Her style of art is just breathtaking

Laurel's artwork is so inspiring. I loved the Lords of War series, and I hope Blizzard makes more series like this. :)

I find myself always coming back to the Lords of War series. To this day, still the best short stories from blizzard

I don´t play World of Warcraft, but i love the "Lords of War"-Videos. Thanks for that!

Blizzard has amazing artists!!!!

She's done an amazing job with the art. The atmosphere, the color choice, everything - awesome.

This was a damned masterpiece!

A Master piece..thats what you are capable of creating with your own hands Laurel.

Hard work really pays off when you see these amazing editors do this great job in making this series.

I love Blizzard so much. I just wanna hug 'em.

These are the kind of thing that inspires me to keep on working hard and study what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be a concept artist for Blizzard Entertainments one day. I dont care how long does it takes and how dire the road may be. I know the moment I step into the Blizzard Headquarters to do my work I will feel that I have achieved my greatest goal. I am a huge fan of Warcraft since I was a little kid and I have written many fan based stories based on Warcraft which I keep to my own for now but I hope to make them more than that one day. Who knows? Maybe I will get to make an expansion for World of Warcraft someday. That would be great. Thanks for always being so awesome Blizzard! I hope to join you one day!

genius comes to mind!!

The artwork throughout was so epic.

As a long-time fan of Laurel, it's awesome to finally see her take the spotlight, I love her work! Thanks for sharing this!

You are one of my big inspirations for my own artwork, I'm 18 as of now, just got into an animation/film/game art school in a very weird way, instead of doing my normal school work I work 24/7 on my art work and my own stories, I showed them to the director of the school, and I was accepted instantly. My dream is to work at a place like blizzard when I'm older. I know full well it would be industry standard, deadlines all that. And I would find that SOOOooo fun. Keep doing what you are doing Laurel it's truly amazing, and you have probably inspired more then just me to go the extra mile with their own artworks. ^_^

Man, I wish I'd known at an earlier age that you could get a job doing epic pictures/paintings for a company like Blizzard. I used to love drawing as a kid. Seeing someone as talented as Laurel makes me wonder if I could've been doing the same thing by now if I'd kept up with it. Well, regret/nostalgia aside, it is truly amazing seeing what goes into a production like these short clips. I loved the animation style for the Orcs, their anatomy especially. Absolutely top-notch.

Please make more stuff like Lords of War Blizz! The Art and style is epic. Kudos to your team for making something so fluidly stunning-not only visually but conceptually. You've out done yourselves again.

Finally she's given recognition!

OMG thank you for showing the lead illustrator :D. I love the beautiful paintings for these :).

Amazing art. I hardly saw the story of WoW translated in such a great way.

YESSSSSS! Thank you for uploading this! Exactly what I need!

Doing so good work blizzard

These and the ones about Emperor Shaohao were great to see, and I'm glad I watched them, I found the artwork so inspiring it got me back into drawing.

Amazing.

Team of illustrators and artists is so strong in Blizzard. And Laurel 's works are the best ;3

Looking forward to more of these types of stories. You don't have to wait for the next expansion to do more ;)

Soo much work! This mans worck day and night to give us this fantastic game! ALL RESPECT for Blizzard staff!

That's pretty damn impressive.

That series looked realy great!

I loved these, Adds an dimension to The game aswell

I really enjoyed the series. The artwork was amazing.

Woot, we can finally see the artist behind those outstanding pictures, I love how she interpreted draeneis. This was truly an amazing work and hope to see some of these images in the Warlords of Draenor artbook from the collector edition :)

She is incredibly skilled. And gorgeous. This is an awesome series, pure eye candy

I absolutely love these series and the Shaohao one, I can't wait to see more of them in the future!

I love this behind scenes on art, couse I just started out doing concept art myself and blizzard got some real awesome stuff so I like that you are sharing this blizzard, thank you !

Love seeing behind the scenes stuff. Some really great posing and sense of anatomy and weight in these illustrations. Well done, imo.

Her art is brilliant.

I want to see more of this dark art! Also gotta point out Kargath's story, especially the part where he's forced to destroy his hand - so awesome!

Laurel is incredible.

thank you for this, i've been looking everywhere for the original stills and how it was done for these type of warcraft anamatics and boom its here. you can find some stills of the stills on her artstation (Laurel D Austin). amazeing work all around, im not a player of the game but boy do i love any media related to it thats released.

Blizzard is a top notch company. They have this fine tradition of excellence and near perfection. Which I hope they would be able to maintain like forever. Whenever I hear or meet someone that says he/she is a Blizzard FAN I would often ask. What kind of Blizzard fan are you? A gamer fan? A lore fan? A art style fan? Majority would answer ALL. I hope they would feature the sound guys as well.

another job well done Blizzard!

You have done an outstanding job ty

Incredible art, a true master.

Just makes you appreciate the masterminds behind the project.

Es un trabajo genial. Y no hablo solamente el hecho que sean diseñadores, sino la manera en la que se la ingenian para desarrollar un (nuevo?) estereotipo de comunicación audiovisual de la forma en que lo hacen. Sus dibujos y pequeñas historias son simplemente estupendas y logran que la gente se interese mucho en ellos. La verdad, un trabajo impecable. Mis felicitaciones para Blizzard y todos sus trabajadores. Sigan así.

That mug is awesome

Huge fan. Love you guys and your philosophy.

Simply Amazing.

gr8 job , gr8 tallent , thank u for the amazing art

I really loved the art ! good job

You all do an Amazingly Fantastic job! Keep up the great work! :D

Awesome !

Awesome art work. This is all Epic. I love all the WOW animations and stories. It's just brilliant. Grommash Hellscream rules !!!!!

And now she left the company even before the newest set of cinematics called "Afterlives" were even released on youtube and joined Mike Morhaime's new project.

Hmm, I'm about to get my degree in arts and science, maybe I can get a job for Blizzard, BECAUSE WHAT I JUST SAW, that's basically what we were practicing. Blizzard is top notch.

She looks really nice but man she draws some pretty badass stuff! Kudus to her and all the team for an amazing job! ^_^

She is amazing talented artist, so damn awesome

This whole series is just so fucking awesome. I´d give a foot to work on something this great.

very well done!

Still trying to make myself into an artist worthy of working at Blizzard. Laurel is inspiring.

awesome art u rock!

Love the art so awesome work Laurel and everyone involved in this series. and just finally having some darker storytelling, and well not just have it all in books to sell, since usually skip big part of story, have it in a book which am not interested in getting (since already paying monthly fee and well few books now)

thats amazing great hand.

her art is amazing :)

Graz blizz u get better every year 😆

awesome ! artworks

this is aawesome

Simple incredible..

I love the art in those videos,they are so similar to gw2 ones (not a bad thing for sure)

does anyone know how they animated the pictures? trying to do a similar thing for a film idea. any info would help. thanks

awsome

badass series

Is there going to be any more of these for WoD. I would have liked to see a few more, or at least one for Yrel.

It's amazing the short story but the tecniques used here, come from the anime style they on the begining use still image to create animation....

I wish I could learn how to do this

Just a little reminder: HELLSCREAM'S EYES ARE UPON YOU!!!

Loved the Lords of War series, as well as the Shaohao burdens. To get a glimpse behind the scenes is really as unique as the finished copies. Although, why is Metzen on this thumbnail when it's narrated entirely by Laurel?

Please can someone tell me which software they are using to create the subtle movements and camera pans?

I have two questions The first is we see with those 5 parts of lords of war how alliance 'join' the fight it should be a horde part too like Varian calls the horde for their assistance or like this The second one is alliance have the trials of yrel to become a exarth it is available for the horde too or it is for a other character ex. Trials for thrall or durotan I feel like alliance side has more than the horde side. Please answer me

give us another episode!!! where the hell is ner'zhul or gul'dan

More please?

mmmh, so lovely.... i mean the artwork, khm.

Cool

HURRY UP WITH THAT FUCKING WOW MOVIE!

How is this animation / drawing style called? I would be very interested in learning out the basics to attempt such a project. To bad it is nowhere documented.

If only the Warcraft movie would be in this art style...

where can i get that cup as she has on the table??

Muito foda !

i want to create animation like this ( or try at least ) so what program they using and what courses do i need to learn ? please help me i need to do it for a friend !

Shes my idol

10 years same graphic, how long time more will we see same pictures?

that is smood

It's all painted by ONE person!??!?!?!

Cant wait for wod.

Is she the one responsible for such fucking awesome art???

4:35 anyone know a program similar to this 'extension' for autodesk maya 2014? Or even better a full program/software and what the name is. I'd like to do still image animation.

WHAT IS THE SONG IN THE BACKGROUND?

Not sure if anyone will read this, but can you tell me what format will be the warcraft movie, it going to be like this or like the legendary blizz cinematics or normal movie with actors.

GJ