New Splash Art is nice, but what about the SKIN SPLASH ART???

Beardyface86·10/15/2014, 10:38:15 PM·3 votes·1,773 views

I think its pretty super that there's some updates rolling out on the older splash arts, but here's an important question: what about the splash arts that are for skins? Are we doomed to get only one really nice new splash for redesigned characters and then have to stare at the eyeblights that are the skins? As mentioned before some of them are simply ugly (looking at you, Sion and Twitch) but worse yet, some just simply don't accurately represent the product they're selling. It IS a selling point and I'm mostly pointing fingers at Trundle here. Unlike Sion, where his skins are more or less the same looking, some champs (Trundle) are so vastly different from their current form that buying the skins might as well be a crapshoot. It makes sense for the product being sold, it makes sense for clarity, and it would be an awesome opportunity for the art team to design new visuals.

9 Comments

Ahris10/16/2014, 12:32:59 AM1 votes

We cant ask for all of them at once. Riot does things cautiously and smoothly. Riot will get there eventually.

Solidair310/16/2014, 1:17:28 AM1 votes

I think I remember a post from a while ago, Riot is putting out all classic splashes first, then moving through skins and doing those.

We have to remember, Riot doesn't have the biggest departments, and it takes a collective effort over weeks just to put out one splash (though several are worked on at once). We just have to be patient. It's going to take a long time to get new splashes out.

And also! Older champs in line to get complete visual updates would be a waste of resources to update all of their skins, so who knows when those will get done

Rew71110/16/2014, 3:17:56 AM1 votes

Riot just did A LOT of skin art updates. Not joking. They even did one for Black Belt Udyr and a Rammus skin. There were over 20.

Centuros10/16/2014, 4:32:45 PM1 votes

What about Karma and Trundle? Their skin splashes are WILDLY INACCURATE after their entire visual overhauls.

I mean, Trundle is BLUE now, even in his skins. (also, can we have particles more like original Trundle in the Traditional skin? It doesn't seem right to be using ice on that one)

DwarvenGiant10/17/2014, 10:49:35 PM1 votes

Riot said that they would first finish updating the default splashes and then they would approach to skin splashes.

FirexSaber10/18/2014, 12:07:08 AM1 votes

Updating the skin art is more risky- people paid money to buy skins and some people did it just for the art style. (I'm looking at you, Lollipoppy.) So they're likely to be a lot more reluctant about that sort of thing.