Zoe, as a former animation student

Emo Twink·Nov 4, 2017·34 votes·2,213 views

Honestly, the discourse on Zoe shouldnt be there. Her animations are so amazing, using squash and stretch on a child champ to show her expression is such a nice touch. Plus the size of the animations, like when her tongue sticks out etc, suit league because while playing, you'll get to see those taunts zoomed out. It's noticeable in the trailer as closer up, and at various speeds, you'll see the inbetweens, but its amazingly done and I'm honestly hyped to see her in action. People who don't understand what goes into these things will obviously get upset but in action, itll show a cute, expressive character that league rarely has.

[sg-kiko]

17 Comments

QuortNov 4, 20177 votes

I doubt the complaints stem from not understanding what goes into the animation. I think most people complaining are doing so because of personal preference (they don't like how she looks or don't think her art direction is a good fit for League) or because of her kit.

yay nibbersNov 5, 20171 votes

I understand the style they're going for with her and I actually appreciate it as well, it's a cool change of pace. Some of her face animations just straight up look wrong though, even for the cartoony look they're going for.

Like, there's stretchy cartoonish stylized animation, and then there's this: https://image.prntscr.com/image/GvjXxJ7oSdaU6nMPUbNSfw.png

AhrisNov 4, 20172 votes

She seems to have a pretty trashy wave clear. Her q damage is unreliable and her w is basically ahri's w. Her e is the sleep. Her ulti... not sure what it is yet.

ZerdunNov 4, 20171 votes

I thought her kit was like this TBH.

The passive is the Ahri fox fire thing and is tied to her picking up the free spells and using summoner spells

Q is most likely the skill shot bounce thing, which if if bounces probably has an aoe so she can clear the mid lane waves.

W/E is probably the sleep bubble, it has a monstrous range (blue side blue monster to edge of top lane) will have a travel time then when it gets there it will probably then have a cook time to then activate before a person walks onto it for the slow into stun cc

E/W is probably her teleport. It seems to be a better version of LB's dash mechanic without the damage

R is probably the the summoner spell copy mechanic. You can probably only hold 1 item/summoner spell duplicate at a time and it probably gets filled by you either using a summoner yourself or you collecting a skill ball (which seems to have a animation / load time)

I would also imagine that it has an overall CD while also probably having charges. This would allow those stupid high points that were seeing in the preview while also keeping her overall stupidity in check.

xXDJBaconXxNov 4, 20171 votes

I think the summoner spell is passive her r is the teleport thing and her E/W is the little bubble things around her.

ZerdunNov 4, 20173 votes

the reason i assumed the passive thing was the bubbles that shoot was because they appeared whenever she picked up a skill orb or popped her own summoner spells. There is no video showing her activating the three orb fix fire thing outside of this not to mention the orbs appear the very moment a summ (or summ copy) is burned.

The teleport doesn't do any damage and it seems like its a purely evasive skill so it probably won't be an R as well. She also appears to be required to bounce back or it would have definitely been used in that 2v1 at the end of the clip. zero damage ultis are usually underwhelming.

The only thing that could be argued as an ulti is possibly the slow into stun thing but i feel it's a bit similar to ekko bubble in strength so again i would also have to rule out that as being the ulti as well considering it appears to only hit 1 champ.

xXDJBaconXxNov 5, 20171 votes

If the summoner spell is the ulti it would have to be like gnars Hyper only a passive. Thats the only way i could see it.

Soraka is SO HOTNov 4, 20172 votes

Story, Art & Sound.

Go back to Gameplay.

ChermorgNov 4, 20172 votes

As the other poster said, please keep discussion about the topic at hand in the correct board - this topic is about the animations of the champion, not about the gameplay characteristics.

Jerry SeinfeIdNov 4, 20172 votes

I don't think that's the problem. I know there was a post about i feel like it was more of a joke, i could be wrong.

My main issue is that her modelling style seems off in league, atleast for anything other than yordles.

Automated RivenNov 5, 20172 votes

Have you seen zac? He is literally a blob. of goo. if anyone doesnt belong in league its a blob of goo.

Jerry SeinfeIdNov 5, 20172 votes

that doesn't make any sense. Zac's artstyle is still League's artstyle. Zoe's artstyle resembles pixar's better.

And how does a blob of goo not fit in a game where a rat, fat drunk and a sun warrior all fight each other? Zoe as a character fits, Her artstyle doesn't.

V KhatNov 4, 20171 votes

She looks like a jelly champion though. Somethings are good, but others are not

Zombie GerbilNov 4, 20171 votes

Champions will only look better as this game progress. Reworks and all. Sooner or later older VU champions will get another VU rework again once they finish all the older champions.

Mystery GhostNov 4, 20171 votes

Is Cinema 4D a good program for learning animation?

Jerry SeinfeIdNov 4, 20171 votes

My teachers seem to think so. From what i found on the internet animating is it's strong point though.

TikTok FamousNov 4, 20171 votes

if you pause when she sticks her tongue out at aurelion sol, you'll see that her tongue isnt connected to her mouth and i can never unsee this beauty again