Fiora Update Splash Issues

Desolas Arterius·7/22/2015, 2:37:19 AM·9 votes·3,971 views

Most of what I have to say is in the pictures attached due to me being terrible with describing certain things.

I will say I do like her rework appearance wise (don't have a PBE account so I can't judge on her kit, but it does look good). Her armor, weapon, and personality is really nice. I don't mind her hair change and I'm completely okay with her update. But the issues I'm having is with her models and splash-art. They look, meh, to say the least and have a serious case of sharp cheeks. I feel like I could cut myself on her cheekbones and chin from how angular she looks. Her ingame face models need a lot of work too. They look very weird (and slightly scary) due to how unnatural and awkward her face shape is. Even her eyes look creepy when zoomed in.

Now I did ask myself "will it really matter when zoomed out?". Probably not, but that's why these are just opinions to what I feel her new model and splash art look like to me. I would like to see her face rounded out and perhaps her eyes made slightly smaller/narrower so she's not (as everyone else has said) super disneyish. But that's just my opinion.

The pictures attached have more detail than what I can put her (because again, I suck at describing specific things without having an example). It would be nice to see the splash and models tweaked a bit, but if they aren't then that's cool too I guess. I do miss her hair part though. It looked very nice on her and complimented her face as well. The straight down the middle part looks odd, but perhaps I just need to get used to it. Still miss the parting, especially her emo one on Nightraven :(

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this.

2 Comments

Yordle Xayah7/22/2015, 3:21:39 AM3 votes

I wonder if Riot really cares... so many Splash images have been poorly received by the community. At the top of my head I can think of Tristana, Katarina, and now this one.

I'm gonna up vote, and I hope that this isn't just a drop in the ocean. Fiora's new Concept Art is really great, she looks amazing. The Splash and ingame models not so much, specially the skins.

Rune Ocarina7/22/2015, 2:47:44 AM2 votes

Nice job showing exactly what's fucked up with Fiora's new splash right now. I really hope Riot sees this and do what they did to Ahri and Katarina when their splashes came out.

Though, as much as I want them to, I doubt they'll work on the models. My god they're ugly.