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    World of Warcraft

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 23, 2004

    World of Warcraft is an MMORPG that takes place in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe. At its peak, it boasted a player base of over 12.5 million subscribers, making it the most popular MMO of all time.

    A Visual Reminder That MMO Animation Kind Of Sucks

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    Edited By jeff
    If World of Warcraft moved like this, I'd probably still play it:

      


    That's a pretty cool little clip that probably took hundreds of hours to actually make. Since nothing in World of Warcraft moves that fluidly, I'm guessing the creator ripped the models and environments out of the game files and imported them into something else. There I go, trying to use my tiny brain to think all technical-like again. Maybe I should just leave it at GOOD VIDEO LOOKS GOOD.

    And before you say it, the guy that made it--going by "percula" on Vimeo--already seems to be keenly aware that the music is kind of... bad.
    About the music, it wasn't something I choose at random but an element that I consider to be just as important as the models, lighting, animations,...etc. It was the driving force for the pace and the inspiration for the story. With the feedback I've gotten consider your voices heard and it'll be something I take into account in the future. I still think I made the right decision and it's not something I'm going to go back and change so lets agree that we disagree. :)
    Maybe if he was making some sort of epic Michael Jackson-like video where people were dance fighting, that song might fit a bit better.
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    If World of Warcraft moved like this, I'd probably still play it:

      


    That's a pretty cool little clip that probably took hundreds of hours to actually make. Since nothing in World of Warcraft moves that fluidly, I'm guessing the creator ripped the models and environments out of the game files and imported them into something else. There I go, trying to use my tiny brain to think all technical-like again. Maybe I should just leave it at GOOD VIDEO LOOKS GOOD.

    And before you say it, the guy that made it--going by "percula" on Vimeo--already seems to be keenly aware that the music is kind of... bad.
    About the music, it wasn't something I choose at random but an element that I consider to be just as important as the models, lighting, animations,...etc. It was the driving force for the pace and the inspiration for the story. With the feedback I've gotten consider your voices heard and it'll be something I take into account in the future. I still think I made the right decision and it's not something I'm going to go back and change so lets agree that we disagree. :)
    Maybe if he was making some sort of epic Michael Jackson-like video where people were dance fighting, that song might fit a bit better.
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    #2  Edited By Driadon

    Unfortunately I am at work and without speakers. What song is playing for this video?

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    #3  Edited By dudacles

    Seriously, what's the point of saying "first"? It doesn't matter at all. >_>

    Anyway, my sound set just died, so I can't listen to the vid. Which sucks.

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    #4  Edited By Endogene

    Extremely well done but machinema, god i hate it...

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    #5  Edited By BiffMcBlumpkin

    You start that video, turn the volume all the way down so it's muted, and then you pause it at 15 seconds. Now turn on that YouTube video below it, don't watch it - it's just for audio, and immediately press play on that paused MMO video and it makes it way better.

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    #6  Edited By grainger

    impressive, i prefer the one featuring mr. t. or maybe mini me :P

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    #7  Edited By Hdfisise

    Whatever the song is it is pretty bad. the video is alright though.

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    #8  Edited By Rowr

    lolwut.

    :|

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    #9  Edited By maxszy

    That was really good, even though it clearly wasn't made in-game.

    If the game models rally moved like that though.. wow.. that would be something. But I recognize, that is just too much.

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    #10  Edited By floodiastus

    wtf the music to that vid was totally pointless, why not just use ambient sounds instead of music. :O

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    #11  Edited By DBZ_Fanatic

    very cool, i think blizzard should hire this guy seeing as how this video made me a person who hates mmos want to play one

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    #12  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Biff, I actually just did that with the two videos....lol.  It looks like it may work together with the two, how funny.  Still, the music from the original is really bad.

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    #13  Edited By ZmillA

    kind of like the music for this video... :/

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    #14  Edited By Hector

    Okay....

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    #15  Edited By Rasgueado

    Is it true? Are you actually posting something about Machinima? You?

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    #16  Edited By momentarylogic

    LOVED the video, but the music was so tiring that I turned it off less than 1 minute in. I was perplexed.. But, then I realized something.

    Most "directors" use temp tracks when filming and editing to portray the energy in a video. I think this video suffers from the director choosing the music based on the music that motivated them while making the video, or was inspired by the video for the music. Either way, I would simply suggest getting someone else to do the music, the audience has replied. That sound is terrible.

    On the plus side, this is probably the best machima (sp) that I have seen since the Master Chief / Samus battle, if not better. Great job

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    #17  Edited By virtua_ben

    "Hide and Seek" by Namie Amuro

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    #18  Edited By ahoodedfigure

    I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who roots for the common guards in situations like this :P

    And that music better not be stuck in my head or I'm going to have to call Oliver Sacks.

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    #19  Edited By Player1

    The music just ruined it for me. Well done though.

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    #20  Edited By MrKlorox

    I expected this to be about the poorly animated KOTOR MMO.

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    #21  Edited By SmugDarkLoser

    Well done animation, but seriously, this is boring.

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    #22  Edited By Paradigmer

    dance fighting! hot damn!

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    #23  Edited By MrKlorox

    Now that I've watched it, the animation wasn't bad. But if the song had that much inspiration on the final outcome, I cannot help but wonder how much more brutal it would have been if set to something from Necrophagist. Also, somebody buy this dude endorphin, stat!

    EDIT: Namie Amuro? No wonder! He's one of those absurd japanophiles.

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    #24  Edited By Geno

    I thought the music was alright actually, it depends on what you expected it to be.

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    #25  Edited By TheGTAvaccine

    God damn that song was HORRIBLE. Pretty cool video though. Maybe with the exception of the eye scars.

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    #26  Edited By Death_Burnout

    I'll admit, if it had those animations, id enjoy it even more, but i enjoy it enough anyway.

    The video also reminded me how much i still love WoW's music, as opposed to, yeah...actually that song didn't bug me.

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    #27  Edited By Crono

    Great animation... but I didn't think the song fit well at all for what we saw going on.  Either way this was awesome to watch and very creative.  I wish I had the tools and know-how to do something like that :p

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    #28  Edited By Tarakun

    I think it's funny how many people are trying to protect that lady. Because if you played WoW and saw people do the Jailbreak escort in Stormwind, then you know that's Onyxia. That belf would've done the whole world a favor.

    It would be pretty badass if WoW actually played like that though. Reminds me a bit of Devil May Cry.

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    #30  Edited By Hef

    I thought the music worked great with the video.  Lyrics matched what was going on in the video; at least that's what I think.

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    #31  Edited By Shane394

    What the hell kind of song is this?

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    #32  Edited By Gizmo
    BiffMcBlumpkin said:
    "You start that video, turn the volume all the way down so it's muted, and then you pause it at 15 seconds. Now turn on that YouTube video below it, don't watch it - it's just for audio, and immediately press play on that paused MMO video and it makes it way better.

    Jeff said:
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    I actually followed your instructions there Biff, that was a incredible, life-changing experience.
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    I know this song! Lol, it's sort of J-pop-ish. The song is called Hide & Seek by Namie Amuro. I like this song, but as far as in context of the video, I agree that it didn't match it.

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    #34  Edited By JoelTGM

    cool but what's the point

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    #35  Edited By Carlos

    Music sucks hardcore, video was alright :]~~

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    #36  Edited By Media_Master

    nice vid, music at the end sounded better

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    #37  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

    I really need to find a way to rip the WoW models etc to Blender, I have been wanting to do something like this for ages. Plus I could add sexy lighting and maybe even bump up the poly count.

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    #38  Edited By Gregomasta

    Lots of stupid jumping, and why didn't the broad shoot the chandelier in the first place.

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    #39  Edited By TeknoMeister

    I loved the music, and thought it fit really well. It had to grow on you....

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    #40  Edited By mackgyver

    Good video but music didn't go well with it. I feel like I should go to a dance club now.

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    #41  Edited By valandil

    That was awesome. The fighting was great and i loved the whole thing.

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    #42  Edited By Jayge_

    I liked the music.

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    #43  Edited By clarke0

    About the song choice... WTF? Besides that the animation was great and it probably took him a lot of work to make this.

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    #44  Edited By Pessimisten

    I gotta say i actually completly love the music and totaly see the fit. You can see that he made the video around that beat.

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    #45  Edited By Miniman

    Wow, that's one of the greatest machinimas I have ever seen. I can now see a reason for a WoW movie :p

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    I wonder why they havent made a WoW movie?

    it would probably be the highest grossing film of all time lol

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