The Beyond the Bandlewood expansion continued to push the visual bar of the game and added even more large Keywords and Game Modes. With the addition of The Path of Champions, we were introduced to new challenges to the VFX pipeline that previously hadn’t existed in the core game, including adventure maps, player token and encounter effects and fully fleshed out regions of Runeterra that had to be traversable.

Working closely with technical artists and concept artists from the Riot team, we helped evolve The Path of Champions from a single Lab mode into a hugely popular meta game within Legends of Runeterra. Special abilities, environmental effects, full 3D regions, comic style narrative panels and many more VFX elements pushed the Path of Champions from prototype to polished over the course of the set’s development.

Beyond-FX collaborated with Psyonix as a full-service VFX department to assist in creating a backlog of additional content that would help fuel the game’s live service economy. Fully integrating with Psyonix’s internal team, we began to research and conceptualize which type of bespoke assets would work best for the game and its fans.

From there, we iteratively created the assets before implementing and optimizing each one in-engine for full release. Leveraging Psyonix’s tools and pipelines, our artists created over 65 unique goal explosions, boosts, and supersonic trails for release in the marketplace or special events.

Beyond-FX fully integrated with the team at Treyarch to act as extra resources as they pushed to cross the finish line. We joined as additional members in their VFX department, helping complete whatever tasks cropped up while working completely in-engine.