League of Legends players now have a first look at the newest esports skins to be released in commemoration of Samsung Galaxy’s 2017 victory at Worlds.
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Back in February, we reported that the members of Samsung Galaxy had chosen the champions that they wanted skins for following their championship win. With the new State of Skins dev blog that’s just been released, Riot Games confirmed once again that the previous list of champions was correct with Taliyah, Gnar, Jarvan IV, Rakan, Xayah, and Ezreal will be the next champions to get esports skins.
“Just like last year, we’re working closely with the pros to make sure their skins celebrate who they are as a team and their amazing accomplishment,” Riot Games’ product manager and lead skin producer Anna “Supercakes” Donlon said in the video above.
Just before the four-minute mark in the video, players can see some concepts for the six new skins. Players are already weighing in on the new skins with some drawing comparisons to Cosmic and Warring Kingdom skins, but many seem impressed with the skins so far, especially with the concept for Gnar’s skin.
On Twitter, Riot Stellari, skins producer for League of Legends, shared an image of all of the SSG skin concepts side-by-side and said that the skins players see now aren’t the final designs. The Rioter went on to explain what some of the goals were for the skins while adding that some concepts such as Taliyah’s have already been adjusted multiple times since the first concepts were created.
Hey all! In the new State of Skins video, we shared the concept art for the upcoming SSG Worlds skins. This is a perfect time to talk about our process on skins. Concept art helps us figure out a thematic, find cohesion, work out problems–it’s not final design 1/3 pic.twitter.com/97HOG4aI3W
โ Riot Stellari (@thejanellemj) March 6, 2018
This SSG lineup was a first pass with a few goals in mind: one of these was making sure we were translating SSG’s vision correctly, another goal was making sure the team looked like a team. This concept helped us align on a direction. 2/3
โ Riot Stellari (@thejanellemj) March 6, 2018
Since then, there’s been a number of changes (as happens with all concept art). For example, Taliyah’s had a number of changes since this first pass. Hope you love all these skins! I’ll try and answer whatever questions I can. 3/3
โ Riot Stellari (@thejanellemj) March 6, 2018
A release timeframe for the new SSG skins hasn’t been announced yet, but look for more development posts on the skins as we move closer to their final versions.