I took this from another thread, and thought it would be appropriate to post here as well (since it applies to the subject).
I like the way this Human looks, but it's a bit too "pretty" for the stylized Human of Warcraft. You could say that the Kalecgos model took some creative influence from this art. I think the MoP cinematic captures the Warcraft Human look perfectly.
HOWEVER, there is nothing wrong with having more than one kind of skin for humans in-game (or any other race for that matter). It helps create more diversity and life to the game. You can essentially have the same base skeleton, but just give different skin and scale. Hell... The Arathi Human art and subsequently the Kalecgos model could be good templates for the look of Half-Elves/Half-Humans. That would be a good sub-race for Humans in-game. Blizz already has a skeleton built for Thrall that Orc players can use for a leaner, upright orc. There are so many possibilities.
"Pulsars are the bulimic cosmic anomalies..."
Yeah but that's fine, the idea of many different flavours of Elf goes all the way back to Tolkien, and I'm not very familiar with Elder Scrolls lore but all of their Elf factions have their own independent lore and origins. I'm fine with, eg, Night Elves vs. High Elves as it was pre-TFT. When TFT came out and Kael'thas led the Blood Elves, I just assumed that was all of the High Elves. What bothers me about "High Elves" (ie not including Blood) is that they aren't sufficiently distinct from Blood Elves apart from factional politics that I didn't particularly like in the first place. They're just kind of leftovers whose reason for existing I question. They don't even have a freaking NAME. High Elf encompasses Blood as well...
And it's even worse than that, there's at least 3 different kinds of BLOOD Elves alone. You've got Kael'thas' Blood Elves, the Silvermoon Blood Elves (playable) who turned against him, the Scryers who were K-T Blood Elves until Shattrath... it's a mess.
Sproinnngggggg.
Recognize is US spelling, you dirty colonial.
I do get that it's desired. To me High Elves (including Blood) are an OG Alliance race and make more sense there, they went Horde in TBC mostly for gameplay reasons rather than lore. So I actually am not against the concept, just don't think there's any way it would be possible in the context of WoW.
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Maybe when we invaded Outland they were all in the kitchen making their men Fel pies.
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Mmm, I dunno they've changed shape a bit and the bra sits differently. When you take the thrust of the chest and the polygonation of the old model into account I'm not convinced the size has really changed. She still looks busty in the front views.
FREEEEDOM! KING GEORGE IS A TYRANT! FREEEEDOM! And he also did a lot for the welfare of his citizens and the mentally ill, but we filthy colonials are taught otherwise.
FREEDOM!!!!1
Taxes! Tea bagz. Colors! Gray colors? Grey colors! All Brits sound like posh London fops! Nevermind Liverpool, Yorkshire, all that jazz.
Okay, don't tell my countrymen, but I'm a bit of an anglophile, and I love the bumpkin accents of Lionhead's Fable characters. I keep forgetting which region of the UK that accent is named for, can you please tell me? Pretty please, you daft old codger?
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Where would they come from? Did the Forsaken kidnap some somewhere in the last decade and do terrible things to them? I wonder at this desire of yours.
Are evil demonic Eredar not enough?
The amazing thing is, as someone with a love for deconstruction, Draenei take traditional pagan iconography the Christian world made Satanic, and thus demonic, and decided, what if demons served the divine in the role of the benevolent and divine and serene? And thus we get these Hindu like beings of serenity, demonic horns and fangs, and hooves and tails and all, but softened with beauty and benign features. Even halos.
And now we've dome to a strange circle, where the demonic was made angelic, and now they are to be made horrific and ghoulish.
I actually have some old Draenei DK art somewhere, if I had my Wacom I'd whip you up something while Shoc decided if he will or not. No promises though.
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If you like my draw-rings. http://yig.deviantart.com/
If you can't find them for some reason beyond that page. http://yig.deviantart.com/gallery/
WOW screenshot and concept art gallery http://smg.photobucket.com/user/evilknick/library/WoW
I don't see breast anywhere. And anyway, if you look at the size of the armas, the hands, legs... it is crearly more in line with their concept of male human. He hasn't got a very manly face, that's true, but he is a male.
Now look again to the undead buddy at the other side... look that deep expression of doubt he has: 'that's boy meat or girl meat?'
I think we'll need more context to make sense of that purple girl.