Artcraft - Son of Exodar - New Male Draenei Character Model
This model showed up in Build 18471, along with the Undead Male, Night Elf Female, and in progress Human Female model.







Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Welcome once again to Artcraft! I’m Chris Robinson, art director of World of Warcraft. This Artcraft is another quick one, but still packed with goodies. Today we’re showing you our work on the male Draenei. The original was one of the better character models in the game, so it didn’t require a ton of translation—but with higher-resolution textures and more polygons to work with, we were able to bump up his fidelity quite a bit, as well as improve how we convey emotion through a new animation rig.

That’s all for now—thanks again for continuing to follow along as we develop these updated character models. See you next time!

Heart of the Valorous Buff This Weekend
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Beginning Friday, July 11 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, through Monday, July 14 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, we’ll be applying the Heart of the Valorous buff which will increase the rate of Valor Point gains an additional 100%. Don’t wait to get in on the action!

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  1. lakisa's Avatar
    meh fail, same as with female draenei i like old model way more.
  1. mmoc79cd15b503's Avatar
    I think the textures look much better but I prefer the old model.
  1. greydonk's Avatar
    Is absolutely no one is going to comment on the creepy unnecessary arm veins?
    Honestly, we get it Blizz, he's a guy and he has to have testosterone bursting out of every orifice... but christ if you've got veins popping out of your arms when you're just standing around you need to see a doctor.

    However the modeling/shading of the face is superb.
  1. Farseer's Avatar
    Am I the only one who's really bothered by how short their necks have become? They look like uncomfortable situation seal from the shoulders up...
  1. kulbaen's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Farseer View Post
    Am I the only one who's really bothered by how short their necks have become? They look like uncomfortable situation seal from the shoulders up...
    I agree wholeheartedly. I LOVE everything else about the new model for Draenei males, but he looks like he's in a perpetual shrug. The other thing is the eyes seem to be too "open" or wide-eyed? At least in the modelviewer and what I've seen on the Beta. Despite the criticisms, I can't wait to see the finish products.
  1. Incarnia's Avatar
    They really need to adjust the male dreaneis neck length it needs to be a bit longer to avoid this "hey I'm about to shit myself but I'm doing my best to keep that turd in- face" , along with the accessory rings that decorates their tentacles and tail (smaller, thinner and less 'plastic with paint on' look - better transition between skin and accessory as well).
  1. Torais's Avatar
    It would have to get my vote for the worst new model yet though the male Human is a close second.

    I hope they get this sudden bout of being completely unable to do proper humanoid proportions out of their system before they start on Blood Elves.
  1. Austilias's Avatar
    The neck is far too short, and the tentacles do not look new/updated at all.
  1. Ohmygonzo's Avatar
    Don't glue the tentacles on them Blizz, make them like it is actually a part of their body. That's all, rest i find good, and not standing out too much, compared to the old model...

    Regarding the veins, that is just a matter of personal preference.
  1. YdoupayBlizzard's Avatar
    His head is way WAY too small for his body. Christ for the money Chris gets paid you would think he could buy a digital fucking scale model dummy so he can fucking scale shit correctly.
  1. mmoceac36c5e9f's Avatar
    Looking good, a major improvement and i dont even play a draenei character ha!
  1. Norlamin's Avatar
    Looks decent, they still need to actually give the poor bloke a neck, and fix the tentacles. Those tentacles look worse than the old models.
  1. Higgit's Avatar
    neck-less, stick-on tentacled, fail-faced squid....

  1. Gaha's Avatar
    Wow! They really explained the same face issue that they said they were going to go over in "The next Artcraft"!
  1. mmocc39820a35d's Avatar
    probably their worst model update, on par with human male

    I hope they read MMO champion, cause for an expansion taking this long a lot of stuff is coming off unpolished.
  1. Wayne25uk's Avatar
    The features all look stuck on,tentacles especially and the beards look like the draenie shouldnt ever have beards,kind of like some one has super glued chest hair onto their chins....
  1. Saxtorph's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ceroluthor View Post
    Alright so Draenei skins get released before a single troll skin? What the hell is this madness??!!!!!!
    They had to stop work on troll skins so they can go back and create gay versions of all the others.
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ceroluthor View Post
    Alright so Draenei skins get released before a single troll skin? What the hell is this madness??!!!!!!
    how many trolls live on draenor?
  1. Maulis425's Avatar
    Hot glue. Face. Tentacles.
  1. Kryos's Avatar
    This is how a Draenei should look like - this is also offical art and not some Fanwork:

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