Blizzard Entertainment has released 3D models of Warcraft Rumble characters
Ahead of the November 2023 launch of Warcraft Rumble, the good folks at Blizzard Entertainment have released a bunch of 3D models of the characters, called "Mini Blueprints", on their website. These are released to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License. At the time of this writing, they have already released 4 batches of models (Alliance, Beast, Blackrock, and Horde) with the remaining 2 batches to be released at a future date (the Undead and NPC & Bosses batch).
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| An Alliance Footman model courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment |
Although I personally do not own a 3D printer, I am very much interested in the free and open-source 3D modeling software Blender3D. I was pleased to learn that Blender3D is capable of importing the STL (Standard Tessellation Language) files used by 3D printing software. I do not know how much I can do with the models however since it was released under a rather restrictive Creative Commons license. It's a bit confusing for me since they are encouraging people to print, color, and share the figures. Doesn't the No Derivatives restriction of the license prohibits printing it then applying color? If it doesn't, then following the same logic, would I be allowed to apply color and textures to the model and render it inside a fantastical backdrop of my own design and share the results?
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