World of borecraft

I gotta give World of Warcraft props for ladling out the gnomepunk - their whole gnome milieu and the emphasis on gnome engineers guarantees a boatload of goggles and gears and gizmos, as we have seen all this week and occasionally before on this blog. The only trouble is that WoW graphics are so uniformly dull - those computer-animation polyhedral constructs screen-capped from gameplay are not exactly Norman Rockwell illustrations. I wish there were some way to keep the sensibility but ramp up the presentation.

Well, I've got two entries that might pass muster. We'll start with the lesser of the pair, and finish off tomorrow with a grand finalé.

I had to enlarge this image a bit, so it lost some crispness, but I think it's a photoshopped version of a standard graphic. It has a little more texture, at any rate, and while we have lost goggles as such, there's enough gear hanging off this engineer to endear the heart of any gnomepunk fan.

This image came from the same place as the previous one: [Engineering] Reasons to be, specialization guide, and essential creations (Part 1) on the MMOwned WoW forum.