I got some of the new cat forms and the models seem unfinished and unpolished. For one, the teeth stretch into beaver teeth during the idle animation and /mountspecial
Comparing it to the BFA saber models, it looks so much less polished and like an actual cat and more ‘plushie’ like. The nose is too narrow and the feet are… weird. The eyes could use a glow, eyelids, and some whiskers would go a long way.
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For me it’s the dim eyes. They should be glowing.
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The blue one needs to see an orthodontist
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SHEESH, yeah now that I’m looking at it, I’m curious how the model got through QC. Even a lot of Vanilla models don’t have that degree of warping in their animations. I don’t know much about animation, admittedly, but it’s almost like there’s a movement point that’s anchored to the wrong place? You can see where the bottom jaw and teeth look like they’re stuck to the canine teeth.
I’ve honestly noticed a LOT of jank with models in Dragonflight? Like the forearm guards of the Druid tier from Aberrus attaching to the elbows of female Worgen instead of the wrists or forearms, the frankly AWFUL and hella stretched fin models and textures on the Slitherdrakes, and the horrendous CLIPPING on the dragonriding armors.
Blizzard needs to quit rushing their model/animation teams.
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That distorted mouth is really bad for the feral form. The mount version does not have this issue.
I’ll still collect all the colors of this eventually but now I don’t know if i will actually use the model.
<3 sparkle kitty
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All of the “new” models of this patch seem to be very cartoony compared to how its normally cartoon. Looking like some of the art time in WoW was influenced by the newly launched Warcraft Rumble.
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I wish I could get sparkle kitty. 
It’d be amazing if they brought it back in mage tower.
I’ve noticed a couple of animation errors.
The new flight forms actually do a weird animation whenever you /s anything. No idea how to explain it, just shape-shift into it and see for yourself when you talk. It’s like they perch whenever they talk.
This is pretty amusing. You stop flapping but you bob up and down like you are still flapping, then magically start flapping again at the end of the /s animation.
Just thought I’d put this here as a supplement to your pictures with the distorted jaw. If Blizzard can do the jaws correct on the mount, what is happening with the druid form?
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The catform uses the new cheetah druid model which probably never opens its mouth (didnt test)
Now that I look at this side by side you can really see it…
It’s such a shame because they did such a beautiful job on the new Moonkin forms. I can only hope they end up correcting these issues 
Yea I can agree after the side by side, its an issue. Hope to see that fixed/updated.
i hope they bring out the gold dreamsaber skin like the others… anyone know if this will happen or not?