Artcraft - Body Moovin: Female Tauren Model, Spires of Arakk and Nagrand Coming Soon

[Phyra17]

That one looks hella prettified to me tbf. Much prefer the character of the official one, apart from that I also hope we'll get to keep purple eyes.

I definitely can see what you're talking about. It wasn't my initial goal to 'prettify'. I actually like the models (minus low polygon counts) they have currently in game.
The biggest issue I have currently is the nose. It is strange to me how it's sitting there and has a cat-like lip indention.

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Don't get me wrong.. they need an updated version something bad. New shiny polygons are awesome. However there honestly is something very wrong with that nose /face in my eyes.
It looks like Michael Bay designed it, personally. Floppy lips and tiny little teeth and a durr expression.

After seeing this, since I couldn't rightly put my finger on what was wrong, did up a mock edit of this. (You are welcome to disagree with this!)
I took 10 minutes to just slap around a few ideas of what would improve this for me (not saying everyone.. my personal choice).



What I changed:
* I got rid of the mouth-breathing action and closed her mouth.
* Lengthened nose
* Adjusted the nose so it is more 'cow' like and blends into the rest of the muzzle/mouth area.
* Added hair style similiar to what is found in game. (The hair is cheaply/fastly done)
* Adjusted the eyes... The eyes looked odd to me.
* There are complaints of new models not resembling the old one like Blizzard promised. I also adjusted eye color to match the original model (I will be very sad if we lose that plum purple color )

I think it definitely looks more female but I find the nose to be a bit too long now. I think changing the hairstyle did wonders and the eyes look much better. Closing the mouth was probably the thing that made the most difference.

[Sforza]

Copy + pasted male tauren model but thiner.

[Sainur]

On a more serious note, I suppose it looks good. Kind of. It's an improvement, yes, but it doesn't look the same at all. Also why do they change eye colors all the time? She is supposed to have purple eyes, not blue one for fucks sake.

[Alopex Major]

Later on I made a Horde druid but elected to go Troll. I am now sad that I did that. I like trolls, but this transformation is absolutely amazing! While I am certain that the new troll models will be really well done; the female Tauren appealed to me first, before seeing the model and this new model is beyond my expectations. I can appreciate the criticisms but I can't agree with them. This particular model is the most improved. Very impressive!

Well just wait, we haven't seen the trolls yet! I bet they are gonna be amazing.

[Zassou]

Well done!! Amazing improvement! Now bring on the TROLLS!!!

[carlinman]

Teeth! They have TEETH!

[Kathranis]

Lauren faces really don't resemble cows, nor should they. It looks really weird when people photoshop them to just have cow heads, IMO.

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Lauren faces really don't resemble cows, nor should they.

They look like cows to me.

[Elestia]

New model looks amazing, well done. People complaining that it doesn't look like the old, if you're pointing out that the new doesn't look like a pixel-ated pile of shit, then you're actually absolutely right.

[Gibbon]

Don't get me wrong.. they need an updated version something bad. New shiny polygons are awesome. However there honestly is something very wrong with that nose /face in my eyes.
It looks like Michael Bay designed it, personally. Floppy lips and tiny little teeth and a durr expression.

After seeing this, since I couldn't rightly put my finger on what was wrong, did up a mock edit of this. (You are welcome to disagree with this!)
I took 10 minutes to just slap around a few ideas of what would improve this for me (not saying everyone.. my personal choice).



What I changed:
* I got rid of the mouth-breathing action and closed her mouth.
* Lengthened nose
* Adjusted the nose so it is more 'cow' like and blends into the rest of the muzzle/mouth area.
* Added hair style similiar to what is found in game. (The hair is cheaply/fastly done)
* Adjusted the eyes... The eyes looked odd to me.
* There are complaints of new models not resembling the old one like Blizzard promised. I also adjusted eye color to match the original model (I will be very sad if we lose that plum purple color )

This is so much better. I see I'm not the only one pointing out the exact same issues on the model.

That's seriously great.

[vorpol]

Don't take this the wrong way or be offended, but I much prefer Blizzards new model to this edited one. It just kind of looks creepy to me.

[Tenjen]

gonna make some "female tauren is unamused" reaction posts : D

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Don't get me wrong.. they need an updated version something bad. New shiny polygons are awesome. However there honestly is something very wrong with that nose /face in my eyes.
It looks like Michael Bay designed it, personally. Floppy lips and tiny little teeth and a durr expression.

After seeing this, since I couldn't rightly put my finger on what was wrong, did up a mock edit of this. (You are welcome to disagree with this!)
I took 10 minutes to just slap around a few ideas of what would improve this for me (not saying everyone.. my personal choice).



What I changed:
* I got rid of the mouth-breathing action and closed her mouth.
* Lengthened nose
* Adjusted the nose so it is more 'cow' like and blends into the rest of the muzzle/mouth area.
* Added hair style similiar to what is found in game. (The hair is cheaply/fastly done)
* Adjusted the eyes... The eyes looked odd to me.
* There are complaints of new models not resembling the old one like Blizzard promised. I also adjusted eye color to match the original model (I will be very sad if we lose that plum purple color )

while your changes "seem" nice. it wont work out. You've treated this like a 2d artwork at this angle.

It just won't work for a 3d model with proper perspectives in place. Those edits you made only look good at this angle and changing the angle will make it look freaky as hell and distorted at any other angle.

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also what the hell is up with the "as if michael bay designed it" phrase? No it doesnt. what a ridiculous statement. Michael bay is not a catch-all term for something you don't like. Don't dilute pop-culture references, it is one of the worst act perpetrated by the media and consumers.

[shesta]

My criticisms are that the nose is allll wrong (they changed it from being legit cow-style to looking like some odd feline/canine/bear hybrid thing, it looks ridiculous), and her eyes and expression are very masculine. The tauren female's character always came across as softly-spoken, peaceful and more feminine in nature than perhaps some of the other races. And no I don't say this because I feel tauren female should be sexy or are sexy, I'm a female player who had one as my main for a number of years.

[warlocx]

I kinda dislike the eyelashes, but overall i'm very excited!

[Roulette Kneebasha]

Omg she does not look masculine she looks like a Minotaur lady like she should! Only the nose needs a little tweaking, please Blizz do NOT try to 'fem' her up. That would only end in female Worgen 2.0 and we all know it. She looks FANTASTIC, just needs a more bovine nose and she's good to go, seriously.

[Deleted]

Amazing change, with this new model I don't think I'll be able to hate people playing female Tauren any more!

[Cows For Life]

I seem to be the only one so far who doesn't like it. The new model just looks retarded to me :3

It's the worgen/dog face. The current face is better in its distinct lack of it.

[elvor0]

I have looked at both of them and I find the old one more feminine.



Yeah even though they're based on animals, I think they can make it clear whether they are male or female. Worgen male looks very male, Worgen female looks very female. They are as much based on wolves as Tauren are based on cows/bulls.

I personally can't see it, Old FemCow looks more feminine than Old ManCow model sure, but were you to be presented with just that facial model, are you telling me you could identify it as a female? To me, it looks like a cow breed with horns, and the only way I could tell that from a bull was /perhaps/ the horns, but really only by it's udders, or this case, tits. It doesn't have any "female" characteristics in the face to define it as such as far as I'm concerned. You'll have to spell it out for me.

True, Worgen are quite differentiated, but that's because 1: They're werewolves, not anthros. Yeah they are humanized wolves, but they're also really humans that have transformed into wolves, not just anthropomorphic wolves. 2: They have waaaaay more detail in them. Worgen are a Cataclysm race, wheras FemCows have the worst model in terms of sheer graphical fidelity and detail. 3: A lot of people hate this: She's got human-esque eyes stuck on her, she's got eyelashes and I think mascara on, they don't look like they're supposed to be there at all. They look as if they have the eyes from a completely different race compared to male worgen, that is not good race design. No other race has this issue. Hence the continued notion to some people that they should change the female worgen model to be more in line with it's male counterpart. Take a look at this for the comparison.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d3dl2jo.png

The difference between male and female worgen is astoundingly off. The same with the nose and mouth area, you can mansculinize and feminize the genders, but the level of disparity shouldn't be so apparent. Human men and Women have facial differences to be sure, but they're not so radically different that we look like different races. Male and Female worgen look like two quite different breeds of dog.

At the end of the day, I just don't think any of the female animal races need to look "pretty", as in attractive. Because even though they're anthromorphs, they are still supposed to be animal races, and as such, the men and women should look like they belong to the same race, not have the females be "pretty" for...what purpose exactly? You shouldn't find them pretty, because they're cows, they don't and shouldn't fit into what humans find pretty, because they're not human. If people happen to find them pretty that's fine, but Blizzard shouldn't be attempting to make them "attractive". That's what rule 34 is for. The thing is, I even like furry porn from time to time, but that doesn't mean I want my in game models turned into fappable wank bait. Or have eyeshadow with pumped up eyelashes and smouldering eyes. It's the same as I like Women and enjoy porn in real life, but I still think Plate bikinis are stupid.

[Deleted]

Copy + pasted male tauren model but thiner.

It looked a bit like that to me.

I personally can't see it, Old FemCow looks more feminine than Old ManCow model sure, but were you to be presented with just that facial model, are you telling me you could identify it as a female? To me, it looks like a cow breed with horns, and the only way I could tell that from a bull was /perhaps/ the horns, but really only by it's udders, or this case, tits. It doesn't have any "female" characteristics in the face to define it as such as far as I'm concerned. You'll have to spell it out for me.

True, Worgen are quite differentiated, but that's because 1: They're werewolves, not anthros. Yeah they are humanized wolves, but they're also really humans that have transformed into wolves, not just anthropomorphic wolves. 2: They have waaaaay more detail in them. Worgen are a Cataclysm race, wheras FemCows have the worst model in terms of sheer graphical fidelity and detail. 3: A lot of people hate this: She's got human-esque eyes stuck on her, she's got eyelashes and I think mascara on, they don't look like they're supposed to be there at all. They look as if they have the eyes from a completely different race compared to male worgen, that is not good race design. No other race has this issue. Hence the continued notion to some people that they should change the female worgen model to be more in line with it's male counterpart. Take a look at this for the comparison.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d3dl2jo.png

The difference between male and female worgen is astoundingly off. The same with the nose and mouth area, you can mansculinize and feminize the genders, but the level of disparity shouldn't be so apparent. Human men and Women have facial differences to be sure, but they're not so radically different that we look like different races. Male and Female worgen look like two quite different breeds of dog.

At the end of the day, I just don't think any of the female animal races need to look "pretty", as in attractive. Because even though they're anthromorphs, they are still supposed to be animal races, and as such, the men and women should look like they belong to the same race, not have the females be "pretty" for...what purpose exactly? You shouldn't find them pretty, because they're cows, they don't and shouldn't fit into what humans find pretty, because they're not human. If people happen to find them pretty that's fine, but Blizzard shouldn't be attempting to make them "attractive". That's what rule 34 is for. The thing is, I even like furry porn from time to time, but that doesn't mean I want my in game models turned into fappable wank bait. Or have eyeshadow with pumped up eyelashes and smouldering eyes. It's the same as I like Women and enjoy porn in real life, but I still think Plate bikinis are stupid.

I don't know if I could identify the Tauren female as a female just by looking at it. Probably not, but it's hard to tell, as I know it belongs in the context of a game where there are races, some based on animals, that often have males and females. If you give me all of the faces of all the races and tell me to sort them after which belonged together and which are male and female, I think I could get the job done.

It's hard for me to point out what female characteristics the old face has, but I just think the original Tauren looks softer, gentler, than the male Tauren, in the same way that the female Worgen looks softer than the male. The new female Tauren to me might as well be the male Tauren.

Aren't werewolves basically anthropomorphic wolves? I mean what would be the difference? If they weren't humans that transformed into wolves, but a race that is created as humanoid wolves, how would they look different?

The Cataclysm models have way more detail in them than the Vanilla models, sure, but I'm comparing the female Worgen to the new female Tauren, and I'm saying that the female Worgen is a good example of how you can create a race based on animals and make the male look like a male and the female look like a female. I don't think anyone would confuse the two.

I personally like the old female Tauren, never had a problem with it. I've never heard anyone complain to be honest. As far as the alpha female Worgen, I liked that one a lot, probably more than the live version, but it still looked female. I totally agree that the live female Worgen looks a lot like a Chihuahua, but that's a different problem I think.

I'm not so sure if animal races shouldn't also be somewhat pretty. In the end they are still humanoid. I mean take the female alpha troll. Sure it's not an animal race, but it's one of the more brutish races. The female looked hideous. Everything about it looked hideous. And even the live female troll model has one pretty face, that most people use I think. I know at least I do, because the rest is just terrible.

And it's really great that you can enjoy furry porn, but the thing with the female tauren character model to me is, that they look like thin male tauren. If the job is to make them look like cows, then I think not even that is achieved.