Resources to make a Draenei?

TabooGood

I would like to make a Draenei character from World of Warcraft, I've seen some images from artists who have combined resources to make very good looking Draenei characters but I'm having trouble finding these myself. Got any suggestions?

scorpio

TabooGood said:

I would like to make a Draenei character from World of Warcraft, I've seen some images from artists who have combined resources to make very good looking Draenei characters but I'm having trouble finding these myself. Got any suggestions?

It would help a bit if you linked to some images of exactly what you are looking for.

Is there a particular base you would prefer to work with?

dragotx

The official Blizzard artwork for Dranei is:

 

And:

Ascania

Look at the various Creature Creator products. The V4/M4 ones, albeit quite old now, come closer than the ones for more current figures.

scorpio

Personally I'd look at the HFS morphs these should help especially with the legs, those are for the later figures his sets for G3 and G8 are sold here the earlier ones are at rendo.

For a skin you could try something like this

https://www.daz3d.com/fantasy-races-aunrae-the-dark-elf

plasma_ring

Seconding HFS morphs! I've got them and I use them all the time. The one thing to watch out for is that you'll often need to re-pose animal style legs manually a little bit, since the bottom half of the leg is made up of both the calf and foot and tends to warp. 

Here's a quick example I did using Zurie as a base. The horns are from EJ Demon Races Creator, scaled up slightly. I used Ultimate Iray Skin Manager to change the skin tone and just messed with the base color on the horns to match, then added an emissive effect to the eyes. For the hooves I changed the color of the legs on her regular skin. 

I know there are some tail addons for previous generations, but I've only tried doing creature/alien morphs for G8 and I'm not sure if there's anything available for recent models. 

Edited to add another thing I should mention about the HFS morphs: they can leave behind bits that need to be accounted for either in the render or in postwork. In the second pic you can see he's got vestigal digits between his fingers even though the hand morph is dialed to max, and on the draenei example I had to make sure to clean up her toenails.