Riot Games is associated with Ross Video for the production of Rift Rivals with Frontier technology

Frontier, the latest generation of Ross video rendering engines based on Unreal 4, helps create virtual characters with greater reality.

League of Legends (LoL) It is the most played PC game in the world, with more than 100 million active players per month. Every summer, fourteen regions teams around the world meet to face in the annual sporting event of Riot Games, Rift Rivals.

Rift Rivals is celebrated in several parts of the world between July 2 and 9. One of the most outstanding moments of the event is the clash between NORAMAMERICA (NA) Y Europe (me) which took place between July 5 and 7 at the headquarters of North American League of Legends Championship Series in Los Angeles, California.

More than 350 fans joined the players live in the studio and in the rivals rift. The meeting between Americans and Europeans was broadcast in nine languages through lolesports.com, Twitch, YouTube y ESPN+.

Last year, Na LCS adopted a feathers like after an appearance in the spring of the LCS de Na in Vancouver, British Columbia. From the finals, the LCS Palomo has managed to enter regularly into the study of Na LCS.

To realize your graphic mascot vision for this event, the team of Riot Games He turned to Ross Video and to its innovative Frontier product to obtain hyperrealistic results.

Developed in collaboration with The Future Group and based on the game engine Unreal 4, Frontier is the latest generation of graphic rendering engines It helps to carry the virtual avant -garde study and augmented reality technology to a new kingdom of realism.

Gideon Ferber, Director of Product Management of Virtual Solutions, highlights the importance of creativity for eSport fans. “The electronic sports market has grown by leaps and bounds and is at the same time competitive and demanding. The audiences are always hungry for attractive content that exceed the limits of technology and content suppliers look and the impact they have on the broadcast. ”

Dave Stewart, executive producer of NA LC Broadcast, described the motivation to free the feathered pet. “Na fans understand LCS Pigeon, they know that it is a bird of prey without fear and with which one cannot play. Rift rivals is about the deep enmity between Na and the EU, and the team of Na Lcs Broadcast thought what better way to instill fear in the hearts of our enemies that with a mechanized armored pigeon that whispered before the danger. We are delighted to give life to life. Pigeon in this special event. ”