Stylized 3D Character Art with Riot Games’ Katia Bourykina and Blair Armitage

Katia is a Principal Character Artist who focuses on stylized and handpainted 3D characters. She started the industry back in 2009, and has spent the last eight and half years at Riot Games, where she contributed to the League of Legends Skins team and later joined R&D. Prior to her time at Riot Games, Katia worked on World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor and Legion. She specializes in character features and aesthetics, managerial work, mentorship, and problem-solving within character art development.

Blair is a Principal Character Artist who has focused on exploring a range of styles mostly for R&D projects. While the majority centered on PBR stylised characters, recently she has focused in on cel-shaded styles for 2XKO. She has been an artist at Riot since 2017 and prior to that worked as a freelancer and inhouse artist at several UK games studios. She specializes in asset creation and implementation, cross-discipline work and providing feedback on anything character-related for the team.