Sub-Race Photoshop Mockups

[Yig]

I can't wait to see the new previews, but after that I can't wait to see what you do with them

Especially night elves and humans.

[Myndtaker]

Well done, They look great!

Really love those Wolves and Nightsabers!

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Bonus Spectral Tiger!

Why hasn't Blizzard hired you as a texture artist yet? Metzen! I demand that you give this guy a job! It'd show that Blizzard really is an equal opportunity employer!

[Krez]

Keep em coming man. I especially like the Mechanognome! Interested to see what you might do for a taunka skin on a tauren.

[Eazy]

This spectral tiger isn't so good, it isn't "original", that's the problem. But others are really good. :-) You even are on the first page in MMO, so... congratulations and good job!

[Alteiry]

Looks like someone made the MMOC front page.

[Zathrendar]

Felblood (blood elf) and high elf (night elf) ones too, pretty please?

Though I guess you'll need the new blood elf models for that.

A Highborne subrace skin would also be cool, but would require much less visual differentiation, as I suspect all the night elf models will be made attractive in WoD, and hopefully with this will come the ability to select an arcane-influenced eye glow for them.

[fluffhead]

This spectral tiger isn't so good, it isn't "original", that's the problem. But others are really good. :-)

So pretty much exactly like Blizz would do?

[Totle]

Congrats on the front page!

[shoc]

Wow, was totally not expecting MMO-C front page, that's amazing! But I think people are getting confused over the un-undead, it's not really a subrace concept lol

EDIT: Apparently Chris Robinson saw them too! Hopefully that brings us at least a step closer to making this a reality!

[rcshaggy]

Congrats shoc, and you better thank us for getting you this. :P

Well anyway you gonna make anymore for more when the new models come out for more races?

[shoc]

Congrats shoc, and you better thank us for getting you this. :P

Well anyway you gonna make anymore for more when the new models come out for more races?

Of course! I have a few more customization options in mind especially for humans and trolls (:

[Zathrendar]

Of course! I have a few more customization options in mind especially for humans and trolls (:

And blood elves/night elves?

[AeneasBK]

I just hope the new human models have age options in the skin customisation. I mean, that at least a couple of the skins are older, not that theres an "aging" customisation bar or anything. Aeneas is a veteran of 3 world wars; travelled to Outland and defeated Illidan and countless victories since... having him fresh faced wouldn't feel right

OT : These look amazing

[shoc]

And blood elves/night elves?

Not sure what else Blood Elves could be other than Fel-Blood Elves but those aren't really playable but I can mock some up, Night Elves have the opportunity for tattoo's/Highborne skin Colors I suppose

[rcshaggy]

Not sure what else Blood Elves could be other than Fel-Blood Elves but those aren't really playable but I can mock some up, Night Elves have the opportunity for tattoo's/Highborne skin Colors I suppose

They can be those Flame Elves. :P
Druid of the Flame.
AWWWWW YEAHS...

[shoc]

I think because a lot of people are coming by this thread now because of the front page post I'm going to try to clear things up a bit. These are sub-race mockups for models that are going to be in game anyways come WoD, such as the various Orc races, Dwarves races, Tauren clans, Leper Gnomes etc.

I originally made this thread as a response to a WoW Insider article that talked about variant player skins for all the various sub-races that were in the game.

I thought it would be cool to make a bunch of edits of all the Blizzcon Previews for fun, and for practice for an intro to design/photoshop class that I have come January. I feel that since these models are going to exist in game anyways, and since many of these sub-races have a substantial amount of lore backing them up, sub-race skins can provide a huge amount of character customization. WoW really lacks the same level of character customization that next-gen MMO's seem to offer, and I feel that now with the overhaul of all the new models is a perfect time to implement some additional customization.

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While I'm at it, I'm going to list up some possible mock-ups with the races that I haven't covered yet.

Human - Azotha (Vrykul Features), Asian Humans (a la Wu Shen)
Night Elf - Highborne Skin Variants (Basically more radiant, sparkly magic skin) and Demon Hunter Tattoos.
Worgen - Non Snarly Faces
Draenei - ?


Troll - With the Troll leaders defeated by the Horde in the Throne of Thunder, it wouldn't be too far fetched for them to join the Horde.
Blood Elf - Lich King is dead, and the Valk'yr aligned themselves with the Forsaken, maybe some San'layn did as well. Very far fetched though. But Cool Factor > Lore sometimes.
Goblin - ?

[Yig]

Why hasn't Blizzard hired you as a texture artist yet? Metzen! I demand that you give this guy a job! It'd show that Blizzard really is an equal opportunity employer!

Not to diss, but I haven't seen any custom textures. Adjusting color balances is one thing, but hand painted textures is a different ballpark. Maybe someone could highlight what I am not seeing? He's good at copy and pasting and tweaking colors in images, but about the only thing I could see him doing at Blizzard is website design with screenshot doctoring. Not to detract from the coolness of seeing these concepts realized more. He does have a nice feel for the color palette of Warcraft, which is valuable for the art team's members.

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EDIT: Apparently Chris Robinson saw them too! Hopefully that brings us at least a step closer to making this a reality!

Wellllll,... He's already well aware of the desire for this, we've been talking about this since 2004 in one way or another for-ev-errrr. Ghostcrawler has talked about it recently last year and this year. In Cata's beta we actually had access to Wildhammer tattoos. But this is something that may help light a fire under something, but I have a feeling based on what Robinson has been tweeting the model project they're working on has a lot more ambitious features to it than many people seem to be expecting. I think this is good for motivating more of the fan base to say "Hey, that is cool, I never really thought about it like that." We need more people to carry pitchforks and torches, that was the only way we got the art team to finally give us a custom animation for opening, reading, and closing our maps. Well, not really, but it's fun to pretend. Don't mind me though, please. Carry on, sir.

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Dark Iron Warlock - Geif

Wildhammer Shaman - Geif!

[Yig]

Human - Azotha (Vrykul Features), Asian Humans (a la Wu Shen)

I'd think San'layn would be a Blood Elf option, seeing as they were Blood Elves under Kael'thas stuck in Northrend. But whatevz, San'layn look so cool.
I love Vrykul as well, and all things Norse and viking.