[2020] We're the team that brought you the Worlds 2019 Opening Ceremony! AMA!

Well... we're trying to work it out in the budget but we think the next iteration of the 2017 dragon would be to acquire a real one. Lot of questions around high food cost and transportation... also insurance

Sorry we can't tease anything but hope that made you laugh :')

Hiiii Lava!!!

No plans to continue this at the moment, and I think our current situation would unfortunately make it kind of difficult to film like we did :'(. We had the opportunity to make this fall into our laps unexpectedly and we jumped on it.
Definitely hope to catch you at a future Worlds!! :D

Deleted my old response because I just saw your edit!

That's actually just the empty seats of the venue, the holonet is almost invisible to the naked eye. If you mean the black thing behind her- that's the trophy case but turned off :P

Kinjaz choreographed all of the songs for the show!! They also helped us block and coach the talent to hit their marks with the holograms and perform together. We also had the opportunity to put out a True Damage choreo video with them after OC (sorry this is 100% me plugging >_>)

It was kind of surreal to get to work with them as a (bad) dancer and they're so humble and honestly a dream to collaborate with. They really got into our work and contributed a lot of ideas to the show. We don't have a ton of connections to the West Coast hip hop scene, we met them through our production partners Possible!

I'm definitely on the end of not having lots of broadcast experience. I started in 3D art and worked as a producer on Skins for about 4 years before switching over to our IP & Story department working primarily as a content/creative producer. I got roped into the OC in 2018 via working on KDA but really loved the work, team and the collaboration so much!

It's nice because we also all have things we do outside of the OC throughout the years, so we're always talking about Worlds but also getting to flex our skills outside of it. So when we come back together everyone always has some fresh perspectives to bring!

Thank you!!! We really appreciate all the kind words <3 and we're so glad you enjoyed it!

For me its personally been a really long road and I feel like I only really started getting to do creative work full time about a year to year and a half ago. I joined Riot as an intern in 2013 and new I wanted to be a creative director one day but needed to learn the ropes so I just started to maneuver my career to always working with other creative folks more senior than myself. I did QA for about a year, production for 4 years on Skins and then moved into IP & Story where I got tapped to help with K/DA (I am a huge kpop fan). I was a little light on work and asked if they would mind me taking on some pieces of that project and I'm grateful they trusted me to run with a few things!

When I got to work with another creative lead and u/Oniatserj1 I had the opportunity to grow really quickly and following the 2018 ceremony I started to pick up increasingly larger creative projects to lead (this documentary being 1, with a bunch more unreleased). Its been a really great learning opportunity getting to work with the OC team as there's just so so so so much that goes into pulling off an event like Worlds that you grow so much just being in it.

I hope that's the answer you were interested in. Not all the paths to where you want to go are straight and narrow. I think trying to look at where you are and how you can make small steps every day/week/year to bring you closer to where you want to be in your career.

It's actually a reference to Velvet from Odin Sphere (fav girl & game!!) but I love love Red Velvet

Let's Power up!!

This is a great question~ With all creative things we usually start way way blue sky with some wacky ideas and just ask ourselves 'What would make this the coolest experience possible?' From there we start to work out the show flow, which sometimes sparks new ideas or kills older ones that won't quite work. Then there's constraints like time, budget, does even enough of X thing exists for us to do this?! (We ran into this with the projectors! There were only so many in the world) and you just start to whittle away at the idea until you have something everyone feels really excited and happy with. It's a really highly collaborative process and there's no 'wrong ideas' but more a question of 'how much awesome can we get out of this show given all the time and resources we have'

Not all of it! We were shooting a little b-roll but then we actually started having a creative brainstorm session so it was an actual meeting! But obviously we can't reveal anything so we threw in some silly gags

It usually does take a full 10 months of us thinking/producing this to bring it to life. A lot of R&D and pure ideation/brainstorming time. We take a small break after the show, u/Riot_Doublebook usually rolls right into stuff like All Stars right after!

We did hit the drawing board pretty early on for 2020 which you can see at the end there!

Not exactly because of budget but wanted to (and also thought it was a cool idea) if we could have wind tunnels blast air at the crowd when Yasuo throws the tornado. Obviously it wouldn't work with the hung holonets but Justin and I decided to jokingly mention it to Nick while he was on his lunch, then ran away. I was positive he was going to leap over the table and hunt us down lmao