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Riot taking yet another step back in character design

LunSeiSleidee·9/21/2017, 8:56:45 PM·5 votes·2,049 views
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What happened to you this year, Riot? Please tell me.

What happened?

What happened to characters like Tahm Kench, Taliyah, Illaoi, Ekko?

Are you back to same-faced, physically identical, pretty anime characters? Because if I told someone who doesn't know the game that they girl on the left and that on the right are the same person, they'd believe me. And they'd believe me if I told them the artist on the right got sued for tracing the drawing on the left.

After seeing Evelynn's severe case of sameface (as pictured in the image here), I am very very veeery worried about Swain's redesign.

You know what, Riot? I changed my mind. I don't want a Swain visual update.

PSA: hey you. Yes, you reading this. If you comment that Evelynn is supposed to be a hot seductress, you completely missed the theme of this thread so shoo. (Hint: hot seductress and samefaced-anime-girl-indistinguishable-from-the-other-hot-seductress are NOT the same thing.)

44 Comments

Jeddy0179/21/2017, 9:57:10 PM13 votes

Are you back to same-faced, physically identical, pretty anime characters?

So are we really just choosing to ignore Ornn, Urgot, Galio & Warwick here? It sure do feels like there's some cherry picking going on here.

Beyond Legends9/21/2017, 10:10:43 PM10 votes

What happened is that some of you can't control your ego. Not every fucking things needs to be specifically pander to you.

TyrekGoldenspear9/21/2017, 10:40:54 PM6 votes

Can I tell you something?

When drawing a face, the less lifelike detail you have, the harder it is to distinguish faces. You can have two people irl with similar yet distinguishable faces due to flaws in the skin, bone structure of the face, etc.

But depending on the art style you go with, you aren't going to be drawing these imperfections. Eventually you will have similar faces if you don't put in wildly differing facial structure changes or designs on the face or something.

Just food for thought.

Kynin9/21/2017, 9:05:36 PM5 votes

Isn't it a bit early to complain about design direction? You have only seen a 14 second teaser. No gameplay. No splasharts. No abilities.

ModWulf Helhammer9/21/2017, 8:58:49 PM5 votes

That's teaser art. Look at Elise's splash arts

HonestJohnTheCon9/21/2017, 11:11:01 PM4 votes

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Penyu9/22/2017, 2:52:37 PM3 votes

Are you just going to keep making threads complaining about League but just ramble on about how much you hate anime?

Karn Bishop9/22/2017, 4:20:06 AM3 votes

Well considering that most iconic succubi designs come from japan how and why is this an issue?

I'd be horrified if they took an American, European, or Sjws idea of a succubi, i mean look at mass effect Andromeda they made 2 of those mistakes and look at what happened there, though likely the third was the main problem in that case.

[sg-lux-2]

HalfTangible9/22/2017, 4:05:30 AM3 votes

Leaving aside the numerous other champions that Riot has released, YES! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING! Going back to an older design!

Evelynn's design already existed, it needed updating. That's why she's getting a rework in the first place. Talking about how Evelynn is Riot "going back" completely misses the point. What do you think a VGU is?

The last time they radically changed a character's design, we got Galio, easily one of the most controversial reworks (see any given thread on how much his team that also worked on Evelynn "sucks")

PSA: hey you. Yes, you reading this. If you comment that Evelynn is supposed to be a hot seductress, you completely missed the theme of this thread so shoo.

Pointing out the problem with your own argument DOESN'T MAKE IT GO AWAY.

Mystery Ghost9/25/2017, 5:05:28 PM2 votes

Why are you even using these forums anymore? At this point you are just a sad loser with personal psychological struggle on hating anime and trying to lie to yourself that its bad while its from the most successful things that have ever existed with a huge impact in the gaming world and its the primary reason of League's artistic attraction. If you don't like it go play a game with ugly outdated characters and leave this place alone because its pretty clear that noone wants you here.

JarPoop IV9/22/2017, 6:56:16 AM1 votes

Let's just wait for the pbe release for more info before we jump all over EVE LOOKS LIKE ELISE!

If it really does end up that way even interms of silhouette, I'm pretty sure almost everyone would agree.

JooshBox9/21/2017, 9:06:49 PM1 votes

The two images are similar but I think it's a little too early to cry foul on Riot. Evelynn sex appeal is a big part of her character, similar to Ahri and Elise . They differ in their personalities and appearances, however. And if the pose is something that bothers you Shadow Evelynn already has that specific pose.

Rosemarie9/23/2017, 4:15:17 AM1 votes

You also realize the same basic layout and pose are recycled for splash art, simply just so you get a good look at the actual character? Most assassins are lunging forward in a one point perspective style, and most mages are seen either chest out and about to use magic or are lunged forward as well about to use magic. Also, finger to lip is a common way to make a character looks seductive. Similar face shapes are an actual thing that exists. did you know IRL everyone has a certain number of people that look strikingly similar/twinlike to them? Also the same artist may have been hired to do both portraits, and this is just their style. Literally google any Paul Kwon (Zeronis) concept art and you will see he draws pretty much the same build and face style for league women. Because in game at a top down view when the 3D models are small you can't see that detail. Yes it's similar but it's a formula that works to entice, its a pretty face shape, and even though I don't necessarily agree with sex being what sells, Evelynn is a sexy character more so than Elise, but Elise has to be enticing enough due to her lore. So please don't bash the Design team when they are just using formulas and techniques that WORK to raise a reaction from the community. Besides like a few others have said it's just teaser art, there's so much room for change between now and PBE release.