great art, but I miss the days of Sam Wise. using his art for desktop wallpapers for years
I wish they could have a unified vision on what characters look like.Ingame Xal'atath, cinematic Xal'atath, key art Xal'atath. All different.
I don't see the appeal of this character.
He had the Xal'Atath piece up on ArtStation not too long ago. Freaking phenomenal work!
In terms of quality it's all very nice work. But I too echo the sentiment that there is not a unified creative vision. It really feels to me like some of the team wants to make "warcraft", and some of the team wants to tell their own story/make their own characters and styles that have nothing to do with the established style of the franchise, and they'd be making that same style at any company who was willing to hire them. I wish the latter would leave forever, but they have an agenda of revisionism/tradition-breaking and worming their way into positions of authority to enable each other, so I don't think they'll be going any time soon. A really easy example of this, was what they did to Anduin in TWW. It barely even looks like him. They totally changed the shape of his face and gave him "chad chin". Like why. He was already an adult, his look should not change much. But they just can't help themselves.
Great stuff that I'm seeing rarely these days from Blizz
bayward wu is the GOAT. Hopefully he releases a timelapse of creating all of these like he did for the alexstrasza one. So talented
That Anduin one has a really nice composition.
Would...
Weird expression on that one. And again, totally different person. Like in every single piece of art about her. Literally. Go back to the wowhead front page, there's like 5-6 images of Xal right there, all totally different. Not just a little bit. Totally.There's teenage emo Xal, there's 40 years old still-got-it juicy lips Xal, there's crackhead Xal, there's ... I don't know what to call that.
This guy and the rest of the art department are among the few reasons blizzard still has a somewhat good reputation in the gaming space, you can always count on them to deliver some good stuff
They really need to figure out what she is supposed to look like. All of the artwork is cool and good but they are all so vastly different in the face structure. I don't even know which Xal'atath rendition is the one Blizzard envisioned at this point and I'm starting to think they don't either
