Engage with the Fan Art Community

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So many dedicated WoW fan artists with amazing ideas for mounts, tier sets, character customizations, etc.

It would breathe some fresh air into WoW if they created armor sets or mounts based off of fan art , perhaps farm them from fan art competitions?

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Unfortunately the fan art community I enjoy will never be engaged with by Blizzard :frowning:

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There are two issues I see with this:

  1. Copyright infringement. Unless the creator of a work specifically releases the rights to that work, no one but the creator can make derivative works from it. I’m not sure if making an in-game item based off of someone’s art would qualify as a derivative work, but it’s legally murky enough that Blizzard would think twice before doing something like this.

  2. The process of creating armor pieces is non-trivial and takes many man-hours per piece to create.

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So? design tier sets from fan art for next expansion.

its the same thing, theyd have to work to make it, as always. but they have the idea from the artist.

i think it would be a wow fan artists dream come true to have their work in the game they enjoy making art with.

also, for copyright,

they can host the competitions, the fans hand them in and then they can form a contract with the winner. so the murkyness isnt there

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:thinking:

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they don’t do that, unless they hire the person who then does it in house.

They might get the idea from fan art, like the excellent otter and corgi mount models I’ve seen (from two different artists, if I recall.)

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That is because your chosen far art is a little to “adult” for Blizzard :slight_smile:

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Ahh, a man of culture I see

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I bet it would be him wearing the bloodied skulls of numerous demon hunters.

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Copyright… not really.
When people make fan work of of an intellectual property, usually the owner of the IP has claim over it.

Like how Disney is doing sh*t to their fanbase.

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Blues don’t even post of the forums you expect them to actually engage with the community?

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Big fan of this idea with how the sets have been so lack listed this entire expac. The current nazjatar raid sets are a complete let down

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blizz said with the less amount of sets they had to make this expansion, they were gonna be incredible and out of this world.

non mythic sets dont even have effects on them

its at this point blizz has run out of ideas.

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Funny thing is they also stated they’d have more time to make more unique sets not tied to specific classes.

Problem is, they crapped the bed hard. The current sets look like LFR gear from WoD. Bland, ugly, and unoriginal. The coral gear from benthic is better aesthetically than raid gear except for mythic. The mythic sets is on par with normal sets from legion.

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exactly. its like everything in the art department got toned down 40 or 50%

mythic looks like it would be normal mode, and normal mode looks like dungeon gear

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Precisely. I don’t know what happened because the art team killed it with environments and creatures. The armor is just Doo Doo butts.

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If they just added all of the Handclaw racial class armors I’d be happy.

https://www.artstation.com/handclaw/albums/1137119
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Those are sophisticated, simple, yet carry more detail and effects than anything in this expansion.

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Unfortunately that would require engaging with the fan art community and 99% of that community has engaged in Rule 34 and that’s not what Blizzard needs right now.

The 1% is Shadman and Blizzard DEFINITELY DOES NOT need that.