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@Riot what's the final word on Jhin's eye color?

Desiderium·3/14/2016, 8:08:45 AM·4 votes·1,530 views

Honestly, it's kind of sad that the newest champion Riot has released has had so many miscommunications between the Art and Design teams. His arm...(which we still don't know the truth about,) his eyes, and whatever else we may be missing.

His in-game model's eyes are blue.

The trailer's eyes are brown.

The splash art's eyes are red.

Does he use contacts? A lot of stage performers, actors, and artists use contacts for aesthetics. If so, which are the contacts? The red? The blue? The brown?

There's also a bug where sites like Lolking and op.gg and whatnot use an incorrect version of Jhin's icon, where the mask is a lot less detailed and the iris of his eye is blue, while the white of his eye is black. Like, what is going on here?

Side question: Isn't Riot's modelling team competent enough by this point to have been able to make a hole in his mask to show his eye in-game? Why are both eyes black when you zoom in? It makes it look like he can't see out of his mask. Why even make it removable in the laugh emote to show that he has an eye if both the eyeholes of his mask have black screens over them?

There are so many artistic issues with this champion and it is woefully ironic.

7 Comments

GreenLore3/14/2016, 10:14:34 AM2 votes

Uhm actually we do know whats the deal with his arm,its not a mechancial one,the gold stuff on his arm is merely some armor meant to protect him from the recoil of his rifle.

Same goes for his legs.

Also how are his ingame eyes blue? We don't see his eyes ingame https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYoNGD2VAAAhw4V.jpg That thing doesn't look like an eye to me,but more like some sort of monocle

I'd say brown is the most likely one to be his real eye color,the splash art has red eyes,but that might be more to make him look more menacing and it wouldn't be the first time that the splash art is slightly off.

Gunslinger7443/14/2016, 8:41:56 AM1 votes

Yeah, the many misses between the art team and the champion team are quite uncharacteristic and honestly just amateuristic. I'm going to consider his eyes to be brown, because that's the first color I saw them to be.

But an interesting thought: I spoke to one of Riot's sound designers on Reddit about Jhin's soundscape and he told me "His voice are actually his thoughts, that's why you've got the choir and angelic music in the background."

Could it be that we're seeing Jhin as how he prefers to see himself? AKA his eye color changes on a whim. His face is also black, featureless. Are we sure Jhin is even human?

Desiderium3/17/2016, 4:56:26 AM1 votes

Why does this have to be the only Jhin thread that gets ignored by Riot?