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Kingdom Malphite Finalized and the process behind it

Godlike Sett·6/12/2019, 5:33:09 PM·21 votes·9,477 views
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I originally created this idea after I saw the Kit Update Malphite is getting and it reinvigorated me to create this skin idea as something I would love to see. Anyway, I finally finished it! Let me know what you think :)

The beginning of an Idea: https://imgur.com/obAn5YS This is what kind of started the whole process. I was watching a couple shows like One Piece and Full Metal Alchemist and I thought about my favorite Rock Top lane and I had this idea in my head, so I made a post about it to see how it'd be received (Original Post here: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/fxAJJ37O-kingdom-malphite) And I was like, "If this gets 1 thumbs up I'm going all in" And it did so I created this concept afterward: https://imgur.com/q5phbFD

After looking over that first, more fleshed out, concept I realized I made the shoulders look a bit too...shabby? So I changed them around and added more life to them. He's a Kingdom and I wanted his body to reflect absolute fortitude

So I kind of revised it to look like this:

https://imgur.com/a/7N3MjA2

I was happy with that for the base skin, so I did a bit more coloring and I was stuck on 3 different color designs So I kind of left them out as possible Chroma Skin ideas:

https://imgur.com/lOkhYr1

I left it to the community to see which they liked more, but I didn't get a response Out of the 3 versions of him I chose to work on the very far right concept because it pays tribute to original medieval castles And I finally finished on the coloring and shading (and adding extra details) And yeah, that's what led to this guy -Posted down here in case you didn't want to scroll back up-

https://imgur.com/a/WD4COFx

Please let me know what you think, and thanks for reading :)

14 Comments

Kanzler6/12/2019, 5:55:52 PM16 votes

I'd say you should be on the skins team, but this wasn't an ahri, lux, or ezreal skin so that disqualifies you.

Looks cool though.

wolvius6/12/2019, 6:24:44 PM3 votes

Looks great dude but knowing riot they would say it has too much "visual noise" and its not a yasou skin.

Seriously good work its a nice fitting concept not some dunkmaster ivern schist.

Vlada Cut6/12/2019, 8:40:26 PM3 votes

Yeaaaah... Malphite would definetly NOT want to ulti just to crush thousands of citizens living inside his shoulders.

Hemulen Magi6/12/2019, 10:31:12 PM3 votes

Wow, that's incredible. If you are good at 3D modelling, I think you should contact Riot and ask if you can make this for them as a freelancer. This would be Malphite's best skin by far in my opinion.

SolarisCorvus6/13/2019, 3:03:56 AM2 votes

I think riot should give malphite the Ezreal treatment where they give him a visual update and maybe change one of his abilities slightly.

Leetri6/13/2019, 4:42:37 PM2 votes

Main bit of criticism, in game most of the details would just read as a dark blob and it wouldn't look good. The concept is great, but I'd really need to see it from the in-game perspective to tell if it works in reality. The castle shoulders look really cool, but they'd have to be simplified some and the bricks would probably need to be bigger to not blend together. Because of his head placement and downwards facing face you wouldn't be able to see most of the details on his face either. If you take a screenshot of Malphite in-game at the normal zoom level and paint over it I'm sure you'll see what I mean. Again, great idea, but unfortunately won't work as great in a top down isometric view. If the game was first person or third person with the camera behind the back it'd be 10/10.