Whatever you want

Big, small, we'll figure out how to make it work

Just anything

Well I mean,

not anything

My name is Bryan

and my Make A Wish was to make a skin for League of Legends

which ended up being Dark Star Cho'Gath

The reason I chose Cho'Gath for a skin was because

I'm a bit of a Cho'Gath one trick

Just this season,

I've played exclusively Cho'Gath all the way to Diamond 5

I kind of want to give him a better run cycle, you know what I mean?

Yeah, he's kind of clunky

Yeah, it's looking..

Bryan was connected to us through Make A Wish

Make A Wish is a non-profit organization that works to

fulfill the wishes of kids who are facing a critical illness

Our relationship with Make A Wish is that

they reach out to us whenever they receive a request

related to League of Legends or Riot Games

This is the new champion, he's gonna be a blacksmith

He can make weapons in lane, doesn't even have to go back to shop

The original goal per Bryan's request

was just to make him a custom skin that he could use

It would be a skin that was like local to his client

we thought that that would be a really nice souvenir of his visit here

and it would give him something for his champion that he had designed

Yeah, well if you have any cool ideas or if you wanna act something out

Feel free, you know what I mean

Prior to the visit, I worked with Riot by kinda sending a stream of emails

about like the actual development of the skin

Like possible themes, we did a little bit of brainstorming

and then like, I just really liked the theme of space and stuff

And ultimately I decided on proceeding with Dark Star as the skin for him

One cool part of coming up with ideas for the skin

I met with one of the animators and then I kinda like

motioned out how I wanted everything to look so

I think that ultimately translated to

like some of the animations and like the back animation

... black hole to come out of the ground so say he digs, he opens up

He roars and then like as he's roaring like stuff's coming out

Yeah

and then it just like sucks him in?

Somewhere in like the exchange of emails before the visit

I think somewhere I mentioned like

oh yeah, I'm a pretty big like band and orchestra player

So they were like oh wow we have an in house music theme

So it'd be really cool if you could like bring your stuff

and then we can like play a few compositions, jam out

Since the skins guys are basically putting together a skin for you

we thought we would do like a pseudo log in to go along with the skin

So we're gonna record some stuff today

That was the first time I saw the music so I actually was sight reading it there

So what happened was, first they had me play this music

It was like pretty easy so then they brought out like a second version

That was like more difficult, they wanted to test me first!

And I was like, oh okay

I think that would've been a take, man

That's uh

I gotta say, I gotta say we're pretty impressed

Playing the Dark Star music was really quite cool

and it was kinda challenging but I think we got it in the end

It was a really fun experience

After Bryan left, we started showing the skin around to Rioters,

talking about Bryan's visit, talking about the Make A Wish program

and we got really excited to see how many Rioters become not only inspired

by the skin itself, but by the fact that Bryan designed this skin with us

the idea of actually making the skin for Bryan

but also for all players in honor of Bryan just became the main goal

So what we decided to do next steps were to make the skin

and to take all the proceeds from the skin and donate them to charities

on his behalf

I think it's really rewarding to see Dark Star Cho'Gath come out

because I've been kinda following it since we were first just like coming up

with the very bare designs

Seeing it become a real thing feels so much more rewarding

Seeing my vision come to life is like, wow, I helped make this skin!

And I hope that players out there enjoy this skin

And have as much fun with it as I will