Not really; this is photoshop, not model editing; it’s Night elf pictures, recolored and given Thalassian proportions and a Human posture.
As the comparison shows in the OP (pls link it below since I can’t) the result is a different stance not dissimilar to NB and NE
we have so many blue races. they act like human skin color is super special and only 1 playable elf should have it. yet you and i are both blue skinned elves, and that’s not a problem. blue apparently not as important
But you are dismissing the posture and proportion difference, even when it amounts to a NB/NE scenario -And I’m not saying my edit is the be all end all, I’m just pointing out that a difference in those areas is personally more noticeable than simply color, which can be entirely covered in armor, given minimal difference to Blood Elves and Void Elves in full armor.
Of course, this is a matter of opinion, and mine is that Stance is a more material change than just skin color. So I’m saying Void Elves would look much better with a different stance added.
Most of your races are “human skin color”
Humans, Kul Tiran, Gnomes, Dwarves, Mecha Gnomes. thats 5, while blue… are “Draenei, Nelves and Velves” Just 3.
To be honest I didn’t notice it. Because it’s not a big difference.
Well, I disagree. I didn’t notice a difference whereas I can definitely tell with void elves.
Which is an arbitrary thing to bring up, orcs and draenei look pretty much the same in full armour as well.
read this, from the artist
…this is photoshop, not model editing; it’s Night elf pictures, recolored and given Thalassian proportions and a Human posture.
its not even using the belf model, but the nelf model. how thin they are and how big their calves or hands are, is thalassian in proportion (in other words, no copy and paste belf body parts. just how slender they are. ) and are given human idle stance. also not belf.
So what you’re saying is even with a slight change to their proportions and stance they still look the same? Nice.
Didn’t notice? Not a big difference? If Nightborne are easily distinguishable, from Night Elves, these mockups should appear almost alien. Nothing about them was created from the Blood Elf model
I mean I get the argument that High Elves don’t warrent a modified model, but it should be immediately obvious that these aren’t the in game Blood Elves
Ever try a straight up recolored Night Elf model?
I think it would work with the right added bits.
Good golly, have you seen the High Elves in Classic?!
And that’s how minor the changes are. Meanwhile Nightborne have a completely different skintone and markings and while still very clearly similar to night elves are immediately clear as something else.
It wasn’t, I dunno what to tell you. I went into that blind, the fact I had to be told they’re different says a lot.
i meant both factions. cant ya be a blue troll too? can zandas be blue? you have blue nb. for awhile horde had a problem where every race that wasnt furry was green, except belfs. and alliance was, every race was human skin color, except nelfs and draenei and worgen. we have more and more variety on alliance. you have two furries on horde now. alliance has only worgen so far.
Yeah it just seems to me that you are conflating between Fel usage and being servants of a Demon Lord
It’s like you see no difference between “Using demon juice as batteries” and "actually we all technically serve the Lord of the Burning Legion"
One is like “Well a little bit of lead in the water is something we can ignore” and “Oh big lead is going to make us all their slaves at perpetuity”
So if you can’t even see the difference between Orcs and Draenei in full armor why are you even making a point for in visual differentiation?
‘high’ elves cannot be meaningfully differentiated from blood elves as they are the same people without ceasing to be high elves. all of this would have to be given to blood elves too
what i’m saying is they’re nelf but your brain sees belf because ya dont want alliance to have a human skin colored elf.
Because I’m sure a sentence that begins with “Rommath only taught the blood elves of Azeroth about how to siphon arcane magic” is definitely talking about alliances with demons in the second half.
Because if they’re not in armour they look clearly different.
Of course different races look similar if you literally can’t see anything but the armour they’re wearing.
It seems to me your brain wants it to be more different than it actually is because it suits what you want.
Love ya Guzzle, but are you tired and/or drunk? The skin tones, the eye color, the posture and body proportions, not much about those look the playable Blood Elves
They look more like an attempt at Half Elves to me with the human skin tones
Right, I understand the reasoning. The counter would be that Blizz changed Kul Tirans for the heck of it and therefore could change High Elves if they felt like it, but I know that’s not the strongest argument
I don’t get it. Void elves have the exact same silhouette as blood elves, the model mock ups Talendrion did is a different silhouette. That’s a more noticeable difference than just skin color.