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Splash art update.

Lord Ligma··19 votes·15,413 views

Would be nice to see some of the older skins have newer splash arts. I know you guys at Riot are trying your best when you aren't shoveling out skins no on asked for but I'm excited to see what you do for the Fiddlesticks and Volibear splashes.

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Grumpig3 votes

art is expensive

Lord Ligma2 votes

Honestly how much does it cost to make a splash art. A couple weeks maybe months. They already have the equipment. Heck the concept can drawn on a napkin so long as you have the talent.

Lord Ligma2 votes

If there actually is more that goes into it I wouldn't know. I just figure since you already ahve the equipment all that's left is the initiative.

14daysuspensionk2 votes

Esq, Gragas. It's one of the worst ones out there tbh.

Jenivie2 votes

warrior princess and huntress sivir would like a word with you.

14daysuspensionk1 votes

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warrior princess and huntress sivir would like a word with you.

Those are decently drawn though tbh, the problem with them is just that they don't fit into the splash art style that Riot uses, even for the time they were made they still stood out awkwardly.

Lord Ligma2 votes

Corki is failing the test of time as well.

Naalith3 votes

Considering who Gragas is as a character, I'm pretty sure those who play him actually love the grotesque out of date splash arts. They're fucking hilarious to look at.

I'm surprised Leona's base splash is still in the game. I'm pretty sure it's the oldest existing base splash in the entire game and it looks kinda janky.

EdgeLady3 votes

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Considering who Gragas is as a character, I'm pretty sure those who play him actually love the grotesque out of date splash arts. They're fucking hilarious to look at.

I'm surprised Leona's base splash is still in the game. I'm pretty sure it's the oldest existing base splash in the entire game and it looks kinda janky.

I think Leona's is the oldest, but to be honest, Skarner's looks worse (and he came out not too long after her). But Skarner is top priority for a rework; Leona is not, so if anyone needs a base splash update and nothing else, she should get it. To be honest, most champions that do need base splash updates are in need of a rework, like Skarner as mentioned, Corki, Amumu, and Mundo, whose rework is now guaranteed. The one exception is maybe Fizz, since his splash is starting to look fairly dated now. Possibly Nautilus's too, but I think his is better than Fizz's.

QMighty1 votes

Agreed, I'd so love for her to get just a splash update. She's one of my favourites and I'm getting tired of staring at her terrible icon.

EdgeLady1 votes

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Agreed, I'd so love for her to get just a splash update. She's one of my favourites and I'm getting tired of staring at her terrible icon.

To be honest, when just looking at her face and icon it's not so bad. It's when one sees the very outdated layout of the full portrait that one realizes how old it is.

Unlike a certain scorpion boi Skarner

14daysuspensionk1 votes

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Considering who Gragas is as a character, I'm pretty sure those who play him actually love the grotesque out of date splash arts. They're fucking hilarious to look at.

I'm surprised Leona's base splash is still in the game. I'm pretty sure it's the oldest existing base splash in the entire game and it looks kinda janky.

Corki looks worse tbh, just look at it. It has janky outlines like an outdated character model. Someone like Nidalee or Zed or Syndra are also old but they look well drawn. I'd say Skarner desperately needs an update. The art style they used for it is just somethng you never see in game.

Trist mid opop1 votes

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Esq, Gragas. It's one of the worst ones out there tbh.

Its a piece of art!

Horızen2 votes

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This exact topic was basically just posted 3 days ago

... does it really matter? It's not like anyone's scouring through Boards to check if someone's already made a prior post about their woes each and every single time. No one cares about originality, at least not unless it's been posted 50 times within the same few days.

mrmeddyman1 votes

After MF got her splash arts updated they went dark. I'm guessing that along with login screens and proper champ launches the resources going into reworking old splashes has been deemed "not worthy of the cost and effort" and now the artists have been retasked to something else. Riots' silence says it all really. No point in going on the forums and confirming that they're going back on their promise as it will only cause a ruckus.

GreenLore2 votes

Actually they once clarified why we see these splash art updates not that often anymore.

When they started updating splash arts, they didn't really have a set direction for it and pretty much gave the artists free reign over which splash they want to update. But this changed once they decided to ship VGUs with splash art updates. So instead of updating random splash arts, they update the skin splash arts of reworked champions.

And since the number of VGUs increased quite a bit over time, they simply took up all the budget for splash art updates.(I mean this year alone we had ~20 completely remade skin splash arts + some that were adjusted for the VGU)

The reason why we even got some additional splash art updates after they started updating them alongside VGUs was because they had some almost-finished skin splash arts from the first phase lying around and decided to finish these, since it wasn't that much work in the first place.

So its not that they put less resources into new splashes, its just that they are tied to VGUs nowadays.

RayhaNPrincE1 votes

what about Nocturn...lol. And Brand too. Brand could be reworked as a devastating mage. But they are too busy to give new champs. Volibear really dont need rewrok as much as Brand does. Brand isnt played in pro scene bt voli is played. And challenger are playing voli jungle every day. Meanwhie brand is an off meta support. Not even a mage.

GreenLore1 votes

Nocturne seems to be pretty high on the VGU list considering that he was one of the 5 available choices for the VGU-vote.

And I think most people voted for a Voli rework simply because they like his new incarnation within the lore as an eldritch savage storm god pretty badass.

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