Sub-Race Photoshop Mockups

[Wrathonia]

Awesome stuff man.

[Zathrendar]

Thought that, aside from Azshara, Highborne more so had arcane blue eyes.

Nay. She is depicted with golden/amber eyes. It is an odd one, considering that the Highborne specialised in arcane and not druidic magic, but it's unclear how these sort of things work.

As for the new model, it's good, however the NE female was one of the better ones already. I wonder if they still have some of the silly cheerleader emotes.

[Potassiumgluconate]

I made some tweaks to your blood elf.

Blood Elves don't have as long of heads at Night Elves, and have a sort of "poutier" look

[Shadowtwili]

You're trying to replace Shoc as our pet mock-up artist, Arcane-Villain?

Because no one can replace the man in my heart that started this all!

(Those are some damn nice mock-ups, though!, kudos to you!)

[Deleted]

You're trying to replace Shoc as our pet mock-up artist, Arcane-Villain?

Because no one can replace the man in my heart that started this all!

(Those are some damn nice mock-ups, though!, kudos to you!)

Nope! I am just poorly imitator, and I cannot compare myself to Shoc and other much more talented artists
But my first inspiration was Vaanel and his models. But when I tried to make some models in Mdlvis, I just throwed it and said "f... it, let's make some copy'n'paste Frankenstein, maybe someone will make a model like this).

And thanks for opinions. Any criticism is very helpful for me. Feel free to remake this mockups by your will.

[Immitis]

I could whip something up, what sub-races are possible for Night Elves? I could do a Human recolor, or Human/Nelf Mashup halfbreed thing.
Also cool Illidan tats because Illidan tats are hella rad yo

when the males get revealed do some cool face tattoos like this



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So, new mock ups:

Night Elf with jewellery and fixed eyes (Sentinel/Moon Priestess style):

Tattoos and golden eyes - Druid of the Talon style:

Fel tattoos, fel green eyes - Illidari style:

High Elf of Quel'Dormir style (mouth fixed):

Blood Elf of Quel'Thalas style:

Undead High Elf (Dark Ranger, not Death Knight version) style:

Other races in preparations.

THESE IS SO PRETTYFULS @_@

I NEED DIS! plz gief male models blizz. plz gief high elf subrace blizz.

also on the whole highbourne thing the only highbourne who looked weird was the sunstrider line who had rare blonde hair, paler skin, and lighter coloured eyes.



it wasnt the norm though and they make it clear that the sunstriders looked a bit weird compared to the other night elves. it wasnt until they switched to a diurnal life style combined with whatever happened to them in tirisfall plus the sunwell that they started to look different

[Zathrendar]

That looks more red than blonde, but interesting stuff; why lighter coloured eyes would be visible beneath the magic glow is anyone's guess, however. The amusing irony with the Sunstriders is that Dath'remar and his followers left on account, in part, of the courting with demons they saw by the Highborne native to Feralas. It left a sour taste in their mouths.

And yes, high elves please. I'd also much rather see the male models, as I don't tend to play females.

I made some tweaks to your blood elf.

Blood Elves don't have as long of heads at Night Elves, and have a sort of "poutier" look

They shouldn't, really, but you're right, at least in the case of female BE. The concept art is a bit more varied, though. Of course, the same applies to the draenei females.

[shoc]

Enjoy!

[Wrathonia]

Enjoy!

Ok, I wasn't completely against their smile until I saw those edits. That smile is just stupid and over the top derpy.

[shoc]

Ok, I wasn't completely against their smile until I saw those edits. That smile is just stupid and over the top derpy.

I don't think it's necessarily them smiling, as it is the ends of their lips inherently kinda curving upwards. Hopefully it's just that one face preset though because the original kind of has that smile going on too.

But I agree, WTB more neutral looking neutral faces.

[rcshaggy]

Demon Hunter and Druid of the Flame Night Elves?

Awesome and I hope to get Demon Hunters sometime soon after Ogres being playable. ;3

[Wrathonia]

I don't think it's necessarily them smiling, as it is the ends of their lips inherently kinda curving upwards. Hopefully it's just that one face preset though because the original kind of has that smile going on too.

But I agree, WTB more neutral looking neutral faces.

I can just imagine Tyrande with this face. In the middle of a cutscene about something dramatic, lives on the balance.... *bounce bounce bounce* Gotta keep that tension going. Idle faces should be exactly that, idle, neutral, ambivalent.

[snuzzle]

So, new mock ups:

Night Elf with jewellery and fixed eyes (Sentinel/Moon Priestess style):

Not a fan of those "fixed" eyes. I like them better without the super obvious irises. Helps make them look less like purple humans.

[Traveler Voltin]

Enjoy!

Awesome job. They need to hurry up with the new trolls so i can see your forest troll creation magic

[Yig]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ajTJq7L.jpg
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hVgTbJM.jpg

Enjoy!

I recommend you give the demon hunter the bandages from Dalaran for a top instead of a the bra, Shoc. Like this example on the right of a fan edit.

Nice work, as always.

[Traveler Voltin]

How about snow white skin. Snow elf

[Destinas]

No, no, and I will say it yet again - NO. Who was the first to say that stupid rumor? Highborne looked EXACTLY like other kaldorei. Golden eyes had only the ones with great potential of magic or druidic power, like Azshara (the Highborne) and Illidan (non-highborne). Blue skin? No. Azshara's model has blue skin, in book it was described like 'deep purple'. But other Highbornes had skintones like blue, purple, violet and other else. They hadn't brighter, darker, more blue or something another skin than other elves. Also the hair - ingame most of arcane reforgers or mage trainers has white just to be distuinguishable. But Shadowsongs for example also has white hair. And Lady Vashj? She had silver, but thus silver was because of dye.
Only thing that Highbornes could have other looking was probably clothes and jewellery. Nothing more.

In the Warcraft Magazine Issue 5, when talking about the origns of races, Brann Bronzebeard confirmed that Highborne were physically the same as Night Elves, but added "pastier maybe" after that. Magic tends to alter people, and since Trolls and Elves are susceptible to changes from different kinds of magic, it would make sense if they became a little lighter in some cases of higher use of magic.

Most Highborne would revere Azshara back in the day, and since Eldre'thalas was once the capital of Azshara's Highborne servitors, it would make sense that even today many would dye their hair white/silver like Vashj did. In fact, most fans of lore would probably imagine any Highborne with silver hair in their minds. Dath'Remar had unique reddish hair and a slightly lighter skin tone. However, it was mentioned that green hair was a rare hair color for Night Elves when Malfurion was first described in the War of the Ancients trilogy - clearly they decided to keep the green for Night Elves, but not red. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary if they eventually made different skin/hair colors for Night Elves to look more "Highborne" - such as more silver hair, or a bluer skin tone. I would expect this if they ever made subraces for every race, and Highborne became the subrace for Night Elves (if not High Elves).

[Yig]

As far as I was under the impression, Highborne had white hair and skin, or "silver" if you want to sound poetic. It's "moonkissed" in a society of Moon worshipping people who call themselves the Children of the Stars. This is still seen in Dire Maul or the default Night Elf mage.

Once the white pale flesh and skin of Highborne meant status, but since Malfurion reorganized society around 100 centuries ago, it's now just been bred into the general population.

The blue is only used as artistic impression for shading when it comes to silver white skin and hair in something based on stylized art.
Look at my avatar for an example. I'm not blue. But blue is used for shading something so white it's almost glowing silver under the moonlight.

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How about snow white skin. Snow elf

Go to Dun Morogh, the snow has blue gradients in it just like the supposed blue people are seeing here and being far too literal about seeing.

[Destinas]

As far as I was under the impression, Highborne had white hair and skin, or "silver" if you want to sound poetic. It's "moonkissed" in a society of Moon worshipping people who call themselves the Children of the Stars. This is still seen in Dire Maul or the default Night Elf mage.

Once the white pale flesh and skin of Highborne meant status, but since Malfurion reorganized society around 100 centuries ago, it's now just been bred into the general population.

The blue is only used as artistic impression for shading when it comes to silver white skin and hair in something based on stylized art.
Look at my avatar for an example. I'm not blue. But blue is used for shading something so white it's almost glowing silver under the moonlight.

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Go to Dun Morogh, the snow has blue gradients in it just like the supposed blue people are seeing here and being far too literal about seeing.

Silver hair became popular because of Queen Azshara, and many Highborne became known for having it. Common Night Elves (and thus priestesses of Elune) had varying hair colors of blues, purples, and even green (with a few commoners having white/silver hair as well). Common Night Elven skin tones are violet. White eyes, however, signified their relationship with Elune's silver moonlight. Amber eyes were a symbol of great potential/magic.

So, no, lore-wise silver hair had to do with Azshara, not Elune. That was eyes, which are a big thing for several races in WoW, and several different castes/classes.

[Yig]

Silver hair became popular because of Queen Azshara, and many Highborne became known for having it. Common Night Elves (and thus priestesses of Elune) had varying hair colors of blues, purples, and even green (with a few commoners having white/silver hair as well). Common Night Elven skin tones are violet. White eyes, however, signified their relationship with Elune's silver moonlight. Amber eyes were a symbol of great potential/magic.

So, no, lore-wise silver hair had to do with Azshara, not Elune. That was eyes, which are a big thing for several races in WoW, and several different castes/classes.

You mistake me. I'm not saying silver hair exclusively had to do with Elune and not Azshara, it most certainly did have to do with Azshara, but it was still aesthetically connected to their appreciation for the moon and stars. One could infer abstractly through speculation alone that before there was nobility or civilization, the ancient Night Elves saw those traits as indicative of divinity. But this issue is one of both aesthetic sensibility in Blizzard's artists, and actual lore.

Night Elves have fangs and long bushy eyebrows and pointy toes and fingers because they were deliberately given aesthetic design derivative of owls and panthers.
This I would speculate is in the same boat as that.

But that's beside the point. The blue people are talking about here isn't literally BLUE. It's just like in Superman comics where they use blue to show the definition in his jet black hair.