Chapter 104 - Arthas’s Sketch
Chapter 104: Chapter 103: Arthas’s Sketch
The planning of units and buildings only took two days with the help of the Memory Playback Potion. But of course, Chen Mo had just the numbers, with no images for reference at all.
Chen Mo had previously posted a few concept arts of the World of Azeroth, including gryphons and hippogryphs, but most of the units still lacked artwork.
As Chen Mo had so many other things on his hands, he decided to hand over the buildings and units to Qian Kun.
Qian Kun built a system according to the attack/defence types of the different units and buildings to achieve a sort of balance between different races and units.
Su Jinyu on the other hand was creating artwork for a portion of the units based on her concept art, and the rest of it were outsourced to an art company.
As for the story, Chen Mo only left the story for The Frozen Throne to Zheng Hongxi, asking to make a draft for the story (including the plot and campaign), before revising it in the future.
After assigning the jobs, Chen Mo started to work on the most important part, the foundations of the specifications for maps.
The Warcraft world editor (aka WE) was very powerful, leading to the development of many minigames.
Everyone had nothing but praises for the sketch.
Chen Mo’s sketch of Arthas fully conveyed his possible good or bad nature, especially with his mount Invincible and Fortmourne, everyone were able to imagine the heroic figure of Arthas leading the Scourge to take over Azeroth.
This picture was enough to make their blood boil!
After giving the sketch another look, they had more to say about it.
Although the sketch was far from complete, it was more than enough to convey the idea and characteristics of the character. From a design point of view, it was basically perfect and could even stand toe to toe with Heavenly Ring!
Wen Lingwei said, “Alright, I’ve decided that I’ll colour this sketch, free of charge!”
TL note [1]: Names of WOW minigames, and Dynasty Warriors here doesn’t refer to the actual Dynasty Warrior series