Re-uploaded the original video because the last one got restricted for unknown reasons, hopefully nothing happens this time But I did want to say from the original upload the sheer amount of supportive comments, fanart, and encouragement was frankly overwhelming I cannot thank you fellas enough
You could go a Bel'Veth angle where she has become a monster but tries to hide it and live her life like she did before, but if anyone looks close enough they'll see the monster just underneath, plus this plays into her trying to resist the urges she now has as a monster, and maybe adds a goal storywise with her trying to find a way to fix it. Like I can imagine a version of her where she wears a robe covering her whole body, but her human face is exposed, but her mouth is slit, she talks using the small bit of her mouth that looks human, and she looks only slightly odd when she does so, but if she opened her mouth for real that slit mouth is exposed to be the mouth of a snake. Her head is connected to an elongated serpent-like neck, her torso is a combination of a reptile and a human, and her arms are scaled, elongated, and end in wicked claws, her lower body is still a snake tail.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just buy this concept. They basically gave her a whole asu. The only thing riot would need to do would be to change the rigging or some animations (like the joke for instance)
as an artist, it makes me overjoyed to see people coming together and helping each other make stuff out of love for a character or a piece of media, its such a wonderful and cozy sense of community its truly beautiful. Also i love your art Nicky, its soo cute never stop doing it.
The helmet lacks some details and authenticity. The way artists do it is to make sure that champions have recognizable silhouettes. Take away her tail and you won't know which female champ out of gazillion she is.
Riot PLEASE! This is the golden opportunity give a community a chance! Make this official! Recognize their efforts! Don't be offended, instead take it as a compliment. The players just want to improve the game as much as you do!
It’s a nice project and all but honestly do not feel like it’s better than the original skin. Riot would not change their character that’s existed for years to a horny fan made version
@@ironicallyunironic9300 it's literally explained in the video tho. Cass is a walking contradiction of lore and themes. She's supposed to be hideous and revolting in lore but she still looks like an alluring snake woman, all of her skins convey that theme. I know Riot will not do anything, that's why my comment is a plead to Riot. To urge them despite them realistically not taking this seriously. But you can't reduce this to "a horny fan made version". This is so well done, the project is objectively justified.
@@ironicallyunironic9300 fuck outta here with that brainrotted take. You clearly didn't come here to actually watch the video - you just came to complain in the comments.
Cassio's Azula refrenence when showcasing the voicelines was for sure a treat. ( also congrats Nicky may youtube stop bothering you and finally do something about content farms )
Agreed, hypocritical of youtube to smite people that showed even an outline of a boob window but doesn't do anything about minecraft sexual slop farms with actual scat in it, and no, not the good kind of scat.
Animating the final splash art for Cassiopeia's ASU was a blast! 💚🐍Artist Dwekou did an AMAZING job capturing her personality perfectly in the splash, which made animating her that much easier! An amazing production from start to finish - a big congratulations to all the artists involved, and to our Brilliant conductor NickyBoi! 💚
Riot needs to hire you as a project manager asap. You brought this entire project together and saw it through, all by yourself. It's so impressive. Hope to see my girl Leona reworked in the future because babe is looking so jank
I didn't comment on the first one, so I'll do so now. This is a really well-done collaboration! The amount of work and passion that went into this is just admirable!
Riot keep saying they dont have the "budgdet and manpower" to increase the number of reworks. This man proves otherwise, and he doesn't even work for the company.
Well, let's be clear. The new model is great, the voice lines and the acting are pretty good. And the art is top notch. An ASU on something like Cass needs a whole new rig, and then that rig has to be applied to all the other models, and then there's new animations for all of the actions and making sure those target onto the other models well. Plus, old champs like this are often missing a bevy of animations, tower strike animations, variable auto attack animations, displacement animations, custom recall animations, home guard animation. All the effects for all that stuff. Do they not have the money for it? Well, they don't have the money to deliver on their insane, obsessive growth targets. And this isn't a riot thing. It's a game industry wide problem. For two decades, games have been the unstoppable juggernaut of growth in the entertainment sector. Every year, the industry expands and the market cap increases, so investing is a surprisingly good bet. But those investments are now promising rates of return that the industry's natural growth rate can't sustain, so companies are needing to take drastic financial and operational moves in order not to make profits - they're dummy good with profits - but instead to pay dividend targets, which typically means not just earning more money than you spent, but earning a significant % more than the last time you earned more than you spent. Yiu sell me a thing for $50 that costs you $20 to make. You do that ten times, you make $300 bucks. Pretty good. The next year, you sell a thing for $60 that cost you $25 to make. You make $35 and you sell it fifteen times. You've made $525, which is a rate of year over year growth of 75%. So I tell yih for the next five years, I'll give you 10,000 a year and you'll turn it into 24,000 the first year and then turn it into 42,000 the next year and so on and so forth. By year five, there's almost no one left to swell to, so to make the money I expect you to make and convince me to give you more, you have to find a way to convert your $100ish dollars a unit cost to like $50ish That means job cuts, it means monetization changes, it means gacha stuff. This example has been exaggerated, but it's basically what's happening. The ceos don't want to lose the funding streams. So they need to keep the investors happy, and once you hit a market cap when you promised there wouldn't be one, it changes your approach.
yay, the video is back! saying once again that voicing the snake lady was very fun and i’m glad that you had me (and i really appreciate all the nice comments y’all left for me too !
This is such a great redesign. I especially love the splash art for your Cassiopeia - it shows off her personality fantastically and conveys the “gimmick” for her character perfectly (gimmick might not be the right word). It’s practically perfection that her tail is obviously there (her leaning on it), but because of that it’s not obviously there at the exact same time - her tail hides in plain sight. That’s such a great and fitting choice for the kind of character you’re going for with this redesign and it makes such a difference. Also, the amount of work that had to go into this character redesign and the video itself; I’m completely in awe. I'm blown away. This is truly amazing!!! Well Done!! You should! feel so proud of yourself!! This is just absolutely amazing!
Pretty sure it has been said before, but to put her monster side into the design, she could briefly turn into the "demonic" snake form, when she ults. That'd be cool.
I hope you make more like this cause this was honestly fun to watch and have been watching other of your videos and love how fun they are and less serious / rude compared to other lol people ive seen, like you actually make it feel fun
So.... heres an idea. What if she can turn into a full blown snake monster when things dont go according to her plans? Great work btw. Really love the design, both the finished product and the original artwork.
My immediate reaction was “ugh another pretty monster” but I WAS SO WRONG. Holy fuck this was incredible, my jaw literally dropped when you revealed the 3d model AND THE VOICE ACTING?? If it means another one of these make a full video on a sponsorship, we would all watch it to the end. This was AMAZING.
I agree that it was definitely much better than I expected initially, though I've gotta say I still have reservations with this direction for the character, given her gameplay. Cassiopeia as a champion is an absolute fighting machine, her ideal way of playing isn't "hypnotizing and cunning," it's eviscerating your opponents through sheer force of mechanics, movement, and DPS. This is directly antithetical towards pulling her more towards "seductive snake lady." I understand that NickyBoi wanted to make the character something challenging for him though, and since it's not official it's obviously not so much of a problem for me, he really went all out with this and I appreciate my one of my favorite champions gameplay wise getting some love. That being said, the gameplay clashing with character ALREADY exists, so it's not like NickyBoi created a new problem as much as he exacerbated an old one (I would still prefer his design to current, so long as the animations worked the same).
Finally could see it I love her lore touchups you did. Making her the “smug B*tch” of The Black Rose seems so obvious when someone else talks about it, yet, at least I, didn’t think about it before.
I'm just here to mention that the art that decent generators use is licensed and it could consist of libraries like shutterstock images, Ai doesn't necessarily just stitch existing art together. Loras are used to control the output of a prompt and that's the foundation of running a image generator locally, the meaningful part of image generation is in the systems used to control the output. Which is to say nobody is getting ripped off or stolen from by Ai, it's Ai websites that use stolen art as morphs for pre-made prompts and users stealing art to generate for profit images.
I also thought a interesting idea For her would be. She is a snake monster but she uses hypnotic like pheromones to trick her prey into viewing her as beautiful
I cant go back to base skin after seeing this, it works so well that when I think of Cassiopeia I see the skin you made with updated voice lines. Amazing work.
Hoooooly shit. Bruh, first off. You are a WAY better artist than you give yourself credit for. That cartoon-y version of Cass is still fantastic and would not only fit in with similarly cartoon-y/chibi/cute-sy emotes or stickers that Riot themselves occasionally put out, but it would be among the best of them. The fact that it doesn't fit into the artstyle for in-game models specifically is secondary. You still designed this, and had the artistic talent to know what would work and what wouldn't. Secondly, the design itself is fucking amazing! Like, it really is hard to express just how much I love the "ASU" in it's ENTIRETY and I believe that is a very common sentiment judging by quite literally every single comment/thread/think piece I've seen regarding it. From general art direction to voice lines to specific details, it oozes charm and really pulls together the mess of a character that is Cassiopia into something much more sensical and... *whole*. Thirdly, I know this was an enormous project and likely not something you will be able to do more of for both time and financial reasons. But PLEASE, if you find yourself craving another project of this caliber at any point, KEEP GOING! There are so many champs that have unfortunately been lost to history that are in such desperate need of this level of care and after watching your content for the past several years I know you get it like seamingly few who actually work at Riot do. It doesn't even need to be playable in game, just an art piece, some lore rewrites, and maybe some VO work really does add so much to an otherwise abandoned character. Just knowing that someone out there cares enough to make these things exist, even in a non-canonical way, makes me feel warm and fuzzy about a fictional world that I've been following for over a decade :). Maybe one day a Rioter will see this and be inspired to finally give my funny rock man some love lol. Keep up the fantastic work Mr. Boi. I look forward to watching your career with great interest. PS. Riot! Fucking hire this guy!
I absolutely love this. This was incredible and when I thought you were done you just kept making this whole project better. Congrats on everything man, everything ended up looking absolutely amazing.
I am very very disappointed and sad because we will never have something thiss immaculate, Cassiopeia is on of my top mains, I appreciate what y'all have given to breath life into her, this is so beautiful each and everyone of y'all who worked on this should be hired just for the passion alone already
That was hecking cool, I'm a fan of subjectively's work and TBSkyen's similar ventures but I'm shook with how far you went on this one. Noxian crown was a great touch.
I don't comment nor like a lot but this definitely deserves it, I just hope it reaches a wider audience other than your subscribers because I'm sure there are a lot more people who would love this. Thank you Nicky for even making this possible.
Imma be honest, I adore the art you did for her. She’s so cute! That said, seeing her new splash art and listening to her lines I’m ashamed to say I’d fold.
Like and comment because TB Skyen said so (I watched this whole video before his though) I have my criticisms of this design, but I can't but admire the sheer amount of effort and passion you clearly pured into it. Hope you can make at least a part of the money back! Keep up the good work, Nicky!
Nicky, i can't show enough gratitude of showing what justice for a outdated champion's personality and visual can someone give! was really fun to see your ideas coming to fruition like this,and i wish to see more of your content!
First time watching this channel - definitely sub worthy, and you deserve even more. All those artists you worked with did an AMAZING job and together you brought something not shy of being an actual rework, looks astonishing
LET’S F#€KING GOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Amazing job to all the artists and Nick for getting all this together. I’m sure as sh!t going to your patreon now so that we could hopefully get a video like this again.
I'll state my previous coment again because this was unfair and the video amazing. I so wish this was actual oficial work of riot, I'm no artist, art critic or wathever but if you told me this was official I wouldn't bat an eye, for me this is a visual rework at its finest. Never ever cared for Cass and in my almost 13 years of playing league I played her like 3 times a not willingly even (aram and one for all), but this made me appreciate the character and made me want to see stories with her in them. Just like Tryndamere with the Still Here animation. This is the power of well executed, passionate art. Well done Nicky, I'll make it my mission to run this video in the brackground whenever I'm watching something else. RUclips can be a female dog sometimes.
I wasn't sure when I first saw this design on Twitter (I refuse to name it X). But with how you've explained the changes in her story, I can see it more. And I think her dsign in your style makes her mischievious and adorable at the same time, I love her face there!
It scares me how much the pic at 25:03 is soo similar to my GF the only differences are that she's blond dyed not green and her skin is pale white but the smug face and overall face features are nearly spot on. Oh well time to download this
Re-uploaded the original video because the last one got restricted for unknown reasons, hopefully nothing happens this time
But I did want to say from the original upload the sheer amount of supportive comments, fanart, and encouragement was frankly overwhelming I cannot thank you fellas enough
It helps that this is a video worth rewatching.
Pain
Rewatching to help again, love ya Nicky, you didn’t deserve that
I swear, if you got demonetized for the sex jarvan 4th meme at the beginning I'll piss out my own balls
Nooo the title hard to be changed too? Sadge.
RUclips, PLEASE PAY THIS MAN
Omg yes!!!😭😭😭😭😭
Beating me to the same energy comment, I salute thee
No, Riot pay this man!
call riot
@@Cino-Cin anybody, pay this man!
"I was about to celebrate becoming an only child!" THAT LINE GOT ME 😭😭😭😭 (azula reference guys)
Also I'm a cass main.
Rawr
You could go a Bel'Veth angle where she has become a monster but tries to hide it and live her life like she did before, but if anyone looks close enough they'll see the monster just underneath, plus this plays into her trying to resist the urges she now has as a monster, and maybe adds a goal storywise with her trying to find a way to fix it.
Like I can imagine a version of her where she wears a robe covering her whole body, but her human face is exposed, but her mouth is slit, she talks using the small bit of her mouth that looks human, and she looks only slightly odd when she does so, but if she opened her mouth for real that slit mouth is exposed to be the mouth of a snake.
Her head is connected to an elongated serpent-like neck, her torso is a combination of a reptile and a human, and her arms are scaled, elongated, and end in wicked claws, her lower body is still a snake tail.
Riot seeing this: "I'll ignore that."
lmfaooo
Fr tho
Im just happy he gave her abs
Aaaand some months later releases rework similar to this, wouldnt be surprised tho :D
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just buy this concept. They basically gave her a whole asu. The only thing riot would need to do would be to change the rigging or some animations (like the joke for instance)
as an artist, it makes me overjoyed to see people coming together and helping each other make stuff out of love for a character or a piece of media, its such a wonderful and cozy sense of community its truly beautiful.
Also i love your art Nicky, its soo cute never stop doing it.
The Voicelines are soooooo good. I double-dog dare Riot to 1-up your Cass rework
except they wouldn't even acknowledge it because they don't plan on giving her a VU and are just gonna play blind on what the community pulls off :))
@@ayouneii3659 sad fact, riot is somewhat like nintendos' long lost brother
@@ayouneii3659 ya they said nothing about k/da code: pink either :(
@@noticemesenpie69 at least they aren't cancelling fan events... yet
the only gripe i have with the new voicelines is there's no hissing. but still very good
"My redesign is not objectively better than the League version"
Ummm that's where you're wrong sir
But only the top 1% dictate what riot does, so…….
Yeah it's worse
The helmet lacks some details and authenticity. The way artists do it is to make sure that champions have recognizable silhouettes. Take away her tail and you won't know which female champ out of gazillion she is.
@@DadoPandaeh that’s every female champ in the game that isn’t kalista, Taliyah, female yordles, Zoe, or illaoi
@@andrewm.8772nha!😂
"Hmm, she could do better"
I didn't catch this line when she said it to Garen until 5 seconds later. She got me wheezing
Riot PLEASE! This is the golden opportunity give a community a chance! Make this official! Recognize their efforts! Don't be offended, instead take it as a compliment. The players just want to improve the game as much as you do!
It’s a nice project and all but honestly do not feel like it’s better than the original skin. Riot would not change their character that’s existed for years to a horny fan made version
@@ironicallyunironic9300did you even watch the video
@@ironicallyunironic9300 it's literally explained in the video tho. Cass is a walking contradiction of lore and themes. She's supposed to be hideous and revolting in lore but she still looks like an alluring snake woman, all of her skins convey that theme.
I know Riot will not do anything, that's why my comment is a plead to Riot. To urge them despite them realistically not taking this seriously.
But you can't reduce this to "a horny fan made version". This is so well done, the project is objectively justified.
@@ironicallyunironic9300 they could just make it a free skin
@@ironicallyunironic9300 fuck outta here with that brainrotted take. You clearly didn't come here to actually watch the video - you just came to complain in the comments.
Riot, be cool for once. Let this man cook in your kitchen, he's got the spices.
THIS
They do not have the species. They tell the cook how to utilize the species!
The people he commissioned for all the work is who cooked
@@rampageblizzard and he was the one who gave the blueprints. Yes they helped but do not override the fact that this was HIS OG CREATION.
@@rampageblizzard That's like saying the builders are the ones who conceived of a structure instead of the architect.
The voicelines really SOLD this for me, y'all did a great job!! Don't think I didn't notice some of those Azula lines when talking to Kat, love it!
Cassio's Azula refrenence when showcasing the voicelines was for sure a treat. ( also congrats Nicky may youtube stop bothering you and finally do something about content farms )
Which one?
@@LazuliRose'im about to celebrate becomming an only child' is a line azula tells zuko when she attacks team avatar at the air tempel
lmao
@@philipphupp95
20:43 @@LazuliRose
Agreed, hypocritical of youtube to smite people that showed even an outline of a boob window but doesn't do anything about minecraft sexual slop farms with actual scat in it, and no, not the good kind of scat.
Animating the final splash art for Cassiopeia's ASU was a blast! 💚🐍Artist Dwekou did an AMAZING job capturing her personality perfectly in the splash, which made animating her that much easier! An amazing production from start to finish - a big congratulations to all the artists involved, and to our Brilliant conductor NickyBoi! 💚
Great job!
your animation was beautiful ! gj to all of you ^^
What do you use to animate that btw? I’ve seen those a lot but no idea what is used
@@zobralolz After effects
You guys are on another level.
S Class Creators!
Absolutely phenomenonal.
Captivating and stunning work.
Far superior than the original
Riot needs to hire you as a project manager asap. You brought this entire project together and saw it through, all by yourself. It's so impressive. Hope to see my girl Leona reworked in the future because babe is looking so jank
I didn't comment on the first one, so I'll do so now.
This is a really well-done collaboration! The amount of work and passion that went into this is just admirable!
I Couldn't agree more
Agreed. Crazy good work.
Riot keep saying they dont have the "budgdet and manpower" to increase the number of reworks. This man proves otherwise, and he doesn't even work for the company.
It honestly just feels like an excuse more than anything.
It is, they only care for skins. Sadly, reworks dont see an immediate payday, so they barely bother anymore.@@gilgameshthetreasurehunter2750
they dont have the manpower because Riot keeps firing people
Well, let's be clear. The new model is great, the voice lines and the acting are pretty good. And the art is top notch.
An ASU on something like Cass needs a whole new rig, and then that rig has to be applied to all the other models, and then there's new animations for all of the actions and making sure those target onto the other models well.
Plus, old champs like this are often missing a bevy of animations, tower strike animations, variable auto attack animations, displacement animations, custom recall animations, home guard animation. All the effects for all that stuff.
Do they not have the money for it? Well, they don't have the money to deliver on their insane, obsessive growth targets. And this isn't a riot thing. It's a game industry wide problem. For two decades, games have been the unstoppable juggernaut of growth in the entertainment sector. Every year, the industry expands and the market cap increases, so investing is a surprisingly good bet.
But those investments are now promising rates of return that the industry's natural growth rate can't sustain, so companies are needing to take drastic financial and operational moves in order not to make profits - they're dummy good with profits - but instead to pay dividend targets, which typically means not just earning more money than you spent, but earning a significant % more than the last time you earned more than you spent.
Yiu sell me a thing for $50 that costs you $20 to make. You do that ten times, you make $300 bucks. Pretty good. The next year, you sell a thing for $60 that cost you $25 to make. You make $35 and you sell it fifteen times. You've made $525, which is a rate of year over year growth of 75%.
So I tell yih for the next five years, I'll give you 10,000 a year and you'll turn it into 24,000 the first year and then turn it into 42,000 the next year and so on and so forth.
By year five, there's almost no one left to swell to, so to make the money I expect you to make and convince me to give you more, you have to find a way to convert your $100ish dollars a unit cost to like $50ish
That means job cuts, it means monetization changes, it means gacha stuff.
This example has been exaggerated, but it's basically what's happening. The ceos don't want to lose the funding streams. So they need to keep the investors happy, and once you hit a market cap when you promised there wouldn't be one, it changes your approach.
Yeaa he just comisioned someone for it and ez 😂
nicky: lets rework Cassiopeia
the editor: like what?
nicky: like a latina
editor: You got it
"Like a latina" got me 😂😂😂
yay, the video is back!
saying once again that voicing the snake lady was very fun and i’m glad that you had me (and i really appreciate all the nice comments y’all left for me too !
Your voice is perfect for this project! Such a skilled VA! Thankyou for your service
This voice acting was beyond expectations, well done, it fit perfectly!
You short-circuited my brain several times throughout the voice lines. 100/10
the voice lines are actually so good
they don't sound cringy and feel like they could actually be used in leauge
all artists did such a wonderful job
Her hairstyle is called "Hime-Cut" in which "Hime" means "Princess", underlining her view of herself.
SLAYYY
Its like Boa Hancock's with bangs
@@HyperrBemm boas haircut is a hime style.
@@HyperrBemm I mean yeah, Boa's hair style is hime cut but with no bangs
姬切是吧？😮
This is such a great redesign. I especially love the splash art for your Cassiopeia - it shows off her personality fantastically and conveys the “gimmick” for her character perfectly (gimmick might not be the right word).
It’s practically perfection that her tail is obviously there (her leaning on it), but because of that it’s not obviously there at the exact same time - her tail hides in plain sight. That’s such a great and fitting choice for the kind of character you’re going for with this redesign and it makes such a difference.
Also, the amount of work that had to go into this character redesign and the video itself; I’m completely in awe. I'm blown away. This is truly amazing!!! Well Done!! You should! feel so proud of yourself!! This is just absolutely amazing!
RUclips please pay this man for his work. This was such an incredible project, and it's awesome
I’d say pay the artists instead
@@RoaringdawnHe already paid the artists tho
@@Roaringdawn He already paid the artists, that's why this video was so expensive to make dummy
The amount of effort and quality put into this is insane, absolutely blown away by the final result!
Pretty sure it has been said before, but to put her monster side into the design, she could briefly turn into the "demonic" snake form, when she ults. That'd be cool.
Would.
Would.
"jackpot!"
Would
Would
this is amazing !!! the “she could do better” line to garen had me in stitches lol
legit 'man down i repeat-- MAN DOWN' moment ngl
sister-in-law moment
i am not rly into lore, but what is she talking about?
@@ridddlewrong garen and katarina are in a relationship and she's basically snubbing Garen
@@wanderer2205 thank you
I hope you make more like this cause this was honestly fun to watch and have been watching other of your videos and love how fun they are and less serious / rude compared to other lol people ive seen, like you actually make it feel fun
Oh her VA did such a good job so did the artists and the 3d modeler
I love how the intro about old champs doesn't even include Zilean, I can count the number of polygons on his in-game model with both hands 💀💀💀
you need 2 hands for that?
his gameplay also is so boring lmao
I've stopped playing league but in the 5 years I played and mained zilean he showed up in the patch notes ONCE......FOR ARAM
@@ishivalda Nah, Id rewind
@@ishivalda he certainly has a unique playstyle but if you find it boring you're probably doing it wrong.
So.... heres an idea. What if she can turn into a full blown snake monster when things dont go according to her plans?
Great work btw. Really love the design, both the finished product and the original artwork.
My immediate reaction was “ugh another pretty monster” but I WAS SO WRONG. Holy fuck this was incredible, my jaw literally dropped when you revealed the 3d model AND THE VOICE ACTING?? If it means another one of these make a full video on a sponsorship, we would all watch it to the end. This was AMAZING.
so just another pretty monstergirl with huge boobs in the end
I agree that it was definitely much better than I expected initially, though I've gotta say I still have reservations with this direction for the character, given her gameplay. Cassiopeia as a champion is an absolute fighting machine, her ideal way of playing isn't "hypnotizing and cunning," it's eviscerating your opponents through sheer force of mechanics, movement, and DPS. This is directly antithetical towards pulling her more towards "seductive snake lady." I understand that NickyBoi wanted to make the character something challenging for him though, and since it's not official it's obviously not so much of a problem for me, he really went all out with this and I appreciate my one of my favorite champions gameplay wise getting some love. That being said, the gameplay clashing with character ALREADY exists, so it's not like NickyBoi created a new problem as much as he exacerbated an old one (I would still prefer his design to current, so long as the animations worked the same).
"Like what you see? Would you like to see it up close?"
Millio: "Ahm..."
BAD TOUCH. BAD TOUCH.
Millio: I need an adult
@@joemarievega685Cassiopiea : I am an adult
Monster Girl Quest Moment.
@@vradja44bruh
“Kneel?”
“Why, yes, you may.”
So good!
Finally could see it
I love her lore touchups you did. Making her the “smug B*tch” of The Black Rose seems so obvious when someone else talks about it, yet, at least I, didn’t think about it before.
@@SuzukiSamurai94 the “mastermind” that has her plans blow up in her face all the time like Doofensmirtz
What an awesome collaboration of artists and designers! This came out amazing, it's a real thrill to watch!
Ma boy this was just AMAZING, riot cannot make a rework that'll compete with this one. Seriously, great work to you and all artists involved!
It makes me emotional to see so many artists getting support in this age of AI, thank you for choosing to pay for real art
because AI art is trash
I'm just here to mention that the art that decent generators use is licensed and it could consist of libraries like shutterstock images, Ai doesn't necessarily just stitch existing art together. Loras are used to control the output of a prompt and that's the foundation of running a image generator locally, the meaningful part of image generation is in the systems used to control the output. Which is to say nobody is getting ripped off or stolen from by Ai, it's Ai websites that use stolen art as morphs for pre-made prompts and users stealing art to generate for profit images.
@@PurpleSmonkit is still trash
@@nicoloco832 you're entitled to have an opinion, that doesn't make it trash though
@@PurpleSmonk it does
"It's a bit to ask for a rewatch" immediately starts rewatching. Give this man his money
I also thought a interesting idea For her would be. She is a snake monster but she uses hypnotic like pheromones to trick her prey into viewing her as beautiful
I hope this video doesn’t get taken down again, so much was put into it and RUclips just didn’t give a shit.
This is actually insanely good. giant props for actually making it playable for the community, you and everyone involved did such an amazing job
This is dope. First time watching your content and I love the redesign idea. Also hell yeah, involving other artists is awesome.
I cant go back to base skin after seeing this, it works so well that when I think of Cassiopeia I see the skin you made with updated voice lines. Amazing work.
Hoooooly shit.
Bruh, first off. You are a WAY better artist than you give yourself credit for. That cartoon-y version of Cass is still fantastic and would not only fit in with similarly cartoon-y/chibi/cute-sy emotes or stickers that Riot themselves occasionally put out, but it would be among the best of them. The fact that it doesn't fit into the artstyle for in-game models specifically is secondary. You still designed this, and had the artistic talent to know what would work and what wouldn't.
Secondly, the design itself is fucking amazing! Like, it really is hard to express just how much I love the "ASU" in it's ENTIRETY and I believe that is a very common sentiment judging by quite literally every single comment/thread/think piece I've seen regarding it. From general art direction to voice lines to specific details, it oozes charm and really pulls together the mess of a character that is Cassiopia into something much more sensical and... *whole*.
Thirdly, I know this was an enormous project and likely not something you will be able to do more of for both time and financial reasons. But PLEASE, if you find yourself craving another project of this caliber at any point, KEEP GOING! There are so many champs that have unfortunately been lost to history that are in such desperate need of this level of care and after watching your content for the past several years I know you get it like seamingly few who actually work at Riot do. It doesn't even need to be playable in game, just an art piece, some lore rewrites, and maybe some VO work really does add so much to an otherwise abandoned character. Just knowing that someone out there cares enough to make these things exist, even in a non-canonical way, makes me feel warm and fuzzy about a fictional world that I've been following for over a decade :). Maybe one day a Rioter will see this and be inspired to finally give my funny rock man some love lol.
Keep up the fantastic work Mr. Boi. I look forward to watching your career with great interest.
PS. Riot! Fucking hire this guy!
For real! I love his Cutesy Chibi art style, and his version of cassiopeia is adorable and I lvoe it
This might have been said already, but if she turned into a monster whenever she ulted for like just a second, that would be so dope
Oh boy, a totally new and definitely not reuploaded Nickyboi video!
(RUclips give this man his revenue PLEASE)
11:26 Bro said "my artistic ability is limited" while showing the most charismatic and unique arts of league champions known to man. Absolute cinema.
the self is can be the worst critic.
as depending on what it has seen, it's expetactions will be way too high.
Riot: "Hi, we would like to purchase your artwork and continue to work with you to bring this version of the Cassiopeia VGU to life."
I'm surprised how well this was done. Riot should purchase this from you and make it the base skin for sure
Proud of the artist for drawing that with one hand
Unlike those artists that draw with the massive two handed pencils
Little late but brought over by TbSkyen, Incredible work, love goin above and beyond with the voice lines too!
Nicky really out here dropping one of the best pieces of content League has seen ever like it's nothing.
I absolutely love this. This was incredible and when I thought you were done you just kept making this whole project better. Congrats on everything man, everything ended up looking absolutely amazing.
Absolutely love this, hoping this video gets more traction again!
Loved the whole vid, and the line referring back to ATLA; Azula's line to mock Zuko had me fakin dying laughing! :D Great Job! :D
The voice line quoting Azula from Avatar was fucking perfect... "I'm about to celebrate becoming an only child"
Edit: Mom I'm famous
exactly!!! :D I was about to comment that
Yeah! The one quoting Jafar was dope as well: "a snake, am I? Let me show you how snake-like I can be"
i heard it and instantly ran to the comments HAHA
@@LadyxMothra same here lol, I looked around for someone saying it but didn't find anyone. Hence me making the post..
Also holy fuck 500+ likes
I was about to say this lmao
0:34 what u doing here Kollector? 😂
I thought you were going to ruin my snake goddess, but now she’s even more gorgeous
We could never rejek the snek
I am very very disappointed and sad because we will never have something thiss immaculate, Cassiopeia is on of my top mains, I appreciate what y'all have given to breath life into her, this is so beautiful each and everyone of y'all who worked on this should be hired just for the passion alone already
i hope you paid well those artists cause this is all work from them and spotlight for you
When I saw the animated splash art I thought that you worked out this ASU with Riot and is going to be live and got a little goosebumps going on
Although looking back at the splash art is kinda artificial, simplified, flat, dull, flat, and empty
That was hecking cool, I'm a fan of subjectively's work and TBSkyen's similar ventures but I'm shook with how far you went on this one. Noxian crown was a great touch.
Coming back to this video again to say how much I love it! Phenomenal work, Nicky
I don't comment nor like a lot but this definitely deserves it, I just hope it reaches a wider audience other than your subscribers because I'm sure there are a lot more people who would love this. Thank you Nicky for even making this possible.
absolutely loved that azula reference in cassiopeia's voice lines !!
Now imagine if you had a budget of millions of dollars and a team of hundreds of artists and game designers
It would be cool to see her turn full snake monster phantom-silhouette for the second she casts her ult.
I imagine it kinda like the Guinsoo’s “phantom” when it’s effect happens
this video feels too good and art and voicelines are so well done this need more recognition by riot games.
Imma be honest, I adore the art you did for her. She’s so cute! That said, seeing her new splash art and listening to her lines I’m ashamed to say I’d fold.
Like and comment because TB Skyen said so (I watched this whole video before his though)
I have my criticisms of this design, but I can't but admire the sheer amount of effort and passion you clearly pured into it.
Hope you can make at least a part of the money back! Keep up the good work, Nicky!
Me too. I came back to comment.
Nicky, i can't show enough gratitude of showing what justice for a outdated champion's personality and visual can someone give! was really fun to see your ideas coming to fruition like this,and i wish to see more of your content!
today on "ace aro person somehow cooks up the hottest design in existence ever even to other ace aro people"
First time watching this channel - definitely sub worthy, and you deserve even more. All those artists you worked with did an AMAZING job and together you brought something not shy of being an actual rework, looks astonishing
I love everything about this. Kudos you and everyone involved!
a single designer and he did it better than the entire creative department of a multi-million dollar company, love every detail. I love It.
This was an awesome video! Not only did you do a great redesign, but you also went above and beyond! I especially love her colors!
I am amazed at how far you went! Amazing job to you and the other artists!
This whole concept is really amazing, I love this cassiopeia look, thank you for all of your effort!
Props to actually keep my relatively low attention span attached to the video. Keep up the great work, will be looking at more of your content!
Soooo Nick what route are you gonna choose? The mon-
Nick: _snussy_
LET’S F#€KING GOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Amazing job to all the artists and Nick for getting all this together. I’m sure as sh!t going to your patreon now so that we could hopefully get a video like this again.
THIS IS INSANE WHAT THE HELL!! I'm so impressed. This is incredible man! Gotta sub for this because goddamn the effort
Zip it and ship it to Riot.
"I wish I had a compliment to offer in return"
I can just hear her smiling, I like her.
I'll state my previous coment again because this was unfair and the video amazing. I so wish this was actual oficial work of riot, I'm no artist, art critic or wathever but if you told me this was official I wouldn't bat an eye, for me this is a visual rework at its finest. Never ever cared for Cass and in my almost 13 years of playing league I played her like 3 times a not willingly even (aram and one for all), but this made me appreciate the character and made me want to see stories with her in them. Just like Tryndamere with the Still Here animation. This is the power of well executed, passionate art.
Well done Nicky, I'll make it my mission to run this video in the brackground whenever I'm watching something else. RUclips can be a female dog sometimes.
I'm not into lol for years now, but this is pretty good job you did there
Amazing work from everyone! Great idea Nickyboi
NO WAY YOU DID THE VOICES TOO, THATS AWESOME
Stunning job, Nicky!
I really hope Riot has the foresight to make use of such a comprehensive update!
The thing that you can actually feel the amount of love and care you put into this redesign is beautiful!!!
We really needed it these days
This is really amazing, hope riot just purchase your idea and make it official
I wasn't sure when I first saw this design on Twitter (I refuse to name it X). But with how you've explained the changes in her story, I can see it more. And I think her dsign in your style makes her mischievious and adorable at the same time, I love her face there!
i love all your edits in the video, i havent edited much but im guessing you or whoever edited this works so hard on it
It scares me how much the pic at 25:03 is soo similar to my GF the only differences are that she's blond dyed not green and her skin is pale white but the smug face and overall face features are nearly spot on.
Oh well time to download this
The voice rework really fits her, amazing video my friend!
Shut up and take my money! Riot please hire this guy
2:17 CHAOTIC REFERENCE.
CHAOTIC REFERENCE.
MY BOY.
Also, as a monster girl fan, this version of Cass is absolute eye-candy.
This deserves much more attention, awesome job! :D
i legidimetly tried to like the video couple of times because i forgot that i already liked it. good job mate!
Awesome job on the designs. You really brought your idea to life. Riot should totally purchase your design from you.