New Character Models Discussion - Update! Fem Gnome Faces

[SylviaDragon]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I love her! not much change, but just enough to make me happy. I am so glad the ears are part of her head now. I love the eyes, hair and most of all the facial expression. Pretty, but fierce. I'm not sure the fangs are actually fangs and not just the results of poor graphics on the old model, but I wouldn't mind larger k9s.
I'm glad they defined her muscle tone. Nelfs always looked the most muscular out of the female models so I'm glad they kept that. Can't stand the skinny ones. I think my only qualm would be that her hands still look kind of big and thick. it doesn't fit her model that well and still looks a bit reminiscent of the older ham fist models. but its a very minor thing that I can live with without it bothering me.
I am dying to see the animations now.
I'm also new curious to see if we get new voice acting/emotes. one thing I liked about ESO is that they took suggestions for new emotes from the fans and put them in the game.

Edit: is that top middle one in the second picture sporting a new haircut? I don't think I recall seeing it in the barber shop. I'm in a raid right now so I cant check.

[Lupen202]

Yeah. Wow. Looking back, what a difference. Her eyes weren't baggy at all and she was actually really pretty. Wonder why they changed her face so much; I realize there are different faces but lately, they all have had that baggy look and nothing of this lady.

http://epicagames.com/wp-content/upload ... female.jpg

As a comparison... http://cdn.pcgamesn.com/sites/default/f ... 0dwarf.jpg

Link because it's huge and I'm too lazy to resize lol.

Well they could be two different face choices for all we know.

I know, but as I mentioned they all have that baggy look. All the faces we have seen so far. I haven't seen the face they used for blizzcon since... Blizzcon. It is still alpha so they hopefully will tweak things or add more faces but right now it's disappointing.

[cowmuflage]

Yeah. Wow. Looking back, what a difference. Her eyes weren't baggy at all and she was actually really pretty. Wonder why they changed her face so much; I realize there are different faces but lately, they all have had that baggy look and nothing of this lady.

http://epicagames.com/wp-content/upload ... female.jpg

As a comparison... http://cdn.pcgamesn.com/sites/default/f ... 0dwarf.jpg

Link because it's huge and I'm too lazy to resize lol.

Well they could be two different face choices for all we know.

I know, but as I mentioned they all have that baggy look. All the faces we have seen so far. I haven't seen the face they used for blizzcon since... Blizzcon. It is still alpha so they hopefully will tweak things or add more faces but right now it's disappointing.

Just because we have not seen it "since Blizzcon" does not mean it wont be used in game :3

That's what I was trying to say XD Just because it's not shown up since does not mean it may not.

[Vephriel]

Fangs will be back!

[cowmuflage]

I can't say I like those XD To me they kind of look like shoddy vampire teeth XD

[Nachtwulf]

Veph beat me to it.

And I don't get the 'baggy' comment on the nelf eyes, at least, Look at a real face, you'll see those lines exist on everyone's face. The only reason the old models didn't show them is because they were so flat. Now you're seeing the lines of muscle being gently highlighted by the eyeglow.

and the fangs look fine to me. Realize you are never going to see their faces that big, ever. There just has to be the suggestion of their presence, no one is ever going to see them blown up to six inches high.

[Vephriel]

And I don't get the 'baggy' comment on the nelf eyes,

Oh no, the baggy eyed comments were for the female dwarves which we were discussing earlier.

And yeah, I'm glad they put the fangs back in. They won't be really noticable most of the time, but it's a little detail that I've always liked about night elves. I mean they were always basically "tiny vampire fangs". At least now they're a proper part of the teeth and not just some weirdly off-colour points inside the mouth.

[Nachtwulf]

oh god that model is so bad when you show it like that. XD XD

The teeth! They have LAMPREY MOUTHS AAAAAAGH.... @__@

[cowmuflage]

Well today was the first time I noticed the fangs. Shows how much I really care about NEs and my main ally is a NE XD

[Bangeall]

Finally! My main's a Night Elf, and this is the model I've really wanted to see. I'm delighted with it; they improved the musculature and the overall figure yet maintained the look of the original. The hair and eyebrows look wonderful-I might actually change my Night Elf's hairstyle now. Up until now many just looked so dull to me. The pointed fingernails are an interesting addition, and it's great to see that proper fangs will be added to enhance that feral look.

The only fault I can find with it is that the fingers look a little too thick to me, but I can get over that. I'm looking forward to seeing my hunter's face, and the other skin tones, oh, and the animations! Just more Night Elf really! So relieved that they look so good!

It'll be interesting to see what changes they make to the males. I wonder what will come next? It would be great to see either the male or female trolls, but who knows?

[Nachtwulf]

I'll be happy if they give them a butt and make their eye glow actually shine from the eye and not hover two inches in front of it. @_@

I bet they'll be good though. Still, I wonder why there's been so many girls lately and no men? I think the last male we saw was the very-much-unfinished tauren...

[Vephriel]

Trolls and Blood Elves are the only races we haven't seen at all yet, right? Hopefully one of them will be next. I wouldn't mind seeing a male either.

[SylviaDragon]

I'm excited to see the male nelf now. Will we see the return of the waist? I cant handle the suspense!

[Ickabob]

Trolls and Blood Elves are the only races we haven't seen at all yet, right? Hopefully one of them will be next. I wouldn't mind seeing a male either.

I'm glad they're doing the females first for a change and actually getting (most) of them spot on. Historically they've saved the females for last, such was the case for worgen and pandaren.

[Vephriel]

Oh definitely, I'm really glad the females had a spotlight and focus. I'm just getting eager to see how some of my male characters will look now.

[Castile]

I really like the NELF! My old main was a NELF druid and I'm glad she's getting a revamp (might have to lvl that nelf hunter now too ) they look really good and I'm so happy they fixed that hair style. I like pigtails but the old ones looked so meh on the elves. Can't wait!!

[SpiritBinder]

Also, if they show the female models 1st it will also give the fans a good ammount if time to mull over them and then gives the designers more time to go back and edit anything that they feel needs it. This was one if their main regrets with Female Worgen in the end, they just ran out of time. There is probably a "play it safe" element to it, not that I mind, so far been well impressed

Next on my wish list to see would be female Tauren and male Humans. Purely becuase I have NO idea how they will look. Throne of thunder had some great troll designs in it and Vol'jin's makeover gave a real sence of how they can/will look. Belfs... Well already look pretty good, IMO they have aged pretty well and won't need that much if a massive differance so the OOOooOOoOoo factor probably won't be so high for me

Anyway, I'll take anything at this point

[cowmuflage]

Female Tauren should totes be next. No bias or anything :p

[Slickrock]

Her overbite is worse than her.. Oh... Wait...

[Rhyela]

Oh lordy, that short hairstyle in the middle. I LOVE IT.

Noooot too sure about the grin, though. If that's the "neutral" expression......eh. I have specifically chosen the "angrier", or at least more stern, faces before to escape that "cutesy/happy/bouncy" look in favor of a more hardened expression. And that's also one of the faces that I generally don't like, so if that's the one they're basing all the looks off of.....? Merrrr.

Overall though, I must say she looks pretty darn good.