Splash Art Screens

Zadig·4/21/2016, 4:20:24 PM·2 votes·1,054 views

Aren't the new slash art screens a downgrade from the old ones? Fiddle, Xin, Vayne and many other splash art screens in the latest update look worse than they did before. There was either less work put into the new art or it was simply done by inferior artists. I can see Riot is going for a different art style than it had used so far, sure whatever, but why does the quality have to suffer as well? Whoever started drawing the Taric in the Bloodstone splash screen for example, didn't even finish the face, the things wrong with each splash art are too many to even begin to enumerate in detail. Generally, most of the new splash screens contain unpolished work, bizarre proportions, a bland art style, are inferior to previously held Riot standards and are an underwhelming looking final composition ill-fitting with the rest of the game.

7 Comments

Zarvanis4/21/2016, 6:40:34 PM2 votes

A lot of the skin splash changes aren't new, they were taken from the Chinese servers. China has different splash art than the other servers, but for some reason Riot recently decided to make all of the servers have the same splash art (still a work in progress, I believe. Expect more changes).

These are all new: Warwick Swain Evelynn Kennen Darius FiddlesticksRammus

These are from China: XinZhao Irelia

And the majority of the changes to skins are also from China.

They also darkened Karthus'sKarthus face because things that look like skulls are apparently a big no-no in China (so I've heard).

If it doesn't look new and flashy, it was probably from China.

So yes, a lot of the splash art was made by different artists with lower levels of quality. But they're all several years old, so that's to be expected. Though that doesn't change how jarring and out of place some of them look in comparison to a lot of the other splashes.

Troll Armada4/21/2016, 5:04:17 PM1 votes

two words:

cottontail teemo

Unfortunate Game4/21/2016, 5:42:53 PM1 votes

I think fiddle looks better, the rest I can agree.

Some of the new splash arts look better, some look worse. Its hit or miss.

I also think it looks weird cause its a new type of art compared to the other ones we're used to, so it makes me wonder... will they be updating the other arts to match that style?

ImYourAngel4/21/2016, 7:50:33 PM1 votes

Cant image why they even change cottontail teemo skin in the first place teemo now look like an weird old man teemo. I'm about to cry I'm a teemo main and have this cottontail teemo skin now it look so bad.

Wryl4/21/2016, 10:27:33 PM1 votes

The new splash art is really bad.

xxxDogmanxxx4/22/2016, 2:01:48 AM1 votes

I like all the new splash art except for Fiddlesticks and Xin Zhao. Xin Zhao is way too tanned and Fiddlesticks looks like a badly-drawn cartoon.