How Blizzard starts an area

[schlumpf]

Our first step is doing little concepts on a whiteboard. This mostly looks like this and only has veeeery little detail. Its mainly getting the first ideas together.


After this, there are zone layout concepts. You all might now these from Blizzcon.


This is the point, where the first time, wowedit comes in action. Now, this concept will be remodeled in terrain and getting just colors painted on it.


As you can see, at this step, there is really no detail at all. Therefore now there will be low detail buildings and doodads added to the current state.


During this step, other artists make real drawn concept art, you may know from Blizzcon, the credits or the collectors edition art books etc.
This is also the step, where models and textures are created.

And then, the low detail terrain and texturing will be refined. This looks like this then. Time is from left to right.


After this doodads will be added and little things like the detail doodads or lightning will be added.

[Dragonshadow]

Huh, interesting.

[Bjarke]

Whats so special about that? thats how everything gets build... :P Plan - drawings - map/ blueprints - rough building - low details - details - done. I usaly just skip all the drawing, map/blueprint stuff when i make stuff... But thanks for posting, it could help ppl starting in noggit.

[Keithh]

I thought you were trying to make one of those funny threads when i saw the first picture, this is interesting.. Thanks for the share.

[schlumpf]

There is nothing special about it. Its just that I want to show how they do it (for people who are stupid) and how exactly it looks (for people loving official screenshots, they wont normally see).

[Strichnine]

Awful quality on those pictures.. Sorry.

[Wolfly]

Never really thought about how they made it, learn something new everyday I suppose.
Thanks.

[gouland]

REPOST ... cant find the other post so if anyone els saw that other post plz link but other post had a video with those stuff in it so i dunno if it counts as repost

[Kantheras]

cool lol i rly like that

[Eluo]

REPOST ... cant find the other post so if anyone els saw that other post plz link but other post had a video with those stuff in it so i dunno if it counts as repost

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