Eddy directing duo Jean-Charles Kerninon and Clement Lauricella (aka Boddicker) and the crew at Brunch Studio in Paris showcase the many sides of their animation talents in their latest trailer for Riot’s Teamfight Tactics.

Jean-Charles Kerninon: “We worked closely with Jonathan Santoro, the global creative director at Riot for Teamfight Tactics on this amazing project to present new features of the Set 10 of TFT where music plays an important role. Players are able to mix music depending on the characters they choose in the game.

“The film is made up four different music sections and five different visual styles. All the different styles of music had to perfectly blend together and the visuals had to fit every music style. It was very exciting to adapt our direction to so many styles.
 

“It was great fun to adapt these characters to different animation styles, like the True Damage characters, who went from a Hip Hop to a Heavy Metal look.”

 
“For hip hop, we chose to go with a really modern and colorful aesthetic. The color palette included the entire range of vibrant colors. The inspiration for Metal was more 70’s design like the “Heavy Metal” animated film. We thought it would be a very great fit with the music. The colors are flat with no shades and we reduced the palette to six colors.

“To represent classical, we immediately thought of Fantasia but we mostly did an homage to former Disney animator Glenn Keane. The color palette has been reduced to three colors. And finally the Jazz part was inspired by the old Max Fleischer or Disney black and white cartoons. So the color palette was evolving every time with the style.

“Every animation part had some character in common with the previous style. So it was great fun to adapt these characters to different styles, like the True Damage characters, who went from a Hip Hop to a Heavy Metal look; Yorick, who went from metal to a classical style and the ghouls, who went from classical to old Disney.”
 
 

 
Client: Riot
Global Creative director: Jonathan Santoro
Producer: Ashley Samour, Penelope Aretos, Fan Zhang

Production: Eddy
Directors: Boddicker
EP: Emilie Walmsey
Producer: Isa Taoui

Animation: Brunch Studio
Head of Studio: Fabien Cellier
Head of CG: Jean-Charles Kerninon
CG Line Producer: Bleuenn Mallat
2D Line Producer: Charles Bowles
CG Supervisor: Jean-Charles Kerninon and Clement Lauricella
2D Supervisor: Yoshi Tamura

Music: Kole Hicks, remixed by Steve Aoki
Sound: Erik Schuiten