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Art Blast Spotlight: Natacha Nielsen - Alexstrasza, Ottuks, and Ducks
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ArtStation Magazine recently published another
Art Blast
, this time focused on the visuals for Dragonflight. The piece featured selections of the work of many Blizzard artists focusing on their particular specialty. The art departments at Blizzard consistently knock the ball out of the park with their work - we are going to feature a few of these artists and spotlight what they made for Dragonflight.
Natacha Nielsen is a character artist at Blizzard who created a Twitter account and shared her work in her very first Tweet!
Nielsen worked on a very familiar main character, Alexstrasza, developing her new outfit and the fabulous
dragontail
look for the back of her visage. Her dragon form is just as impressive.
For this expansion, I was responsible for Alexstrasza's new design and model and it is easily one of the most exciting things I have worked on so far. I love this character and she holds a special place in both my and many players heart. I think she's had so many great looks over the years across our games, and in fanart and cosplay. For Dragonflight, her new look needed to be regal, beautiful, and badass since she's coming back into an active role as the Queen of the Dragons.
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Modeling and painting her was really fun as well. I think one of my favorite bits of painting was on her face, I love doing makeup on characters and I figured she would definitely have some beautiful red makeup to go with her armor. I also couldn't resist giving her some freckles because I think they're really pretty and add some extra interest to her face.
Nielsen, a bird aficionado, also designed many of the new birds for the Dragon Isles, including ducks and peacocks.
Peacocks are probably one of my favorite types of birds, I think they are absolutely gorgeous and there are a lot of cool varieties and patterns, so I wanted to make one for WoW. Its been amazing to see these birds walking around the Dragon Isles
I have wanted ducks in WoW for a long time so creating these creatures was so fun. I wanted them to have a special flare for the Dragon Isles so I designed their head feathers to flow back for a silhouette that reads like "horns" on a dragon.
Many may remember the adorable Otter mount that Nielsen created for the student art contest. She was able to make that dream a reality with the new Tuskarr themed Ottuk mount.
I am so so excited that these are finally out there for players, this is probably one of my favorite mounts I have gotten to make for WoW. There are a lot of reasons I loved working on this but a big part was the opportunity to make an this for players. A lot of people have asked me about an otter mount after my student art contest entry years ago, so this felt like the perfect opportunity to create something for them. First I made the creature version, which gave me the opportunity to apply all the things I've learned over the years and to figure out where and how I can improve from my first attempt at an otter. Of course, I was stoked that these would be Tuskarr themed and I ended up designing two versions of the mount, one that I imagined the Tuskarr would use when they went fishing (hence the nets, fishing pole, bags of fish) and the other that I pictured as a more aggressive mount, intended for battle or fighting but making sure it uses materials that Tuskarr would use.
You can check out more of Natacha Nielsen's work in the Art Blast and on ArtStation .
Blizzard Entertainment World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Art Blast ArtStation : Natacha Nielsen
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