Riot, thank you for making the PBE placeholders hilarious.

Weathered··203 votes·21,500 views

https://i.gyazo.com/4ac2dd1c92e8135f9229085aa61eabae.png

This is currently the loading screen portrait for Camille, and it's amazing.

Edit: Riot, take a hint for April Fools, this got #1 on hot because people love when you do shit like this.

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MistroTTC69 votes

This would be a perfect event for April fools.

Weathered119 votes

Do a shitty MS Paint portrait for every champion in the game? I like your thinking.

Jofeyy3 votes

Guys.... This is brilliant

Hrd2H1t12 votes

Riot should have a great contest. For every skin, there is a contest to see who can make the best MS Paint champion icon

FastAsHeck11 votes

*worst

FFF14 votes

bad is good.

Meta Phyton1 votes

why?

Englais1 votes

I can see that Vlad skin. They might get money from it since every Vlad splash will be the same except for Soulstealer.

Cronofuge5 votes

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Do a shitty MS Paint portrait for every champion in the game? I like your thinking.

Actually my friends and I already did that a while ago, some of the new champions are missing of course. http://imgur.com/a/oCMnA (link is the album of the champion splash we used at the time followed by all 3 of our drawings. Sadly the album is not arranged by who did them. The way to find mine are that they are usually the skinny ones, the most incomplete, and have a lot of attention in a small area. The leader of the "challenge" can be found by the background being emphasized over the foreground) The ruleset we used: 5 minute time limit Default MS paint color palette No tablets, only mice or trackpads image size is 600x600

Lauchmelder7 votes

Lolskill.com did that for livegames on april fools.

http://i.imgur.com/d3FQOsT.jpg

(I can't censor names on my phone, doubt it falls under naming & shaming though)

MrryZ2 votes

Shitty? Are we looking at the same artwork here?

Fondling Gems3 votes

Why top at portraits? I want the rift in MS, gimme abilities, champions, the client. I want it all.

LeadedWolf2 votes

And have it be signed by Draven

RiotRiot Brightmoon55 votes

We make one of these placeholder images for every champion - it's become a bit of a tradition and _really _helps keep our MS Paint skills sharp which is a crucial skill obv. BUT we don't usually include them in PBE builds because we want to test the actual image & see player feedback on the real thing.

Jet Sett41 votes

For April Fool's you gotta put them all on, I really wanna see MS paint TF and Graves.

Big Lincoln1 votes

i wanna see MS paint bard

doombotMECHA1 votes

that would probably involve some kind of quest...

M1NISH1 votes

I wanna see MS Paint Lil Devil Teemo

therealdragon7 votes

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For April Fool's you gotta put them all on, I really wanna see MS paint TF and Graves.

Aurelion Sol becomes Ao Shin for the first and last time...

"Muh stars" "Boop de doo"

love god3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Brightmoon,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=xPn1wJd0,comment-id=000100000008,timestamp=2016-11-22T19:49:36.838+0000)

We make one of these placeholder images for every champion - it's become a bit of a tradition and _really _helps keep our MS Paint skills sharp which is a crucial skill obv. BUT we don't usually include them in PBE builds because we want to test the actual image & see player feedback on the real thing.

Really? That is so cool! Do you think that you will ever release other placeholder images? Either official, like with concept art on universe, or unofficial, like a twitter 'leak' for older champions?

EDIT: Fixed a typo

RiotRiot Brightmoon11 votes

We do sometimes share them after a Champion release - I know we showd one for Jhin and I think one for Ivern, maybe some older ones. FeralPony is the Rioter who started this and he may be the only one who could possibly end it (but I think it's out of his hands now!)

love god1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Brightmoon,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=xPn1wJd0,comment-id=00010000000800010000,timestamp=2016-11-22T21:40:12.863+0000)

We do sometimes share them after a Champion release - I know we showd one for Jhin and I think one for Ivern, maybe some older ones. FeralPony is the Rioter who started this and he may be the only one who could possibly end it (but I think it's out of his hands now!)

That is so cool! I guess I just need PBE access now!

P.S. I think it is so cool when Rioters respond to people like this [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Sahn Uzal5 votes

I remember you guys shared the Shenpai one for Shen :P

Decrit1 votes

he will be making the ones for the skins.

D3m37r11 votes

It would be cool if you guys could compile past placeholder arts. Kinda like you did with RP art.

Elikain1 votes

Someone willing to imgur those awesome MS Paint masterpieces into an album for all of us? [slayer-jinx-catface]

Weathered1 votes

Are you hinting that you have an index of a placeholder similar to this for every champion? So much unused brilliance! It's like Riot's own submission to the Art for RP ms paint collection.

Rebonack1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Brightmoon,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=xPn1wJd0,comment-id=000100000008,timestamp=2016-11-22T19:49:36.838+0000)

We make one of these placeholder images for every champion - it's become a bit of a tradition and _really _helps keep our MS Paint skills sharp which is a crucial skill obv. BUT we don't usually include them in PBE builds because we want to test the actual image & see player feedback on the real thing.

You guys seriously have to have a shitty splash art event next April 1st.

Marshbouy35 votes

No fucking way. That's beautiful.

TakeAGuessNerd16 votes
oh yea mr carbs3 votes

When science goes even further beyond

Mhihnj2 votes

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Jad10 votes

When I first saw this fine piece of art while my game was loading I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

Lord Galvatron8 votes

I guess they thought that they could get away with putting in as much effort in their art as much as the gameplay team does with balancing champions.

haha....

pls don't kill me rito.

Spice POWAH7 votes

I want to see all the WIP art, so far we only got Taliyah and ASol, I think [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Melledoneus2 votes

We also saw Shenpai.

Velzard of Koz6 votes

Placeholder? I don't understand, it looks pretty finished.

Jhin Perfection

Elikain6 votes

#April's Fools Day contest

Community's, hilarious MS Paint drawings of each champion to be chosen to be the loading screen cutoffs for a day. Every champion. Of course, signed by the artists :)

Trolosaurus5 votes

When I post it I get downvoted but when you post it you get upvoted

:/

C'est la vie

ForRift2 votes

you posted it 1 hour after he did

ADepressedLeona2 votes

That actually made my night XD

Zoeeee2 votes

Annie's splash needs to be a shitty ms paint, or a child's drawing. Annie

Rekka7772 votes

I didn't know Riot brought on Kiandymundi as an artist, he's always been more than deserving of the position.

Knalxz2 votes

This isn't a joke, it's the original draft that's was accidentally leaked.

Gunpoint2 votes

thicc

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

This should be April Fool's thing. Get every kindergarten children to draw each of these champions, & make them as placeholders for April Fool's loading screen.

Dicerson1 votes

I doubt it would take them very long to make shitty MS paints of every champ and skin, then for aprils fools do an annie-related event. maybe she finally went to kindergarten and it was show and tell?

PixTron1 votes

Aurelion Sol's was the best, though.

Loon op Zand1 votes

Yes! Riot should make more shitty MS painting of all champs and have them as splash arts in loading screen, that would be topkek.

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