Rainbow Six: Siege Freeze-For-All event was to be a new way of making winter events. The theme was not focused on Christmas, but instead constructed around a lost civilisation fighting in the harshness of an imaginary arctic icefield.

The queen of this lost civilisation vowing to name the last champion standing with her immortal blessing, and amongst them, the champions of last ages fighting for renewed glory.

It was an eliminative free-for-all deathmatch. The concept would be changed after its second activation to a kill confirm form, where every kill earn you points and skull pick-ups. Custom-made golden weapons were added as an additional carnage pick-ups.

The User Interface of the Freeze-For-All event is quite peculiar among events on Siege as it does not follow a Core-Siege flow.

Instead, it has its own class system with their own custom loadouts. These classes can have multiple primaries and secondaries and/or gadgets, but from the whole pool of weapons.

Characters have a defined loadout of equippable weapons on Siege, so we had to create a whole new menu to support this new custom made loadout system.

When I designed the badges, I knew would be close to Christmas. Even if we didnt want the event to be a Christmas event, Snowbrawl being put on the ice for a while meant it would be the sole "winter time event".

As of such, I made the badges in the spirit of ornaments… but with a weaponized feel to them. I focused on the "humans" to be a repetitve pattern and the "monsters" to be more like crowned in ice.

The operator cards were difficult to make at the time. It was made by Justyn Muniz which joined the events-cell recently. We were wondering if they had to be colored and bright to fit the Christmas skins or only the very few new Monster skins.

In the end, and because of the business requirements, we went with a clear and bright background to fit the vast amount of characters in the game.

The HUD Header for the first version of Freeze-For-All had a custom made header to show the current amount of still alive players in the arena.

This keyart was a monumental task. Because the map was so large it had to be visible from a distance. The thing is

It was complicated to make as, the Fort Truth, in the map is surrounded by hills. Making it impossible to "shoot" on a flat terrain. I had no choice but to use matte painting techniques and hand-painting to blend the characters, the foreground elements and the background world art.

And for an odd reason, I always get the "Are you Big Enough?" song in my head when I look at it! hahaha!

I was requested to redo the Loading Screen. As there were new re-designs in the intro cinematic, the shot would be the starting screen for the first frame of it. I only had to repolish and tie it to the rest of the artworks already existing to fit the overall theme.

The Bakground card was a snippet from the Loading Screen.

In opposition the the previous year ice shards being oriented on the left, this time they would be pointing out towards the right side.

Lastly, the keyart for the 2024 reactivation a handpainting task more than anything. I wanted to have something much more powerful and down to the ground than the first version. So I had to paint the whole ice lands to hide the 3D meshes that combined the environment.

I had to litteraly redo the whole exterior piece, as nothing fitted from the first year on this version. I believe it renders a much more powerful vibe than the 2023 edition one I did while not being too overly far from the job the world team did on the Herford Exterior map.