WoW Moviewatch: Castle In The Sky
by Michael Gray 
Nov 20th 2009 at 12:00PM
Castle in the Sky by Zimtower is a short, sweet and beautiful music video. It's somewhat referencing Dalaran as a castle in the sky, but is really more focused on the idea of a "happy place" where each person can revisit their own childhood. And yes, that's totally a reappearance from the fun gnome from Cloud 9.
It's a pretty short video, so I wouldn't recommend trying to read too much into it. However, Zimtower has done an amazing job animating his gnomes so that they actually line up against the song's lyrics. The video is beautiful, with a whimsical color palette that serves to magnificently reinforce the song's message.
Ultimately, this is a great video. I had a fun time watching it, and expect it to be one of my go-to "pick me up" films in the future.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
nurmi Nov 20th 2009 12:05PM
Dj Satomi FTW
kev_tan99 Nov 20th 2009 12:20PM
Nice! Very well done.
As I was really into it, it ended. =/
SithLlenniuq Nov 20th 2009 12:21PM
I actually liked this one.
Short but sweet.
Great camera effects
Great animation work
Good tunes too (Love techno/trance/rave/electronic music)
5/5
Radiophonic Nov 20th 2009 12:36PM
Sad, I was just starting to dig the song and it ended. Music credit?
Kia Nov 20th 2009 12:53PM
Great video. I actually liked the gnomes too, usually I find them pretty aggravating. xD
Kyoruan Nov 20th 2009 1:14PM
DJ Satomi
ScorchHellfire Nov 20th 2009 1:21PM
Some of the best facial animation I've seen in a WoW Machinima...
Utakata Nov 20th 2009 1:47PM
I watched this video (I mostly don't like machinima type videos...I find them mostly creepy) to see if this was some vague reference to Hayao Miyazaki's classic Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky). I'm still not sure if the video or the tracked used is. As the author implied, it's very short...so there's not a whole there to determine that with.
Speaking of short, we Gnomes really don't sing like that. We don't quite have the evolved resonating vocals cords of adult Human females. :)
Lemons Nov 20th 2009 5:21PM
There's a Baron Soodson vid exactly like this one. It's like it's a new, disturbing genre.
Step 1: Female Gnomes
Step 2: Techno Music
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
paragorillabear Nov 21st 2009 12:18AM
Ugh.
All i gotta say is I wish The Death of Auto-Tune would actually happen.
Ugh.
Ryan Nov 23rd 2009 12:19AM
Really the best flip flapping I've seen in machinama since RETURN. The full song is around 3 minutes if I recall. DJ Satomi "Castle in the Sky", not to be confused with Ian Van Dahl Castles in the Sky.
If you also like DJ Satomi, Wonderland is pretty good too.