Winners of the Summer Movie Contest announced!
by Elizabeth Harper 
Oct 27th 2006 at 5:00PM
Just like last year's Summer Movie Contest, Xfire and Blizzard have brought some great moviemakers out of the woodwork with offerings of fabulous prizes. And Joystiq has the scoop on the awards ceremony, held on the
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Short Feature
Music Video/Dance
- The Ballad of the Noob
- World of Whatever
- That's the World of Warcraft That You Play
- WoW Logic
- Linger
- Edge of Remorse
- My Life for the Horde: Legend of Seemos
- Horde Crime Investigators
- Emerald Reflection
- The Island: Episode 1
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Flor Oct 27th 2006 5:21PM
That was amazingly good. Kudos to them.
jpc Oct 27th 2006 5:36PM
Yeah GG, very nice. It's rare to see that kinda goodness without any voice. or subtitles.
Jason Cross Oct 27th 2006 6:17PM
Anyone else notice that they have cool projected-like shadows, instead of the standard round blob?
I'm wondering how they did that. Is there some sort of config file tweak or something?
White Rabbit Oct 27th 2006 6:33PM
Amazing.
Thats all I can say
Andrew Oct 27th 2006 7:30PM
Ummm...I'm sorry but how is this the winner?
If you're going to make a movie with no dialogue, you need two things.
Dramatic music that fits the mood. Check.
Facial expressions. NOPE.
I actually laughed in some parts because of the total lack of facial expressions. The characters have the same face whether they're making out on the beach, getting captured by evil demon trolls, having an epic sword fight or getting blown up by a fireball.
My other problem is that all of the "runner up" videos that I have seen have been parodies or funny movies. And now this one wins? After about the tenth close-up shot of a blank face, I lost interest. I'm getting tired of seeing emotes too. Just my two cents. The music was pretty good though. I'm pretty disappointed though.
kelly Oct 27th 2006 8:06PM
um, it's Stanford University.
Coolbeans Oct 27th 2006 9:08PM
It was well done, but not in the correct medium. The above poster was correct, the lack of facial expression, dialogue, and restriction to common emotes made it very difficult to take seriously.
slybri Oct 28th 2006 9:27AM
What happened to "Illegal Danish?"
Last years winner ended with "to be continued..."
Did they ever make the second part?
I don't think any of this years winners were as good as last year.
Elizabeth Harper Oct 28th 2006 1:50PM
The second part of "Illegal Danish," entitled "Escape from Orgrimmar" was supposed to be released in fall of this year. There is a trailer out, but the full version hasn't appeared: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwhCFiOM-k
Ang Oct 28th 2006 2:36PM
I have to agree with Andrew, and after watching various short films on youtube, this one lacked what so many of those had....emotion. I really don't understand how this one is the winner. For a better short film that is similar to this one, but actually has some emotion involved, watch the one called Here Without You, just browse that and world of warcraft on youtube....way better!
ray Oct 28th 2006 11:13PM
this was stupid
Dana Oct 31st 2006 12:52PM
Yeah, I was sorta bummed that Illegal Danish didn't make it into this years contest. It woulda blown away alot of the other enteries. I'm still not sure how some of the finalists made it to the top 5. Where there really so many that just were that bad?
I laughed at the 1st place winner, for the lack of emotion as well. Didn't seem like 1st place material to me.
I liked The Brothers Tauren 2 out of all of the finalists. Gotta love the randomly powerful guy.
Ryan Davidson Oct 31st 2006 1:45PM
Agreed, Illegal Danish trounces all of this years entries.