Animated Splash Arts & Champion Portraits

Valor Bot·Dec 27, 2015·37 votes·6,484 views

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So, with the recent Zed teaser, I noticed his icon is now animated. Does this mean every Champion is going to get animated splash arts and icons as well? Most of the newer Champions have had moving login screens made for them already, so it would just be a matter of cropping the animated login screens and coding them into the client to implement them into the loading screens and such.

24 Comments

NúllDec 27, 201519 votes

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redniwediSDec 27, 20154 votes

I think it will just be for the new champion select they are working on, rather than for the loading screen. At least then skins won't have to be done.

GrReaper96Dec 27, 201527 votes

Not to mention it would tell us when we dc cause the motion would stop and illaoi would get mad

KnightEmUpDec 27, 20156 votes

did you just

HighH1Dec 27, 20151 votes

Laughing Fish plz

SpongebobIsLifeDec 27, 20154 votes

maybe an animated splash icon could be something granted to players who achieved mastery 5?

Hotlin3 FlingDec 27, 20153 votes

No this should be for level 7

SpongebobIsLifeDec 28, 20151 votes

are they creating more mastery levels?

Hotlin3 FlingDec 28, 20151 votes

Soon™

ShénzhìDec 28, 20151 votes

Makes sense since 1 or 2 month ago, and most probably prior to some reveals that Mastery will be updated.

From 1 to 5 without demotion makes Masteries a bit of a joke:

It's easy to get to 5.
At full mastery, which is not 5, we may unlearn (as unmistakably human, we are).

Animated things like this are very attractive. It's strangely pleasing to be in possession of a Golden card in Hearthstone. The same affect would apply in LoL.

CasterGilgameshDec 27, 20152 votes

Zed

Handin Out NapsDec 27, 20152 votes

His eyes aren't red anymore :c.

MannysmokerDec 27, 20151 votes

Would be cool but remember, there a lot of champs with static splash it might take them a while to do.....

Valor BotDec 27, 20153 votes

Yeah, this would be problematic for those Champions that received updated splashes but no animated login screens to go along with them (i.e. Janna, Garen, Anivia, etc.)

SharjoDec 27, 20153 votes

I feel like, considering what's happening with Zed's icon, that they may just make a new image specifically for this purpose instead of animating an already existing icon.

junglerboy16Dec 27, 20151 votes

You mean League's Champ icons would finally catch up with DotA?

OmegaTree119Dec 27, 20151 votes

This may be asking for too much, but at one point in the future I would want the same thing to be done with skin splash arts also.

Maligaro SpikeDec 27, 20151 votes

they should introduce them,a lot of strategic games and moba got animated portraits so why not lol

ModKnightsKemplarDec 27, 20151 votes

We don't know that's his new portrait for in game. I wouldn't count on it.

morris1Dec 28, 20151 votes

All I need now is 10 Fizzes spazzing out in loading screen like they were high on cocaine.

rtbf206105905Dec 28, 20151 votes

No. They propably made it as nothing more as a small gif. Implementing all this into the new client would be appropriate, perhaps but you have to account for toasters which don't run these things smoothly. There is no way in hell we are getting any upgrades to the current client anymore, other than some major bugfixes.

Valor BotDec 28, 20151 votes

If a toaster can run a full game of League of Legends, then why would it have any trouble loading gifs, which are just animated images in a loop? I mean, I imagine it would require a bit more processing power than it does now, but not by much comparatively.

rtbf206105905Dec 28, 20151 votes

Gifs? The new client won't most likely have any gifs implemented in it as it's made with a completely differently behaving engine/module whatever you want to call it, and the game itself is optimized for toasters the current client still isn't btw.

Champion select is still not smooth for my older pc, very slow to get in it and selection is very slow aswell.

All animations are laggy, especially rewards like tier 5 mastery popup for example.

RetroRage96Dec 28, 20151 votes

Wouldn't it be hard to do that for champs/skins that have them in positions that are clearly in motion? Having an animated portrait for that would not look right because they wouldn't be realistically sticking in that pose for long. Example: Runeguard Volibear