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I want to know whos idea it was to change all our current splash arts to these terrible 'fan arts'

blessthekellen·4/6/2016, 3:11:56 AM·5 votes·1,628 views

Dear Riot & Employees.

I can understand you guys want to push any sort of globalization throughout your game from region to region. I know opinions will vary across the map, but I feel like you guys really need to sit down and communicate better on what sort of art you want to portray and market your game.

If I am a new League of Legends player, spectator, or fan, and I see the following splash art:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EiobsNAKqHU/maxresdefault.jpg

I think to myself, wow, this artwork is fantastic & definitely portrays consistency throughout other champions selected in the game such as:

http://i.imgur.com/HgUtK0G.jpg

or

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K_6c26YCS5I/VGUbmBHSxzI/AAAAAAAAdbg/gQgPIFJG2AA/s1600/Kalista_Splash_1.jpg

or even

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KKi_bo388p0/hqdefault.jpg

Then I see the opposing team make their selection and I see the following:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3kerbdLs4E/VwQKFs5Hr9I/AAAAAAAANA0/BrjUNethu1k2rYiFk8ULizw0kY2mQDidQ/s1600/Twitch_Splash_4.jpg

alongside

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sUg3HRsfDo0/VwQKB7RXgsI/AAAAAAAAM_0/uwETlHn4wrMgfDA5HzEJ8bIiPaabObXeg/s1600/Shyvana_Splash_2.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-20G1kcz5xuM/VwQKGcHjC4I/AAAAAAAANBA/u36xXqtuPoQiIeNYW0n37YEwwFLp7U4zw/s1600/Vayne_Splash_1.jpg

Now I think to myself. What kind of cheap ass game is this my friends told me about? Why would I want to watch this "LCS" they said was so fantastic.

I do not understand how as a company, you can let something like this even make it to live. Season6 is turning out to be a major turn for the worse in comparison to Season5 because of decisions like these.

You all need to get on the same page with what art style you want representing your brand as you are coming into the later part of the season, MSI, and worlds. Having these splash arts show up on screen, is going to look ridiculous.

7 Comments

Jeddy0174/6/2016, 6:14:58 AM3 votes

3....2.....1....copy & paste

Hey folks,

As many of you (especially fans of the Chinese LoL scene) may know, some of our older skin and champion splash arts are different across the world. This is a big deal - splash art is one of most important tools we have for conveying a champion's fantasy and personality in League. We want players to have a global, unified experience - it's confusing when (ex.) Taric or Goth Annie have vastly divergent representations of their power and feel depending on which region you play League in.

Splashes are used everywhere: from champ select to the loading screen, portrait icons, the store, and more recently Hextech Crafting. With that in mind, we'll be updating a large number of our older splash arts to unify them across all regions. You should be seeing the first batch in today's PBE (and onward throughout the patch 6.7 PBE cycle), with another batch coming later in patch 6.8!

Edit: Thanks for the feedback everyone. We won't be making any reverts or changes during this round, but this feedback will help our splash artists prioritize what to upgrade when they get the chance. I mentioned this in a comment, the benefit of making these changes is to eliminate a pipeline that has been causing us internal pain. We know some of these aren't as nice and the art style is off, but choosing one splash or the other was the fastest way to kill this pipeline. We want to focus on new content and features, not firefighting and changes like this help us do that

Yordle Xayah4/6/2016, 6:31:38 AM2 votes

Yeah, because this was so much better

http://img02.deviantart.net/6e94/i/2012/011/d/b/vindicator_vayne_by_erodonut-d4m0plr.png

http://memecrunch.com/meme/ROHW/wayne-s-world/image.jpg

Poop Jelly4/6/2016, 5:27:16 AM1 votes

Although a few of them could use improvement, I think I approve most of the new splash arts. Though I would like for Riot to keep the consistency of the style. I don't mind different styles of art, but it's just weird to combine naturalistic art with anime-cartoon art. Some of the anime-ish splash actually uses good color theme, I don't mind those.

Elwynn4/6/2016, 3:13:26 AM1 votes

the tristana one is the ugliest thing ever.

Glaedr4/6/2016, 6:36:37 AM1 votes

A lot of the art is years old and does not have the consistency that matches your first few pictures. The patch notes even say this is a short-term solution.

69469238DEL14/6/2016, 6:42:34 AM1 votes

vayne new splash is hot tho

Tesla Effect4/6/2016, 10:47:48 AM1 votes

Besides the Twitch one which is just bad, the other new splash arts you mentioned arent bad at all. Shyvanas splash looks freaking awesome.