WoW Moviewatch: UnStunted Prologue

by Moo Money Apr 15th 2008 at 12:00PM

The AETG, or Azerothians for the Ethical Treatment of Gnomes, won't be happy about this video. It looks like Pinkhair isn't the only 3D animator around, as Macky shows us what he does in his spare time -- gnome punt. This clip is ridiculously short, but we like the rendering that we see so far. It claims to be part of a Gnome Chronicles, so we look forward to seeing something longer in the series!

[Via Warcraftmovies.com]

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Blackhorn Apr 15th 2008 12:47PM

We're Sorry, this video is no longer available

Blackhorn Apr 15th 2008 12:53PM

Hmm, is this just me? All the youtube links are giving me this error now.

Blackhorn Apr 15th 2008 12:54PM

Aaaand... now they're working again.

Fraufrau Apr 15th 2008 12:49PM

The rendering on that was really impressive - can't wait to see more from Macky

Blackhorn Apr 15th 2008 12:51PM

I'm tempted to do something like this myself as soon as this freelance gig is over (or I get fired for spending 7 hours of an 8 hour shift researching and reading about WoW).

ZOMG PORN. I mean. Who am I kidding, porn for me... something family friendly for the rest of ya.

Blackhorn Apr 15th 2008 1:01PM

And now that I've seen it, the animation was good. But the render seems a bit over-exposed. Hopefully there's a way to tone that down without a re-render (OpenEXR? Did you? ATTA BOY!)

May be easier to use in-game backgrounds, with custom-animated foreground characters. Match the in-game renderer rather than using basic 3D-app lighting and shadows.. because honestly unless you wanna start doing up some normal/bump and specular maps, the WoW models are just too low poly to pull it off.

If your machine can do a decent FPS cap of Wow Map Viewer, you could even motion track the backgrounds, making it super easy to add stuff.

Anyway. I'm getting all fired up to do one of these myself. Thanks for the inspiration!