Vladimir - Nosferatu Splash

BigBwudda·5/29/2016, 3:33:05 AM·6 votes·1,137 views

Given the risk that this will be misinterpreted, I want to preface this post:

I completely understand and agree with Riot's reasons for the champion splash art updates. Some of the new splash arts look way better than the old ones (Temple Jax comes to mind). However, this post is not about the artistic quality of the updates, or even about the splash art updates in general. It is about one very specific splash art update only. I also don't mean to compain here, about anything Riot is doing. I just want to suggest to that Riot approach this particular splash differently.

Ok, that said....

Nosferatu Vladimir is based on "Nosferatu", the 1922 German silent film that is considered one of the best films of the era, if not one of the best films of all time. The original North American splash art was an homage to the climactic staircase scene from that movie, where Nosferatu creeps slowly up a staircase to drain the life out of the sleeping woman above. The scene is considered an icon of cinema, and the homage is the reason I bought the Nosferatu skin.

I make no comment on the artistic merits of the new (Chinese) splash. It's a fine splash; however, it makes the skin just another vampire skin for the hemomancer champion, and he has plenty of similar skins. Eliminating this really cool and exciting cultural reference objectively devalues the skin.

So Rito plz, if you could make the old NA splash art for Nosferatu Vladimir the new splash across all servers, it would be a huge service to fans of German silent film and unique, fun, and quirky cultural references.

tl;dr - The NA Nosferatu Vladimir splash art is an homage to a really amazing movie, and the new one loses the reference and makes him just another vampire. Please make the old NA splash the new worldwide one.

3 Comments

Blood Magicks5/29/2016, 11:26:13 AM2 votes

It's the case with many of the Chinese arts - somewhat technically superior to the old ones but nowhere near as good in characterization and atmosphere.

Hopefully when they update them we will have both.