Art Blast Spotlight: Natacha Nielsen - Alexstrasza, Ottuks, and Ducks

Live Опубликовано 24.12.2022 в 09:07 Paryah

Art Blastdragontail For this expansion, I was responsible for Alexstrasza's new design and model and it is easily one of the most exciting things I have worked on so far. I love this character and she holds a special place in both my and many players heart. I think she's had so many great looks over the years across our games, and in fanart and cosplay. For Dragonflight, her new look needed to be regal, beautiful, and badass since she's coming back into an active role as the Queen of the Dragons.
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Modeling and painting her was really fun as well. I think one of my favorite bits of painting was on her face, I love doing makeup on characters and I figured she would definitely have some beautiful red makeup to go with her armor. I also couldn't resist giving her some freckles because I think they're really pretty and add some extra interest to her face. Peacocks are probably one of my favorite types of birds, I think they are absolutely gorgeous and there are a lot of cool varieties and patterns, so I wanted to make one for WoW. Its been amazing to see these birds walking around the Dragon IslesI have wanted ducks in WoW for a long time so creating these creatures was so fun. I wanted them to have a special flare for the Dragon Isles so I designed their head feathers to flow back for a silhouette that reads like "horns" on a dragon.I am so so excited that these are finally out there for players, this is probably one of my favorite mounts I have gotten to make for WoW. There are a lot of reasons I loved working on this but a big part was the opportunity to make an this for players. A lot of people have asked me about an otter mount after my student art contest entry years ago, so this felt like the perfect opportunity to create something for them. First I made the creature version, which gave me the opportunity to apply all the things I've learned over the years and to figure out where and how I can improve from my first attempt at an otter. Of course, I was stoked that these would be Tuskarr themed and I ended up designing two versions of the mount, one that I imagined the Tuskarr would use when they went fishing (hence the nets, fishing pole, bags of fish) and the other that I pictured as a more aggressive mount, intended for battle or fighting but making sure it uses materials that Tuskarr would use.

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