@ Riot : Riot's NEW Technology

Dreamspitter·9/27/2014, 10:48:42 PM·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?

9 Comments

LordHippoman9/28/2014, 1:53:12 AM2 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))

Samuel L Jaxx9/28/2014, 8:12:37 AM1 votes

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

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