Designing new character screens may have been a first test for the new artists, we are hopefully going to see more such work come the new Expansion. Most of new artwork should be done by September to allow time for adjustments- not in on development so is only a guess. Now to see what benefits the new coders are going to show us come December.
Char screen is indead very nice, bit dark for me for spring, feels more like autumn. But it is indead very nice. Hopefully we will get some pretty zones next expansion, a lot of recent expansion have been rather dull. Caverns and Deepshade are nice this time round.
To me it gives big Hanami vibes, but with a big storm on the way. The dark sky makes sense since it's for the Tempest Festival.