Amongst the tools were animatable rigs for use with 3D Studio of Max Payne’s in game character along with real asset. I hadn’t the slightest idea where to start with this but with a desire to be creative combined with my passion for games I just stuck with it and after a while came across official modding tools supported by the developers of Max Payne, Remedy Entertainment. That phone call ended I ran to my room and began researching online if anything we were talking about was even possible and how?! After Max Payne was released that year, I was on the phone with a friend one day and we were talking about how incredible it would be if there was some way we could create our own melee combat moves for Max and then see them in that amazing ‘bullet-time’ slow motion effect, which at the time was super fresh and looked so cool with all the moving cameras and stuff. I had been super hyped for this game since its earliest reveal due to the John Woo bullet time nature of its gameplay. I’m 15 living with my parents and it’s the year the original Max Payne game is due out on PC. The animation side of my story started in 2001. So many awesome games and platforms launched. I feel lucky to have been around when I have, and been able to see the industry get to where it is today. All the way back to when I was 5 years old playing on my first gaming machine, the Amiga 486.

Videogames and animation are things I have been passionate about as far back as I can remember. How and when did you realize you wanted to become an animator? We recently ranked Riot Games in fourth place in our 2014 Top 100 Most Influential Video Game Studios list, and last year their Season 4 World Championship reached a prize pool of $2,130,000! To help readers get to know Riot Games better we talked with Rory Alderton about his work at the studio. He’s one of the people responsible for making the iconic battle moves for the many playable Champions in their famous MOBA game, which is played by over 27 million gamers from around the world every single day.

After almost six years of working at Jagex Games Studio he joined Riot in April of 2013 as an Animator, and was then promoted to Senior Animator in May of last year.

Rory “RiotLamz” Alderton is a Senior Animator for the League of Legends game developer, Riot Games.

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