{"id":89521,"date":"2026-09-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89521"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:41:01","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:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89521","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":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/street-fighter-6\">Street Fighter 6<\/a> is coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/apex-legends\">Apex Legends<\/a> with special character skins, a decked-out POI, an ambitious Wildcard Takover, weapon skins, and more on September 22. <\/p>\n<p>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<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"apex-legends-x-street-fighter-6-collaboration-images\" data-value=\"apex-legends-x-street-fighter-6-collaboration-images\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>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>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>\u201cThere\u2019s always a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Street Fighter 6 is coming to Apex Legends with special character skins, a decked-out POI, an ambitious Wildcard Takover, weapon skins, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":89523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89525,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89521\/revisions\/89525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}