Taura the healer

[Stefan.K]

Big love for @Vinz for helping me out with the animated textures!

 

[Saelendious]

'i heard you spat water in my sister's face, so i came here myself to drown you'

 

[Kyrbi0]

Well it's definitely way better than the original. Great improvement. I'm overall a fan of the mesh (breasts notwithstanding ;-), and even though that back leg looks weird (even though I know that's how cow legs work); cool staff, good clothes, solid TC. The animations are exactly what they need to be.

Personally I'm not sold on that animated texture being on all the time; it undeniably looks cool, but it feels a bit 'extra' (especially on a unit). It would make plenty of sense as an effect played during the Spell anim.

Also, while I super-love the ingenuity & creativity of using the Rabbit texture for the face... It leaves somewhat to be desired. it's super-simple/low-poly, and the eyes especially are really distracting. She looks like a toy doll, in a way. I wonder if it might be keep-able if you just replace the eyes with the standard "white" eyes? Maybe? Ah dannae. Sorry, man, I really wanted to love that choice.

 

[DarkePacific]

Overall looks really good! But I think the eyes need a different texture.

 

[Stefan.K]

What about these variations:

Spoiler: Click

 

[stein123]

first one looks good, also maybe you could change the hair color too? so it looks a bit more natural transitioning from white and brown to blue; maybe a blonde or brunette tone?

 

[Villagerino]

This is something original and can help well with the lack of priests The mesh is also cool and works great, but I kinda feel the same about the animated texture as Kyrbi0. I feel like making the chin smaller and changing the camera angle (so her nose doesn't look so pointy and big) would make her prettier and more feminine. By the way, the first variation of the eyes looks nice (the yellow ones).

Considering the Spell sequence, how about lowering the size of the green particles and setting their transparency to 0 in the 3rd segment of the Particle Emitter? This would allow them to fade away gently rather than just instantly expire.

 

[Legeon]

Nice model, great addition to the beastmen faction (as Tauren) .

 

[Kyrbi0]

I think I'm in agreement with the others on the yellow eyes (the other ones look more like real eyes but I think Warcraft often has sort of mono-color white/yellow? Maybe?). Any of them are an improvement on the black, though.

I also agree that the hair color could use some variation (blue being kinda strange on a Tauren, IMO).

 

[Deolrin]

The yellow eyes look better and I would also go with a more fleshy snout for her. The rabbit texture is a little bit horrifying honestly!

I also think her hair would look better in blonde. If you could also define her lips somehow (extra mesh + different texture), and give her teeth (2D plane), you might be able to improve the facial fidelity even further. Her head also just looks a little small compared to her body.

Overall though, very sweet model, even if it's in your usual "very detailed" style and thus not quite as useful next to the existing stuff.

 

[Greedy Procrastinator]

Can you tell where his reaction was?

 

[Stefan.K]

Can you tell where his reaction was?

Edit: Added two different variations with different hair texture.
If someone wants the other two variations(with different eyes textures) I'll just leave them here in the comment.

 

[-Grendel]

i think the rabbit texture looks good. i dunno, maybe i'm just a sucker for "using the rarely used textures" the blonde and brown hair versions greatly improves the model in my opinion. the blue just clashes too much with the rest of the colors.

 

[Stefan.K]

i think the rabbit texture looks good. i dunno, maybe i'm just a sucker for "using the rarely used textures" the blonde and brown hair versions greatly improves the model in my opinion. the blue just clashes too much with the rest of the colors.

I mean, it's hard to find a texture that will fit a "tauren female". Rabbit texture kind of resembles a cow in some weird way and that's why I decided to use it. Any other texture would look bad and not fitting for a female tauren.

 

[-Grendel]

I mean, it's hard to find a texture that will fit a "tauren female". Rabbit texture kind of resembles a cow in some weird way and that's why I decided to use it. Any other texture would look bad and not fitting for a female tauren.

i did not mean it as derogatory just to clear it up. i actually like it when people use textures that are rarely seen in modeling using in game skins. really shows how creative you are in finding textures that would fit a concept nicely.

 

[jj84]

nice work!

 

[kadakash1]

Edit: Added two different variations with different hair texture.
If someone wants the other two variations(with different eyes textures) I'll just leave them here in the comment.

In my opinion, these ones are much better than the original, you should add them to the post

 

[Varthas]

Wtii's reaction was glorious - The new design is cool and unique, especially with the rabbit texture. nice work

 

[ILH]

An.. interesting Tauren priest model.
Works in-game. Approved!

 

[MogulKahn]

I agree with others that blue looks strange on her.

 

[Greedy Procrastinator]

I remember Jayborino also reacted to previous funny model of yours