New art available for viewing at Blizzard's website
by Fox Van Allen 
Feb 23rd 2011 at 6:00PM
WoW Insider may not be able to send you to the Louvre, and I'm not sure our legal department is okay with us reprinting the works of Maya Angelou. What we can do, however, is forward you along to some great new art just released at the Blizzard website. Specifically, there are three new pieces from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion: the Wrath box art, a piece called "Boneyard," and a piece called "Winter Tauren." They all show off the incredible level of talent of Blizzard's art department.
While you're there, be sure to page through the gallery and enjoy all the pieces of older concept art, too. They provide some great insight into how ideas transition from mere thoughts in an artist's head to a miserable, frustrating 5-man instance like The Oculus.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Straz Feb 23rd 2011 6:10PM
Epic Buffy reference
VSUReaper Feb 23rd 2011 6:11PM
Love how the winter tauren could easily be viewed as a taunka...
I mean I get that the taunka are an "offshoot" race of the tauren, or vice versa, but Blizz should call it what it is.
Nathanyel Feb 24th 2011 6:07AM
"winter tauren" was simply the concept name of the taunka.
Westane Feb 23rd 2011 6:14PM
Thanks, now the ENTIRE Buffy musical is going through my head...
No really, thank you, it's been a while and I missed it :D
RetPallyJil Feb 24th 2011 12:40AM
Those are nice, but the one I really like (and would buy in a heartbeat) is an unheralded black and sepia toned rendering of a helmetless Lich King leading his vile Scourge-y hordes from the back of his undead charger.
Freaking awesome bit of illustration.
You used it as a banner pic once, no idea where you got it from though.
Sorcha Feb 24th 2011 7:35AM
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/media/wallpapers/fan-art?view#/wallpaper01
Marcosius Feb 24th 2011 5:59AM
I just recently browsed through them from Warcraft I to Cataclysm, , hot damn there were some awesome looking concepts of Silvermoon in there, and in fact one of those is now my wallpaper - specifically, this: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/media/artwork/wow-races?keywords=blood-elf&view#/bloodelves07 .
I could also swear there were some concept art in the WotLK section that wasn't in the Wrath Collector's Edition Artbook.