Aurelion Sol's in game model good/bad discussion

Virtuoso Loki·3/9/2016, 6:17:30 AM·2 votes·3,527 views

I want open by saying I love you Riot and I am a total Riot fan boy, and I want to hear other people's opinion on this.... but

I think Aurelion sol looks awful. my biggest problem is the legs and body length these aspects of his model seem very off. I am mostly comparing them to the proportions of the Riot leaked image of Aoe Shin forever ago. I do believe it is the first image if you google image Aoe Shin, check it out for reference to what I mean. The legs on Aurelion Sol's model especially the back ones look entirely too small and stubby. I would not assume the inspirational material was eastern dragons, but I would assume the inspiration came from a mid metamorphosis salamander. It just deeply bothers me how stubby and baby like he looks. This Aurelion Sol is supposed to be a Godly spirit like Bard or Kindred, which i get from those two, I just don't buy it from Aurelion Sol he comes off so epic in his dialog and teaser video then comes off so small and weak looking in his visuals. I understand he cannot be a giant like he would be lore wise, I am just saying he needs to be bigger, he needs to be longer, and most importantly he needs to be given better proportions in his legs and head.

I am not coming from a position of ignorance when it comes to modeling, I am fairly sure I know how his model is broken up and I was totally expecting it to be done in this way(note I might be totally wrong love to know if I am) I was assuming upon seeing the teaser video that Aurelion Sol would have a modeled head torso and front legs/arms while the entire back body/ snaky portion including back legs would be done using star dust particle effects. This is exactly how Kindred's wolf is done a head then the smoky portion is all particle effects, which I just want to note looks beautiful on kindred and equally beautiful on Aurelion Sol. I just think that proportions are very distracting from the beauty. I understand you more then likely made Aurelion Sol not have a longer more waving particle effect tail because it could be hard for people to judge his Hit Box making attacking him feel unintuitive.

sorry its lengthy, but I have never been disappointed or upset with a champions model before. love to hear others opinions on his model. Thank you.

RANDOM CHAMPION SIZE TANGENT STOP READING HERE FOR SANE DISCUSSION ON AURELION SOL While I understand making Aurelion Sol smaller from his lore levels of being larger than mountains, I think you(Riot) should really try out making a champion that is comparable or at least close to a fully stacked Cho'Gath on base model size. I felt this way with Vel'koz as well, I kinda wish he was huge like really huge just so he would be more accurate to his lore. I know this would technically make a mage like Vel weaker because he would be easier to strike with skill shots and your moves would have to be scaled up a bit to match, but I think there would be an easy solution to balance "Giant champions". Give Giant champions a base HP per level bonus, or a % HP bonus. IDK something along those lines for champion size. This is kinda my personal crazy thing about league. (love Vel so much one of my most played champions)

2 Comments

ChilledQuIVER7/18/2017, 2:33:45 PM1 votes

nah man aurelion is beautiful