That...was freakin awesome.

*music was weird.

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I thought the music was great! It fit well.

I'm not usually a fan of machinima, but I have to admit that was pretty cool.

wow. i want a full length movie done with this intensity... that was thrilling! /applaud

ive seen quite a few machinima, but this one is about as top notch as it gets. not necessarily because of the story or the music, but the animation. most WoW machinima just use whatever emotes are built into the game and kind of make do with whats there, this is the first one ive seen that takes the models and literally animates them. and did a damn good job of it too, it was all very smooth.

lighting was incredible, and the effects (sword sparks, pulling off her hood in the end, wings, etc were all spot on. i wouldn't doubt that if anyone had never seen wow before watched this they might think it was all modeled in house as well.

I wonder how he got the models.

Did he use the tools, or did Blizzard give him the permission.

They get really pissed when people crack the MPQs... but hey people still do it.

They went crazy over their standalone server crack, and any sort of wow model viewers.

Such a shame about the truly awful music. It ruins whatever immersion was gained by the rather fantastic animation (which really is good).

that...........was...........friggin............RAD!!!

I'm a sucker who gives Blizzard 14 bucks a month

>> ^NordlichReiter:
I wonder how he got the models.
Did he use the tools, or did Blizzard give him the permission.
They get really pissed when people crack the MPQs... but hey people still do it.
They went crazy over their standalone server crack, and any sort of wow model viewers.


They don't seem to mind cracking MPQ's just to "have a look", it's when people crack them in order to make changes that they get mad. Wowhead has a 3d model viewer for nearly every item in the game, and I doubt Blizzard is unaware or unhappy with that.

If anything, I'd imagine they'd be more upset about their copyrighted materials being used without permission, but Blizzard is smarter than Lucasfilm -- they like this whole machinima phenomenon, and encourage it with contests. They even seem to be hiring the winners to make official cutscenes for them.

The music was fucking awful, but otherwise it was pretty darn impressive.

This is even more impressive considering the awful dreck of past machinima it had to rise above. Plus I liked the music.

I loved the music...guess im wierd like that. Normaly the fight choreography would have had me on the edge of my seat..accept.. advent children was released a few years ago.

The music was terrible.

Isn`t machinima supposed to use whats already in the game?
Wouldn`t this be a normal animation using the theme of a game and some awful music?

This is great, with a strangely very appropriate soundtrack. But most people do not understand that.

Still, I don't think it qualifies as "machinima" for the reason stated above by 3daysawake: it should use only the game engine itself, not outside editing, AFAIK.

While the first machinimas used only the game engine itself, a whole series of software programs designed to allow the creator to use scripts to control the characters have been created, and are in use in the machinima community. I suppose it's just a matter of purism.

Funny how divided people are on the music. I liked it. I thought it brought a great energy and fun to the video. So much machinima is just dark and angst and emo.

The music isn't terrible on it's own... it's the transition from the Warcraft music that really kills the mood. Maybe if they started with the... whatever it was... at the beginning then it wouldn't have seemed so terrible.

Awesome animation though.

damn that was EXCELLENT.

I frittered away many a year in WoW, now if only the game actually =played= like the video it would be fookin AWESOME.

lots of fun! thanks

That's seriously impressive, It's almost as good as the one done by blizzard

http://www.videosift.com/video/WoW-Wrath-of-the-Lich-King-Wrathgate-Cinematic-SPOILER

(Note: If you play WoW don't watch, because it does contain a pretty big spoiler)

It's really worth having a look at, I played WoW for years, and once I saw this my jaw pretty much dropped at how they took the little cartoonish graphics and made it.. Good

I thought this one was much better than the (official?) clip.

I liked the music but maybe it didn't quite fit the theme super well.

The song "Hide & Seek" by Japanese artist Amuro Namie has a pretty cool video. I can't find one that I can embed without paying off the siftbot, but a decent quality one can be found here:

http://www.wat.tv/video/amuro-namie-hide-seek-qjby_jgsh_.html

Someone with embed permissions please do so!

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