Stormbreak

[milkmustache]

That gryphon rider is from a mousepad that was previously sold on the blizzard store. https://www.fanatics.com/blizzard-en...z-8-4107447551

I don't think so, this is the same gryphon rider we've seen in other key art, just flipped. Stormbreak gryphon still yet to be found.

[Raetary]

That gryphon rider is from a mousepad that was previously sold on the blizzard store. https://www.fanatics.com/blizzard-en...z-8-4107447551

It isn't.
See my previous post.

[Cheezits]

Similar vibes, different art entirely.

[kranur]

Legit picture, cause we're in 2003 and phones with cameras have just appeared on the market.

[flan1337]

It's not the same though. It's clearly based on the Classic logo, but it has a deeper carrot underneath the C, the loops at the top corners near the W and T are larger.

A logo purposefully styled after the Classic logo would make sense if that is what they are going for.

Eh looks too similar it's just stretched for some reason.
Now doing this comparison the border actually does look different and thicker.

https://imgur.com/a/G76vwaj

[Revamp Man]

Stormbreak forever....

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Dragonflight was leaked exactly like this.

No it was a Pic from an artist desk and a straight up high def Pic that led ppl to saying it was fake

[Just Passing through]

For the thread:

The one thing that stays true every year (in the age of smart phones with fantastic cameras no less) is a Loch Ness or Bigfoot or Area 51 style out of focus picture

[Raetary]

Legit picture, cause we're in 2003 and phones with cameras have just appeared on the market.

It's 2 pictures smooshed together into a 928px x 460px image that probably got reuploaded who knows how many times.

Like, it's likely to be fake like most other leaks, but you could have a phone with a 64 megapixel camera and the pic isn't gonna survive getting squished and fried regardless.

[Nebron]

The blur, gaps and other flaws aside it's definitely a different gryphon, but isn't it possible to just put an image as a reference and prompt the AI to generate another picture based on the reference one with slight differences? Because this is what it looks like - simply a rehashed artwork based on the mousepad one - to be clear, not the same.
Because, to be absolutely fair, if that's a promotion key art, it doesn't seem to be of a high quality.
Compare it to Shadowlands and Dragonflight alone:

SHADOWLANDS


DRAGONFLIGHT

[flan1337]

It's 2 pictures smooshed together into a 928px x 460px image that probably got reuploaded who knows how many times.

Like, it's likely to be fake like most other leaks, but you could have a phone with a 64 megapixel camera and the pic isn't gonna survive getting squished and fried regardless.

Both seem to be heavily squashed. issue is that the computer screen + folder/image just look so weird right? The context of the image on the right makes no sense. What the hell is it on top of?

[Bwgmon]

What the hell is it on top of?

Oh, you know, just laying the Stormbreak brochures on top of an opened Pop-Tarts wrapper. As you do in the office.

[Cheezits]

DRAGONFLIGHT

Do you remember the leaked Dragonflight art? It was just Alex and the logo.

[Nebron]

Do you remember the leaked Dragonflight art? It was just Alex and the logo.

Oh yeah yeah, it's this one, you're right!
But still, my point is that quality of the art is way off. The Dragonflight one has that "oil painting" touch to it, but still in a very specific, highly detailed styled.
Even with the blur, I can see that the "Stormbreak" feels lacking. It's okay for a banner on the main wow web page as a promotion for, I don't know, level boost in classic But it doesn't feel to share the same quality as expansion promo art. But who knows after all

[Raetary]

Both seem to be heavily squashed. issue is that the computer screen + folder/image just look so weird right? The context of the image on the right makes no sense. What the hell is it on top of?

The right image threw me off too, but i think i know what it is.

There's the mug, then you have a stack of 2 of the images on top of each other, underneath is some foil and under that either packaging or paper.
The lightbrown area on the left is the desk, and the balck thing could be any office object really.

[Nachtigal]

For the thread:

Thanks for posting the image!

I think this one is fake. My reasoning for that is the image seems to be to be dropped into it's position on the monitor. Looking at the top right corner of the image, near the gryphon's wing, the edges seem to be very sharp there. Very clean cut edges on the top half of the image. It just looks like it's "sticking out" from the rest of what is on the monitor.

[Taurelius]

It seems expansions have been using one word names as of late - Shadowlands, Dragonflight, Stormbreak. I miss when expansion names were a bit longer and less generic but Stormbreak definitely fits the bill there. Had a decent ring to it too!

[Altmer]

For the thread:

It's so funny, 3 screens, a mess of a desk and a picture of a mug with coffee. Looks like the average WoW player desk. Nothing to see here.

[Teriz]

The art on that is way more fuzzy than the logo. Also I doubt Blizzard have the logo completely block the entire lower half of the Gryphon in that way. Also as someone else said, the art here is rather sparse compared to pretty much all recent WoW cover art.

[Frozenbeef]

tbh i hope all these leaks are fake...i find dwarfs to be one of the most boring races in wow, having an expansion cantered around them would be a painful two years.

[Worldshaper]

It seems expansions have been using one word names as of late - Shadowlands, Dragonflight, Stormbreak. I miss when expansion names were a bit longer and less generic but Stormbreak definitely fits the bill there. Had a decent ring to it too!

And Legion, of course.