Arcane Changed Vi's Design For The Better
League of Legends isn’t exactly a master when it comes to diverse body types across its roster. Riot Games has certainly improved over the years, but there was a time when every female character had to have a lovely chest, attractive figure, and all the assets you’d expect from a conventionally attractive woman. It became an accepted part of the game’s universe.
When Arcane was announced and it became clear the show would depict alternate versions of established characters like Vi, Jayce, Jinx, and Caitlyn - many were curious exactly how this new vision would be executed. Well, now we have a comprehensive picture of how the show was made, and how many iterative changes it went through before culminating in the final product we have today.
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Bridging The Rift is a new series of videos that aim to chronicle the making of Arcane. It delves deep into the multi-year project and working relationship between Riot Games and Fortiche as key figures across both companies take us into how the story, characters, world, and so much more were crafted. While it takes ample inspiration from the existing League of Legends mythos, Arcane also considered itself a standalone entity, one that was able to take risks as it appealed to a mainstream audience and strived to turn League into a household name that moves far beyond the MOBA that started it all. I could be here all day talking about the specifics, but for now I wanted to focus on one specific character: Vi.
Vi is the series’ main heroine alongside Jinx, with the sisters finding themselves separated after a tragic incident as they live out vastly different lives across Piltover and Zaun. Arcane would confirm their long
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