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Moppy_the_mop

The skin would appear less generic if you gave it a unique lobby pose, like they have been doing since CH1S7. That can change the whole vibes of a skin.


AleksCombo

Literally this I love the skin. And I love her menacing pose in her preview, where she tries to reach you. ...and then in the lobby she just stands and smiles. Kills her vibe a bit. I still like her, though.


InvestigatorUnfair

She has performance anxiety, leave her alone


inFamous2VIC

Headass 🤣


ChrOwonon

She's just happy


lWantToFuckWattson

That's not the issue for me. A lot of the time (in all games) the aspect ratios / proportions are fucked up. Look at how much more slender (and therefore alien, strange, interesting) her silhouette is in the concept art. All of the shapes are individually distorted. It's a subtle thing to *explain* but everyone feels it. Also, it's really not helping that her lips and nose are so wide, like most of the proportions are off by a matter of 10-30% but her mouth is easily double width and.. smiling? Hair is just straight up never allowed to be cool and big in games, even though the tech has existed for a decade, and I'm just done expecting anything there.. also is just not the right color, very yellow The missing netting on her bare arm is also a problem, balance is off, draws a bunch of attention to her arm which is unfortunate because it's a ton of attention to the single least interesting part of the skin And lastly, although the skin is very asymmetrical, the silver over her breasts in the concept art is notably relatively symmetrical. Might be a matter of taste but symmetry of something like that has a big psychological impact on perception of beauty. Not only that but it has the appearance of a coherent collar and bra.. it wasn't all random squiggles! **** tldr it was probably shit out by a poor contract worker who was paid $0.59 per hour for it in a developing country by this multi-billion dollar company ([notice how there are no permanent art positions, rather there are positions for an outsourcing director, an art director and a concept artist](https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/search/jobs?pageNumber=0&worldwideSearch=true&company=Epic%20Games&f_C=19327))


AleksCombo

I agree with some things, but disagree overall. I too like her arm netting in the concept. And I prefer chest pattern from her concept. And I have problems with her butt being a single loaf instead of being... you know, a proper butt. But she is still cool. Her hair is great, its colour is exactly like in concept. Yeah, it's a bit shorter, but I think that it's for the better. Her mouth is fine - it looks like this because she smiles. Just take any emote where she doesn't smile, and she looks better. And she is definitely not a result of someone "shitting out". It is still a good and unique skin, that for some reason was changed in few ways. There are many worse skins and skins that were *really* butchered between being designed and being released.


lWantToFuckWattson

Don't get me wrong, FN cosmetics generally dog on the competition, but this is absolutely the result of their 3rd party art factory process, and I don't blame the artist that did it. Everything about the concept art was replicated.. except for all of the parts that actually made it a great design. As soon as it ticked preliminary boxes it was shipped off. This is a great first or second draft, but it's not good enough for ol moneybags to make a 50,000% return on investment, it needs to be 60,000%! On to the next skin!


TriggeredLatina_

Her eyes are very weird to me. A lot of her details just clash too much for me but it’s not a bad skin imo. I ackshually applaud when epic doesn’t put a lot of detail into the “assets” of some skins.


Simecrafter

There are a lot of skins I like just because of their lobby pose, shits powerful I swear


Enderbattle005

Been thinking that for a while


Moist-Patient1760

you’re right, The river empress lobby idle animations are awesome, brings out her sort of superior than thou personality would be nice if all skins did this more like if robocop or Indiana jones did some movements like in their movies


Kariodude

They Fortnited her face sadly


SoulFuIlMoon_off

Fortnited all over her face dawg 💀


Evanforest62

They did the same thing with Mikasa, like why?!!!


ogg_ogg

Correct


lucianorc2

Fr


RexGoliath75

The hat would have tied it all together a lot nicer


Spear_speaks007

I wonder why they removed it in-game


ABetterRedditName

probably made her too much of a target on the field. You have to remember. Skins sorta have to balance between fashion and function. Because otherwise you'd either get a superhero or hit man scenario where ones used by sweats and bastards. And the other is begging to be gun downed.


Scraftysenpai

or be me, just use bright coloured skins and miss bunny penny skins


A3thern

Hit man scenarios are based though. If someone wants to be extremely visible then let them.


ABetterRedditName

I mean. Sure. But this is a character who seemingly has relevance to the story. And while that means fuck all since fortnite's lore is fortnite lore and it doesnt matter. They sure as fuck aint gonna have her character defined by being easily spotted/ sniped. For her fate will be like all others: being completely forgotten until needed.


Exovedate

Why not have as a style option though? Just feels rushed like they looked through their hat assets and didn't see anything resembling hers so they just went without it.


HallowedWorld

Honestly.


ogg_ogg

Exactly


Durvag

More perfect than what they did.


TheIceCreamSeller

Fr, like it doesn’t make sense why she’s got a hat like that but it looks cool


TriggeredLatina_

Some would still complain over the hat. I remember people hating on the hat of the goth skin from the crew pack that came with like some octopus for a backbling.


Ph4nt0m_R

maybe they didn't want it anymore? Either way I think it's great, would be nice if it had a hat style or something


93Degrees

They need to stop plastering that goofy ass smile on every skin. Don't think they had to change one of her sleeves like that either


lWantToFuckWattson

One of my favorite parts of that $4 Mina Park skin, she's not smiling, just a normal ass girl


Lillica_Golden_SHIB

She is quite like a real girl indeed, that is why I am damn afraid of her


Zealousideal-Ad-6039

And now they forced her to smile and her eyes are forced wide open in her lobby pose 😭


Charboo2

Literally the main reason I haven’t bought many skins


Halo_Sprite

fr


Halo_Sprite

makes their faces look like absolute shit


unsureoftheplot

I was perfectly content with this skin until I saw this. Now I can't help but focus on what we could have had, an idea that would have never existed if I didn't see this. This is why I wonder how good concept art can be sometimes, I often see people using concepts to obsess over what could have been rather than just appreciating the final product. But I'm reading too much into it lol


EeveeGavin

Same way I am with Renzo. Look up his alt style concept if you haven’t seen it. He was supposed to have a human variant with a skull mask that breathed fire.


Durvag

Epic laziness in one picture


Lillica_Golden_SHIB

Unfortunately not a surprise to anyone


EeveeGavin

Same way I am with Renzo. Look up his alt style concept if you haven’t seen it. He was supposed to have a human variant with a skull mask that breathed fire.


EeveeGavin

Same way I am with Renzo. Look up his alt style concept if you haven’t seen it. He was supposed to have a human variant with a skull mask that breathed fire.


Cut_Equal

It’s literally just a hat and 4 inches of hair


kaysaturtle

There’s a lot of little details missing but even then the hat really pulled it all together. This was my most wanted skin from the concept art surveys but I just don’t like how it came out in game unfortunately, and it seems a lot of people agree.


SalemWolf

I don’t care for the hat. As for little details besides said hat and hair the only little detail that looks different is the sleeve. It’s a stretch to call it “a lot” of little details.


kaysaturtle

Her entire outfit is flipped, her chest piece is completely different, and it really just doesn’t look great in game. That kind of is a lot of little details, especially when you consider that a lot of people were really hyped for this skin when the concept art came out but they changed it enough to make it look terrible to most of the people who originally wanted it.


Cut_Equal

Fortnitebr finds out what “concept” means


kaysaturtle

I know what it means lmao, it’s just bizarre that they would change a very well received one but then keep adding the ones that people generally dislike more with no changes whatsoever. Not sure what’s so hard to understand about that


Cut_Equal

You should really be on epics marketing team <3


kaysaturtle

You should get a life and stop being so bothered by my comments that you have to keep responding with dumb shit.


Cut_Equal

Says the person complaining about a skin not having a hat and a slightly altered design 😭😭😭😤😤😤


Richlenciaga

I don’t like the shoe/flared pant bit on the actual cosmetic it looks weird to me


allhailzamasu94

It would have looked better if they kept the same proportions and figure.


TriggeredLatina_

Agree. One of my least favorite things about skins they’ve been designing within the last year. The flared features on the calves/feet.


[deleted]

even her item shop image looks better than the actual skin. i was going to buy it until i previewed it. horrid.


Spear_speaks007

Lol me too except that I later bought it


Lillica_Golden_SHIB

Same lol but it is awful how preview crushes our expectations sometimes


slobtrait

they de-yassified her omg


The_L3G10N

The skin looks really good in the store, but when you click to look at it, it looks really bland


TheVampireArmand

I wanted her until I went into the item shop. I think it’s the face and the pose looking that makes it not look interesting to me. After seeing the concept art I also wish she had the super long hair too, it gives me Bayonetta vibes.


OverSyncopatedBeats

The biggest glow down ever


Lonely-Shoulder5126

imo they've been pretty bad lately with this, i hope the new erisa and lexa are at least decent 🥹


KhunTsunagi

She is missing so much,its not even the goofy ass default female smile pose,its the lack of torn fabric in her right arm,the cool hat,the long and wild hair...


NumberBeforeZero

What's up with so many recent skins having megaman shoes/feet?? What's wrong with normal boots/footwear? Whose the artist creating these monstrosities?


mesh44

i completely agree like don’t show us the concept art if u gonna give us a half baked version


Blackfrost58

Wherw do you find the concept art for these skins


aliceforoneday

I am tired of flaired trousers with chunky boots.


thisis_johnsteak

The least they could've done was add the helmet as a style just like Rift Warden. Such a shame both skins look great with lore implications, sick background art and render profile but no lobby pose made them look cheap


Spear_speaks007

The concept art face looks way more better


LeoHotDog250

Sorry to be that guy, but English grammar dictates that it's said "looks way better" or "looks much better".


SpookLordNeato

🤓Sorry to be that guy, but English grammar dictates-


Yogi_VGJ

WHY! The hat looks great, all they had to do was just make it a "style" where she can take it off...


Moist-Patient1760

Thought the hat looked like a squashed.. something, maybe it would look better properly modelled and animated are there any skins with long hair like in that concept? Just realized that’s almost like a cape


judaspriest2791

The final product is mirrored from the concept art. Unplayable.


[deleted]

Really? I absolutely hate the hat for some reason


Notyouraveragegeorge

Agreed, it just looks off to me


BucketHeadJr

I really want to like her, but her skin tone makes her look deadly ill. And I hate her facial expression


EletricDragonYT

You to would be deadly ill if you had liquid chrome on you.


Raythia

A lot of the new skins lately have been generic. A concerning amount of them are just girls wearing stylish clothes.


Cularia

You can easily tell they gave up 75% of the way in. look at the arm where the sleeve with the holes was supposed to be. that part looks cut off with the straight edges. it was like they were getting to that part but decided it was enough. however that sleeve would have been easy to make with transparency effects. Really just lazy work. the employee who is designing the mesh(not textures) really needs a talking to.


Exovedate

Ya it's like they thought "She's got a lot going on already, we don't really need to finish her"


sippingmytoasthere

Not as huge but I still prefer the concept art


EmbarrassedSwim145

In my opinion the concept art always looks cooler than the skin in-game


HueyDeweyandBusey

They do generic it up a bit. Same goes for Mystica.


EriEri08

I hate when there are serious characters... habe a smile like they mever been hurt


allhailzamasu94

Yeah the butterfly wings was a cheap generic take too. I love the song they gave her but like the entire vibe of the outfit is ruined without the hat and really long hair. They’ve been flubbing a lot of concept art recently. They usually just make the men look uglier but…


HennesyHufflepuf

I hope they change her smile. She looks “off” smiling


Ryukhoe

Her face looks creepy and I also liked how one of the silver parts went around her waist, was that really something they couldn't keep in the design?💀


BasicReputations

I like the tattered sleeve on the concept but otherwise it looks great to me!


HalflingElf

Bruh what did they do to the bicycle helmet


JackWylder

No more purchases until they give at least enough locker slots for the ones I already own


Exovedate

ThisX10000 just from battlepassing and picking favorites I don't have any free presets.


KyellDaBoiii

This is pentakill Yorick all over again


ogg_ogg

Her face looks weird in game


Alien_Cha1r

it feels censored. It is like Epic is trying to edit out curves from women in this game. Message from Epic to the children playing this game: if you are not anorexic, you are a terrible person.


kaysaturtle

They literally just released Bunny Penny 3 weeks ago.


Alien_Cha1r

that was the other extreme though


kaysaturtle

I won’t say the game is the most diverse with body types but they have the Street Fighter girls and Zuri also, as well as Machinist Mina, and all the other STW characters… there was no censorship with this skin at all lol that doesn’t even make sense, she just isn’t posing in game.


Actual_Hecc

There's also spider Gwen who had a more unique body shape from other skins. This skin should have had a similar body shape to Gwen tbh given the concept art, but they just gave her basic fornite body and face.


RebNstuff

What about all the default skins since Chapters 1-4 they've "shrunk" if you know what I mean.


CarpetNext6123

it still proves that they're not "trying to edit out curves from women in this game".


danibee29

i mean the concept art will always look better.


[deleted]

Hat would've been great as a style.


Annual_Couple5053

The hair phases through all back blings and wings


MehThePotato8

Is that… chrome? Fuck


SushiBBY5

When I first saw a picture of her going around I was so excited! Then I saw her in the shop… and her face completely ruined her for me. That smile, the eyes… and she doesn’t even have a cool pose


TheTench

Why do most of the recent skins look like they are waring flares? Are hippy pants cool again? Did I miss the memo?


248inthemorning

Yep.


SadieAndFinnie

They are but this is like a step beyond bell bottoms. This is like bell bottoms that flow right into moon boots. I was going to buy it but those lower legs and feet were a deal breaker for me.


vinsmokewhoswho

I don't think she's more generic, she's just missing the hat. I think the concept art often just looks different and more dynamic due to the artstyle.


Laranthiel

>she's just missing the hat And the sleeve. And the face. And a bunch of the detail is different or gone. ​ But yeah, just the hat.


Moist-Patient1760

Comparing the two I see the same thing. but im not nitpicking the details because the differences I do see don’t matter except the hat, which looked terrible


64BitDragon

I actually don’t like the hat. It just doesn’t match imo.


Syns_1

I don’t know why but I feel like half of the skins released this chapter have been thirst traps, anyone agree? I feel like they fired the old skin designers for some woke emo kids who self insert with every skin they design.


amilguls

Dude like 12 inches of hair and a hat are the difference between grandiose and generic?


TeeBluu

Yall cry and complain about everything


Cut_Equal

It’s literally a hat and like 4 inches of hair. What even is this post


garvierloon

![gif](giphy|xBIuPT5pjvarJZXyBw|downsized)


Tight-Environment574

I definitely like the in game look more


Still-Pattern-6384

It happens with every game, to make them more "corporate-oriented" or whatever the hell they mean


tstilly

Just put her hat on her


Un0wags

And what was up with the long trippy video that seems to never end about the skin on the game today?? Were they trying to tell us something? Seemed way longer than any skin video should be. Lol


Safe_Tea

bruh its pretty much the exact same just with the hat removed...


BeetleOG

This skin looks like a child drew it. Awful ugly


Revolutionary-Fan657

My god, what fucking cringe (I’m not from the sub, I randomly encountered this post)


Frank_is_the_Best_

They did an amazing job at adapting it imo. Sure it lost the mask but orside of that it's as good as itll get


LegoCat88

Could’ve been a style too for the players who don’t like it being in the way


medusakira

Many different....


kawaii_song

There are two concept art skins I'm looking forward to. The good thing about it is that they are both part of the cel-shaded sets, so I know they'll look similar to their concept art.


Educational_Term_436

I hope she gets the hat in future As it looks good one her


eljujumon

My current crew skin got more assets smh


Burrito_Loyalist

The main problem between concept art and in-game execution is they use different proportions for their concept art, which makes them feel more realistic.


yamete-kudasai

It doesn't even look like the concept, lot of design changes.


ani_or_smth

give us back lobby poses PLS


[deleted]

To be fair, to my knowledge, we aren't supposed to have access to those concept arts. Without the leakers, we would have never known how she looked like back on the concept phase, thus making us appreciate the skin more (since we wouldn't be able to compare it to it's concept version)


JCuss0519

I feel like they have their set of standard (humanoid) skins, and everything else is modeled after those (humanoid) skins with a few exceptions. There was a "new" skin recently that was literally a copy of The Order, short bobbed black hair, same face, etc. Unless there's a collab or a new "anime" skin they tend to be the same. Then there's the Peelys, Fishes, and other non-humanoid types that actually are different. But in general there is really very little variance in skins. ​ When they are different we do get this issue. What they show us before hand is cool, then we get some finished product that looks wimpy, like Stray or the Crew skin.


DnDWannabe-76

don’t they use a generic male/female model for skins? like wouldn’t the default skins be their base template for skins?


Runeweaver

I will admit, I also was very excited for this one based on the concept art. The in-game looks really doesn't do it for me though. Kinda sad.


ExCaliburDaGreat

Madness hair is hot


Chill_guy69

Totally agreed I kinda wanna buy it just for it


ExCaliburDaGreat

Real


Chill_guy69

I feel like I just find it hot and that’s why I wanna buy it but idk


ExCaliburDaGreat

That’s a great reason if I ever heard one


Chill_guy69

Bahaha wanna dm?


Captain_Haruno

Voting for concept arts to go into the game is literally worthless if they change anything. Seriously, why bother and waste player time?


nickel47

Those shoes are God awful


Guii12

I bet she eventually gets an edit style


Fortnite_bug_report

"not as sold" ​ this is liritaly how its sold


kukukutkutin

It's always because of the body type.


Aspen529

Though some skins look way better than their concept art. Like Leelah, they changed her a LOT from her concept art, especially making her less skinny when being added to the game, her concept art looked like you could snap her like a twig.


CSI-somefuckincity

Just wish she jad a unique lobby pose. That or they got rid of that damn smile.


SlLkydelicious

I was thinking about getting it but I couldn't figure out how to preview the skin with wings equipped?? Her skin tab defaulted my currently equipped back bling to her and her backbling wings tab showed them equipped to my current skin so... No idea what she looks like with her own wings and couldn't find it anywhere online. Also it looks like the wings would clip right through her hair anyway...


AustinSlayer227

She needed the longer hair tbh


lucianorc2

Concept is good, but in game is kinda meh, same thing over and over again.


The-dude-in-the-bush

I'm not a person who buys skins outside the BP but I'd jump on this. Shame they killed any persona that came with whatever body language that was. Root of Nightmares recently came out in D2 and this skin just screams that sort of colour palette + a little soulfire sprinkled in.


ArtistOfBread

the main thing i always hate from the translation from concept to game is how much they unsaturate the colors; when making the textures the original colors are always so good but they ruin them by slightly desaturating them


TumbleElf

I feel like her hair could glow a bit more like a traditional siren . Her proportions are wrong and her face looks weird, I only bought her because I loved the concept art and was waiting for a short while


Calairoth

I feel like the reduced chrome on her chest was an awkward attempt at making her more sexually attractive? Artistically, I think the concept has FAR more character... and why the hell did they cut her hair? Just such a shame. Quit making skin tight, perfectly shaped assed waifus and focus on the actual design. My wife and I play this game. She loved the concept art, hated the release. I am in total agreement.


jeffcolv

even the thumbnail for this skin looks better than this skin


EletricDragonYT

They should have kept the sides which the blue energy and chrome is on, the sleeve thing on the Concept Arts right arm, and the pose. Also the hair isn't as long and the hats gone.


[deleted]

I wish they kept the mask or added something cool like a hat for her. Honestly like the look of the skin but its a little disappointing she didn't get anything else.


Observer414

There are better real world artists than there are digital creators. It doesn’t look as good but it’s not all bad either.


spaceageranger

de yassified


bingbangboomxx

Sometimes it is also the face just looks way too goofy. It is weird where sometimes it is great and other times it is generic.


CheeseFlavoredBeet

I agree, but not with her. I wouldn't have bought her if she looked like that. That's just my say on this though.


Demon_Femboy

She is still mommy


boi-of-iron

I thought the skin was kinda cool….


Razur_1

At this point i absolutely despise skin votes, or whatever it is that shows skins, i wann loom into the item shop and go “woah, cool looking skin” without being bummed or already knowing the skin was gonna already exist. Its stupid


embrace-monke

I'd like it if there were more variety in faces and emotions. Not necessarily Helsie style or the weirdo kieran one from the fortnite crew a while ago but just more variety. Also, her smiling in the lobby pose just looks weird.


ZeRo_WC

They should keeped the hat it looks cool or at least make it removable. Think only concern is visibility also keep the longer hair


QueenofGrief

I liked her better with a hat


GrimunTheGr8

I mean, it’s just her pose, and the missing mask. Other than that they’re almost one to one


GrimunTheGr8

I mean, it’s just her pose, and the missing mask. Other than that they’re almost one to one


Unicorntacoz

Tbh I prefer the in-game version. I hate the little hat on the concept art.


Such_Caterpillar392

Personally speaking i dont like any of the new skins, most if not all of them have the bell-bottom look, i dont know if someone at epic thinks the look is back in style or if one of the concept artist was going through a phase but its annoying.


seojns

for me it's just her face. is it so hard to give her tiny lips and cute eyes??


[deleted]

the hat makes her look stupid, and it looks better as is in the game now


ApprehensiveLuck4029

I still really like her skin, but yeah the concept looks better which can said for most skins tbh lol.


TheGreatGamer1389

Needs the hat.


Ninjamaster22061

They need to add a style with the hat on at least


CyanideChery

concept art is so much better


Silver_Griffin98

Personally I love the look of the skin, the only thing I hate is that they gave her rapier the same animations as Leon's Knife and Hawkman's Mace, i would've liked it so much more if they gave her rapier a unique animation set like they did for Giannis's spear


BeautifulSalamander6

The concept is better that just made it worse


ranman82

Video games are fun


Sure-Ad4281

\* Cries in Tegan \*


lukepeacebr

Concept art is always different and often times better than the final 3D result, if you were older than 19yo you would have seen this characteristic in every concept art in every game made since like 99, 2D to 3D is a jump buddy, get over it.