New Frog Model

[Orby]

want new sheep and cows please maybe new elder big models too

[Sinndra]

i like the new lookin frog.. but im still wondering.. why are there no ducks? i mean how am i sposed to tell if somebody is a witch, without a duck to weigh them with?

[GennGreymane]

frogs look better than players

[Deleted]

Seriously, it is a big deal. Any time I saw frog I was shocked at how... wtf the model was. Where was the face in that? The game did really need this.

[Deleted]

People often underestimate the power of animations. Yes, old frog has like 4 polygons, but simple, yet well-done animations make it feel like frog. Even if it was just green square, you could instantly tell it's a frog when it jumps around... like a frog. Same thing goes to bunnies in WoW, if you look picture of them, they look like crumbled cardboard shooting target but when you see it scratch itself and washing it's TINY FURRY NOSE :333 even filthy casual can identify it as a bunny.

[tist006]

These subtle changes when added over time will make the game a lot nicer to look at. That old model is just terrible. I'm sure many people are looking forward to new character models. When watching some of the cut scenes in pandaria with the old orc model mixed with new ones it just looks weird..

[Jaese]

Yup yup. Frog models were among the biggest issues in the game. Way to go, Blizz - always fixing the important stuff first.

Because an artist(s) can't have a side project to do in his/her/their own time to put in the game?

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Because an artist(s) can't have a side project to do in his/her/their own time to put in the game?

That frog couldn't have taken all that long to produce, it's still a tiny model. We're not talking about redoing a race here.

On the subject of Artist workloads, I wonder if they're already starting to work on simple models (plants, rocks, maybe some buildings) for next expansion....

[Deleted]

Gief frog mount :<

[Buu]

That frog couldn't have taken all that long to produce, it's still a tiny model. We're not talking about redoing a race here.

On the subject of Artist workloads, I wonder if they're already starting to work on simple models (plants, rocks, maybe some buildings) for next expansion....

I dare to say that not even the rigging team QA that, but a programming tech might have checked if the new mesh was acting properly with the old frog skeleton. That frog can be done in half-a-day, being the texture the most challenging part.

[apepi]

Mo models,mo problems.

[Eazy]

It's awesome, I hope Blizzard will make more and more new models for old "minecraft-like-models"(I mean models which are outdated, like this frog). :-)

[Boogums]

Yup yup. Frog models were among the biggest issues in the game. Way to go, Blizz - always fixing the important stuff first.

TIL artists fix bugs.

[lopk]

Players really want new character models.

Better make new frog models!

:-) I never realized how awful the old one was. Good too see that they are fixing up some of the things that are truly outrageou-

I mean outdated.

[Kraenen]

Being an opinion doesn't make something better, even over subjective examples. Too often do people hide behind unreasonable BS using the excuse that's it's an opinion they're entitled to, as if it makes them not unreasonable BS.

doesn't make it worse. doesn't make it complaining. too often people hide behind group consensus and fear from believing otherwise.

[Deleted]

frogs look better than players

redoing the model of the frog also takes immensely less time than the players.

Player models are in the work at least we know that

[Erihs]

Holy shit, I'm in love.

[Frozenbeef]

*looks at his tauren/ undead/ gnome/ dwarf/ human/ nelf/ orc/ troll and crys*

[Yig]

People often underestimate the power of animations. Yes, old frog has like 4 polygons, but simple, yet well-done animations make it feel like frog. Even if it was just green square, you could instantly tell it's a frog when it jumps around... like a frog. Same thing goes to bunnies in WoW, if you look picture of them, they look like crumbled cardboard shooting target but when you see it scratch itself and washing it's TINY FURRY NOSE :333 even filthy casual can identify it as a bunny.

No real point in pointing this out to people who don't get the whole impressionistic art style. You're supposed to look at it from a distance because it's kind of neat how your mind fills in the details. Some people are just too literal in their thinking maybe, or maybe a night with me could change their minds, with high heels and a pink bow in my beard.

---------- Post added 2013-01-19 at 04:53 PM ----------

doesn't make it worse. doesn't make it complaining. too often people hide behind group consensus and fear from believing otherwise.

Plenty of it is complaining, straight up unreasonable whining that is presented as fact. All the post said you responded to was people will complain. For all you know they were talking about the obvious bitching this community is notorious for. You want to defend that kind of whining? You already seem to be, so I'll just leave you to that. As if this community has a problem with too many people praising Blizzard, lol.

[Gimlix]

This is going the right way with the new models of everything, i hope the rest will be this awesome aswell!