It's obvious that veteran WoW players are finally excited to see fixes with character models, and new animations that seem to bring our characters more up to speed with the times in terms of graphics. With the time ticking until Warlords comes out, we have seen pretty much, if not all race remodels now, and they definitely are not disappointing.
TAUREN: I was surprised to see the female tauren actually cleaned up pretty nicely in a character remodel. I wouldn't mind rolling one now! The Males always looked so badass in comparison, but I feel that the female remodel will look more presentable in gear!
The male Tauren on the other hand, are...questionable. It's obvious to see their features have definitely been smoothed out and cleaned up, but the face to me just looks a tad bit dopey. Maybe that's a personal opinion, and of course we are not seeing the other faces there are to choose from yet, so this may actually be different. I was hoping the extreme bulginess of the arm muscles would have been fixed to look a tinyyyyy bit more natural, but arm structure obviously looks almost exactly the same. The embellishment of the feather on the horn though is a nice little touch that actually seems to go a long way for the Tauren personality though, which I really like. Hey, sometimes it's the small things right?
HUMAN: The human female remodel, in my opinion, is one of the best improvements WoW has made. The facial features have really kicked up a few notches and the crazy beady eyes were definitely fixed. Really happy to see such improvements here, because I think for this gender/race combo, it truly needed it.
The human male remodel pretty much follows the same terms, with the addition of some truly manly chest hair, same crazy abs, and some defined nipples (lol). Anyways, facial features pretty much follow the same terms here. Super cleaned up. More life-like, and a step up! I never found any flaws with the original human male model, yet now it seems that the manly features are definitely more defined here.
ORC: For orc females, not too much is really too noticeably different here except for one thing that has been one of my pet peeves since I rolled one: HAIR!!! Finally the textures have been smoothed out and it's not as crazy, blocky looking. I could understand if orcs are supposed to have kinda dry frizzy-ish hair, but to have it with badly defined edges is something that is painful to look at. So the hair is finally more natural looking. GG Blizz & Thank you!!!
Male orcs have nothing too crazily different either. Still the same old-man hunch, but their fangs are definitely more noticeable, and they have a serious case of grumpy-cat face! Looks more orcish in feature though without a doubt!
TROLLS: Unfortunately NOTHING yet :(! Hopefully this is a good means to show what the possibilities are, but again, I guess this is a race we will still be anxiously waiting to see. Hopefully jewelry and hair is fixed drastically for the females! For the males, I would say they just could use the texture smoothing, but there was never anything really flawed with their design.
GNOME: Gnome females look so cute! Daw! Pretty basic remodel. Overall I'd say the changes really add more personality to the facial features. Nothing too drastic of a change here other than that.
Gnome male character remodel left me pretty disappointed. The hair (both facial and hairline) don't seem to blend well with the face, and even then, the gnomes have some weird creepy-old-guy feel to them. Picture is kind of unsettling. Hopefully the other faces prove me wrong and serve as a better example. Meh.
DWARF: The dwarf female remodel combats that of the gnome male model, going from creepy, to actually settling. Never thought I would say that about female dwarves. The character remodel makes them seem more roll-able and yet they keep the same dwarvish features. Overall I feel that the female dwarf has a warmer association, mainly due to facial features being cleaned up, again, to have more personality.
As for the male dwarves. Uhm...LOVE! I actually am not the biggest fan of dwarves, and I never would think to roll one, but there's something about the remodel of the males that just perfects the look that male dwarves are supposed to have. Muscles are kinda like the male tauren and a bit TOO bulgy, but other than that, the facial hair and facial definition have been remodeled in a way that really hits the nail on the head for the way dwarves are pictured to be. Happy Megsterrz.
NIGHTELVES: Female nightelves have always been my favorite. I'm biased because my first character (as you can probably guess....) was a female, NE Hunter. I actually really have loved the original model, but I want to give Blizz a personal high-five for the remodel. It's subtle in change, but just...perfect. /happytear. The face is given less of a curious, "what's going on rn?" look, and more of a "I'm going to kick some ass" look. Not too much is different, other than a slightly dumbfounded look being refined, which is totally fine considering Night Elf females have always looked fine in stature.
Male nightelf...another one to look forward to. I feel that this will be a character remodel that will also look like a masssssive improvement. Fingers crossed!!
UNDEAD: Another huge huge huge improvement here! The females look a lottttt more feminine, and a lot more realistic while still maintaining that pure-undead feel! Not too much to be said. The overall model from head to toe just flows a lot more smoothly.
And to top the cherry on the sundae, the male undead model looks breathtakingly different...In a good way. I think this, like the male dwarf revamp, just hits the nail on the head for what the undead male is supposed to look like.
DRANEI: Another one of my favorite original models, the dranei female really has not changed noticeable. There isn't much to be noted here which is good, because female dranei(s?) looked fine. Just up to date with the current graphics which is all that needed to be done. GG!
Male dranei have also been refined, but not tooooo much is different besides facial features. I overall do not like the square blockiness of the male dranei model, and that was not fixed with the revamp, but if that was Blizz's vision for the male dranei then I can't really complain against it, although to me I find it aesthetically displeasing. So..meh. Nipples are more apparent and their muscles are even more juiced up. Facial features have been drastically improved though, and appear more lifelike.
BLOODELF: Still nothing, but I'm extremelyyyy excited to see what is done with this one! My second favorite character model next to Nightelf!
