Credits
Client: Riot Games
Year: 2021
Director, Writer: Josh Frackleton
Executive Producers: Nick Brown & Josh Frackleton
Producers: Douglas Kerr, Nick Brown
Director of Photography: Daniel Williams
2nd Unit Director: Dorian Tocker
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Adam Coleman
Production Design: Arae Webner
Construction: Ögmundur jónsson
SFX Supervisor: Haukur Karlsson
SFX Senior Technician: Davíð Geir Jónasson
Gaffer: Siggi Bahama
Production Coordinator: Karl Magnus
Editors: Minh Bui, Aaron Greenbaum
Post Producer: Minh Bui
VFX: Calvin Serrano, Dylan Donaldson, Marc Nogle, Dustin Diyo, Josh Frackleton, Joshua Galindo
Colorist: Daniel Williams
Production Company: Good Boy & Hero Iceland
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WORLDS: RACE TO GROUPS
League of Legends Worlds 2021 took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, from October 5–November 6, 2021, against the stark backdrop of pandemic-era travel restrictions and a single-location tournament. For the Play-Ins stage, our goal was to capture the scrappy, every-man-for-themselves energy that defines this phase of the competition. With 12 hopeful teams entering and only 4 advancing to Groups, we developed the metaphor of the ever-closing "door to Worlds," representing the relentless gauntlet where only the strongest survive.
With the tournament set in Iceland, we sought to evoke the elegance and mystique of a snowy, moonlit forest while maintaining a cinematic, dream-like quality that mirrored the high-stakes player experience. Due to harsh weather conditions, we constructed the forest entirely within a soundstage, with SFX, art, and cinematography teams working closely together to bring the surreal, high-pressure atmosphere of Play-Ins to life.
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