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Now that we cleared up the previous subject, I thought I'd bring up another topic that's been haunting alot of WoW sites. The Female Panderan Body Type Poll.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/showthread.php?t=1006334&goto=newpost

People are going nuts over what would be the appropriate size for female Panderan. Should they reflect their lifestyle and be "thick" but not "fat" due to the heavy eating/drinking being balanced out by the martial arts lifestyle? Should they be overweight, bouncy, with a gut? Should they be Blood Elves with Panda Fur? It keeps going back and forth, my only hope is that they don't make them look atrocious like the Female Worgen.

Examples of the current debate sizes:
Thin:





vs

Thick:




(Can I get a mod to add the poll for me? Stupid proxy blocks the option. 3 options:
1: Thick - Curvy, but toned.
2: Thin - Like current models Tauren/Troll/Blood Elves
3: Bouncy - Bit bigger than the curvy, more jovial.)

I miss Pojo...

Thick. Honestly, I think they should only be a little lighter than the men. Skinny bears just look weird, unless they are pretty tall.

Thick.

Bouncy, cause fuck, they are panda-inspired.

I want something thick but still curvy, so not as large as the males but not as thin as the Blood Elves. Something like the human female only given a bit more overall chub.

So far the only female Pandaren we have seen is actually from a comic screen, but she is obviously a child so can't really gleam anything about her future body type. It does show that Pandaren kids don't start out thick though.

http://www.otakia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/blizzcon_warcraft_pearl_of_pandaria.jpg

BTW it's rumored those two above are Chen Stormstout and his newly introduced niece, Li Li, but it's not been confirmed. I really don't image Chen looking that serious though.

If they are going to be the first picture, I expect a lot of female Pandarens being "AFK" near the starting zone.

Shegokigo said:

It keeps going back and forth, my only hope is that they don't make them look atrocious like the Female Worgen.

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Just to change the subject here for the second, the Female Worgen have always been a rather strange subject. The issue with the model we currently have is the fact that they rushed it very quickly during development. You see the Female Worgen originally had this model.



It had unique face textures rather then simple eye and hair patch changes, a much more lupine head and unique human-style hair. This was the design up until just a few months before release, when suddenly they changed it to the newer model around the same time they altered the male model to give it a more feral look and removed the human style hairs. Most of us still don't really understand what was wrong enough with the old model for them to change it.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the new model, but it does look more like a chihuahua then a wolf, and it is plagued with animation bugs like the ears sticking through the head when you run (thankfully that is fixed in 4.3). Why they changed it they never said, so we may never know the entire reason.

In the end, as long as Blizzard does not pull another sudden switcharoo, I don't think the Pandaren Female will be much of an issue.

Thick makes sense. If anyone wants thin, it's because they want a sexy character to stare at, that's all.

I've grown out of my 14-year-old hormones, so I'd go with what makes sense, though I recognize the thin ones are surprisingly hot for panda people.

If I had to choose, I would probably go with something like this (my own quick edit of one of the above). Not as thick as shown in the original image, but still noticeable meat and hips.

mmm, pandagirl hip meat

It's like all most of DeviantArt in one thread.

Thick. There is no bouncy.

--Patrick