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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, I go over the whole process to creating one of the largest projects I've worked on to date, where I designed Valorant agents from start to finish. I show all aspects of the concept art process, from brainstorming and thumbnailing/sketching, to rendering and presentation.
I've been playing League of Legends since 2012, and Valorant since the Closed Beta in 2020. Needless to say, this was a blast, as I have always been a huge fan of Riot Games. I was inspired by the agents in the game, notably Reyna, Omen, Neon, and Yoru.
I want this video to serve as a guide, helping those of you who are always eager to get started on a project, but maybe get stuck somewhere along the way. I hope this video will inspire some of you to start your own personal art project, whether it's a design for Valorant, or something entirely different!
Thank you to @shapecarver, who helped tremendously with this project.
a lot of you guys are mentioning how you wanna see abilities, and some of you are even making youR OWN KITS FOR MY AGENTS, thank you guys! its dope to see the excitement around these designs. I will potentially do a follow up video with some concepts for abilities 😎😎
i need to see these concepts, Morgan has to be my fav!
Your agent design for Wulf is really sick, so here's a concept for his kit!
WULF: INITIATOR
BASIC: BLOODHOUND
200 credits
EQUIP a scent-amplifying mask that smells for blood. For a brief period, enemies within a 20-meter range of Wulf will be Revealed.
BASIC: BLOODCURDLE
250 credits
EQUIP a sound-amplifying mask. HOLD FIRE to charge a piercing screech in a cone-shaped area in front of you. RELEASE to let out a screech, Concussing and Deafening any enemies within the zone.
SIGNATURE: POUNCE
Free
HOLD FIRE while standing still to charge up a powerful surge of blood. RELEASE to propel Wulf in the direction he is moving based on charge length. Pounce charge resets every 2 kills.
ULT: TRANSFIGURATION
6 points
EQUIP a transfiguration ability. FIRE with your crosshairs placed over a dead ally to capture their soul. ALT FIRE with your crosshairs placed over a dead enemy to transfigure their soul with your ally’s. Gets a teammate back into the game with the opposing agent’s abilities. However, their health slowly decays over-time and will only heal when they get kills.
Any feedback is welcome :)
@@threenrk this is really good
@AniKhatri-u6b thank you!
@@threenrki like the idea of capturing your teammates’ soul, it can also be obtaining a temporary ability from your teammates’ agent kit (whichever ability, can be ultimate too. But i feel that that would be too op, so it balance that i would want him to have excess ultimate points to collect/store after he has collected enough of his own 6points then he can collect more to prepare using an agent’s ultimate which requires more than his own eg 8-9, like viper’s ultimate, but using other agents’ ultimate or abilities has his own touch to it and not just plain copy paste. As for viper’s ult, maybe the colour of the smoke will be red instead of green and so on…..) my imagination went wild after reading the first few lines of your recommended ult kit for him.
Really dope video 🔥
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Designs so great that my brother and I were fighting like an hour trying to figure out what their gameplay would be like, Baltazhar would be such a great sentinel, we think.
It could go any role but mostly a duelist like Reyna or agressive sentinel like Chamber.
As a sentinel I see his ult (X) winding up with a ticking sound, then rewinding everything that happened on a giant bubble.
The signature (E) is a personal rewind like Tracer or Ekko (also from a Riot game) where he rewinds himself to get out of a tough spot like Chamber, Yoru or Omen would.
For (Q) a trap that freezes a maximum of 1 player in time, wouldn't stop a push but it's meant to catch lurkers.
(C) could be a smaller bubble that slows enemies down, reload and fire slower. The exact opposite of Brim's stim beacon.
@Omar04x hell yeah, we got to some common ground with the rewind in the e and the trap, besides that i love the rest of the concept you gave, that could be such a fun character to play.
Here me out.. when the Chronometer is thrown and it hits an enemy (like deadlocks gravnet) it could phase/move them to a random location in that molly radius, meaning if they are holding an angle, they will be out of position.
@@Gone-Rogue Thant's gonna be mid on defence though
@@Omar04x i like the idea of the trap but i think it'd most likely be a sort of slowdown effect think the slow movement from a chamber but also a sort of reverse effect of the brim stim where their gun would shoot slower and their reload is slower that way it gives people a fighting chance instead of "oh you lurked and now you're insta dead becasue you're frozen" ykwim?
this deserves more recognition bc I WANT THOSE CHARACTERS TO BE IN THE GAME NOW.
I would be a Wulf main
it'll never happen, valorant has every character already made and lined up according to their storyline
@@aerznx lol thats not really how it works, most big game companies create vague storylines so that it can be altered at any minute! especially so that new characters can be added regardless of their visual/ability/identity
@@aerznx I doesnt have to be in valorant we can have a different game that would be similar to val
@elescolocaraochipemnois most sure, I know people who creates their own characters and have asked riot to implement but they refused for that very reason of having a fleet of characters ready according to their already planned storyline
Amazing video, Wulf and Revv feel like they walked right out of VALORANT and then a time themed agent is really cool too!
i think you're sleeping on how cool the fencer desgin could be if done perfectly.
It's Kanga!
@@flowzrunz4943it would be cool but the ablities idk how it would work
Petition for Riot to add characters designed by fans
Yes so they have to do even less work
my headcanon is that thats how neon iso yuumi and smolder were made
sorry, could be fun but absolutely not + will never happen
hell no
Imo, I think it would be cool if they did a contest of fanart, and they'd pick the best character and they'd create the abilities. It's like how Pokemon added a new move based on a competition by a fan vote. It's probably not happening but that would be such a cool concept, even if they said the character was non-canon.
and the crowd... wheres the crowd 😭
GOES WILD 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They’ll be here soon
Were getting there
maori biker guy literally looks like official art
This is super underrated. I clicked on this video not looking at the views, thinking it was probably in the 100k area and im shocked to see it at 872 right now. You have earned yourself a sub and a new viewer. :)
17h later it's 11,000
@@FloofyGuy holy i kinda forgot about this comment and now it is my most liked one XD
I’ve always liked the discussion of what content the community would add to a game, but a lot of it often feels very half baked and not thought out at all, so i really appreciate you putting the effort into this project, im subbing!
Also i know your channel is art-centric but if you play valorant itself and youre interested in gameplay design id be interested to see what youd come up with if you gave these characters abilities too
yoooo this video needs to BLOW UP dude!! that was super impressive and im so happy youtube recommended it to me :D
I NEED your characters to actually be in the game, you managed to make all of them so unique and it really matches the valorant style.
You researched abt the game so good it made me learn new things abt them as well as an artist
A good hot line for Balthazar could be “it’s over when I say so!”
oh my gosh..!! as a game dev student with focus into character design, these are pretty cool agents that i can truly feel interested in on first glance..!
though i may advise, as a big valorant lore/dev fan as well.. jett is not a ninja, nor based on one, she is korean and not japanese. valorant just does a good job of representing where agents hail from + their hobbies/jobs + their personality/beliefs. jett is a chef who was forced to fight and go into hiding. shes quick on her feet like a line cook though she is also representation of the "no backing down" trope with gaming, since she is forced into being a fighter in the lore. + she is interested in knives since she had to fight off her omega counterpart with her cook wear when they first met before she joined the protocol.
yoru is also already a biker and a samurai/ninja (his mask came from his past ancestors, giving him stealthy util, though hes still quick to move, since he is a biker), with how popular biker gangs are in biker culture, i would've loved to see another rival figure for yoru that is on a more personal level than phoenix is, since they are rivals out of power and not on their core beliefs like the life you have in a biker gang. i feel revv could have some nice depth exploring his dynamic with yoru in that way.
and fade is actually already a goth/punk/cat inspired agent, her prowlers are cats and on the bottom of fades shoes are cat paws! she is from turkey, where it is known that many stray cats live on the streets, so her prowlers are almost like a salute to the stray cats at her home country. i feel a death-inspired agent could've been explored in a more themed way, like clove being immortal and coming off nonchalant from her life as such, that maybe a plague doctor or zombie could've been a nice theme as well for how morgan uses her death ability.
i dont mean to give so much advice first without also giving lots of praise, but i love the deep pride, subtle + accurate diversity that valorant has within their characters, gekko sprouted lots of community within the LA community for how well he captured such while still honoring a lot of what formed LA. Though, the art study you done on their style is very well executed and the agents you created do have a lot of potential with the official agents, keeping on par with them. I love how all the designs came out on this lineup and the way you captured their rendering/colours, i just wanted to give some advice too, on someone who probably knows too much about valorant lore lol. i hope this doesn't come off mean or as "correcting" your art since it is very lovely to see this process documented and shared, but you said you didn't want the agents being too similar to the canon ones and i think what i mention here may be helpful for creating more tension/diversity in the cast.
I agree with this comment, good points. I love the art in this video, such great talent and the studying that lead to an amazing finished look is amazing. This advice you gave is great if he wants to proceed with making or imaging more Valorant agents, but the already big potential on what he has created is big. And he went through the imense work of what many would ignore when making fan made projects. So great job on these really well made professional pieces! 🎉
wow this is such good feedback
youre so insightful omg!!! ive been workshopping some of my own custom agents if youre ever free id love to talk about valorant design concepts!! good luck on ur studies!
jett definitely fulfills the ninja trope, not being japanese doesn't exclude her from that. for example, guilty gear's chipp is clearly a ninja trope so if they added another one it would feel like they're repeating themself. you can tell she was built as a ninja from the ground up and then they justified that later with stuff like "shes good with knives bc she was a chef". for an example from a different trope, omens not a ghost at all. but imagine they made a ghost agent, who's a bit less imaginative and more of a stereotypical ghost. even though omens not a ghost, it would be two characters who fulfill the trope of a ghost.
you've written this perfectly, not to harsh but straight to the point. i wish i could give feedback like you
I’m from NZ and the fact you made the biker Māori is so cool! Thank you for realising representation for us down here - great video and work
Yo this is amazing! I will say in an actual VALORANT context they have some unwritten rules that I've discovered, such as 1) having 1-2 syllables per name (So Balthazar wouldn't fit), 2) having a mix of male and female characters with either an even ratio or one extra (So there would need to be some more female characters added in between these ones) and 3) Each character is from a different country or a very populous country (the overlaps are Viper Brim and Gekko from the US but from different states, and Iso & Sage from China)
Absolutely love this regardless, we can tell you had fun creating these!! Hopefully I'll be able to do something similar in the future lol
I've also noticed a lot of their names relate to their abilities and lore. Chamber is the best example as he is the gun guy. Reyna is a girls name meaning "queen" as she's the queen of the radiants. A phoenix is a fire bird with the ability to revive, just the character Phoenix. There's some that don't seem to fit, like Iso, but maybe there's something in his name I missed.
@@hollowsongs3504 iso = isolate, referencing his ult
@@hollowsongs3504Iso is short for Isolation. His ult is an Isolated 1v1
@@hollowsongs3504 maybe his name has smthg to do with his ult because he can 'isolate' an enemy in his lil pocket dimension just an idea
Here from New Zealand! I LOVE THAT BIKER! I love that you really did your research and cared about our culture! Keep it up!
Dude these are all amazing, i love the names, the character designs, the way you structured the video, it was all so amazing i thought you probably had over 200K subscribers, which you should totally have, like omg T-T i hope you have an amazing day!
Dope designs! I especially love the werewolf one. It's clear that you're really talented and I hope your characters can be seen by Riot one day :)
Loved all your ideas!!! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us!
dude this is SO SICK and really well explained loved seeing your process!
Ok i like balthazar’s design ALOT and i have spare time on my hands so this is what i would imagine his kit to be:
Controller (some initiator)
Ability 1/signature: temporal distruption (2 smokes)
Opens up his pocket watch to reveal a mini map where he can place down 2 cypher cage like smokes (doesn’t have to be at same time
Ability 2: krono accelerator (1 use)
Shoots his mini-revolver that leaves a trail that lasts for a bit and speeds up allies in the trail
Ability 3: time barrier (1 use)
Opens up the mini map to select where to place a wall-smoke
Ultimate: time wormhole
Selects a area on his mini map to create a zone where enemies are slowed down (like 0.7x movement speed) and allies have their speed and fire rate boosted
Thanks for reading!
(This is just my interpretation)
Edit: some ult voicelines could be like “time slows down for you” for a enemy activating it and “wormhole up” for your teammate using it
The way you talk about your process is AMAZING. riot needs to hire you
Designs are cool but i was waiting so much for the ability's design too because that's what is so much important in valorant not just the style maybe part2 on that ? :D i would love to see it
Nice work Zack! It is really inspiring to see your process through the whole design phase. I hope to see more of these in the future!
One of the best videos I have seen in a while don't stop creating
Freaking love it. The way you explained your thought process in the beginning made me love it more
video quality, not to mention the dedication and the quality of the agents themselves, are severely underrated. Subscribed
this is amazing! your rationale made a lot of sense, insanely well thought out. sending to my friends because this neeeeds more recognition!
You should definitely set out ability sets for these guys! These are all super cool concepts that I'd love to see expanded on
This is amazing! You clearly got the style locked in and attention to detail is on point!
this is super cool!! i love all the designs and the artwork is insane!!! great job dude!
I loved it! inspiring to get into more Drawing! the Time and Biker guysare insane! the rendering,UHHH
Yeah this is really well made!!!🔥
Bro do you play valorant too? Prolly cracked at Bhop
Make val version of "when the freebird kicks in"-
@@CreativeCrafter-nl9ov im a silver 2 brimstone main💀
@@Renokas1 💀 learn from hurrakin
he goated
on a serious note woohoojin very good to learn from
It’s really cool how you actually put a lot of research and thought into their designs instead of just doing it all purely through imagination
we need another video about the abilities - much love ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love this so much, great work and a wonderful insight into your process! Would love to see more like this and more people jumping in on it so maybe it can get more recognition!
I'd also love to see a continuation of this if it sounds fun for you to do where you go into designing abilities and gameplay for them or something like that :3
10:38 It's over, they know that I'm the Bay Replay Butcher
not dexter lil bro
@Rob_Dubs his last name is Morgan, Mr. Potato
GET OUT
@PerogiTime I'm sorry
this is an insanely inspiring video thank you so much
This is such a high quality video, good job!! The art is beautiful and I love how much you detailed your process :)
Those designs are so amazing! I really like the beast-like design of Wulf and the overall Sci-Fi look to all of the agents.
Thank you for sharing your process, this is super insightful
All these designs are SO BEAUTIFUL, and their names really fit the vibe of Valorant. I would loveee to see these agents in the actual game!
This deserves more love. Designs are amazing dude
as an industrial design major i really appreciated the design process you went through in this video like research, thumbnailing, ideation, iterations, etc! great outcomes as well!
Really cool video and sick designs dude!
Tipp for the names: Usually the name tells us something about the characters abilities, kit or role. For example Deadlock well creates a deadlock with her Wall. Or Sova means owl in Russian hinting at his owl based gear. Maybe you should try implementing this in your characters names.
Jett must have has something to do with a certain date in the year 2001 then huh.
@@StOrm_Val Jett indicates flight and speed ( Updraft+Dash)
I think he went there already. Wulf being close to Wolf, Revv like revving an engine (biker), Pierce like piercing/stabbing someone with a fencing sword, Balthazar is overall a name that is often tied to mythological and magical characters, Morgan maybe from Morgan le Fay, which was an enchantress in the legend of King Arthur.
i really want a music/sound agent called viola. she could be an initiator. her abilities include: a blind called paparazzi which lets her put down a reusable camera that flashes. a wall called VIP which basically works like neons which lets her throw up walls to enter site in the form of tall vip ropes. a teleport for her and team mates called backstage. and last but not least an ultimate called feedback which basically does two things 1: plays a loud terrible mic feedback sound muffling sound and stunning nearby enemys while also working as a speed/damage booster for teammates sort of like brims stim beacon. i mean i need to wrok the kinks but id love something like that. tbh what would that classify as. a duelist?
The amount of work went is insane. good quality video my man
These are crazy concepts, I love it!!
This is very inspiring, the process you took and your methodology really is amazing. Also your art is gorgeous
insane how you were able to really study the valorant style and feeling of character design and apply it to your own concepts! balthazar looks insane!
would be interesting if in another video you designed their abilities
I loved this video. As a artist, and a gamer, valorant art style has been one of my biggest influences on my own art style, as well as helping me understand character design so I can make my own! I’ve been working on a cyberpunk esk futuristic group of characters, and this video helped me understand ho the character development process is! Thank you for sharing your amazing art!
Absolutely ATE with all those designs, you’re super underrated and I’m surprised you don’t have more subscribers
Holy you are cooking!!! These are high level designs, I mean this seems like real characters riot would release. They should hire you lowkey
This is actually crazy good, i hope this blows up
This is some very high quality work. 🎉❤ Good luck!
Riot, please hire him. His mindset and feelings for character development are mind-boggling. It would be a great iteration of how the game feels agent-wise.
I love that you not only took the time to seek out niche yet intersting references and research, but also so cleanly implemented them into Valorant. All of their designs are so clean and polished, and it really feels like something you'd see in an official leak. Love the work
i think another thing your nailed down perfectly is character proportion. every character has a similar body structure, some more muscular or slim then others. however due to this, all of the characters have to share the same bone structure in game in order to share animations for gun equips or other general animations, as well as sharing hurtboxes to keep balance. amazing attention to detail to keep in mind. the only thing i'd change to these renders is that if you look at all of the official ones, every character has a gun equipped, either it being held in their hands, behind their back, or on their hips. the only one who doesn't is technically chamber since he's holding his ult. i love how revv turned out, he's the coolest one by far!
These are such amazing agents like props to you man!!
Morgan is def a controller that uses different spirits from a spell book to get different things
Her e could be 2 smokes that you can throw like a Jett smoke but lasts long and deals damage to enemies inside
Another ability could be a spirit that you can throw like a skye bird but it will chase people on sight like a fade dog and blow up and give vulnerable if not shot at
Last ability is a projectile that arcs like a molly but on landing creates a dome smoke that your teammates can see through but the enemies can’t, it would only last 10 seconds for balancing
Her ult sends out spirits for every enemy player that chases down to reveal positions and nearsights every player for 5 seconds.
the ult is literally just skye ult lol
Since that ult is skye ult how about this. You generate a large zone in front of you. (Like harbors ult but it won’t move and has brim ult radius.) enemies inside take slow damage over time(20 per sec), are deafened, and can’t be healed or revived inside the zone. Lasts 15 sec. Cost 7 points
Thanks for showing your whole design process. I learned a lot from you and definitely inspired. Hope you can grow as a creative and enjoy more success.
Such a good video! Never felt so invested in a long time🤗
This was super cool, thanks for posting this!
This was amazing! Really hope Riot does something with these designs
For pierce his ultimate could be final strike, where he sprints in one direction through walls and pinns anyone in his direction with his sword, taking damage over time. If his team doesnt take him off the spear he dies a slow death. Extraordinary video, please do more.
i never thought of reyna as a vampire but that makes sense
Beautifully executed, and nailed the principles. Good job!
woah. you're really good at this. I kinda think a witch-like character with a spellbook would be a unique agent for Valorant tho.
btw that biker agent has rizz.
I know stuff like this is never done to sow discord with the actual game. But holy, i genuinely love all of these designs way more than the past 5 characters weve ACTUALLY gotten
Which id say is just a testament to this guy's hard work and artistic skills more than anything else. Really love it
Love this!! The designs are awesome.
10:35 Balthazar sounds really dope. Like he would def be a really great agent, lots of potential 😍
Honestly that was the only one that didn’t make sense to me. Balthazar has a culty, dark magic connotation. I thought something like Momento or Chronos would be more in line with his “time” theme
@ I meant his ability sounds dope, mb. But yea I agree, the name doesn’t really fit well with his theme.
Love that the game inspires such creativity. Stunning designs man keep up the great work!
Next step of the process, give them fully sketch kits/abilities/ultimates 🙏
OLD MAN 😍😍❤️❤️ FFFF YESS!!!!
Werewolf guy looks dope too. Gosh I wish you were the one designing characters. Some of the newer ones have been quite mediocre. Yours look great.
love the designs! i could totally see all of them in the game
I love the biker guy. He genuinely feels like an agent that could 100% be in valorant
This needs more views!!! This is just soooo good
Revv and Morgan and Balthazar really looks like valorant agents. You should make their abilities too!
Awesome work, riot should put this in game
Holy moly. Super nice agents ❤
Keep up the work. Hopefully Valorant will notice your work.
bro is really happy
that's a great job! ty for sharing with val community. I personally loved wulf and revv
I debted whether or not to click on this video because it was a small channel and man do i not regret it. This was amazing. Nailed the look on all of the characters FS
some of the names where questionable for me BUT i still loved most of them, pierece, revv, wulf are perfect names
@@FrostPlayz___Wulf I feel is too short
Maybe Nocturn? Or Lycaon? Something with the Luce- or Nyct- prefixes?
i know nothing about video game design but this was such an informative and interesting video to watch! awesome video
the werwolf agent looks so clean . pls riot add him as a duellist in the game
This is so cool Balthazar reminds me so much of ekko from arcane if he was older! The ability goes with him especially
Never hit subscribe so fast in my life. Such an insanely well done video.
My favourite was Revv because it checked all the boxes of characteristics I personally look for in a Valorant Agent. Solid design. Wulf was up there as well.
YOU NAILED IT congrats
This is so cool and would be sick to see a more in-depth video about their abilities
DO not feel pressured just felt left off on a cliff hanger and wanted to know more😊
bro you went godlike in this designs
Not a fan of all the designs but I can definitely see some potential in some of them.
Keep it up! I believe.
Impressive sketching. I love watching Videos making fan-agents of heroshooters. Sadly in this there are no abilities, but the work putted into the sketches and so on is just incredible.
Great eye for detail! Honestly they should hire you for character design, because you're already aware of the all the important details, down to the fact that their headshots must be easily identifiable and unique!!
That's so cool! Would like to see more on abilities though!
Bro that looks amazing!!
These are so good, i hope that riot add these to the game
I would love to see you go into there abilities more but this is awesome I love it!
This man needs to be hired to Riot Games