Can we discuss Morgana's emotive face?

Oleandervine·2/21/2019, 2:09:55 AM·29 votes·11,758 views

So I get champions are getting fully animated faces now, and it's a great improvement. However, Morgana's emotions seem to be a bit ... overembellished? Like I know visually you want to see them from isometric view pretty good, but Morgana's grimace/scowl in her base skin recall (and others that share it) is too much, verging on utterly ridiculous. I think it needs to be toned back just a touch, to make it less of a "our anchor points for animation went haywire" and more realistic. https://imgur.com/a/y2NkcCP

Then there's the recall for Ghost Bride. This is just UGH. The face she makes at the end reminds me of BAD BAD BAD horror movie effects that rely too much on CG and not enough on makeup and actual actors to convey a fearful face. I'm talking bad CG like the vampires in Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing. I'm talking bad CG like the Mummy releasing a swarm of locusts from his face. This should be fixed, pretty quickly. It detracts heavily from a really good looking skin, and like her base skin recall, it comes across as ridiculous and goofy. https://imgur.com/a/GlNtAID

Can we tone this down a bit? It's too extreme, and really kind of breaks the believability of these characters.

25 Comments

Ravenhale2/21/2019, 3:04:23 AM10 votes

I was going to mention this in my own thread, but decided not to because I had already made one today.

She has play dough face emotions. A bit too large. Didn't mind it on Ghost Bride, because, well, she's a spectre, but the rest of the skins I chuckled when I saw those expressions.

Lux is my Mother2/21/2019, 6:40:56 PM6 votes

I think the second one is fitting as to me it looks like it's supposed to be capturing a banshees scream, and it certainly looks like one. Also, in game you'll barely even be able to see these faces properly.

Autrah Fang2/21/2019, 6:44:35 AM2 votes

Not to mention Kayle's face doesn't emote at all during her /laugh animation. Not even a mouth movement in the slightest. It's... weird lol. One sister didn't get any facial animations, and the other got too much XD

Hexs Fortune2/21/2019, 8:29:34 AM2 votes

Should be mentioned those pictures are way closer to the model than as seen in typical gameplay. It's often exaggerated for that very reason

KFCeytron2/21/2019, 11:36:14 AM2 votes

"I said this is a talkie, dammit! You've got to emote more!"

Disig2/21/2019, 8:58:57 PM2 votes

I dunno I think the ghost bride one was intentional.

But yeah her GRRR face is funny and I don't think that's supposed to be. It's like Riot is trying to tell us "remember, she's bad! Watch out!" and we're like...lol k.

AbiwonKenabi2/21/2019, 8:17:38 PM1 votes

I think this is kind of part of Morgana's update. She is a much more emotionally driven character and often lets her emotions get the best of her. So the overly emotive face fits, I feel, and puts her in opposition to Kayle's more stoic face (when not completely masked).

Zyranium2/21/2019, 12:05:14 PM1 votes

I like them actually.

xDogMeatx2/21/2019, 3:16:48 AM1 votes

She hits ultra insinct dont you see her face instenifying?

GreenKnight2/21/2019, 2:16:52 AM1 votes

...i get Dead by Daylight vibes from this. Top one looks like The Doctor, second looks like The Spirit.

Sigh...

B3Prof2/21/2019, 12:47:31 PM1 votes

I can sympathize with you wanting to complain but at least her face doesn't look like the weird derped out jaundiced thing Kayle's face has become

Cosnirak2/21/2019, 2:54:18 PM1 votes

Similarly, every time you tell her to stop when she's walking she does this spin and it very quickly feels weird and overly flamboyant. It feels like when a model walking a cat walk comes to the end and does the "sexy" 180 turn before walking back the other way.

MooseNoisesForB2/21/2019, 8:02:22 PM1 votes

You should post this on the pbe boards or look at August's Twitter