by JR Cook - 10 years ago     show comments

Chris Robinson and the Art Team are back, this time showing off the male Draenei in an all-new Artcraft.

This was a much more brief post that they’ve been in the past; no new philosophy on the design, and instead just the series of images showcasing detail work and facial expressions. This could be chalked up to there simply not being a lot to the process of improving the model’s fidelity in this case, or have something to do with Robinson recovering from surgery on his drawing hand. Either way, the imagery speaks for itself.

Read the full post below.

Welcome once again to Artcraft! I’m Chris Robinson, art director of World of Warcraft. This Artcraft is another quick one, but still packed with goodies. Today we’re showing you our work on the male Draenei. The original was one of the better character models in the game, so it didn’t require a ton of translation—but with higher-resolution textures and more polygons to work with, we were able to bump up his fidelity quite a bit, as well as improve how we convey emotion through a new animation rig.

That’s all for now—thanks again for continuing to follow along as we develop these updated character models. See you next time!