WoW Moviewatch: Explorer Timelapse
by Michael Gray 
Sep 21st 2011 at 12:00PM
Explore Timelapse by Mdaabil changes that. This video captures 88 zones in the space of seven minutes, stringing over 100,000 screenshots together into a coherent timelapse video. The creator kept the work in over 950 folders on his system while creating the video, finally choosing a mere 164 scenes for the final video.
Our hat's off to Mdaabil for a fun, inspiring video.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
robert Sep 21st 2011 12:10PM
Would love to see improved weather effects introduced into WoW at some point in the future. Seasons would be awesome too.
Verine Sep 21st 2011 1:43PM
I thought that since The Barrens was a savannah, it would be nice to have a rainy season type event where the grass was lush and green and the gullies would fill up. Cataclysym kinda wrecked that.
Hillazon Sep 21st 2011 12:26PM
Very cool.
Was hoping for a WoW version of Koyaanisqatsi though, comparing wilderness zones with timelapses of crowded Org or Stormwind set to Glass's soundtrack. That would have been epic.
Hache Sep 21st 2011 12:38PM
Nice Video and nice song.
PS: Oh how I HATE those twitching legs!!
Matt P Sep 21st 2011 12:52PM
The main thing I took away from this that I didn't notice before:
Female Orcs' idle animation is...oddly erotic.
Elmo Sep 21st 2011 1:10PM
I never noticed things like palm trees, the fire simbol atop sulfuron keep or grass moved...
splodesondeath Sep 21st 2011 5:11PM
Yeah, I also noticed the windows flashing and the shutters slamming open and closed in Pyrewood Village.
lownwolf Sep 21st 2011 1:32PM
how are you doing those slow steady pans? addon?
Iirdan Sep 21st 2011 2:45PM
Perhaps the most beautiful video I have seen featured on Moviewatch. My hat is eternally off to the creator, who has created here an unabashed work of simplistic art.
Rubicon Sep 21st 2011 3:02PM
This was simply beautiful. It really helps to put into perspective the scope of the world... of warcraft, and really makes it seem alive.
Matthew1 Sep 21st 2011 4:17PM
Nothing was really changing though, it was just sped up. I was hoping it would be a time lapse of actual changes like the building of the argent tournament or Cataclysm changes in places like Westfall.
Brunhila Sep 21st 2011 4:34PM
Really neat to watch this and realize I can recognize almost every shot! I wasn't sure I liked the time lapse thing when it started but then I got into it and was totally mesmerized by the flickering movement and dancing landscapes. The music goes so well with the shots and it's so interesting - hats off to the creator who obviously put a lot into this work.
Drakkenfyre Sep 23rd 2011 2:20AM
If you want an even better experience, open that video, pause it, then mute it.
Then open this in another window.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmkrv5VKnU
Play it, then unpause the other video, and watch it, while listening to this second video.
It's awesome how well they went together.
They are near-equal lengths, too.
libbyseab Sep 24th 2011 2:29PM
You are correct. That music clip does go together well with this video.
Liyly Sep 23rd 2011 3:33PM
Where is the cloudy pillar with zeppelins coming and going around 3:30 in the video?
I don't recognize it and want to know where it is!!
Thanks in advance!
Ominous Sep 23rd 2011 4:11PM
Great production, of a very good idea.
Bookmarked.