Watching toons run around me in Classic, they’re all so fluid compared to their Retail counterparts. The modern versions are so robotic and clunky when they move. There’s just more “life” in the originals.
I guess you could say that about WoW in general as well.
It depends on the race for me.
Humans are a straight improvement as far as I’m concerned, but the modern Night Elf female animations are just so bouncy and offputting.
Well tauren were really the only race that got the WORST remodel. They run like obese care bears with the remodel.
2 words… Floppy boobs. 
Floppy ears…big ole floppy, bouncing knife ears…wasn’t a fan, but does add to the fluid overall quality.
No. Christ no. Retail models >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classic models.
The retail models are absurd, it’s one of the many reasons I’m never going back. The old models were great, if a little stiff in some cases. Blizz went way too overboard in “correcting” this and now most races have ridiculous, unnatural overly bouncy cartoony run animations that just totally kill it for me.
They look pretty, but as soon as you run with them it just feels completely weird.
The horde look like the horde with old models. Even cat form looks like a ferocious animal instead of the house pet they have today.
I think the new models and animations are more fluid - HOWEVER - they aren’t better.
New models are meh and the new animations are overdone to the point they lack any weight or punch but look like early CGI where everything was animated by hand and wound up looking like rubber dolls.
There’s a very large chasm between exaggerated line of action in an animation and straight up over-animating everything to the point where everything looks like it’s made of goo with no internal skeleton or weight.
I played a little bit of retail yesterday and the new cast animations with character attack stances killed it for me. I really don’t care for the attack stances and some of the new animations just took silly.
Ugh Classic Gnomes suck. Most of their faces are ugly AF and they have like 4 hair options most of which are terrible.
I completely disagree. I think the old models look far more robotic. The new ones move very fluidly and have some good hair physics and what not.
old models are blocky and look more like they have tubes for legs/arms with spheres in the place muscles should be and rectangular prisms for fingers. the new models actually make the look proper, with legitimate arms/legs/carved muscles. new models give us actual hair instead of spaghetti noodles poking out of our head.
Original Blood elf models where funny to look at in vanilla.