best race for rogue, animation-wiseFollow

Horde:
male/female undead -> female blood elf -> ... honestly thats it from horde side. I didn't see female orc in action though.

Alliance:
Human, night elf or gnome. But I don't have too much experience with alliance characters (except I kill them often ;p ).

Maybe you should make rogue, level them up to 3-4 lvl to get stealth (I can't remember when you get stealth... anyway 4th level you will get in few minutes) and then decide what animations you like the most. You can also check some warcraft movies.

PS. I love my female undead rogue animation btw. :)

Maybe my memory fails but in Netherwing Ledge you get male orc costume, and yes I agree that rogue orc is bad idea, it looks like big piece of wood, bulky and... yeah male orcs sucks. They should be warriors or shamans. But female orc is in my opinion ok.

I can give one more advice: don't roll male blood elf. Their animation is so bad, and when I see blood elf in stealth I don't know if I should cry or laught. Actually male blood elves are kinda gay. ;p

One thing only annoys me, gear on undeads looks bad. I really wish to have nice outfit, not some scraps. :( Outfit looks perfect on humans, but then female humans have too big weapons and daggers looks more like swords to be honest.

I'd say Trolls are the best looking race for rogues (which is why I picked one). Like Blizz puts it, Trolls be flippin' out mon! They're long-armed athletic flexable jumpers and I simply find that to work very well with the rogue class. All I miss are the salto's the Warcraft 3 Trolls did. Blood Elves could do, they just look a bit too frail for my liking. I couldn't bare playing a Forsaken, but I reckon they look good when others do.

For alliance... Humans are probably best, followed by Gnomes. The Human stealth animation is horrible, but they are the second most athletic race and Night Elves remind me more of Michael Jackson than an actual rogue. Dwarves are just horrible, they look like sausages squashed into a rubber tube. Just as Orcs anyway.

I think male Night Elf rogues look great in stealth - I love it when I stealth-somersault off a ledge to land behind some quest mob who was expecting his lackeys to keep him safe, it really makes the whole thing feel sneaky and rogueish. Unfortunately, you don't really get the same value from Shadowmeld that a non-rogue would, so that's a bit of a waste in terms of racials.

Human rogues in stealth look they woke up with a bursting-full bladder, and are trying to get to the bathroom without waking anyone up, but when I'm running the same damn dailies over and over, I often think I'd take the human rep bonus over the Nelf visuals.

Ally: I kinda always liked the way dwarf rogues looked with the goggles. The animations aren't great, but something about the look... dunno... just makes sense to me. Female gnomes for all the comedic relief do have nifty animations. In the end I went night elf rogue and really loved her as far as aesthetics goes. Just couldn't stand leveling her past 40 (in Vanilla) sad to say.

Horde: Personally, I really dig my Forsaken rogue's look. He doesn't run/walk as much as he lurches forward, daggers in hand, ready to bleed anything or anyone that gets in his way ;) Trolls look pretty good too. If I were to reroll my rogue as a different Horde race, I'd probably go female troll.