>>719247671
Also, people who spout the whole "GW copied da zerg" narrative tend to overstate the shift in nid aesthetics. The shift was mostly just in moving towards the whole "dinosaur xenomorph" look over the whole range, with some models changing more than others. The hormagaunts for example remained relatively similar, whereas tyranid warriors and carnifexes changed more during that shift. Warriors especially.
It had nothing to dow ith GW copying the look of the zerg and everything to do with the concept artists and sculpters figuring out an unifying aesthetic for the tyranids and pushing it across the model range as before hand the nids were a bit all over the place.