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Hello MMOChampion community, Goldpaw and I, want to share with you all an AWESOME project we've been developing for a long time now with me at the design & concept lead and Goldpaw as the boss-level coding developer, enjoy!
The project is still at early stages but is close to the main release before BfA!
You can follow and join us at: discord.gg/TCuN9PM
... also find us on Facebook and Twitter as @azeriteui
Thanks for checking it out! Have fun people!
-------- A bit of the story of how this UI came to be:
My name is Daniel, I'm from Venezuela and I've been a graphic designer for about 12 years now, have worked with UI and user experience design, illustration, motion graphics and branding design. At the same time, I've been playing Blizz games since I was like 10 years old, always loved their art style and level of detail and love on their games.
After a few years playing World of Warcraft, I started tinkering the UI here and there with existing addons, often adding my own custom artworks, then, I discovered Power Auras and THEN, WeakAuras which is pretty much an unofficial UI editor at this point LOL, that addon is like the Thanos of WoW addons, it allowed me to completely redo the UI to whatever I wanted, so, around 2016, during Legion, it allowed me to prototype all by myself (well.. hehe also with lots of help in LUA from users here in MMOChampion actually!) a complete UI concept I named Felslate UI (you can check the project here at Behance: be.net/troko).
Then I took it to another level and improved the artworks, got myself a new Wacom tablet and started illustrating more in detail what I wanted, then the first prototype of Azerite came to exist for me, privately. Since I REALLY loved the result, I got in contact with Goldpaw, from Norway, whom I think makes the most incredible UIs for wow, the man has over 30 years of coding expertise (yes! over 30 years, he's been coding since he's a child really) and is an avid graphic designer too. This is how two guys from opposite sides of the planet united to create Azerite UI.
Goldpaw loved the idea and concept behind the prototype, the layout, the way the UI is all bulky and sturdy looking which fits Warcraft's art style and how it doesn't need to be right on the screen in front of us 100% of the time but only when needed because the game WORLD is our main dish here, and.. you know if you going to see a UI then let's make it at least beautiful and Warcraft looking, right?.
We love video games and like graphic design and coding so you can bet this project is made with lots of care and just for the sake of making cool UIs for a game we've played for over a decade now, that's why there will be just a few configuration options, because this is a 2 years project (from me at least) and around 6 months for Goldpaw, but hey! we both gonna make more UI projects so stay tuned!