New splashes making for bad mugshots

Thryale·11/10/2014, 3:35:57 PM·4 votes·1,135 views

Okay, I know I don't readily accept new splashes like most ppl here, but this time I have a practical issue with some of the new splash arts. Mugshots.

You know, those small little cropped images used in champ select and the ingame minimap? Yeah those. These new hyper detailed splash arts make those mugshots super muddied and hard to read. I couldn't even tell rengar was rengar until someone told me who it was.

The art itself, in isolation as just art, is fine and of good quality. But the detail rich direction riot's been taking the art is 1) not representative of league's signiture artstyle, but most importantly, 2) makes the scaled down mugshot images too muddy and hard to read.

Some key examples are: Chogath Rengar Rumble Twitch Tristana

(also, on a separate note, ezreal seems to have this weird yellow border when he appears on the kill/assist popup: Ezreal )

9 Comments

SerBlaise11/10/2014, 3:56:21 PM3 votes

Agreed. There isn't enough contrast, as many of these mugshots are very dark. Twitch and cho I can usually tell, but you are spot on with the others. Especially rumble and rengar.

LordHippoman11/11/2014, 6:48:43 AM2 votes

I think the worst one for that is LeeSin

I just see a thumb with a red band-aid.

Joshua0003O11/10/2014, 4:41:19 PM2 votes

Rumble looks like Midna

REANiMATE NA11/24/2014, 4:43:14 AM1 votes

I find it hard to realize who they are at first glance. I know who they are when I look at them, but when in game with only a slit sec look I'm not always sure. I have a few deaths just because I thought it was a different character on the mini map. This also sometimes happens with skins too. With skins It never bothered me because I could always look at the mini map to see who it is. Now that the icons for characters are changing I'm sure I'll die a few more times than usual. These icons need to be very unique.

P.s. Who ever their new artist is has a real thing for blue. Shen Maokai Kalista Talon Zilean Veigar

ForFoxSakes11/10/2014, 8:24:47 PM1 votes

I thought cho was trundle and for some reason ez as lux or shyv (thinking champ skin) for the longest time

Jungle Lux God11/10/2014, 7:53:56 PM1 votes

I saw the same thing you saw with Ezreal, except I saw it with Blitzcrank.

Rumble has the worst portrait in the game. The glow of the fire from the flamethrower on Rumble's mech adapts poorly into his portrait, and makes him very indistinguishable. For a game dedicated so much to clarity I'm surprised that Riot screwed up so much with Rumble's portrait.

However, the other four you mentioned look find, and are definitely recognizable, even if you don't immediately recognize them because their portraits are different from their old portraits before they had their splash art upgraded.

Killer X 1211/11/2014, 6:55:04 AM1 votes

I can tell who they all are, but lets be real, they all look like shit. lol