Ryze visual update soon?

With the recent Ryze and tear buffs, the rogue mage is starting to see a bit more play. Is there any plans for ryze in the near future? his character model isn't the worst of the older champions (see sion) but his animations and particles feel really lackluster. Remember Sivir pre rework? her ultimate was very unnoticeable, now it's this fierce battle cry and it telegraphs her power and her teams power spike quite nicely.

Currently Ryzes ultimate feels like one of the worst ultimate abilities in the game, and i think this is entirely a visual thing (its actually a strong ability) wouldn't it be cool is when Ryze activated desperate power he actually looked like he was overflowing with magical energy? the AOE on Ryzes empowered abilities could look nicer too, kinda reminds me the surface of those electro orb things.

Ryze's ultimate also grants movement speed, wouldn't it be cool if he had a new running animation during his ultimate? maybe he could start levitating in a field of magical energy during his ult? or he could just run, right now his movement in general is kinda stiff and clunky, but you know, he's one of the very 1st champions so that isn't really a shocker.

i read on a website (lolwiki) that Ryze has a new character model already finished or in production? does any rioter wanna shed some light on where Ryze is in the rework visual upgrade department?