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Why has Lulu's friend Pix been getting progressively lamer animations with each new skin?

TheLittlestLulu·11/7/2015, 6:55:40 PM·85 votes·22,974 views

I mean look at how much energy Pix has in all of Dragon Trainer Lulu's emotes http://puu.sh/lcV0a.gif http://puu.sh/lcV0x.gif http://puu.sh/lcUZI.gif http://puu.sh/lcV0Q.gif

Now compare that to Winter Wonder Pix http://puu.sh/lcUVY.gif http://puu.sh/lcUWI.gif

The first two emotes look a lot less energetic. But at least the dance is still good. http://puu.sh/lcUXp.gif

But then you have the taunt... http://puu.sh/lcUVn.gif

It's like Pix just gave up and didn't even bother trying. It only gets worse with Pool Party Pix http://puu.sh/lcUXQ.gif

The laugh is about the same as the Winter Wonder skin, but... http://puu.sh/lcVKQ.gif http://puu.sh/lcUXG.gif

Pool Party Pix doesn't even have an animation for joke or taunt. He just sits there doing his standard idle animation.

At least he still dances I guess. http://puu.sh/lcUZa.gif

Riot if you ever make another Lulu skin please don't forget that Pix needs animations too.

66 Comments

DrCyanide11/7/2015, 6:56:20 PM57 votes

I give you credit for the gifs, they certainly make it easier to see what you're talking about.

RiotRiot Whist11/7/2015, 10:06:33 PM50 votes

Because Dragon Trainer was a legendary skin (the first legendary skin actually). The dragon is completely new custom animation. The other Lulu skins use base Lulu's animations. This is the same for all character's with Legendary skins.

With pool party not playing animations I suspect that's a bug and will look into it on monday.

EDIT - turns out DT was one of the first 1350 skins, which was a new price tier at the time and in fact not a legendary (which had been around as a tier since much earlier (as seen with Gentleman Cho)).

I will point out that the poro's wings are custom animation and the puffer fish does have custom fin and auto attack squish animations - however, what OP states is true that neither of these skins have animation work on Pix near what DT has.

While I can certainly see players viewing this as a loss in value - I will point out that the other two 1350 skins have recalls. I wasn't around at Riot when DT lulu was made, however looking at it today I'd say speaking strictly for animation this would take me about one work week to create plus maybe a little extra bleed-over into the next week if there was feedback that needed to be addressed. Recalls take me about one work week plus a day or two bleed over for feedback.

I'd argue the time spent is still about the same, however it's used on something that is not as easily taken for granted. If we were to do another skin focused on completely reanimating Pix, we'd have to make sure it was really noticeable so players understand the price (as that was a huge pain point of DT lulu release)

Siachi11/8/2015, 3:09:36 AM6 votes

This is mildly off topic, but if Lulu ever got a Visual Update, who else here would love to see DT Lulu's recall animation involve her making Dragon-Pix grow, and riding him off back to base?

Baron Von Bangin11/7/2015, 7:10:08 PM3 votes

Isn't Dragon Tamer Lulu more expensive? When that skin first came out I remember the Pix animations being one of the primary reasons it has a higher price.