Corin McCrate

Corin McCrate is a Senior Animator on Valorant's Agents team at Riot Games, where he has spent the last year and a half creating character driven abilities and gameplay highlighting animations. Specializing in hand-keyed animation, rapid prototyping, rig and pipeline development, Maya to Unreal engine implementation, and close collaboration with design, VFX, tech art, and modeling. Previously, Corin spent more than a decade at Blizzard Entertainment working on Overwatch 2 and World of Warcraft expansions, creating animation for heroes, creatures, mounts, raid bosses, and the occasional space demon. He is passionate about practical animation workflows, collaborative problem-solving, and finding clever tricks that help teams move from idea to polished gameplay faster. Corin earned a certificate in Entertainment Design and Digital Production from Gnomon School of Visual Effects in 2013 and began his career with an internship at The Third Floor Previs Studio.