Earlier this week, Blizzard has released its brand new and highly anticipated StarCraft 2 Fansite Kit. Such kits aren’t usually of much use for normal gamers, but provide invaluable resources for Blizzard fan sites, aiding in basic layout and setup of pages around the net. The graphics and layout templates included in the Kit can be of great help to StarCraft 2 site webmasters, but not only.

Art assets including screenshots, concept art, hi-res logos, and wallpapers

Site design elements including borders, backgrounds, fonts, and stylesheets

Exclusive content: Unit renders and forum avatars / Messenger images

StarCraft II fact sheet and FAQ

Sample StarCraft II text content

Site building tips

So what is in it for you ?

For starters, there is a collection of beautiful StarCraft 2 forum avatars of different characters and image sizes, which can be used in various forums and social sites that allow visitors to express themselves by adding a custom profile picture or forum avatar. Click here to download all the included avatars -(850 Kb) if that’s all you need, this will save you the 43 MB Kit download.

The kit also includes three beautiful (but not new) wallpapers, these three come in 1920*1200 resolution:

Inside the kit you will also find plenty of artwork, which includes this stunning 4000*1704 hallway illustration:

Along with several concept art drawings and unit sketches, the artwork section is definitely the best part of the Fansite Kit. It includes multiple high-resolution images that can be used for fan-art creation, as desktop wallpapers or even posters, if the right equipment is used. To download the StarCraft 2 Artwork section, click here.

To much disappointment, the kit does not include all of the available Protoss and Terran unit models, while the Zerg units are not represented in any way. The included screen-shots are not new, and neither is the sample site content. However, one image within the Fansite Kit brings hope to many Protoss fans…

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8 Comments to “StarCraft 2 Fansite Kit – What Is In It For You”

1. Mike Vroegop — October 9, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
   

   By models you mean.. 3d models? Or merely representative images?

2. Starfeeder — October 9, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
   

   There are just images, wish they included video and audio files… that would have made for a much nicer fankit. There are some html templates like sc2blog mentioned, but they are pretty basic and fansite founders are probably better off creating a custom design.

3. Mercutio — October 10, 2007 @ 12:14 am
   

   … oh, Reaver, what have they DONE to you?

4. Bunn — October 10, 2007 @ 12:35 am
   

   They have fuglied the Reaver.
   And then they have killed it.
   And then they gave the dead fugly reaver to the people.

   And the people are angry.

   The Reaver must be avenged.

5. Kane — October 10, 2007 @ 6:30 am
   

   I think the Reaver model looks good. It’s the this specific picture that’s low quality and ugly.

   I’m using the Immortal concept art as my desktop wallpaper and it’s awesome. Thanks!

6. Ken — October 10, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
   

   Ow, there is now hope for the Reaver!!! That’s good news!! Hopefully they’re not nerfing it down, but rather boosting it up!!!

   It looks like a gigantic, mechanical larvae… =D

7. Logan — October 17, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
   

   The new Reaver is a dramatic improvement over the original in terms of style. I’m still confused as to how some people don’t like the design, or rather, how some can find it “fugly”. It’s okay at the worst, and at the best, well… as far as I’m concerned, it’s the best unit redesign in SC2 (the worst being the High Templar- frost wizard much?).

8. Terranfan — October 19, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
   

   Hey guys. I found this tech tree, looks like they used part of the fan kit.

   http://www.zergthis.com/forums/f6/terran-tech-tree-t2/