I don't even play WoW anymore but whenever you upload I'm always so fast to click, you work masterfully at remaking items and it's always a treat to watch the process with the end result always being a feast for the eyes :)
@@TheDeadAwesome You have no idea what you're talking about. There's many places to take a dump at Blizzard, but the graphic design team and artists office is NOT one of them. If you think they suck, you're just an ignorant asshole that needs his eyes checked. Oh, and this is not a discussion, it's fact. The team is amazeballs and what they are doing with a 20yo engine is fucking incredible. Go back to the whole where you crawled out from until you have something intelligent to say.
Lately I been thinking about iconic things in WoW and I stumbled upon The Headless Horsman‘s Charger. Your videos are amazing and fullfill that satisfaction part in all our brains. Never stop youre talented af!!!
I'm hoping someday the Staff of Atiesh will become a legendary weapon during the worldsoul saga. Having another legendary Staff would be pretty cool caster weapon of old but in the hands of the player again.
The original Atiesh was so lowpoly that it actually took me YEARS to realize that it had a bird at the top and not just a weird lump of... something...
even when you're redoing a plain looking stick from Vanilla wow you make it entertaining to watch. keep up the great work! I look forward to all your future projects
Great video and artistry....still after the new expac release with the new cinematics out i wouldve loved for this video beeing you 9 minutes creating highly detailed splinters of wood
also your texturing has gotten so so soooo good. i think it used to be one of the things that kept you apart from like blizard but you have basically perfected that blizard look like i could see this in trade post next month so easily haha
I think the reason why Atiesh was never remastered was because its simplistic but still has that distinct shape where you know that the staff is Atiesh from a distance, like Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, though that one technically got a remaster through the Outlaw rogue Legion legendary. its basically just a wooden stick with a bird and a small scarf on it. and that simplicity meant that it didn't age as badly as some other weapons from its time. regardless your remaster looks sick as hell dude, I love the filigree engravings on its heel (apparently that's what they call the metal bit at the end of canes)
There should be a mesh of this thing in Heroes of the Storm, if not several due to Medivh's skins. IDK how hard it is to export assets from that game though. Would be interesting to see what they did versus your version!
Absolutely awesome as always! Constructive criticism: Your bird looks a bit like a penguin. I think the main reason is that your missing legs. The original wow model texture is hinting at legs. I think if you were to carve out the legs and separate the tops of the wings from the neck a bit it would look more raven. The original WC3 Medivh concept is a good reference.
Glorious as ever! Have you ever tried your hand at animating? I would like to see tackling the attrocious Blizzard animation of 2h maces. Maybe have a chat with people at the Archeon on how it's supposed to be? :P
2 months ago i asked for you to remake Death's Sting, a wildly beautiful dagger with one of the lowest drop rates in the game, a warrior tank or rogues dream end game weapon. Not only is it the best dagger in the game, it's model is beautiful despite its low poly and saturated colors.
What a beautiful remake Tomkek, recolors are such a nice touch. I was wondering you considered remaking all the original T3 sets? Wrath remade some, but they felt very bland and over designed compared to the original bright colors. Edge of Insanity, Kalimdor’s Revenge or Maul of the Redeemed Crusader are also screaming for a remake. 🙏🏼
@@Tomkektv Also, amazing job dude, for the first 6 years of playing WoW I thought that staff was a carving of corn on a stick until sometime in Cata a guild member got it to drop.
You know what would be an incredible next subject? A remake of the Tarecgosa Staff & Visage mount, since we get a semi-proper mount for it now. (Still Per-Character and low-poly, despite Tarecgosa herself actually getting remodeled.)
It's absolutely amazing and I'm sure a lot of (if not all) mages would love to wield it. However I somewhat miss that fat pigeon look (maybe because I have 0 mages).
For all of us priest mains, can we please get remaster of Benediction/Anathema, that staff is so iconic and eye catching to this day. Oh and throw in a Dreadsteed remaster in for good measure
Man I was kinda unsure about this as the original is sorta meh looking but holy heck you really brought this staff to life, the bird looks much more powerful thanks to the added neck which was a really good call, the original really does look like a pinecone.
I have a challenge for you. Outside your comfort zone of gear and weapons let's see you recreate some buildings, can be the bare bones no decor inside, those can be a later project to add to it later. See what we at doing is creating a portfolio so you can lead the art team for wow2
Fingers are crossed next legendary is this staff and we get to reforge it. Betting we use a combination of wood glue and beeswax to make it good as new. :p
I wish blizzard made more weapons (especially staves) that look PLAIN! I mean like Gandalf type of staff. Instead we have these huge overpimped wands that don't do well if you want a simple looking transmog.
Man understood the assignment on the warlock reskin
A teased project involving more wood...? My man is clearly trying to tell us he's remaking the entirety of Teldrassil next video.
Now the question is. Raw or cooked Teldrassil?
@@bjchez You freaking demon. 🤣
@brianchez5102 Lightly seared and then boiled for 18 minutes
@@Tomkektvthat's not nearly long enough for Babi Pangang!
I don't even play WoW anymore but whenever you upload I'm always so fast to click, you work masterfully at remaking items and it's always a treat to watch the process with the end result always being a feast for the eyes :)
The "pommel thing" is called a ferrule 😄👍🏻
Great job, as always!
I really like atiesh, I like that despite how important it is, it’s just a stick.
Not every important weapon needs to be a flaming anime buster sword.
1000% agree. Gives it way more character
I really wish Blizzard would buy these models from you and place em on the Trading Post. One day, hopefully!
He's much too talented for blizzard.
@@TheDeadAwesome You have no idea what you're talking about. There's many places to take a dump at Blizzard, but the graphic design team and artists office is NOT one of them. If you think they suck, you're just an ignorant asshole that needs his eyes checked.
Oh, and this is not a discussion, it's fact. The team is amazeballs and what they are doing with a 20yo engine is fucking incredible.
Go back to the whole where you crawled out from until you have something intelligent to say.
Blizzard just posted on Reddit a teaser of a HD Judgement set. I think Tomkek has been working with them 😉
@@Retrox1989 dont think so, looks different .. his looks better
Lately I been thinking about iconic things in WoW and I stumbled upon The Headless Horsman‘s Charger. Your videos are amazing and fullfill that satisfaction part in all our brains. Never stop youre talented af!!!
I'm hoping someday the Staff of Atiesh will become a legendary weapon during the worldsoul saga. Having another legendary Staff would be pretty cool caster weapon of old but in the hands of the player again.
It was broken and destroyed during the Khadgar's death cinematica very sadge
@@TheItalianiancommenter hes not death tho
@@gs5257m Bro he is
@@TheItalianiancommenterall you saw was his forearm in the void. he could easily be alive.
@@Zutang777 Available arm prostetic wink wink nudge nudge
The original Atiesh was so lowpoly that it actually took me YEARS to realize that it had a bird at the top and not just a weird lump of... something...
come on dude your exagerating, maybe on ultra low settings yes but aside from that it was always clear to see :D
Tomkek: I'm just a mere student.
Also Tomkek: Literal perfection.
thank you tomkek for your videos i just love to watch them and hope they will hire you for all the remakes :D
Yet another certified banger design you knocked out of the park. Always excited to see what you make next! :)
they thought it could not be done! he made a video for casters!
Someone needs to re-make it. Xalatath just snapped it in half like a toothpick
So this was what you were cooking up, very nice.
Another great transformation, I love your dedication and quality of work brother!
This one really came together!
The variations looked awesome aswell, gj as always
Love seeing your work so much!
love your video's, pure entertainment and always funny :) Don't play wow anymore but always watch whatever you do. Keep it up!
That's awesome to hear :) Got loads more coming!
Ohhh its a birb i always thought it was some sort of corn shaped bulb at the end of the staff >.> silly me.
this is probably my favorite piece of yours yet
love this rework! would've also loved a warlock one, where fel comes leaking out of those notches, maybe have em glow greenish
I want to make this into wood if I do I will probably base it on this style pretty clean I love the look dude great job
Thanks! If you do, I would love to see the result :)
That looks awesome as always!
Excellent timing with this one.
Beautiful piece!
1:19 That small pause made me laugh xD Great video as always!
Keep it up!! Love these videos!
even when you're redoing a plain looking stick from Vanilla wow you make it entertaining to watch. keep up the great work! I look forward to all your future projects
Great video and artistry....still after the new expac release with the new cinematics out i wouldve loved for this video beeing you 9 minutes creating highly detailed splinters of wood
Love love LOVE what you do with the remakes Tomkek, seriously...god among men!
Dang thats awesome, birb went from I'm hiding to I'm proud to be here.
Recolors are awesome too!
This makes me want to see more classic weapons get some love. I dream of a remade Kalimdor's Revenge...
It looks so good. Great job.
you're evil for this timing
Love the colours, almost looks like it shoulda been an artifact weapon!
always a pleasure watching you work
also your texturing has gotten so so soooo good. i think it used to be one of the things that kept you apart from like blizard but you have basically perfected that blizard look like i could see this in trade post next month so easily haha
I think the reason why Atiesh was never remastered was because its simplistic but still has that distinct shape where you know that the staff is Atiesh from a distance, like Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, though that one technically got a remaster through the Outlaw rogue Legion legendary.
its basically just a wooden stick with a bird and a small scarf on it. and that simplicity meant that it didn't age as badly as some other weapons from its time.
regardless your remaster looks sick as hell dude, I love the filigree engravings on its heel (apparently that's what they call the metal bit at the end of canes)
did someone say Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
New pinecone staff looks awesome! Totally feel like this video was made for me xD
It's the Dinkledork special 🤣
Nice one! Would love to weild that upgrade
Incredible work
Thanks for your work
unfortunatly now khadgar isn't using it, so maybe players could find it... something needs to fill the void in my heart.
Reforging Atiesh is such a no-brainer for a legendary.
@ASpaceOstrich Had to be done :)
Looks good dude.
Those recolors are far beyond IMPRESSIVE. Forgive my french, but holyshit!!!
thunderfury when
Awesome as always :D
Thanks my dude :)
oh man, it's a real shame about what they JUST did to Atiesh
i have seen realy one back in day.. Was on human famale warlock full T3 on al'akir ( EU ) from guild status of the gods.
There should be a mesh of this thing in Heroes of the Storm, if not several due to Medivh's skins. IDK how hard it is to export assets from that game though.
Would be interesting to see what they did versus your version!
Absolutely awesome as always!
Constructive criticism: Your bird looks a bit like a penguin. I think the main reason is that your missing legs. The original wow model texture is hinting at legs. I think if you were to carve out the legs and separate the tops of the wings from the neck a bit it would look more raven. The original WC3 Medivh concept is a good reference.
I'm so sad my retail Atiesh will never look this beautiful :(, amazing work!
Glorious as ever! Have you ever tried your hand at animating? I would like to see tackling the attrocious Blizzard animation of 2h maces. Maybe have a chat with people at the Archeon on how it's supposed to be? :P
2 months ago i asked for you to remake Death's Sting, a wildly beautiful dagger with one of the lowest drop rates in the game, a warrior tank or rogues dream end game weapon. Not only is it the best dagger in the game, it's model is beautiful despite its low poly and saturated colors.
What a beautiful remake Tomkek, recolors are such a nice touch. I was wondering you considered remaking all the original T3 sets? Wrath remade some, but they felt very bland and over designed compared to the original bright colors. Edge of Insanity, Kalimdor’s Revenge or Maul of the Redeemed Crusader are also screaming for a remake. 🙏🏼
It would be really cool to see you do a Phantom Blade / or one of the other infamous ghost blades!
Thanks for reminding me that Khadgar died.
P.S.: good video as always.
Thanks for informing me that Khadgar died xD (haven't had time ro play TWW yet)
@@TomkektvYou should totally watch or play the intro, it's cool!
@@Tomkektv I don't think he died, spoiler:
They datamined a wheelchair model named 'Archmage Khadgar'.
@@Tomkektv Also, amazing job dude, for the first 6 years of playing WoW I thought that staff was a carving of corn on a stick until sometime in Cata a guild member got it to drop.
@@tenshikarenohhh I hope not. That seems corny and pathetic.
W lets gooo here before the bald man reacts!!!
me: *looks at title*
me: "well... i can recall a certain NECKLACE that is more rare seeing as there was only ever 1"
Another great video!
Surely they're putting your work into the game by now
God please
You know what would be an incredible next subject? A remake of the Tarecgosa Staff & Visage mount, since we get a semi-proper mount for it now.
(Still Per-Character and low-poly, despite Tarecgosa herself actually getting remodeled.)
Good timing with this vid given what... uhhh, yeah what recently happened in the intro to TWW.
That good bird would be the envy of all casters :O
Great work.
It's absolutely amazing and I'm sure a lot of (if not all) mages would love to wield it. However I somewhat miss that fat pigeon look (maybe because I have 0 mages).
For all of us priest mains, can we please get remaster of Benediction/Anathema, that staff is so iconic and eye catching to this day. Oh and throw in a Dreadsteed remaster in for good measure
I would love seeing a Ashes of Al'ar model and maybe even effect remake.
i have a question plz.... which way used in blizz studio ... making high poly then bake it on low poly... or hand painting like u doing in yr videos?
Dude, I hope you're alluding that you got hired!! I hope so.
Man I was kinda unsure about this as the original is sorta meh looking but holy heck you really brought this staff to life, the bird looks much more powerful thanks to the added neck which was a really good call, the original really does look like a pinecone.
Nice video. A remaster of the orc mounts would be interesting, these mounts have not aged well at all.
Can you describe how you modeled the stick
It all starts by slathering your keyboard in vaseline
Nice
Now this is the weapon I was waiting for!
Another absolute banger from Tomkek
I have a challenge for you. Outside your comfort zone of gear and weapons let's see you recreate some buildings, can be the bare bones no decor inside, those can be a later project to add to it later. See what we at doing is creating a portfolio so you can lead the art team for wow2
Very nice. Keep it up
Give this man a castle already !
Fingers are crossed next legendary is this staff and we get to reforge it. Betting we use a combination of wood glue and beeswax to make it good as new. :p
How do you get the super clean modeling footage? Do you record a separate viewport while working on your main viewport?
Yep, exactly that
Eventually a game company is going to scoop you up and we won't get these amazing videos anymore.
No? He has a far better future in entertainment than in the actual industry.
I always thought it looked like a corncob
Warglaive of Azzinoth!!!!!!! LETS GO
I wish blizzard made more weapons (especially staves) that look PLAIN! I mean like Gandalf type of staff. Instead we have these huge overpimped wands that don't do well if you want a simple looking transmog.
If you want more woodwork how about an nice wooden elven bow?
@TomKek that blizzard judgement set looks incredibly like the one you remade. Come on man, let us in on the news!!!
i actually always like Atiesh becasue it looked so unassumingy true sleeper build.
Another masterpiece! :D
Remake invincible reins, that would be fkn cool
Could not have found a worse timing to remodel the staff as it probably blew up with dalaran D:
I'd love to see a remake of Shadowmourne....and not just because I main a Deathknight >.>
Love it! You should really be hierd by blizzard just to remake items :D
Perfect, just in time for Xal to smash it
This staff was a birb? I always thought it was some sort of pinecone haha
Please remake Arthas NPC model! His Paladin/DK model needs a remake!
Well, Blizz just broke the old version, so this is just in time, since they'll need a new one now!
ill use just one word for it... Perfect :)
I do love birdie staff but when will you do Bonereaver's edge?
Keeping up the tradition of commenting "god damn blizzard needs to hire him" on every video until blizzard hires him