Riot Games | Valorant Valm

Riot Games - Valorant Valm.

I had the opportunity to be part of the VALM project for Valorant, by Riot Games, together with my friends at Little Zoo.

My work centered on upgrading in-game assets to cinematic quality. For the characters Gekko and Ico, I rebuilt the textures by transferring the maps from the low-poly game models onto high-poly versions, then upscaling and hand-painting them to reach cinematic-grade detail. I applied the same approach to the environment, rebuilding the scene from the low-poly base up to cinematic quality, as requested by the production supervisor. For the drone, I modeled it in high-poly, using the in-game model's textures as a base, and hand-painted the final asset for the cinematic.

I worked on:

Texturing (Game-to-Cinematic Upres): Gekko, Ico — texture transfer from low-poly to high-poly, upscaling + hand-paint
Environment Modeling: full scene rebuild from low-poly base to cinematic quality
Hard Surface Modeling, Texturing & Lookdev: Drone — hi-poly modeling, texture base from in-game model, hand-paint finishing

Hope you like it!

Obs: More images and a turntable of the characters and assets are in production and will be added soon.