World of Warcraft: Midnight Eversong Woods visual development

This was my first task when we started to work on midnight a few years ago! We wanted to capture the look of a modernized Eversong Woods! It should still feel like the original as well as just pushing the color palette a bit!

This was my first task when we started to work on midnight a few years ago! We wanted to capture the look of a modernized Eversong Woods! It should still feel like the original as well as just pushing the color palette a bit!

These were some isometric shots of some different tertiary plant elements within Eversong!

These were some isometric shots of some different tertiary plant elements within Eversong!

This was an early piece that explored some of the biome elements in the more lush areas of Eversong. Starting to hint at lightbloom elements.

This was an early piece that explored some of the biome elements in the more lush areas of Eversong. Starting to hint at lightbloom elements.

Here's some early texture treatment exploration for some of the tree assets in Eversong!

Here's some early texture treatment exploration for some of the tree assets in Eversong!

More texture treatment options for   the trees in Eversong woods.

More texture treatment options for the trees in Eversong woods.

 We made some nice Plein air paintings within Eversong! The Visual development ended up making a few different plein air pieces that ended up being scattered around Quel'Thalas!  This was used as a texture in-game so the resolution is a bit low.

We made some nice Plein air paintings within Eversong! The Visual development ended up making a few different plein air pieces that ended up being scattered around Quel'Thalas! This was used as a texture in-game so the resolution is a bit low.

World of Warcraft: Midnight Eversong Woods visual development

With World of Warcraft: Midnight out, I can finally share my work! Here's my contribution to Quel'Thalas!

Visual Development lead: Gabe Gonzalez https://www.artstation.com/meldyran
Senior Visual Development Artist II : Forrest Imel https://www.artstation.com/forrestimel
Senior Visual Development Artist: Maxence Burgel https://www.artstation.com/inexam
Senior Visual Development Artist: Catarina Pulli https://www.artstation.com/catarinapulli
Senior Visual Development Artist: Justin Kauffman https://www.artstation.com/juskau