My opinion on Global splash changes
Riot, changing splash arts is a very minor thing in the scale of what you are doing as a company, but it is still important for you to understand that we really appreciate the splash art designs and want them to be really good and match the character by representing them. I love it when splash arts give the character a real personality and Gusto. And with the majority of them you really, REALLY deliver. Im proud of what you have done with them ( as a keen artist myself ) so keep up the good work.
HUGE props on the Taric rework splash arts, especially everyones favourite ( You know what im talking about ;) )
But I, and many other people have some problems with specific champion splash arts, that instead of being taken from China (and others), you should have redone yourselves (or offered the community an oppertunity to make some for you) or given ** our** splash arts to China (I understand the censorship issues but i wont be addressing those skins)
So here we go:
DISCLAIMER - simply my opinion, feel free to have your own and express your own feelings in a posative way (Also i think i screwed up some of the images, sorry if i did in new to the forums)
http://i.imgur.com/nAeLJhQ.jpg - Boneclaw Shyvana - really doesnt look like her in my opinion and the change was kind of unnessesary http://i.imgur.com/pNNAjqs.jpg - Dont see the nees to change a legacy skin splash art, and it really looks bad ( http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/oZ8ptUQg-riot-we-need-to-talk ) Desiderium summed up my thoughts well http://i.imgur.com/QD2266R.jpg - Groozy Zilean - He looks more cookoo than groovy, he's supposed to be chill but he is on crack in this splash http://i.imgur.com/z6D8tml.jpg) - He isnt in an asylum in this new splash, even though you kept the same model of Shaco, just changed the background to something irrelivent https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1BwgY16SGiE/VvWraBNFwPI/AAAAAAAAMos/DtVNas16iBEiY4a3J8_sOtaUw_gf7TP4A/s320/DrMundo_Splash_1.jpg - Toxic Mundo - He is lifeless, definatly prefered the old more crazy one https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qG7aito4V9g/VvWrakrwt2I/AAAAAAAAMo8/RuVELCkeD7Elr7Q7Uvz9pZIozmT5pp9UA/s320/Fiora_Splash_2.jpg - Nightraven Fiora - PLEASE give us the old one back, makes her look like a female vladamir and her old one had so mcuh more character with all the thrusting ;) https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DzWb2XLVl1w/VvWrb-w0jbI/AAAAAAAAMpY/1uxOvgOdEUUw6c2Vx_rFilpAtrI3RgVoA/s1600/Karma_Splash_2.jpg - Sakura Karma - Very nice old skin splash that was utterly butchered, Karma looks stupid in the new one on top of a tree or something. The rest of the splash is nice, Karma ruins it https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEYsBSlLwa0/VvWrdQvgNNI/AAAAAAAAMp4/MUX9OzNkq44Nl2VgA360vgfVI6nFQqiAg/s160/MissFortune_Splash_1.jpg Cowgirl Miss Fortune - The old one was super awesome, looked like she was ready to ult that Tavern and shoot up the place, and it emphasised her "Bad girl" attitude, the new one is very off centred, making it appear like she isnt pointing the guns at you and it looks more like someone took a picture of a cos-player than an acutal skin https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mC9H-IXIioA/VvWrZ5ThQKI/AAAAAAAAMoo/dS0jVOPBKZk-HRmjUtMfQVMZCw-x1pH1Q/s1600/Corki_Splash_3.jpg - Red Baron Corki - Really nice almost historical splash that never needed touching up becuase it was great as it was https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bXRsr1aupjk/VvWrZ-a23zI/AAAAAAAAMok/7mLRLcjamJQnSEG8EPO3TXJUJo7Wm_j6w/s1600/Chogath_Splash_2.jpg - Gentleman Chogath - I swear to god dont make this Graves Gigar 2.0 by taking away his pipe
Now, I dont want to be all negative about the Changes, there are definatly more good ones than bad ones. Some of my favourite include:
http://i.imgur.com/8uPgpK7.jpg - Divine Soraka http://i.imgur.com/Ifm9Fic.jpg - Renegade Talon http://i.imgur.com/kctZCzg.jpg - Nosferatu Valdamir http://i.imgur.com/5VctyEL.jpg - Big Bad Warwik https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aK25uR69w-k/VvWrdIH_BJI/AAAAAAAAMpw/n8srMFPU0HEhqO-AF2Gvg8jxpYgUCUMyA/s1600/MasterYi_Splash_5.jpg - Headhunter Master Yi https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xdx54-5nLsw/VvWreAMCiJI/AAAAAAAAMqI/F4kLD-wfaKMzN4mpXM7X-mQSJ4rNyinKA/s1600/MonkeyKing_Splash_2.jpg - General Wukong https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9Fvgql4GDw/VvWrXsoKbhI/AAAAAAAAMn4/y2oGLtQpZ0Qz8foeee0IMnqIP4T2WU_gA/s1600/Akali_Splash_6.jpg - Silverfang Akali https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2O5roKJb84U/VvWrZVTTWcI/AAAAAAAAMoc/fW_kleWAQckH3jN8VaR215V025mOOuAlA/s1600/Caitlyn_Splash_3.jpg - Safari Caitlin https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6l4cetY3CgA/Vvl-ClLkB_I/AAAAAAAAMso/uH7C2DKr_LwAspImciWQzx0GdiTLHyjQg/s1600/Jax_splash_6.jpg - Temple Jax
