17 Comments

Beyond Legends23 votes

My guess is that it's exagerated on purpose to make her emote more visable. Kinda what they do im overwatch

RiotReav330 votes

This is correct. This video shows her very close-up. In-game she is much smaller and the anims are made to read from game camera.

nosafterburn12 votes

Well there goes my TahmKench xDiana ship.

Berserknurple11 votes

It's called squash and stretch, it's a classic part of animation to allow things to be read more easily. Especially from such an odd view as League's top-down.

Sukishoo6 votes

She's an Aspect, she can do what she wants xD

GenoXx6 votes

It's like how Pixar characters mouths are animated. A note I took an interest in since they do it with like 80% of their characters.

Tormentula5 votes

Regardless this could use some adjustments.

The reason why it works with Disney is because they slowly animate the mouth expressions so it flows smoothly and cute, this is just suddenly and overally huge for the sake of being overally huge and there is no details inside her mouth to make it not look like a void. (bottom right corner is fine, the rest where's her teeth and tongue?)

Also I don't think Disney characters's mouths fall off their faces like in the bottom left expect in cuphead-style animation.

Sexy Jack Rabbit4 votes

You need to take in mind you will NEVER be seeing the characters this close up. The camera doesn't even go this close in game. You will be reading them as a small pop on your screen.

xelaker6 votes

check out darius mid ult. his arms are like 6 feet long lol

JhonTeemon4 votes

give zoey a school girl skin

Valaran Nara3 votes

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give zoey a school girl skin

No. Have you not seen her "Yo, I'm an angsty teenage girl, who likes listening to alternative music, breakdancing, pot, and potentially aggressive skating. Emphasis on aggressive."

But I only saw a glimpse of her release skin. I saw her with shades, a sweater, and glasses, so yeah. Rewatch champ teaser near end.

Azteryz1 votes

her skin they showed in her reveal is practically that tho

Corvo Attano3 votes

I can make a terrible joke out of this.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO1 votes

It looks like her lip color isn’t distinct enough from her mouth, that is if she’s intended to have lips

flibitydoo1 votes

none of those are resting frames

they're transitional ones that are exaggerated to help convey the movement much faster.

think of it like motion blur.

The DrBonjigollo1 votes

problem is they last a bit too long as transitional frames and sometimes it's not just a transition i.e her face after getting the kill on Aurelion Sol

Leetri1 votes

Well you're never gonna see her this close up, the emotes have to read from a bird's eye view.

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