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Samwise and other artists hold book signing

Posted Mar 5th 2008 5:00PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Odds and ends, Blizzard, WoW TCG

Today's the day for Blizzard art news, it seems -- next Saturday, Blizzard is holding that Art of Blizzard benefit show, but this past Saturday, Samwise Didier and a few other Blizzard artists stopped by the Barnes and Noble in Huntington Beach, California to sign copies of Upper Deck's The Art of the Trading Card Game book.

Glenn Rane is the other artist sitting next to Samwise (who you may also recognize as the frontman for L70ETC), and also in attendance were Tom Bava, Randy Gallegos, Terese Nielsen and Justin Sweet, along with Ben Thompson, who we're told was a big part of putting the book together. I suppose it's too much to ask for Blizzard to leave sunny Southern California sometime to do these signings and meet some of us who aren't lucky enough to live there? It is? Oh well -- at least it keeps them close to their real work.

Gallery: Samwise Art of Warcraft Book Signing

WoW TCG World Championships wrapup

Posted Dec 3rd 2007 2:00PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Paladin, Events, Fan stuff, News items, PvP, WoW TCG

Upper Deck's first WoW TCG World Championships are over, and the $100,000 winner is Guillame Matignon, who crushed his opponents (including the US Champ Brad Watson) with-- what else-- a Blood Elf Paladin. Unfortunately, it looks like UD's Ben Drago was far too busy to blog, but UD's official site has lots of great information and recaps.

This really was a World Champs-- players hailed from countries all over the globe.
Here's a great walkthrough of the artists' table, including a few good insights from the artists about where the card art comes from.
Unfortunately, Upper Deck didn't let us into that dinner with the developers that they held, but here's the two guys who got to go.
And finally, the players: they put together not only profiles of the top 8 players, but after it was all said and done, an interview with the $100,000 winner. The French player ran undefeated for 12 rounds to win it all, and how'd he do it. "Aggressive Horde, always." For the Horde!

All of Upper Deck's coverage is available on their website. Odds are that you didn't win the tournament, but worry not-- WoW Insider has your chance to win another WoW TCG prize later this week. Congrats to all the winners in San Diego, and cheers to Upper Deck for putting on what sounds like a terrific TCG event.

MMO Art expanding, artists wanted

Posted Aug 15th 2007 3:00PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Virtual selves, News items

Our good friends at MMO Art are growing, and if you're an artist that's interested in working on commissions of MMO characters, they might be looking for you. They're working on a site called MMO Art Studio, which will consist of a stable of artists selected by Jomaro Kindred (glad to hear he's back) to work professional commissions under the MMO Art banner.

To submit, they're looking for a couple of examples of your work, sent in via the web form. We've linked to their gallery before, but you can see examples of exactly what they're looking for over there. And even if you aren't an artist, their work is worth a look, and they've got some new art up as well. Unfortunately, most of it is City of Heroes-- WoW is woefully underrepresented, which I guess means that WoW players aren't commissioning portraits that much.

But it's still great art, and the Studio site offers a pretty unique opportunity to get paid professionally for something you might already be doing for free.

World of Warcraft TCG: UDeck Cover Art

Posted Jul 31st 2006 7:40PM by Elizabeth Harper
Filed under: Odds and ends, News items

With the World of Warcraft trading card game due for an October release, we're starting to get more and more information on it. Today, WoW TCG News posted scans of the eight different UDeck covers, each one done by a different artist. The UDeck is a plastic card case that you'll get when you purchase a starter deck and the outer artwork will be customizable with the options you see here (and, no doubt, more to come). And even if the idea of a trading card game isn't your thing, Upper deck has a great line up of artists on the project.

Blizzard Art Contest

Posted Jul 9th 2006 3:30PM by Elizabeth Harper

Starting July 31st at midnight, Blizzard will begin accepting art submissions for their 2006 art contest. They accept 2d or 3d artwork, from amateurs or professionals, in four categories: Diablo art, Cinematics art, Starcraft art, and Warcraft art. The four grand prize winners will walk away with loot worth over $10,000 - including a trip for two to Los Angeles for lunch or dinner with the Blizzard art team. So if you're the creative type, now's the time to get to work!

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Samwise and other artists hold book signing

WoW TCG World Championships wrapup

MMO Art expanding, artists wanted

World of Warcraft TCG: UDeck Cover Art

Blizzard Art Contest

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