Campaign Portraits

[sandwich_bird]

However, the original manual stated that they evolved from apex predators that hunted in packs.

That's a good point. Predators that evolved into photosynthetic organisms? Pretty far-fetched. Haven't they been improved by the XN/Amon though? But, I suppose you could say that they're so technologically advanced that they could have re-engineered their biology to generate energy through photosynthesis and also get those other magical properties.

[Visions of Khas]

Sooo is this Artanis?

EDIT So, in the face of all this fantastic artwork we're presented with, the story-focused "comic interludes" look like... this.

wtf. Where did the artists go?!

[Gradius]

Sooo is this Artanis?

Nice! ;o

[The_Blade]

I must say all of these portraits are great. I wish they would use GNA's Aldaris. I just wish Fenix was colored differently, even if it was described as war paint.

[Turalyon]

Sooo is this Artanis?

They're keeping the "cut nerve cords" look!? Mind blown.

EDIT So, in the face of all this fantastic artwork we're presented with, the story-focused "comic interludes" look like... this.

wtf. Where did the artists go?!

Well, it's definitely comic-book like. Like they said it would be. *shrug*

[Mislagnissa]

That's a good point. Predators that evolved into photosynthetic organisms? Pretty far-fetched. Haven't they been improved by the XN/Amon though? But, I suppose you could say that they're so technologically advanced that they could have re-engineered their biology to generate energy through photosynthesis and also get those other magical properties.

No, because it's unnecessary to the story, boring to think about, and defies the basic biological concept of trophic levels. The mysterious energy requirements of psychic powers are strange enough. It is simpler IMO to just say the Protoss have mouths in their hands or something. Maybe their primitive marine ancestors were capable of photosynthesis, but they certainly aren't now.

Sooo is this Artanis?

EDIT So, in the face of all this fantastic artwork we're presented with, the story-focused "comic interludes" look like... this.

wtf. Where did the artists go?!

Are they going to retcon that Artanis is two (or even three!) different characters now because of continuity goofs in SC1 (where his bio said he was Khalai but his art recycled the Dark Templar model) and SC2 writing an original character also named Artanis (who was maybe the Executor in Ep3/4?) because they couldn't think of a different name?

That guy doesn't look anything like the BW Artanis/Dark Templar model! His skin should be grey or beige depending on lighting with brown freckles on his brows and cheeks.

EDIT: Is Tassadar's skin supposed to be brown or dark blue? He varies between his portrait, cinematic and action figure.

[Visions of Khas]

Tassadar is beige in his game portraits; appears blue in the cutscene because he's in the khaydarin core; and is blue-grey in Heroes of the Storm, comics, and action figure. Sooo who knows.

I always assumed protoss absorbed water and the blood of their prey through semi-permeable skin. And current canon definitely pins them as autotrophic.

[Gradius]

The DT saga said they hunted for skins/sport, not food.

[Robear]

Tassadar is beige in his game portraits; appears blue in the cutscene because he's in the khaydarin core; and is blue-grey in Heroes of the Storm, comics, and action figure. Sooo who knows.

i actually think Heroes' Tassadar is great in terms of colorscheme. Obviously they put the colorscheme on an SC2 protoss head, but the colors/pattern is very faithful to the original portrait, just in a less shadowy / better-lit environment.




The grey is slightly more blue-tinted, but, close enough. He looks better than all of the Protoss in SC2.



Yeah of all the things to preserve from the originals and not update/correct, I really can't believe they picked Artanis having cut nerve cords. He looks really weird imo. Needed to be smoother-skinned and grayer.

[The_Blade]

On the first iterations of the Heroes model, Tassadar lacked the maroon "eyebrow".




I guess we have been heard, after all; but the uniformity of Protoss skin seems to be more of a priority to Blizzard.

I just watched "Fenix's death" cinematic and you can actually see that he was blue originally. The portrait was just lighted with orange/red light.