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Blood Elf Skyship

A skyship inspired by a drawing in DA (the drawing is tons of miles better):Guild Airship (commission)

Its made to fit with other Blood elf models around. Still wondering if I should add a Sail, feels a bit empty, but it might end overdoing it.

Credits to me if you use it in your project, critics and suggestions welcome.

Update: added a sail and made the house thing smaller; still left the old one temporally.
Update2: changed some textures around
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Blood Elf Skyship (Model)

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HappyCockroach
Flying ships are never enough. :) Works well in-game and it is very creative and interesting. Therefore approved. A few suggestions, though: Its default scale is a bit too big. You could scale it to around 60% of current size. A sound when it attacks...
In general the model is fine. Animations too.
I wish you would tile the different textures more as right now the ship sorta look like a minature model.
Also. The stairs and doorway feels off because of the stone texture which in some way breaks too much from the rest of the model. You know. The house is just placed on a boat. So, more consistency in your texture choices. I would suggest using wood.

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Actually the whole house except for the roof could use a retexture.
 
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^ I agree the walls of the house should be golden or something not white other than that it's great
 

Kyrbi0

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I'm no fan of Blood Elves, but this is a great model. Very simple, quite good, fits well in-game.

Looking at the concept art, I definitely think those sails should be included. But it's still cool without.

//EDIT// - There we go. A bit large & dark, but definitely fills the space better. And feel free to keep all the versions you want available; it's the nice thing about Bundles. : )
 
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Kyrbi0

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Rather simple compared to the original picture. The shape is fine, but add more details, especially to the hull with seemingly stretched texture. And stone is big no no for air ships.
It is definitely simpler than the source... And thank goodness. The concept art is beautiful but wholly unfitting to Warcraft's aesthetic.
 
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The way ive understood that artwork: that is an floating structure of the bloodelves, similar to that magic academy in belf starting area in wow, ship is built 'in front' of it, so it can be towed to places. (or perhaps it somehow phased into an random skyship during teleportation and got stuck there afterwards, who knows)
 
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