Azerite Knowledge Resuming, Jaina Statue Preorder, MDI Spring Season, AWC Asia

[MrExcelion]

Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?

I get where you're coming from, but that face is too far off the mark for a high-end $350 product. If it was something cheaper then it'd get more slack, but not for 350.

Artist Credits:

Ehren Bienert (Sculpt)
Laurel Austin (Paint)
Special thanks - Glenn Rane, Chris Robinson, Ely Cannon
Marco Sipriaso (Graphic Design)
Blizzard Consumer Products
Blizzard Animation
World of Warcraft Development Team

Note: Each statue is hand painted, there may be a slight variance in the final production piece.

Ehren Bienert might have some better works out there, this one was a miss though.

Edit: Here's his/her artstation, seems to be employed in-house

https://www.artstation.com/ehren

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6ga25

Dva statue turned out great, the face made this one a miss though. Ehren was probably focused on a certain emotion from Jaina when making the face, like making her unwavering/confident, but as someone who buys a lot of statues, I prefer a recognizable face. Just my two cents. Not saying your opinion is invalid or anything. I know it sucks to make something as an artist and then see it trashed, but I do think Blizzard should have told her to change it internally before the final product (since she's in-house)

[Sorrowseer]

Costs too much for the quality.

[Averrix]

I was so looking forward to this Jaina statue, then it turned out looking like this.

[Doffen]

The bald and beautiful Ted "Sloot" Bacinschi. Love it.

[mojusk]

Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?

if it was amateur fanart, id say it was pretty good. but this is in the official blizzard store and cost 350 bucks, it should be perfect and look exactly like jaina for that kinda money.

[Alex86el]

Throughout the history of Warcraft, every time they depict Jaina they give her a completely different face. Like WTF?
She has 5 now.

[grexly75]

What they should of done is use the 3D model data from the game and from various cutscenes to get a better likeness of Jaina..

[snackfeat]

That Jaina face lol.

This is pretty much what I have come to expect from the "Blizzard quality".

[MakeMeLaugh]

Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?

Lmao, now we can't criticize the statue because we are not artists! "bUt CaN yOU dO BEtTer?"

Right, we cannot criticize movies, music, games, books, unless we can do better! Gtfo with that ridiculous logic.

[GreenJesus]

lol is Jaina asian now?

[Huntardicus]

Lmao, now we can't criticize the statue because we are not artists! "bUt CaN yOU dO BEtTer?"

Right, we cannot criticize movies, music, games, books, unless we can do better! Gtfo with that ridiculous logic.

I like how they talked down to people criticising the statue then went on to criticise it themself.

[dhru2]

lol is Jaina asian now?

As far as I know Blizzard is a mobile game developer company for the chinese market... so it would make sense.

[DarkStag]

I think this is much better https://www.ebay.com/itm/WOW-Jaina-P...frcectupt=true can even customize skirt or no skirt lol

[Haidaes]

Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?

That is just an idiotic statement and a logical fallacy. You don't need to be able to do something else to find the fault with someone elses work. If that was a valid argument for anything in life every professional would be absolved of any kind of responsibility. "What the bridge you drove over that I constructed collapsed under your ass? Pff, can you do it better?".

[deviant010]

Lol the Jaina face reflects "Blizzard quality" these days.

[dhru2]

For the weird ones...
45cm(17,71) 52cm(20,47) 24cm(9,45)

[det]

I think this is much better https://www.ebay.com/itm/WOW-Jaina-P...frcectupt=true can even customize skirt or no skirt lol

That definitely does look better. I like the Illidan and Sylvanas statues, this one is just too far off from what I know in game. Apart from the fact that I rather spend 350 dollars elsewhere

[Saphyron]

A few days ago someone at blizzard said: "Today marks the last time that Azerite knowledge will lower the amount of Azerite power needed to level your Heart of Azeroth for the rest of season 2"

Does anybody there have a clue what the others are doing?

What most likely happened.

That was what the planned. People complained. Someone most likely with a well-written review of why it should last longer. They changed their stance on it.

[meheez]

So its popular buying cheap crap for hundreds now?

[Eleccybubb]

https://store.eu.square-enix-games.c...ts-kai-vincent

I just find it hilarious how a £105 figure can look better than a $350 statue. And that's not even the best looking Play Arts Kai figure there is on that store imo.