>>530835881
>They all look cute instead of menacing, i think it's something about the eyes
This is more of a broad artstyle shift. They used to make a lot of creatures or even humanoids have opaque/glowing eyes that rendered them more alien and threatening. Tons of wildlife had this design element and obviously there's the elves, draenei, etc. After BfA they started suddenly designing much more cartoony/normal eyes for their models and it's resulted in them looking goofy and non-threatening.
These things from SL are one of the best examples, they look like Wildstar models but just changing the eyes alone would be a vast improvement