Breakfast Topic: What is your favorite World of Warcraft fan art or media?
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With the massive number of players logging in every day to WoW, there's an equally expansive amount of art and media coming from that player base. Very few games have ever brought out such a community of creative minds showing the rest of us their vision of a fantasy world. From machinima to custom WoW dolls (I mean action figures -- right, guys?), to Horde/Alliance-themed cakes, there are a ton of different venues for artists of all varieties to express their passion for the game.
I've just recently begun to start watching WoW-based machinima and have discovered there are quite a few masterpieces out there from people who seem talented enough to write or direct feature films. After the Cataclysm launch, I'm going to start an ongoing fan fiction story about a rogue and what his life is like after Deathwing ravages Azeroth. It should be plum full of adventures and high jinks! Although I'd love to include custom artwork with that story, my drawing skill ends at stick figures, so I'll have to use to screen shots.
Out of all the different art, videos, and other "warcrafts," are there any you'd like to participate in? Or maybe you already check out great fan art, make custom troll outfits for cosplay, or bake cupcakes shaped like murlocs. What are your favorites?
With the massive number of players logging in every day to WoW, there's an equally expansive amount of art and media coming from that player base. Very few games have ever brought out such a community of creative minds showing the rest of us their vision of a fantasy world. From machinima to custom WoW dolls (I mean action figures -- right, guys?), to Horde/Alliance-themed cakes, there are a ton of different venues for artists of all varieties to express their passion for the game.
I've just recently begun to start watching WoW-based machinima and have discovered there are quite a few masterpieces out there from people who seem talented enough to write or direct feature films. After the Cataclysm launch, I'm going to start an ongoing fan fiction story about a rogue and what his life is like after Deathwing ravages Azeroth. It should be plum full of adventures and high jinks! Although I'd love to include custom artwork with that story, my drawing skill ends at stick figures, so I'll have to use to screen shots.
Out of all the different art, videos, and other "warcrafts," are there any you'd like to participate in? Or maybe you already check out great fan art, make custom troll outfits for cosplay, or bake cupcakes shaped like murlocs. What are your favorites?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Tsukuri Nov 27th 2010 8:04AM
Best fan-art in my oppinion is female LK and illidan fighting :O!
Gendou Nov 27th 2010 8:20AM
This one? http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/fanart/index.html?ip=warcraft#761
Gendou Nov 27th 2010 8:21AM
This one? http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/fanart/index.html?ip=warcraft#761
MusedMoose Nov 27th 2010 9:06AM
That's awesome!
And it's good to know that even Arthas isn't immune to the strange properties of armor that make it change depending on the gender of the wearer. *grin*
blizzardsprules Nov 27th 2010 9:08AM
I'm on an RP realm and part of a close RP community, both Horde and Alliance.
We have a forum which has a topic of artwork, and hands down one of the guild leaders of one of our more known RP guilds is a master at art:
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/crisscoula/blackhand4.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/crisscoula/varekk-criss-wulf.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/crisscoula/striketobattle.jpg
veil Nov 27th 2010 12:37PM
yes, but what does that have to do with the post you replied to? female lk and illidan ftw.
Swifteye Nov 27th 2010 8:08AM
This has always been my single favorite piece of WoW fanart:
http://www.sandara.net/2005/cg/illidan.jpg
I think it is downright lovely, and it's been my desktop for ages!
Gendou Nov 27th 2010 8:13AM
That link doesn't appear to go anywhere, though entering the URL into Google Image Search does bring up a thumbnail of the image in question.
Gendou Nov 27th 2010 8:17AM
Here we go:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/fanart/index.html?search=sandara#0
ambermist Nov 27th 2010 8:44AM
The original URL worked fine for me.
Gendou Nov 27th 2010 8:12AM
While I adore much of the artwork and fan-pieces out there, I have to say that no fan work held my attention longer than "You Awaken in Razor Hill."
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20677329926
dmberreth Nov 27th 2010 8:17AM
Oddly enough, as of some time early this morning, his personal website that hosts YAiRH is offline for going over the badwidth limit. Seems a lot of other people are going back to love this again as well.
http://www.thelittlestmurloc.com/
Also.
Where can I find these murloc cupcakes?
Meatdraw Nov 27th 2010 4:38PM
[/url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=40970]Blizzard liked it too.[/url]
Zarabethe Nov 28th 2010 2:17PM
Fans of that: there is now an orc hunter NPC named TedNug with a lion names ScratchFever that walks from Razor Hill to Org. I squeeed :)
Saz Nov 27th 2010 8:18AM
I'm a huge fan of WoW Machinima as well as the various WoW parodies out there on youtube. That is something I'd definitely love to get into in the future.
I also tend marvel at various other forms of WoW art, mostly those that fall under the "digital painting" category, or even the hand drawn sort.
Lastly you can't help but love some of the plushies people have come up with! So far I've seen some of the most adorable murlocs (I know, such an oxymoron right?) and kitty druids ever. I'd definitely love to see more!
Kurtis Nov 27th 2010 10:09AM
Same here - I've been a machinima freak since back in the days of Quake "movies". The tools and videos the WoW community have produced are simply mind-blowing. I don't have any particular visual artistic ability to speak of, but I definitely enjoy seeing what others have made.
Darky Nov 27th 2010 8:25AM
Blind.
Daeolt Nov 27th 2010 1:01PM
God I love that ;_;
Made me wanna level up my old old rogue from the BC days.
CLASSIFIED Nov 28th 2010 2:04AM
Amen.
Craig Nov 28th 2010 2:37PM
This is the first thing that I thought of when I saw the topic of the post.
The best fan-made WoW movie that I have seen.