WoW Moviewatch: Serious Business
by Moo Money 
Dec 20th 2007 at 12:00PM
This is obvious nod to the 1983 classic, "War Games," but it's still quite enjoyable. Beckman Movie Productions made the Machinima for the GameRiot "Dawn of the Blackbird Machinima Contest." The submission deadline is today and you can vote for your favorite movie until the 27th.
[Via Warcraftmovies.com]
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Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Markymark Dec 20th 2007 12:28PM
Lol pretty funny.
Thijz Dec 20th 2007 12:50PM
This is horrible, the voice-acting was killing me!
Michael Dec 20th 2007 2:04PM
WoW is serious business.
ThorinII Dec 20th 2007 2:12PM
I'd like 4:54 of my life back, pls.
TotalBiscuit Dec 20th 2007 3:37PM
Why has it suddenly become 'the thing' to entirely Model-view your machinima and suddenly believe that this makes it worth watching? All of this stuff could have been done with proper in-game actors, and it would have looked less fake.
I'm sure it's much easier to user Modelviewer but seriously, this is not film-making, this is copy-pasting present animations onto an overlay layer in a video-editor then adding some dumb voiceovers.
You might as well be making something in The Movies game instead.
Tedman Dec 27th 2007 1:33AM
You don't seem to know what you are talking about. Using WoW Model Viewer lets you create more detailed scenes and also lets you accomplish a lot more than in-game. It's a helluva lot more work to use WoW Model Viewer than to film it in-game, a lot of the time the author is doing the person watching a favor by using it because it can come out so much better.
Granted some movies use WMV bad, this film isn't one of them. A couple spots where it could have a been a little better, but still good. So please, know what you are talking about before you talk about it and don't be a hypocrite by saying how much you liked Ian's other films (Azerothian Super Villans) when they are all made with WoW Model Viewer.
TotalBiscuit Dec 27th 2007 10:23AM
Au contraire, I am well aware of what I'm talking about. Nor is there any hypocrisy in what I've said.
What I'm saying is, his use of WoW Modelviewer in this movie is slapdash at best, whereas in ASV, it is not. To say that it's more work to use WMV also indicates that you yourself, do not know what you're talking about. Using WoW Modelviewer gives you access to an infallible, customizable puppet at your finger tips. You take that puppet, capture every animation it's got at the angle you need it, and then slap it into a chroma-keyed overlay layer. Hey presto. No need for real actors, re-takes, getting the gear for your actors.
It's easy as pie and y'know what? When all you're doing is simple scenes of the manner you see in this movie, you don't NEED model-viewer, it's only being used because it's 'easier', not because it's more difficult than using real people. Why would you bother to use something that's more difficult, and produces an inferior 'tacked-on' result? Does your logic even make sense in your head? Because it doesn't in mine.
His lip-sync is off, as are his character animations, the characters look blatantly superimposed and no effort has been made to make them look like they belong in the scene. That and the voice-acting is a disgrace. None of these are the case in ASV, which brings me back to my original point.
This movie is slapdash in comparison to his other work. Fortunately, so is the rest of the crap that's been submitted to that contest.
brittwilson Dec 20th 2007 7:58PM
aaaaaaaaand video deleted