The Weird Game Models of World of Warcraft

Have you ever looked at a model in WoW and wondered why it looks so strange? In this video I talk about the odd artwork in the game that stands out.
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[@sstnks]

High Elves/early Blood Elves were literally retextured Night Elf models with modified ears. Kinda cool.

[@QoSwords]

I really like them

[@Bramandin]

This is a common misconception. They are actually much skinnier than the bulky night elves, making their body entirely different model, just having the same skeleton.

[@Durahan82]

Like Sylvanas in Classic

[@dodge698]

Most of these models come from Warcraft 3, the cannonballs didn't have polygons because PCs in 2005 could not handle them. You will notice that of all things in classic WoW. So the textures were just plain surfaces without any real structure.

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

And WoW was in production since 1999. I think vanilla recommended RAM was 256MB or something crazy low. Even Elder Scrolls Oblivion RAM was capped at 2GB which there are mods to remove it to decrease lag.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

I love that we have to explain Vaulty that those moddels are from 24 years ago, hence the low fidelity... Like... no shit sherlock! PCs back then were not gonna run Black Desert Online or Cyberpunk 2077...

[@G1nSan3]

ahh yes thats a fine excuse not to update

[@G1nSan3]

@@josejuanandrade4439 they re released classic wow and did not update old graphics lol. i love that i have to explain that to you. like.. no shit sherlock! blizzard developers now dont care about you or the game!

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@G1nSan3 explain what? i already know they re-releazed classic... that does not change the fact that these are models created back in 2002-2003... hence why they are so low polygon.... The whole idea of CLASSIC is that the game is avaliable AS IT WAS... I love that i have to explain this to you...

[@avengedguy]

Don't forget, even Sylvanas herself had a Night Elf female model in classic WoW. Then got updated to a blood elf female with red eyes and hunter tier set, after that she started getting unique models.

[@tomeekun]

As far as I remember that female belf with red eyes model was really just a placeholder during WotLK beta. Which means it was never actually available in 2.4 or 3.0. I don't really understand why people always include it when making a picture or a video of her model evolution.

[@blackhawkcz1895]

Wtf did the cannonballs do to you?!

[@niledemitri3079]

THEY UGLY, OK? THEY UGLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

[@blackhawkcz1895]

@niledemitri3079 they just low polly cannonballs. I mean everything used to be low polly and there is nothing to mess up with making a low polly ball and nothing was messed up. So why hate on my man Cannonball? Hes just a chill guy.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@blackhawkcz1895 Right?! How dare those 3d models from 24 years ago have such low graphics?! Is almost if they hardware back then was more limited then today! CRAZY! But then again.. is Vauly we talking here... common sense is not exactly one of his strenghts.

[@LedosKell]

The Defias Warchman partially shares its model with the alpha Human Knight and Baron Rivendare model to an extent. You can tell they took that skinny Human model and slapped it on a horse then modified it, but the way they swing their weapon gives it away they have a common origin. I love all the old p Alpha/beta human models, they all have a neat charm about them.

[@Tamamo-no-Bae]

The vanilla High elves, the "Defias Watchman" (It is actually a bandit model), the strange fat humans and such, they were all models from very early in WoW's development. We're talking 2001 and 2002. The High elves in particular were modified from a very early Night elf, and they lack a lot of animations. Forexample female High elves lack a mounting animation. The old Gnoll model forexample could be seen in some of WoW's earliest screenshots.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

I believe all these do still exist in some form or another in Retail

[@MrKshahdoo]

Triangle headed prairie dogs is a symbol of Classic World of Warcraft ☺

[@Amphitera]

I think that was the only time an "updated" model looked clearly better than the original^^ I'm still sad the bunnies all turned into fat round barrels in retail.

[@MrKshahdoo]

Haha, true 🙂 They are very chonky now 😂

[@647586]

​@@Amphitera I mostly like the newer models but I do also miss the stealth bomber rabbits

[@kyler288]

1:45 "my eyes are up here"

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

Lmao. Why I went from alliance to Horde when BC came out and I chose a blood elf rogue.

[@grimmow187]

no red arrow in the thumbnail? is this the redemption arc?

[@csguy3223]

Red arrow is not meta anymore. Girl picture in thumbnail is meta.

[@the8thvictim]

​@csguy3223 especially AI generated or an anime one, because nowadays it's trendy.

[@trolltalwar]

Do red arrows make you mad

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@csguy3223 Wait, that a girl picture? I thought it was Vaulty's face on the thumbnail!

[@SenorFlaw]

This is the first video I've watched on this channel and I probably would've skipped it if there was a red arrow

[@andreware2039]

Those outdated high elven models are still in retail in Ghostlands. They stand out so much more in such a weird way now 😭😭

[@dusk6686]

I was always fascinated by them. I think they are in hinterlands too. Back in BC, I thought to myself "oh so night elves look like this, blood elves look like that... and these guys are HIGH elves, so that's what they must have looked like before arthas slaughtered like 90% of them. Apparently the high elves in the hinterlands didn't turn to blood elves because they were already super distant away from the sun well, and weren't dependent on it like those in their homeland.

[@andreware2039]

@dusk6686 they didn't look like that because of some evolutionary change before and after Arthas' invasion 😅 They're just outdated old models for high elves specifically. Cinematics and various quests throughout the game for flashbacks before and during his invasion have their proper updated models. It is basically just the zones being frozen in time with no updates to properly reflect the changes to the other zones that came later. Just have a look at the animals and creatures all around Quel'thalas. Same reason. And on the misconception about the blood in "blood" elves... That's more like a political name to honor the fallen in the scourge invasion. It's not a name based on evolution. They didn't want to fall into the ranks of being named blood elves due to political reasons. 😅

[@yevgeni10]

You can't work with WOW graphics in high level because it will slow the game and create low fps. Don't forget that this game is an MMO after all and it will not be good to have low fps in Boss battles or in BG.

[@marydearmas1631]

0:18 they should add for all characters a weight personalization, doesn't seem realistic that all slim people are bloodelves and all fat ones kultirian

[@Voreghul]

They always take the wrongest decision possible when it comes to that. Kultiran ''race'' could simply be a human body customization while on the other hand Eredar could be a whole new race (that would fit much more on Horde btw) but instead they've made'em just a customization for pre-existing Draenei. Figures.

[@phantomloveliness]

I've never understood why Blizz haven't implemented customisation sliders. Or making every hairstyle available. Or custom colours for hair and eyes.

[@Ganglion_interauriculare]

@@phantomloveliness It's mechanically impossible. All WoW models are designed "as is" and can't have their proportions changed. The best you can do for customisation is to assign different textures (hair and skin colors) and turn on and off different geosets baked into the model. These geosets include hairstyles - they aren't separate models so to bet, for example, a human hairstyle on a dwarf you need to edit the dwarf model to give it the human hairstyle.

[@cytoid7062]

A lot of these older models were straight lifted from Warcraft 3. Early WoW was really just a revamped Warcraft 3 made into an MMO.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

There are actually a few NPCs that still use the outdated High Elf model in Retail, mostly ghosts of high elves which for some reason were never changed over to the new Blood Elf model.

[@thomasgainz4885]

What if The human baby, instead of crying it, just spammed “how are you” and “good day to you” 😂

[@Tangies]

get gabbin or get goin

[@Meta_knight343]

Vaulty still makes videos?! I thought his reputation was obliterated

[@Snuzzled]

The original high elves. Yeah, they were.... weird.

[@PR1ME_9]

"Have you ever looked at a model in WoW and wondered why it looks so strange?" Yes I have. Why is that? I watched this whole video and came away with no answers. What was the point of this?

[@Edwin-iw8gb]

At least it was only 4 minutes of your life

[@Onetime614]

I doubt that you will find any life changing information in any of these videos.

[@dabillya6845]

its vaulty. its basically AI content at this point. im OUT sub out

[@TurboExit]

The point is to give you something to complain about.

[@crippledkitty863]

The baby with the eyebrows is a dwarf baby. 😂 The white night elves are how high elves look before they took on the moonwell for energy.

[@kfhahn]

This video is kinda bad lol. “Why are they so weird???” Uh, the artists made artistic decisions and some of them were kind of funny? That’s kind of the charm

[@Onkuty]

funny but the goblin children looks like you

[@ButteredPecan17]

he mogs you tho

[@jugobetrugo7213]

its a old game - made for older systems. and i guess blizzard dont wanna update every single thing in their game

[@amaranth321]

Vaulty is still a thing? What year is this?

[@dannybu898]

the Vanilla High Elves were cool imo. Something i noticed is that the female High Elves are missing animations that they actually had in Vanilla's Alpha. For example. They have an idle animation and a casting animation for when they cast a spell using the "omni" animation set instead of the "Direct" Then in Vanilla from what I see, they are missing a lot of animations, prolly due to them updating the night elf models in Vanilla's release.

[@DrPluton]

Dwarven children in game are usually just smaller versions of adult dwarves (including beards or breasts).

[@Amphitera]

I like the classic highelf models. I prefer unique and pleasing looking art over just more polygons. The highest definition won't change an ugly bulky model from looking ugly and bulky. If they had just added more customization to the classic models, I would still use them if it were an option. Also, it would be hilarious to see the meltdown in the playerbase if Blizzard added playable highelves, but would use the classic model for them instead of the bloodelf one. I'd actually prefer them that way. We also need more slim, realistic models, for player characters AND weapons. That defias rogue is a good example. Some classes just need a slim, agile model to not look ridiculous.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

WoW began development in 1999, so a lot of the earlier models were probably made in the early 2000s, but it's not just the dated tech of the time, you could find Gen-6 consoles with better graphics. The other reason they kept them so simple is because they wanted to let people with shit computers be able to run the game. That's why you got hexagon trees and pentagon cups, and other oddly shaped doodads. As for why they still are, presumably a loaf of bread sitting on a table in Ironforge is lower on the priority list of things to give a new model to than NPCs/etc. It would be cool if they set up a team dedicated to updating all those old alpha-WoW models, but eh, it's Blizzard. They won't even pay for customer support.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Goblins are werid. And while nearly all of them got a newer models. Theres a couple that didn't, and one if Peddlefeet. Also, what was funny was when you could changed your language in the game to Chinese. You would get their version of having the skeletons more "fleshed out"

[@DIEGhostfish]

2:42 There is a player character wearable model of its shoulderpad (And a mirrored version) but it has ONLY ever been used by NPCs, a couple of the more normal defias, some trolls in Stranglethorn, and the Goblin on the Horde Repair Mammoth from wrath/

[@katpoohtoo]

Blizzard has a strange idea of what male humans look like. It's as if they used Popeye as the body model with a ridiculously round ball of muscle on each limb instead of looking at actual human men. I wish they'd improve the human male.

[@serijas737]

The Canon balls are literally just one color, it's all handled through the engine's shadow

[@noclueman6370]

dawg, you're Aesthetics Waiting

[@braindamage7128]

Glad to see you with another video!

[@DIEGhostfish]

A few other leftover models in WoW. Alpha Trolls using the forest Troll skeleton from WC3. A handful of otherwise Jungle Trolls in stranglethorn that persist into Cata. And in BC all the Forest Trolls in Eversong and Ghostlands before Zul Aman came out. Tagorr the Dread or whatever the Blackrock Orc in Stockades is also an Alpha-era model

[@magnus1383]

Nah that baby with the brows gotta be a gnome

[@bohne8746]

bro is back

[@rickhobson3211]

I am glad they updated the female worgen models. The perma-snarl didn't do it for me.

[@jesseleewelch]

This is why graphics are important. I always felt world of warcraft was exceptionally lazy in this regard.

[@Corvus-gm4bo]

There are still skinny human models! In Kul Tiras you'll find them in Boralus.

[@draphking]

Janky low poly Vanilla models > soulless smooth plastic toy retail models

[@optimistic5467]

Blizz hate's baby's so much that even the breast milk for them to drink was being stolen from the fridge as blizz hq so that they would starve 😂😂

[@Crosmando]

I believe the High Elf models from vanilla are just Night Elf models with the colors swapped, which is why they look so odd.

[@magicalpotatoeforces]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEUH the undead model at 3:16 - 3:21 is TERRIFYING.

[@goku3050]

Looking at this video it almost feels like the skinny defias watchmen had the bodytype of the undead.

[@nevruzkaya5139]

Bro do you plan on exposing asmongold again ?

[@Takagi_san]

Someone has to

[@SplatastictheRealOne]

"have you ever wondered why these models exist in the World of Warcraft?" I dunno, time constraints, warcraft III, models, and retexturing of existing models since there wasn't any current iteration of High/Blood elf model in existence from 2004. Sorry.. what was the point of this video?

[@VictorRocketBoy]

Actually I think baby Tuskarr looks really cute

[@SomewhataMystery]

Take the bushy eyebrows it was you as a baby.

[@RobotScrambler]

00:18 *There she is, boys* . Your future wife.

[@MrDoreius]

Na thats the evil sister from shrek, the bar maid.

[@Gman18]

Everything that did right on warcraft3 they FUCKED UP on wow

[@kennidokurasava8697]

Optimization? Stylization? Gaming restrictions? Pfff... Stupidity! What ugly models, urgently replace them with hyper-HD! (Just don't tell him about Warcraft 3...He won't sleep later: D)

[@donkatsu6526]

You’re back! 🎉

[@Qarin3]

I love it. When the graphics card in my laptop died I could still play WoW.:D

[@alanmacdonald1457]

not sure why your so confused about how so many things from the mid 2000s has low polygons was pretty limited back then :P that chinese things hilarious though, news to me!

[@oscarmichel9932]

If they look like that, why chinese players love undead so much?

[@JoshuaS-gj5pw]

They need to work on their character customization menu when we first make our characters, they haven't added anything to it that I know of, and I do want them to add an option to adjust our body type not all of us want to play as a bulky human, same goes for their gear most of it has that look as well

[@josejuanandrade4439]

1:36 Which one is the real Vaulty?! I can't tell them appart!

[@picklerick5475]

Yesss comeback

[@nathanhainey4127]

I find the hillsbrad citizens down in South shore in the durnholde keep dungeon very odd for their models. Creeps me out lol

[@Jediwarlock]

Hey man, good to see you. :) I hope you are doing well!

[@hazardeur]

those people are devs and nerds. they probably havent seen or thought about a child since they themselves were one

[@onlyusemepeepo]

bro looks like he should have included himself as part of the list

[@druidseventy9103]

back to making youtube vids is the crypto not doing good anymore

[@spencegame]

Those cannonballs are from WC3

[@GrumpyDart]

Vaulty baby model? 1:04

[@senhorferrari2361]

4:00 but the goblin kid just looks like you lol it looks lika a mix between you and frodo

[@timelordthemaster]

We have skinny kultiran NPC's in BFA, why you didn't say about it?

[@Luna-ii4mx]

You could have been one of those models ._.

[@GEGENALLES123]

Hahaha love all of then, the old charm of wow always gets me💪🏻 #classic

[@archiegault2331]

What's the music in the background? Driving me mad that I can't place.

[@LPSkillerthecat]

Thank you for this video pretty boi ~

[@jaimeyxul729]

Lol your still around?😂😂😂

[@abrahammendiola4446]

Must love him if you keep checking up on him 😂

[@clear9104]

pls increase graphics quality, your gameplay footage always looks awful =/

[@nirhawk]

1:14 lol

[@0100-j9l]

Tauren babies are cute

[@VargVikernes1488]

LMAO, I didn't even know you had this channel

[@Foretelling]

This toad still going?

[@zimattack9994]

A lot of thesis are reused bata models

[@greek2701]

Vaulty

[@chosen1092]

This guy became a joke after trying to leech from asmongold.

[@MrBuljong]

you are copying asmongold, sorry, we need to put out a hitpiece on you now

[@device1051]

Btw can u do video make gold for newbie?

[@Anders-vl6kk]

cool video but having your face on screen adds literally nothing of value

[@ferranv8494]

They're copypasting since 1840

[@RetroGaming1836]

The blood elf's are hot though

[@cujoedaman]

When the "rose tinted goggle" wearing weebs complain that the old models look far superior to what we have now, show them this video.

[@DancingTron5]

You need to keep yourself safe vaulty .

[@Gabriel-ck1yp]

this is such a dumb video ffs.

[@geozeo710]

Vaulty ma boi!

[@tjlehn3157]

this vaulty guy lowkey cute asf

[@nerezzia4623]

must be vaultys alt account

[@chrisg1023]

Small one: Lady Hoteshem AB battlemaster in stormwind keep is slightly smaller compared to other human females.

[@mje1984x]

thumbnail: I'm Skyler White, yo.