World of Warcraft Student Art Contest Roundtable

Posted 2017/12/30 at 10:08 AM by perculia

Student Art ContestsStudent Art Contest RoundtableDarkmoon Faire Guide

The Darkmoon Carousel features festive seats decorated like gryphons and murlocs, as well as some neat music. It is located towards the entrance of the Faire, right beyond the Whack-a-Mole and Cannon games.

You'll need special Darkmoon Ride Ticket to enjoy this ride, which are inside Ride Ticket Book. They are sold by Kae Ti right outside the Carousel.
When you hop into a seat, you're given the 5 minute buff WHEE! which increases all experience and reputation gained by 10%. If you stay on the carousel and don't get dizzy, that buff will eventually increase to 60 minutes.

You can enjoy the Darkmoon Carousel music in your Garrison with Music Roll: Darkmoon Carousel, sold by Chester for 0 Darkmoon Prize Ticket.

My goal was to make not only a beautiful piece, but something that players could really interact and engage with. The idea to make a carousel came during my commute one day. I couldn’t remember ever seeing one in WoW. That’s when I knew what I had to do!

During my last week as an intern, Eric Browning, who was Lead Prop Artist at the time, let me know my last project was going to be building out my carousel. It was a very meaningful moment for me. A few months later, he sent me a screenshot of what it looked like in-game, and I couldn’t believe it. My dream had just come true, and that feeling is hard to describe. Lots of emotions!

Ariel: A month or so after winning, I got the call asking me if I wanted to intern as a 3D Character Artist with the WoW art team over the summer. I said yes, of course! I expected to start off with small tasks, so I was surprised by how quickly the team threw me into their world. My very first project was designing classic orc weapons for Warlords of Dreanor. All the artists on the character team do their own concepting, so suddenly, I found myself working as a concept artist! Everything I made was put in the game and they’re still using them today—how cool is that? They treated me like I was a fellow employee and member of their team.

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Comment by ThistlingI wonder what weapons Ariel designed.Comment by amezarakThe art project is awesome!Comment by wbeylisWOW! Very coolComment by AcoleskiThat looks amazing!

Also, sounds like being an intern for blizzard is pretty great!Comment by excalibraxTo be fair we knew about the darkmoon carousel and the internship before, still cool to see the interview.Comment by RizbeyI remember seeing the ogre-draeni half-breed and getting excited thinking it was going to be added to the game. It looked likes true blizzard work to me, I cant wait to see what they create this time.Comment by albinoetteWould love a copy of that original carousel model as a statue for my desk. And, while we're wishing, having it be able to play the Darkmoon Carousel music would be even better! ;)Comment by kodora1316Would love a copy of that original carousel model as a statue for my desk. And, while we're wishing, having it be able to play the Darkmoon Carousel music would be even better! ;)Comment by MsWeatherwaxWtf happened that they added that shabby version instead of the original? The ingame version is just... shabby... and uninteresting. The original piece is so much better!Comment by TeallieAmazing!
I wish they'd start implementing newer models into the game like this.
~~I know, it takes a ton of work to do so, but I can dream right?~~Comment by AkarlI love the Darkmoon Faire but I have to say that the concept model and art is even cooler than the in game version. That little balcony really finishes it off. They should add those details.