A New Dawn question

NiGHTS Noob··2 votes·722 views

So was it a conscious decision to make all the women in the cinematic look like creepy porcelain dolls with their huge bug eyes and spindly littler arms, or did you just happen to find a modern anime fan who hasn't ever actually seen another human being to do the modeling?

I'm just saying they look really, really off. If you're going for a heavily stylized look you should have all the characters use that style, all the male characters are a much more traditional style and it's really quite sloppy looking when you put them together.

Shame because the animation quality is excellent.

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Kao Atlantis4 votes

I respect your concerns, but I disagree personally.

Ahri I think that Ahri was really well done, had fox-like features, and moved and bounced around the way I expect a fox to. And Ahri at the end, that was so cool, her 9 tails out, hovering and spirit rushing Darius. The details they had just in the way her ears were super impressive, and it makes it obvious how much attention to detail they had making these champions.

Leona Leona looked like a force to be reckoned with a and standing next to Ahri looked quite imposing with her size. She smashed though that fallen tree like it was a twig.

Katarina Katarina is an assassin, and should be smaller in frame. She reminded me of a ninja, small and nimble, but very strong. And her somewhat snarky/sarcastic attitude in the cinematic is what I expected of her.

Zyra Zyra was the one I least expected in the way she turned out at first, but I like it, she looked like a plant, moved like how I imagine a plant would move, and was made of a plant. She was 100% a scary, thorny terror of a plant. Her tiny frame is expected, much like the stems of a plant... they don't need to be big to be tough to snap.

In the end, the woman won the fight using their speed and agility. However, everything is subjective, not everyone will agree with me. :) Also discussions like this and criticism can only help Riot improve in the future.

MissFortune

AkaiNeko41 votes

Most of the things you point out about the Champs designs are perfectly true. The problem is that they're also not what the OP is talking about.

Yes, Ahri looks more-or-less like Ahri, and her movements are good, and the Spirit Rush looked cool.

Leona did indeed make that tree her bitch.

Kat is certainly an assassin and had some good expressions.

And Zyra is a plant.

But those are not the problems. It's not a question of accuracy; they are all quite recognizable. But compare Ahri's splash, i.e. that little thumbnail you posted, or any of her other skin arts, with how she looks in the video. She looks much younger and much more cartoonish, almost super-deformed; her eyes look like an anime parody and her limbs are little sticks. And that's not how she is in her art. The others are the same way - their bodily proportions are all deformed. And Leona looked much smaller and less imposing than any of the guys.

Hell, compare Kat here to Kat in Twist of Fate. This designs for the females in this cinematic just need some serious work.

....and please tell me you weren't serious with that last part. The women did not win the fight with their speed and agility - half of them didn't win at all, first off. Leona isn't supposed to be particularly fast or agile - she's a tank. And Ahri won the fight by remembering she could fight, rather than stand there and look scared.

NiGHTS Noob2 votes

More specifically compare the accuracy of Ahri's model to her splash with Darius' model to his splash, or Rengar's to his. The male characters have very accurate proportioning, shading, and overall design to the current League art style while the females overall look vastly different. I don't necessarily think the style they use for the girls is bad, but when you use one style for them, and another for the males and environment it just overall looks really sloppy.

AkaiNeko41 votes

Yeah, I posted about that too. Not sure what was wrong with the style they used in Twist of Fate.

And as someone who has watched thousands of hours of anime, I can assure you that that's probably not the case.

NiGHTS Noob1 votes

I've seen a lot of anime too. I was more or less referring to the trend of certain modern anime to give characters larger eyes and extremely thin limbs. A lot of crappy slice of life style anime tend to do it nowadays. I wasn't saying that the characters look like anime characters per se, actually they look like more of an American style overall, it was just a comment on the proportioning.

AkaiNeko41 votes

Got it. There're plenty of older series that look similar, so that's probably what threw me off.

Either way, new champ VUs look shitty ritopls

I wanna see sexy Ahri, not weird, Frozen-knockoff Ahri. Though I did appreciate her weird little moments with Leona....

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