@ Riot : Riot's NEW Technology

Dreamspitter··2 votes·1,832 views

I was just reading the new dev blog when I noticed this about animating Yasuo

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/dev-blog-champion-animation http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/09/red-post-collection-champion-animation.html

Yasuo’s hair and ropes – traditionally tedious things to animate – aren’t yet animated at all. Whilst it is common to manually animate these things on a final pass once the animator’s happy with the main body motion, we actually ended up pioneering some great new tech called ‘Jiggle Tech’. With it, we can set things to animate and react in real time to the motions of Yasuo’s body through simulating physics instantaneously in my animation tool, meaning we can rapidly iterate and make tweaks and changes without going through the tedious task of re-animating the hair and rope each time.

and

As a final flavor pass** we also included our in-house Jiggle Tech** on several of Braum’s accessories like the necklace and rope! This gave some additional secondary animation which complimented the main animation nicely and gave a more overall polished touch.

This sounds pretty amazing. Riot we've seen the release of Yasuo, Vel'koz, Braum, Gnar, and Azir. That's 5 releases without a new female champion. Will the next female champion feature use of this new animation technology?

Currently as it stands, the great Cassiopeia is still the only female model that I know of that incorporates any of this so called 'jiggle tech' in her animations (Check her run animation etc for example in the model viewer on Lolking) -was she a precursor or early animation experiment?

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LordHippoman2 votes

Riot, please implement Jiggle Tech, but only on Gragas and Pantheon's Mantheon. Thanks.

((I'd rather not be ashamed to play this game in front of female friends and family because Sona's boobs are rocketing all over the screen, TBH))

Dreamspitter3 votes

Riot, please implement Jiggle Tech, but only on Gragas and Pantheon's Mantheon. Thanks.

((I'd rather not be ashamed to play this game in front of female friends and family because Sona's boobs are rocketing all over the screen, TBH))

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand what abput your male friends?

Also, Cass boobs dont rocket anywhere by comparison and I think pre reduction she was the only match for Sona.

SecretLore1 votes

yeah,I personally don't have a problem with the jiggling,but they shouldn't overdo it.

I mean the amount of fanservice is already giving LoL sometimes a bad reputation(how many times have I read someone saying "when I think of LoL-champs I think of women in revealing outfits"?)

But well cassio is moving her upper body a lot,so it may make sense for her to have them,but other female champs don't move their upper bodies that often/strongly

Dreamspitter1 votes

yeah,I personally don't have a problem with the jiggling,but they shouldn't overdo it.

I mean the amount of fanservice is already giving LoL sometimes a bad reputation(how many times have I read someone saying "when I think of LoL-champs I think of women in revealing outfits"?)

But well cassio is moving her upper body a lot,so it may make sense for her to have them,but other female champs don't move their upper bodies that often/strongly

Thing is.............I've never seen LoL as an especially "overly" fanservicy game. To get drastic amounts of that you have to go to fanart. I mean its not scarlet blade- so I have no clue why LoL would offend anyone but the purest white knights or folks who play some rival game.

That aside, it's a subtle bit of animation in "Modern Gaming".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLilP0nWc8#30s

SecretLore1 votes

Yeah it is still pretty tame compared to many other games,but it is still more fanservicery than many other MOBAs and something that some people do complain about. Overall I think a bit fanservice is ok and welcome and for some characters it is actually important that they keep the fanservicce,because it is a part of that characters personality/thematic concept (Ahri ,Cassiopeia ,Elise ,Evelynn ,Jinx ,Nami ,Nidalee,MissFortune ,Sivir ,Zyra )

But in other cases it doesn't really add much to the character(which a different outfit could actually do,for example Caitlyn does not dress like a sheriff at all,so you wouldn't know that she is one if you don't read about it)

Dreamspitter1 votes

Yeah it is still pretty tame compared to many other games,but it is still more fanservicery than many other MOBAs and something that some people do complain about. Overall I think a bit fanservice is ok and welcome and for some characters it is actually important that they keep the fanservicce,because it is a part of that characters personality/thematic concept (Ahri ,Cassiopeia ,Elise ,Evelynn ,Jinx ,Nami ,Nidalee,MissFortune ,Sivir ,Zyra )

But in other cases it doesn't really add much to the character(which a different outfit could actually do,for example Caitlyn does not dress like a sheriff at all,so you wouldn't know that she is one if you don't read about it)

Agree with this but....................................Jinx is fanservicy?

What.

I mean I havent seen her exhibit any flirty behavior or obvious physical appeal in game, and they deliberately made her flat chested -she strikes me as cute maniac -albeit any character COULD be portrayed in a sexy manner; Same with Nami, although there is still the kink of mermaids.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/2b/74/01/2b74018f33418224fd808b392d505f2a.jpg

SecretLore1 votes

What I meant is not simply being a flirty character,but about the fanservice of these characters in general.

Jinx may be flat and she is not flirty at all,but that doesn't stop her from being sexy(especially in her video) and she does run around half-naked all the time. It is however fitting for her character,as it is similar to tank girl,the raiders from fallout or the mad-max-series,this similarity would get lost if she didn't have an outfit like that.

And with Nami there is the thing about Mermaids,I've read many people who wonder why nami even needs boobs because fish don't need them,which totally ignores the fact that she is a mermaid,who simply have them. It is more along the lines "mermaids are usually depicted to be sexy/beautiful,so Nami also gets to show some fanservice"

The fanservice is not a big part of their characters,but it still has its reasons to exist.

Diahane1 votes

Yeah it is still pretty tame compared to many other games,but it is still more fanservicery than many other MOBAs and something that some people do complain about. Overall I think a bit fanservice is ok and welcome and for some characters it is actually important that they keep the fanservicce,because it is a part of that characters personality/thematic concept (Ahri ,Cassiopeia ,Elise ,Evelynn ,Jinx ,Nami ,Nidalee,MissFortune ,Sivir ,Zyra )

But in other cases it doesn't really add much to the character(which a different outfit could actually do,for example Caitlyn does not dress like a sheriff at all,so you wouldn't know that she is one if you don't read about it)

Actually I think the clothes Caitlyn is donned with give her something original and different. I know it's probably just my head-canon, but I think she is a great "bad fashion sense" kind of character. I've always seen her as a snob, aristocratic girl whose fashion sense is just horrible and goofyly funny.

Samuel L Jaxx1 votes

If Riot were to do this........would cass still be special?

http://www.lolking.net/models/?champion=69&skin=2

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