World of Wacraft Promotional Chuck Norris Spot Offers a Peek into Human Model Revamp

[Jeremiah]

I highly doubt that Blizzard would go to all the effort to revamp the human model for this commercial, but I could be wrong. They mentioned that race revamps will be coming sometime in Mists of Pandaria to bring all of the models up to the polygon count and graphical level of the Goblin and Worgen models. After all, some of the old World of Warcraft race and animal models are starting to look a bit incongruent with the Mists of Pandaria environments and even some of the Cataclysm armor.

Could this be our first hint at the new human model, which is largely less caveman-like in appearance? The human model featured in this commercial has detailed facial features, looking a bit less blocky than the human model currently featured in game.

[Zaphry]

They should use technology like this.

[Sychotix]

Blizzard didn't have to make a new human model for this. That model was made specially for Chuck Norris in exchange for letting everyone in Azeroth live.

[BaddyMcBad]

Personally I think it looks awkward. I don't like it at all.

[marcmk2]

I really hope that's not the new model. If it is I think I'll quit wow because the only character that I like to play is my human.

[#ClumsyWizard]

Reminds me of... Where is it...?

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...uman-male.html ([Model injection] Slim human male)

There we go! Reminds me of that!

[ally4821]

The face looks ugly, other than that I don't see much of a difference besides the gap between the arms and body.

[Remus3]

They should use technology like this.

umm when nothing is rotated differently and are multiple copies of the same thing. maybe; however that tech has been proven to be unusable in any game except static games where there is no animations, no rotation, no physics at all, and ofc since there is nothing moving... it'd be freakin boring. when they can get things to move besides a simple script but rather real animation with very far ranging textures, then i'd be impressed. anyone can make the same shi copied over n over n over for "unlimited" detail.

[Timmid]

well, they actually would take the time to make the model specifically for a Chuck Norris commercial. just think about that for a little bit.

Would they really put the low quality human model in a commercial that probably cost a pretty penny to have Chuck in it and a good commercial spot? Probably not.. it's Blizzard. They have the resources for that.

However, they probably are working on new models I'm sure.