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allisian · 5 months

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Back when Sweetheart Xayah and Rakan was released the community responded with criticism and fan edits/redesigns because of its poor quality....and here I am contributing to that.

That's right 5 years later after this skin was released and with it being nowhere near Valentine's Day I took it upon myself to make my own HeartAche Xayah!

For holiday skins, heartseekers had a shallow thematic with "pink, gold, and hearts" being the core elements. (There is potential for improvement by giving a more directed and dramatic direction).

Xayah and Rakan made perfect champions to a valentines skin line with their romance being their main gimmick. Literal love birds.

As a concept, Rakan is actually great (not the skin itself). He's a love-struck prince charming suitor in pastel and personally, I think there are already plenty of wonderful fan redesigns that perfect that concept.

For Xayah I felt she looked plain next to Rakan, as his contrast Xayah had many avenues to explore rather than being his basic goth princess background npc.

She needed a makeover. One that made her represent the Dark and painful side of love...

I replaced her wing with a tattered red cape associated with a red hiding hood adding to the "fantasy" but gave it a high pointy collar similar to that of the evil queen and vampires. (I was torn between giving her default hood back and this)

The black swan (swan lake) also heavily inspired Xayah's look with a ballet leotard and ribbons paired with a feather top and asymmetrical half tutu.

And of course, I gave her running mascara.

Overall Xayah turned out a lot darker than the status quota of sweetheart but I think all of the valentines skins should explore the different shades of love.

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dastardlydumb · 7 months

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redesigning Viktor

how to go about it? as i'm drawing up body shapes and silhouettes to use in a fun little attempt at redesigning a character such as viktor the machine herald with a more modern take or just a bit of a character update in general. at first i thought perhaps giving him a bad posture would be a good idea to use to accentuate the fact he carries a giant hand laser on his shoulder and give him a bit more of a feral vibe by essentially stretching him out like you see with most tech priests from warhammer since that's his original inspiration. but then i start to think it might go against his personality and character to be seen as something with a bad posture. plus if you were to put him besides singed their character silluhette would be far too similar which wouldn't be ideal in a character lineup.

so then a more tall and regal yet a bit inhuman stretching of the character seems a better choice. and i think it'll be what i end up landing on were it not for Jhin who could be seen similarly even with the weird pauldron on the side. but Jhin is very lanky and thin so if i give Viktor a bit more of a buff with his chest armor it shouldn't be a problem in a character line up.

then there's the question of whether or not to keep his hood on or off. if he has it on he sorta runs the risk of looking to similar to other hooded caped character which mostly include Ashe Xayah who both have feminine figure so maybe he won't run that risk too much. giving him a hood would arguably make him seem more shepherd or herald like befitting his title. the spiky mess of hair can just be underneath it the same way he hides his unaugmented parts of himself with a shawl/cape.

having his pauldron jut out and be kinda flat would separate him from getting confused with jhin who has a very tall upright pauldron. i am aware that their pauldrons are on the opposites sides but that hardly matters in terms of confusing their silhouettes.

arguably his claw is his most distinguishing feature if you were to put him in a character line up. tho making that work for him in terms of aesthetically pleasing character designs could prove to be difficult. but it's one of those curve balls you just have to roll with and try and see what works and what doesn't.

he's a spellcaster/scientist with a staff and with that comes the opportunity to display his aesthetic and personality through the object with which he does all his zappy science magic stuff. i'd say that keeping the wires but making them a bit more visible and overall giving the staff the appearance of some sort of container for the hexcore is a good idea unless i was to decide that the hexcore/his ult ability "chaos storm" actually remains in his chest and he just throws it out whenever he uses the ability like in his battlecast skin model. either way, i think the staff should look almost like a lightning rod with a container for the crystal or hexcore at the head of the staff. you could also implement some aesthetic choices of his cane from arcane into the design but i'm currently focusing on his league design. otherwise i'd say it would be a great idea to almost show signs of it being capable of somehow collapsing into a crutch or a cane with the push of a button on it somewhere, or just having it be able to double as a crutch.

i would like to incorporate more bronze or design choices that ties him together to his creation blitzcrank. it would only make sense that they would look similar to show Viktors style in engineering and making their lore connection a bit more recognisable despite their design differences. blitzcrank is very friendshaped but i think that generally making viktors armor somehow more angular and a bit more like scraps of metal welded together would accomplish this.

Viktor is a scientist who looks like a mage, or to use his original concept title he is a "hexmage" and in the league universe that's almost the same as saying he's an artificial mage made through or powered by hextech. but more so than that he is a leader type of character, in fact most of his the skinlines that he's in, he has to fill the role of villainous leader. admittedly in his league lore its a role he has very little interest in, aside from maybe using it as an opportunity to educate people. but it's a role league seems very intent on him filling somehow. And with that being the case then it's the most natural choice to give him a design the exudes some sort of power and authority or perhaps even charisma that people from zaun would see and think yeah i wanna follow that guy into a revolution.

with all that and a bit more in mind it's easy to see how difficult it is to actually redesign this guy. but fortunately his design is so very old that quite literally anything would be a step up from his current messy design (which i still find adorable in its own right but by god please this man needs an update)

#like reading about character design and viktor? then click continue #i'm attempting to spare the rest of ya'all #league of legends #league lore #viktor #viktor the machine herald #machine herald #talking about character design #long text #dastardly rants

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yutopia-eleftheria · 2 years

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*Announcement*

From now on, this Tumblr will no longer be focused only on Monster Hunter Stories & Riders. Of course this fandom will live on forever, but it will now be multifandom !!

Apart from Monster Hunter Stories & Riders, this will be the new fandoms added to this Tumblr account (the list can change, mostly add some new stuff) :

Just Dance

Criminal Case

Inazuma Eleven

Pokémon (+ some AU’s for our lil’ creatures)

League of Legends (or should I say Xayah and Rakan, but maybe I can do some others too...)

Five Nights At Freddy’s (Rebirth AU)

MLP (some of my AU too)

Beyblade Metal Saga

Octopath Traveler

Saint Seiya

One Piece

Fairy Tail

My OC’s from every fandom so far

I will also do songs attached to a character

Maybe some playlists for them too

Of course some Sexuality Headcanons will still be there (it’s part of my AU’s after all)

Added to that my couples and stuff

This will work splendidly with my next gen designs added there too (like one of the posts I did)

Have some Genderbend designs sometimes too

Crossovers can join in too

I guess I could do some memes too

And maybe some Gacha too I guess

Maybe a few mangas/animes

Maybe some other game stuff, like The Quarry or Resident Evil Village...

There will also have something I will start soon ; some sort of redesign of characters : or how I imagines the characters in my AU. After I’ve done these designs, I will mostly draw them respecting my AU chart. (if you want a drawing of a character but in his original design, I’m perfectly fine with that and I will definitely do it for you).

Note : this list can change, and mostly add some new things, so stay tuned !

This announcement for this big change on my Tumblr was offered by Laurine (this is me on the left)

#announcement #what ? this tumblr evolves !#new fandoms in here #i thought showing a bit some of my races in my au was the best thing to do before this #so that you could understand my au in all fandoms better #this is mostly my headcanons #but i also have inspiration from other peeps #hope the monster hunter fans doesn't mind that i add some other fandoms that i love in this #the little drawing above is a photo i did in my style #this is me dina and my friend emilie #it was during geek days at lille on december 2021 #i guess this proves that i love dina and just dance xD #i can't wait to do more fandoms than just monster hunter stories and riders #i mean i love those but i wanna do other stuff that i love in this tumblr too

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talesofruneterra · 3 years

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Thinking of giving Lo a slight redesign. It’s occurred to me that the hood-and-cloak thing I had going for him makes him look perhaps a little too much like Xayah, especially when he’s darting about hurling moths at you like she’s throwing feathers.

#Where's the light? (ooc)#Plus I really need to stop giving so many of my OC's hoods #It's just... My design aesthetic...

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witches-and-weirdos · 4 years

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Attention!

I’m gonna make an Avica change.

She’s gonna be from the tribe from which modern Lhotlans evolved. No name finalized for it yet.

This tribe is very similar to the modern Lhotlans, but is much closer to the Vastayashai’rei. They also have 2 actual wings instead of the cape-like plumage.

This will:

Explain why she can naturally bend magic with her mere movements, even if Xayah and Rakan don’t seem to be able to (oops, that headcanon shot too far I guess)

Make her not have complete emotional shock and probably half a breakdown from simply meeting a living Lhotlan muse for the first time

Make me happy cause I wanted this redesign for personal reasons anyway

So, nothing else should really change, only her body a bit and her species name

IDK when I’ll actually put this on her info page, perhaps eventually

(PS: the new girl will be of the same species)

#Avica #I wonder how many of you actually know and/or remember who she is and for how many people is this actually relevant

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