{"id":2145781,"date":"2026-09-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2145781"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"apex-legends-art-director-says-street-fighter-6-pushed-devs-to-give-characters-the-thickest-thighs-theyve-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2145781","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends Art Director Says Street Fighter 6 Pushed Devs to Give Characters the &#8216;Thickest Thighs&#8217; They&#8217;ve Ever Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-content\" class=\"jsx-2154984108 article-content page-0\">\n<section data-cy=\"article-subtitle\" class=\"article jsx-3932497636 article-section jsx-2044616299 news\" data-autopogo=\"true\">\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Apex Legends art director Alisa Rastorgueva says developers pushed the limits of the game\u2019s character models so far for its collaboration with Street Fighter 6 that its heroes became \u201cthicker\u201d than ever.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/street-fighter-6\"><u>Street Fighter 6<\/u><\/a> is coming to <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/apex-legends\"><u>Apex Legends<\/u><\/a> with special character skins, a decked-out POI, an ambitious Wildcard Takover, weapon skins, and more on September 22. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">To celebrate, a handful of Legends are getting the Street Fighter treatment, transforming them into characters from Capcom\u2019s beloved fighting game franchise: Sparrow is Ryu; Alter is Chun-Li; Mirage is Luke; Caustic is Blanka; Wattson is Cammy; Gibraltar is Akuma; Bangalore is Elena; and Pathfinder is Dhalsim.<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Apex Legends x Street Fighter 6 Collaboration Images<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-list\" class=\"scrollbar jsx-2072772685 jsx-4243969252 images-list\"><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-412047461 overlay progressive-image jsx-2338608387 expand\" data-cy=\"slideshow-image-overlay\">\n<div data-cy=\"element-caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490\">View 20 Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Each fighter in this delightful selection of characters boasts a striking silhouette with the muscles to match (they are martial artists, after all) \u2014 and that was something that challenged the art team when it came to literally breaking the mold of their Legends to make them look like their Street Fighter counterparts.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In a closed session with the media, Apex Legends art director Alisa Rastorgueva revealed that these Street Fighter skins were so muscular that the Legends now have the thickest thighs they\u2019ve ever made for the game.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThere\u2019s always a new challenge with every collab that we do, and it\u2019s always different,\u201d she told us. \u201cWith Gundam, it was trying to fit our Legends into these big mechs. For Street Fighter, a big challenge was trying to find a balance between pushing the body types, especially the muscle definition. All of us know that Street Fighter characters are muscular and their proportions are pushed a lot. We tried to do that, as well. Our legends have some of the thickest thighs we\u2019ve ever done. To take an IP with that much history behind it and put it into Apex Legends \u2014 our game is semi-realistic, it definitely has a different visual style than Street Fighter has in a lot of their games, and for us, that was one of our biggest challenges. But it was a fun one.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2896921488 video jsx-2008855984 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"badge jsx-1349606671 jsx-3647116352\"><span class=\"ign-icon icon-play jsx-2750866048 jsx-1044454891\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-play\" aria-label=\"Play\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Play.59e5540b.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">She also delved into the selection process for choosing these specific Street Fighter characters, explaining that there were many fighters the team considered bringing into the game, but only a few made sense to pair with their Legends.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cIt\u2019s just what worked best for this collaboration,\u201d she said. \u201cAll of the pairings we do are a collaborative effort between our departments and the IP holder. We definitely wanted to have the Street Fighter characters represented well and be recognizable within the game, and this worked best with Alter and Sparrow. You can see characters like Chun-Li and Ryu very clearly when it\u2019s designed on them versus other Legends. We do test characters for all the pairings, and we ended up working with [Sparrow and Alter] once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Senior technical game designer Chris Ruvolo added that it wasn\u2019t just a matter of physicality, but of gameplay, as well; putting a grappler like Zangief in a first-person shooter like Apex Legends wouldn\u2019t really make sense for the type of game it is, despite how cool it\u2019d be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2896921488 video jsx-2008855984 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"badge jsx-1349606671 jsx-3647116352\"><span class=\"ign-icon icon-play jsx-2750866048 jsx-1044454891\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-play\" aria-label=\"Play\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Play.59e5540b.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThere were a lot that we wanted to add that we couldn&#8217;t,\u201d he admitted. \u201cWe really wanted to highlight characters from Street Fighter 6 specifically. Unfortunately, I wish we could do the full roster, but we weren\u2019t able to. We highlighted some of the characters that worked best for us and our IP partner.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cMe and my manager played a lot of Street Fighter 6,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe got all the fighter passes and played around with them to see what would work best for Apex. It was kinda tough figuring out what characters to bring in, since Apex is primarily a shooter. You can&#8217;t have a fighter who focuses on grapples like Zangief. We had to go with characters who were projectile-based or had area of effect attacks; those were at the top of our list. The creative process was, \u2018What are some characters that players are gonna recognize? 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data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Apex Legends art director Alisa Rastorgueva says developers pushed the limits of the game\u2019s character models so far for its collaboration with Street Fighter 6 that its heroes became \u201cthicker\u201d than ever.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/street-fighter-6\"><u>Street Fighter 6<\/u><\/a> is coming to <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/apex-legends\"><u>Apex Legends<\/u><\/a> with special character skins, a decked-out POI, an ambitious Wildcard Takover, weapon skins, and more on September 22. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">To celebrate, a handful of Legends are getting the Street Fighter treatment, transforming them into characters from Capcom\u2019s beloved fighting game franchise: Sparrow is Ryu; Alter is Chun-Li; Mirage is Luke; Caustic is Blanka; Wattson is Cammy; Gibraltar is Akuma; Bangalore is Elena; and Pathfinder is Dhalsim.<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Apex Legends x Street Fighter 6 Collaboration Images<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" 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data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credits: Respawn Entertainment \/ Electronic Arts \/ CAPCOM\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Each fighter in this delightful selection of characters boasts a striking silhouette with the muscles to match (they are martial artists, after all) \u2014 and that was something that challenged the art team when it came to literally breaking the mold of their Legends to make them look like their Street Fighter counterparts.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In a closed session with the media, Apex Legends art director Alisa Rastorgueva revealed that these Street Fighter skins were so muscular that the Legends now have the thickest thighs they\u2019ve ever made for the game.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThere\u2019s always a new challenge with every collab that we do, and it\u2019s always different,\u201d she told us. \u201cWith Gundam, it was trying to fit our Legends into these big mechs. For Street Fighter, a big challenge was trying to find a balance between pushing the body types, especially the muscle definition. All of us know that Street Fighter characters are muscular and their proportions are pushed a lot. We tried to do that, as well. Our legends have some of the thickest thighs we\u2019ve ever done. To take an IP with that much history behind it and put it into Apex Legends \u2014 our game is semi-realistic, it definitely has a different visual style than Street Fighter has in a lot of their games, and for us, that was one of our biggest challenges. But it was a fun one.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2896921488 video jsx-2008855984 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"badge jsx-1349606671 jsx-3647116352\"><span class=\"ign-icon icon-play jsx-2750866048 jsx-1044454891\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-play\" aria-label=\"Play\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Play.59e5540b.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">She also delved into the selection process for choosing these specific Street Fighter characters, explaining that there were many fighters the team considered bringing into the game, but only a few made sense to pair with their Legends.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cIt\u2019s just what worked best for this collaboration,\u201d she said. \u201cAll of the pairings we do are a collaborative effort between our departments and the IP holder. We definitely wanted to have the Street Fighter characters represented well and be recognizable within the game, and this worked best with Alter and Sparrow. You can see characters like Chun-Li and Ryu very clearly when it\u2019s designed on them versus other Legends. We do test characters for all the pairings, and we ended up working with [Sparrow and Alter] once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Senior technical game designer Chris Ruvolo added that it wasn\u2019t just a matter of physicality, but of gameplay, as well; putting a grappler like Zangief in a first-person shooter like Apex Legends wouldn\u2019t really make sense for the type of game it is, despite how cool it\u2019d be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2896921488 video jsx-2008855984 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"badge jsx-1349606671 jsx-3647116352\"><span class=\"ign-icon icon-play jsx-2750866048 jsx-1044454891\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-play\" aria-label=\"Play\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Play.59e5540b.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThere were a lot that we wanted to add that we couldn&#8217;t,\u201d he admitted. \u201cWe really wanted to highlight characters from Street Fighter 6 specifically. Unfortunately, I wish we could do the full roster, but we weren\u2019t able to. We highlighted some of the characters that worked best for us and our IP partner.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cMe and my manager played a lot of Street Fighter 6,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe got all the fighter passes and played around with them to see what would work best for Apex. It was kinda tough figuring out what characters to bring in, since Apex is primarily a shooter. You can&#8217;t have a fighter who focuses on grapples like Zangief. We had to go with characters who were projectile-based or had area of effect attacks; those were at the top of our list. The creative process was, \u2018What are some characters that players are gonna recognize? 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