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Question: Trist's new base model vs. her splash

lvl27 Cubone·1/13/2015, 10:25:43 PM·2 votes·1,695 views

So I saw the new Trist gameplay and VU. It's super exciting to see Riot clean up old content and make it fit the newer standards (stuff like Sion especially). However, something about new Trist just seems off to me. I might just be picky, idk. When I heard Trist was getting a VU, I was stoked to see the new Splash with her decked out with military-ish gear, the chainmail boots, the belts, the metal gloves, she looked super scrappy and really different for a female character.

Out comes the VU, and we have a scrappy Trist, sure, but more of the "I'm a rebellious, dangerous girl" and less of "I'm a badass with a cannon that happens to be female." I think she lost some of her tomboyishness, and she seems too curvy and feminine now. She's fallen closer to the likes of Jinx (which, nothing wrong with that, Jinx is a pretty interesting design as a character, flat-chested maniac is super fun and different). I had always seen Trist as more of a tomboyish hero-type, rather than a loose-cannon rebel, which is what she seems to be with the update.

It seems like a really odd choice to throw out the updated splash only about 2 months before releasing an entire VU and gameplay tweak for someone, and then completely abandon the art in the splash that they had just released. I don't know about all of you guys, but I think I'd really like to play the Trist in the current splash with the fidelity of the new model rather than the design that they chose.

Again, I'm not complaining that I think the VU is bad or anything. I think it's great, and Trist looks good now, but the design in the current splash just seems a lot more interesting - tells a lot more story - than the new base model does. I wanna play that Trist.

Thoughts?

Side note: I love the idea of her new E giving her the option to shoot an exploding champion into the enemy team. Just sayin'

Also, barring an AMA about Trist in the future (which I would probably expect), can someone at Riot maybe explain why they ditched the design in the splash for this new look? Interested to know why.

3 Comments

Duke Anax1/13/2015, 10:45:48 PM2 votes

[{quoted}](name=lvl27 Cubone,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=QZgGpEPl,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-01-13T22:25:43.010+0000) It seems like a really odd choice to throw out the updated splash only about 2 months before releasing an entire VU and gameplay tweak for someone, and then completely abandon the art in the splash that they had just released. I don't know about all of you guys, but I think I'd really like to play the Trist in the current splash with the fidelity of the new model rather than the design that they chose.

They've had this probleme since forever and it is sad to see that they stlll haven't fixed it. Jinx' model for example was tan uppon release. Morgana was green until recently.

2D art and 3D models are done by completely different departments that may work on the same base, but then go in their own directions as they pleace and forget to synchronise with each other.

If you ever saw a concept sketch, you know what I mean. It never looks like the finished product, because the design will evolve during the process. And as evolution goes, two seperated environments will have seperated effects.

HigeR1/14/2015, 12:17:48 AM1 votes

I understand what you're saying but honestly, the reworked Trist is so awesome that I can't seem to find any valid reason as to why she looked the way she did before ._.

She was military and tomboyish... by human standards that is! Yordles are wilder by nature why would a semi-beast wear metal plate anywhere? she leaves her midriff open because she doesn't care, she's wild and adventurous! if you don't get hurt a little you're not having fun, and by Tristana's old VO we can infer that she's a gal that loves having fun. She's tough too, because she's a yordle, a force of nature! pity humans need their plates to protect them, yordles are magical tough beings that need no leashes holding them down!!

She also happens to be incredibly in shape for a female from all her training and jumping about of course!!!

and now, to finish my post, I'll give you the best tomboyish girl that has ever grazed showbiz, Pink, that's it, Alicia Moore, whom Trist seems to be incredibly inspired on, she's a rebel and agile like no other, she wears what she likes and sometimes shows a bit of skin, she's sexy because of her attitude not because of her (awesome) midriff.

So yeah, again, I understand that Trist came from dull almost nerdy girl with a gun to crazy rebel chick, but let's be honest Trist never was intended to be dull nor nerdy, again, her current VO states all of this.