Nearly a month ago we stumbled upon a group of players who had been working on something amazing. Lucas and his team had been working on a premium Machinima WoW video for a few years, and were looking for someone to help get the word out and highlight the video series editorially. Curse eagerly accepted!
We posted the trailer for these new Machinima experience a few weeks ago, below:
A Quick Note From Lucas “Lima” Cedergren:
Most movies are made in Modelviewer. But this is recorded 90% in-game. We've had the help of some of the best voice actors in the machinima community, additional sound design by Glenn Xaydin Govan and special effects by Johan Vågstedt I think we have created something to be proud of. I very much hope that all of the viewers will enjoy it! This is the first part of three. We are currently writing the script for the second one and we are sure that it won’t take 4 years to complete it this time. This movie is more of a prologue for the upcoming 2 that will contain a lot more action and delve deeper into the plot. If you want more information about the movie and our upcoming ones please visit www.cedergren-productions.com.
Background
After centuries of conflict the
world of Azeroth has found, at long last, sense of peace and well being.
New generations rise and new allegiances are forged in a brave and
exciting new world with hope of an even brighter tomorrow - but in these times
there are those who would seek to crush hope and extinguish the light. Minds
dark and twisted, focused only on spreading the darkness that clings to their
very being. Unaware of this rising
darkness Azeroth continues, in blissful ignorance, to enjoy new-found freedoms,
unknowingly walking towards their demise.
But there are remnants of wars past. Heroes
of old... Some would say... Legends. Brave
warriors who selflessly sacrificed themselves to protect their people.
But that was long ago, things have changed and the heroes of old have
been scattered and forgotten, un-needed, until now.
Maybe if they could be found in time.. Maybe the course of this dark
destruction could be averted.
All hope now rests on the shoulders of two young, fresh faced Warriors, as they
rush to save Azeroth and reunite these heroes so that they can once more restore
peace to the world.
Part 1
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZVhyoxFIQg]
Part 2
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS3rHgFY_B8]
Part 3
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiL7xli5r2M]
Part 4
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GROfFcZ9A10]
Part 5
Comments
Youtube is crap for these types of movies, need a HQ download.
Please read more carefull next time.
Youtube quality is great though, if you tune up to 720p.
For the lazy guys, here's the link to the download.
http://www.cedergren-productions.com/movies.html
Speaking of Bolvar, he's not leading the Alliance since the start of WoTLK when Varian came back. He's also the new Lich King and his appearance is that of a burning zombie, not a living human. His presence in this movie makes no sense at all.
Nihilum has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the lore, enough said.
Bringing Gul'dan back to life? Err, don't you think there are enough stories of setbacks already in the Warcraft lore? In fact, I'm surprised he doesn't say "it was merely a setback!"
Next to that, the spelling, voice acting etc. could use some work.
Developer
/facepalm
Your posts are full of irony.
This video recieved a lot of hype for nothing.
The voice acting and script are horrible. I will probably never be able to make a video like this but I know I could have made a better script and have better people do the voice acting. A night elf saying douche bag? It is just horrible.
The typos in the subtitles.... w t f????
Really? REALLY?
The plot is a freaking joke. ZOMG GUYS IM BACK. MY DEATH WAS MERELY A SETBACK :O!. Zomg Gul'dan is back and we need our heroes!
None of the names even fit any of the characters in these videos. Their names remind me of Inuyasha.
The list goes on and on.
The only thing I liked about these videos are the fight scenes. Those are a bit cooler than what I thought I was going to see.
Either way, who am I to tear down something someone created. It was nice, but personally I found it boring. Thats about it. I've seen machinima that looked worse, but were genuinely entertaining and/or creative.
It was rather boring
It had lots of typos in the subtitles
The slomos sucked because they looked as though their FPS were just really low and every gamer will hate those scenes
Some scenes were highly unrealistic. The two commanders can't take out 5 silly orcs which obviously had lousy gear, but one hunter can one shot them each? Similar the scene in the Undercity and the assassin. Also, after having finished their recruiting tour, the two commanders return to Stormwind. All of the heroes show up in Stormwind after them and all at the same time.
It's a nice effort, but there really is no need to hype this.
A lot of the movie was filmed a very long time ago (TBC times), so it might seem a bit amateurish.
But we've come a long way since then, the second movie will improve in sound quality, animation, voice acting, and writing. Basically everything.
But like we said, in about 3 weeks we will have a re-done downloadable version on Warcraftmovies and Curse with better subs, some scenes fixed, some better voices, the Nihilum part will be swapped out, and so on and so forth.
And about Tales of the Past 3, we are not trying to be "like" ToTP, nor are we trying to compete with it. Legends was in the planning stages before ToTP3 came out, and we had already started working on it (slowly) by then.
We all loved Tales of the Past, and we are definitely not trying to copy it in any way shape or form, and I highly doubt that our first movie will even dent the awesomeness of ToTP3. But we still have two more movies coming, and they will be severely improved, as we have much more experience and knowledge at this point. Look forwards to it, because these movies will be Legendary! (See what I did there?)
Source : www.cedergren-productions.com .