ask more in-depth questions specifically about his projects that his LinkedIn says he works on, like Legends of Runeterra and ...

 Within my last project and learning agreement, I set out to explore the topic of art styles and all the different things that encompass that. I've explored Sea of Thieves and League of Legends styles previously, but this time, I want to explore something relatively new to myself and a kind of style that I've found in the past to not particularly enjoy doing nor find a lot of appreciation in compared to the other, previously mentioned styles. Pixel Art. Now... I'm going to explain a bit about why I want to explore this style and it will sound extremely nerdy and embarrassing. Within the past year or so I've been playing on this Minecraft server with a group of friends called 'Lord of the Craft'. It is a DND/roleplay-esque kind of server with hundreds of people on at a time with a fantasy, medieval theme. There's cities, villages, dungeons, villains, magic, and so much more all solely player-driven.  It is very cool! And it has its own sort of economy. Since ...