Updated Race Selection Icons on Character Creation

[Mister Cheese]

It's not nostalgia, the new ones just look fucking awful.

Pretty much.

[deviantcultist]

Are they the real thing? I am not convinced.

[Handsome]

I'm hoping it's just a work in progress...



But here's the thing. I took these images here^ , and tried to recreate them in the model viewer, and about 15-20mins later came out with this:



Even with minimal effort, I believe they could do a lot better.

[Domcho]

The old ones look better.

[Eurhetemec]

That's what I'm asking myself about this whole thing. Why change the icons now? Were they not sufficient? Seems odd to change something you only see once per character.

I thought I covered that pretty clearly and in bold:

Because they are going to need 6 new icons pretty soon, for the Allied Races, and then an indefinite number of new icons thereafter.

[Gurluas]

The old icons may be low res, but they have so much more character then the new ones. Yeah, HQ icons would be nice, but why can't you just repaint the originals instead of shoving cropped in-game models as race icons?

Also, swapping goblins with blood elves makes no sense to me. If you want to reposition them in some reasonable way, just do it based on the in-game conflicts:
Humans - Orcs
Dwarfs - Trolls
Night Elves - Tauren
Draenei - Blood Elves
Gnomes - Goblins
Worgen - Undead

That isn't really accurate anymore.
Night Elves and Tauren get along, and so do Draenei and Blood elves.
Night Elves - Blood Elves
and Tauren - Draenei is a better option.

[valky94]

i prefer the old icons aswell, i prefer the use of drawn artwork over ingame models

[Tradu]

The old ones are better. There's no need to change the icons at all, considering you immediately get a preview of the in-game model anyway when you click any of them.

[Deleted]

I'm hoping it's just a work in progress...



But here's the thing. I took these images here^ , and tried to recreate them in the model viewer, and about 15-20mins later came out with this:



Even with minimal effort, I believe they could do a lot better.

I would be fine with these, good job!

[Big Mama]

I'm hoping it's just a work in progress...



But here's the thing. I took these images here^ , and tried to recreate them in the model viewer, and about 15-20mins later came out with this:



Even with minimal effort, I believe they could do a lot better.

Still would prefer painted sets over screenshots but these are WAY better! But as I wrote earlier here I would love the character creation to get a complete makeover, maybe with no icons like these at all.

[Hugnomo]

Can we talk about the human male hairstyle? These are painted over playable models screenshots, and every other race has identifiable customization, but I don't recognize that human male hairstyle. Creative freedom with the paint over or new hairstyle?

[My User Name]

WTF they took that dwarf's hood!?

0/10

[ArkantosChampion]

Night Elffwhfeqelfs.