Riot Used AI To Make a Cinematic 

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This is what Riot can accomplish with their biggest budget of the year.

It's actually a huge play by riot trying to support real artists by showing how bad AI generated projects can be. WP

8:29 We can actually narrow down the time at which the Bard game was played quite precisely. After all, Bard was only released in patch 5.5 on March 12 2015 and the UI was updated in patch 5.14 on July 22 of the same year. So the game we see was played in the timeframe between these two dates which are roughly 3 Months. But we can go even further thanks to Bards patch history. In the video we see that Bard has 58 AD base AD (it's blue so no bonus AD) at level 6. But current Bard would have about 64 AD at level 6. And if we go into his patch history and track down when his base AD was changed, this happened only once namely in patch 5.7, where it was raised from 46 to 52. So, this Bard game was undoubtably played before patch 5.7 and after patch 5.5. meaning between March 12th and April 8 2015.

The idea of "your city in Runeterra" is amazing, the community would've loved it, if only they would've taken this idea to a real artist (hopefully working with someone from league lore to guide him).

16:22 even the AI knows that Seraphine is a Sona 2.0

The way your content shifted from lore and news to „well i dont want to but i gotta inform you riot did another oopsie“

One thing that Necrit forgot to mention is that at 15:28, that is not a "proplayer high-fiving the audience" at a LATAM event, is actually Carlos Ocelote - former G2 CEO - at WORLDS 2019 - the same Carlos that got giga-canceled by the Rito and Lol community for partying with the Tate Brothers. This shit truly cant write itself

From a latin American player honestly doesn’t surprise just how much riot doesn’t want to waste no money on our announcements like who cares we are all poor right xddd

The fact that Riot has access to some of the most incredible artists in gaming, yet still opted to do this instead is absurd

I think AI making so many Void stuff is really on point because AI basically does what the lore says the Void and the Watchers do: they don't actually understand reality and how things work and try to replicate it, creating twisted abominations. Except Void stutt are actually good because their look was designed by humans.

Riot: AI, generate a picture of this Seraphine Cosplayer. AI: I got you (Generates an image of Sona) In all honesty, I think the AI was aware.

Fun Fact: at least in the US where Riot is based, ai-generated work is not protected under copyright laws! So if someone reuploaded the video, Riot can't legally copystrike it!

This shows how Riot cares about the latin america community

Riot trying to tell us they're horribly understaffed without telling us they're horribly understaffed

Not just bard with Mobi boots, but those had an Enchantment on them... that hasn't been in game for years lolol

So a 200 dollar skin, a tech demo and AI art. What next? They ran out of money for their projects so they're resorting to NFTs?

As a 3D artist, this makes me extremely upset that they would do something like this... So much work goes into creating an animation and the fact that they thought this was okay is wild to me.

Fake: Riot got the biggest budget from Tencent because they wanted to make the game better Reality: "Hey Tencent, you think last video was bad? Bet 1B$ we can make this one even worse"

Latin America South (where the LLA is played) doesn't have any rioters. 0 bans, 0 control, 0 content, we get everything late... yeah, not the worst thing that has happened here sadly

This is what happens when someone in a decision making position is convinced that xyz thing is the future and isn’t willing to accept its limits

Riot dont get to throw the outsourcing company under the bus either because Riot still published the video. Unless they never look at something they pay for then definitely saw the video and gave it approval to be shown

Ever since Riot got caught on those lawsuits, it seems like they are spending time trying to get on the good side of the public opinion court.

What's really sad is they won't dare do something like this for china but for any other region they'll do something like this

having some of the best artists in the industry at your disposal and choosing to just spit in their faces with this. sigh.

LATAM animation student here and oh man if they outsourced this to another studio given the context they probably looked for a Latin American "studio" and yeah, local productions here are not nearly as common or mainstream as American animations but there is quality stuff if you look around (hell recently a Chilean studio did an entire episode for Star Wars Visions). I personally know very talented people who would love to work on something short for Riot. My guess is they got scammed by a supposed local "animation studio" that has no idea what they're doing or not a single actual artist worked on this and this was made directly by some Riot employees playing around with AI (which is unlikely since this clearly shows they don't know shit about league lmao)

You can see Necrits sanity literally crumbling as he digs deeper and deeper...

Dang riot must really be putting their millions of dollars budget into the gameplay team

In the Bard "gameplay" you can see that his boots aren't regular boots... They have enchantments (homeguards to be precise)... that's season 3-5(5 because of Bard's release date)!! I feel old

No no no. The Bard part seems accurate. There are chimes to be collected. There is no time for protecting base or assisting your Ashe. Edit : I would also e at the edge of my seat seeing the biggest ward ever being placed.

They definitely don’t have 200 years of cinematography working at Riot 💀

The fact that Riot uploaded this, shows how much they care for their Latin American audience

Seraphine turning into Sona. Even AI is in on the Seraphine jokes.

When they released the LAS and LAN servers, they gave us a Morgana skin called 'La Llorona' (an urban legend from Latin America). Then they proceeded to resell her as 'Ghost Bride Morgana.' I mean, they don't even care from the beginning.

4:53 is Sao paulo 6:27 is Bogota 10:19 is Andes 10:44 is Teotihuacán

Sadly, this is a problem that have some time around us in the LATAM community, RIOT has nearly 0 interest in making good region events for their players, aside from giving icons and some stuff that is not really eyecatching, and most of us don't really expect big things, but at least something made with love for the community.

I always find impressive how the multimillonair companies, like Riot, Marvel or Wizards of the Coast manage to create images that look 10 times worse and less convincing than some random guy on DeviantArt. As a person that lives in Latam and experiment this with every single entertaiment international industry, this is a clare example of "Caring for the Latam community, but without actually caring", so they did something cause they feel that should do something, but without the slightest intention to spend money or resources on it. It was always like this. I think I heard that Disney recently said that they will only dub shows that are successful in the United States. Disney. The company that could go out of business entirely for the next 30 years and still be disgustingly millionaire.

Ive never laughed so much recently until now, thank you Necrit.

I've been telling averyone riot uses AI for balance changes, and now I'm 100% sure

One more important thing to note: NONE of these fans gave CONSENT to be used in AI. Riot violated everyones rights in this video. If i saw myself turned into the void on this i would sue sue sue Edit: the fact people are even defending Riots AI use and bringing up crypto for no reason is proving my point

16:21 Seraphine turning into Sona made my day.

Riot should really do this more often, it so much more entertaining than the game it self.

I’m sorry Necrit but this is the most funny fucking video you have ever made. I couldn’t stop laughing at you pointing out every single detail. This made my day. I love it!!!!!!!😂😂😂

I haven't laughed that much in years, thanks Necrit, i would never have seen this video without you.

As an aspirant concept artist, I love seeing all of these people coming together against the use of AI😊

The cinematic team was one of the only things that was actually working at Riot and now they cut it, anyway, I'm waiting for the next $200 chroma

Thanks for bringing this to light. More people need to see how Riot treats us, Latinoamericans as shit showing they dont even care for some of they most loyal products consumers. To be honest this situation is super degrading and embarassing. Riot should apologize in some form, not just delete the video.

The fact you didnt notice the UI sooner but instead noticed old SION png that looks like 2 pixels on my screen scares me more than Riots AI Edit: at 11:28 that isnt a model at all, its just an AI Face filter from tiktok that they slapped some generic camera overlay on

10:21 context that none one ask for: this place is known as Torres del Paine, a mountain group that look like towers located in the national park with the same at the south of chile. Snows frequently due the extreme wheater conditions of the region so the freljord theme was accurate. This make the Ai art less dissapointing? Hell no

I love when my region is covered in a Necrit video Aware

Riot truely an AI generated greedy company.

I can't with that bard lmao, literally textbook inting hahahah.

as a fan, id want nothing more than to be distorded into a voidling, id be so in.

10:55 did Necrit say "the dendro animation" ? Man too much genshin huh? I know that feeling xD

Gracias riot ctm por no dedicarnos algo decente, no vaya ser que se queden pobres por contratar artistas de verdad

Pijama party lux model is actually akali face model in wild rift 😂😂

Dear Necrit, you should look up the other "Oopsie" Latam did with their ONE and LAST unique event, the Mascarade event, also known as Lan Vs Las. PLEASE do a video on this, its just so spicy... But hey, at least we got a unique teemo icon lol... It gives viatnam war flashbacks every damn time.

I’m honestly glad there is so much push back on AI art

riot: so we noticed that Briar leaked and you guys were complaining about how every champion has a pretty face, and that there arent anymore true monsters in the league universe. so we made this monstrosity...

Remember when Riot said that League wouldn't suffer from them branching out to other genres? Yeah I too didn't believe that.

7:00 thats obviously the canon league player’s piss mug

alrato te deposito tu billete hermano, buen trabajo!

As someone who lives in LAS, I can tell you, that's not AI, that's just the everyday horrors we face as reality shifts between normal and nightmarish every few seconds.

Riot literally could ask independent animators to animate hype moments and help them- but AI it is. LMAO.

Thats not Lux. That's Akali 😂

No way you saw that Galio was old but not UI at first, there is NO WAY

7:21 additional "where did you get this screenshot" - enchantment homeguard on the boots

I love how you ignored the fact at 9:00 that he is at least 155 seconds in the game, in the middle of the jungle with no starting items, no potion, no boots, nothing, that Orianna was trolling

The way this AI Works is That he "Sees* an image, deconstruct it and reconstruct it from libraries of images. The way all the people are drawn Makes me believe they used the card Game "Legends of runeterra" as library for the characters, more Than the skin of the actual Game (especially nidalee and star Guardian lux). And since they didnt est the program on more quality shot Makes me believe they were on a short schedule and way too short budget to use a pro software.

I'm always surprised that after all this time, I can still be disappointed in Riot.

I love having the store window open on the second screen so I know what the items are without having to open the store

Riot clearly needs more money from us to avoid things like this in the future.

Riot is indeed understaffed to the point that their oopsies as of late convinced me to go and try out Dota 2.

It really pisses me off that they do stuff like this to save on their budget while also releasing 200$ skins. Riot should just make a couple of skin lines that each skin line has different proceeds that it goes towards, like for example they could have a skin line that all the money made from it goes towards their budget for new skins, one for cinematics, etc. etc. They would be the most popular line of skins in the game because people would want to spend money on the game if they knew it was going back into the game and exactly how.

1:35 i know its just an ad read, but your "why walk outside?" was delivered perfectly. 😂

Necrit I always love your videos, one of the few people I will watch when their videos will release right way

Just for your daily dosage of geography Necrit, the two cities of the video are Buenos Aires, capital city of Argentina and Bogotá, capital City of Colombia. And this video does not surprise us as Latin American players anymore, Riot has never cared the slightest about our region, this is just the confirmation of how much they care after 10 years.

I laughed so damn hard. Thanks Necrit and Rito😂

the descent into madness at analyzing the screen at the start is so good

Thanks for all the laughs, I really enjoyed it. Let me tell you, this is one is strangely enough your best video.

You know Necrit, there are a lot of games and communities that would *actually* appreciate your hard work, and the ones of other content creators. *Because it's obvious Rito doesn't care about you, mate.*

You forgot that the upgraded boots in the image too 7:23

This video made my day. You made comedy out of this disaster of a trailer and I thank you for that from the bottom of my heart

14:43 it looks like a grey sad trundle and behind him there's blitzcrank

my guess is that this is more of a deadline issue than a budget issue, it's easy for a company to underestimate how long it takes to make a fully animated video so they sometimes end up hiring people way too late, giving them a tiny fraction of the time they actually need. that would also be a good explanation of why they used ai, it's way faster.

Its like they asked AI 'What should Riot do as a company to make money', recorded the list, and used this year as an experiment to see how we would react as a community to their laziness.

Homeguard on mobis was cutting my eyes way before old UI and Galio.

That first gameplay picture also has the old homeguard boots upgrade, which was removed somewhere in november 2015.

For every good thing Rito Games does for League there are 10 times more horrific decisions being made without consulting the community.

It makes me sad to see Riot using AI, which is very known for their amazing art, because not only it shows that they're more than okay with getting rid of artists but also because AI actively steals from artists, and uses that stolen material in it's image generation. If any AI leeches say that it doesn't do that, they're lying, and here's why: - AI needs images to be fed into it to be trained, which then the AI copies and adds that copy to it's database for later use, At most they might remove the original image, but the copied stolen image will forever be inside the database. Being used for whatever generation it's relevant at. Everything it generates comes from an existing artwork, actively using stolen material for that.

ran to the description to make sure you have indeed commissioned an artist to mimic AI art for that thumbnail, and I'm glad to see you did

I also noticed that those mobi boots had an enchantment something they got rid of in like 2014 or 15

future is looking great! big companies need AI to create illustrations because they don't want to hire artists and games need AI to run smoothly because the developers don't want to better it's performance themselves.

It's very key to remember that the AI being bad isn't the problem, if it turned out good it'd be even worse. The overarching issue almost everyone seems to be missing with this change in high-crust production is the elimination of artistic integrity, artist jobs and human meaning. AI used in this format to render human input as simply a comparative form when it comes output of human expression, is not only a step in the wrong direction, but the first noticeable turn on the path of global society artistic human life towards the darkest possible future. This video should not have been condemned because it does not look good, it should be condemned for the insult and corporate greed motivated action it is.

This video was one wild trip and just utterly mind boggling

Another thing I noticed, the Mobi boots that Bard has, also has an enchantment (Homeguard) on them which were removed back in season 5.

Thank you for calling attention to this, I hope Riot learned their lesson and don't think about doing this never again

i genuinely would love to be able to get inside the minds of people who legitimately think that ai art and animation looks good, i want to know how their brains work and how is it possible to ignore reality to such a horrendous degree also, i gotta say, i laughed a bit when argentina was turned into demacia... that was kinda funny because of how much it fits

I really felt like fiving Necrit a hug with how you started this video! Poor Necrit just doing his job, I love the drama since I can't keep up, and you do a great job explaining it. Not a drama channel, just a funny and informative channel, love your vids Necrit! ^^

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