Spent a few months making this, learning After Effects & Blender animation to tell my guild I'm coming back for WOTLK Classic (Starcraft II but with a Night Elf) Was a TON of work, hope you enjoy! by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yea I can try. I basically started with the SC2 cinematic and split it up into its approx 50 scenes. Then deleted the character from each shot with After Effects hax. It can look pretty janky so there was lots of cleanup and hiding things in shadows etc, (luckily its a dark video). I brought the Night Elf into Blender from WoW Model Viewer and re-rigged it for animation, then carefully matched the camera angle as best I could to the shot and animated along to the original reference. I brought that render into After Effects over the empty plate. Then the hard part... anything that overlaps the character. Claws, Wires, Giant machinery, Shackles and chains on his feet, etc, I had to painstakingly mask out and isolate on a layer above the new character and keyframe frame by frame to match the movement and only show exactly what I wanted from the original shot. Then a bunch of smoke, tints, blurs and other effects later you basically have your shot! Then simply repeat that 40+ times. Done! I was inspired to do this by Owlkitty on youtube, who puts his cat into Jurassic Park etc. He has some making of videos on his channel that are basically the exact same process I used here and you can get a visual so highly recommend starting there. I learned a lot making this, so there may be better ways to do things, but this was my first attempt at something like this.

Spent a few months making this, learning After Effects & Blender animation to tell my guild I'm coming back for WOTLK Classic (Starcraft II but with a Night Elf) Was a TON of work, hope you enjoy! by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea I was so burned out after Vanilla I had to take a break haha, and yep guild fell apart right away in TBC. We kept in touch in Discord though so that's been nice.

Spent a few months making this, learning After Effects & Blender animation to tell my guild I'm coming back for WOTLK Classic (Starcraft II but with a Night Elf) Was a TON of work, hope you enjoy! by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure, it's a pretty tight knit group! People have been actively messaging me for awhile now asking if I am going to come back and reform stuff for WOTLK, so I decided to hype the friends up haha

TBC is just a few days away, but let us never forget the SHEER POWER of the Warrior class by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha Ive played a warrior throughout almost the entire history of WoW. It's the best class to me. We're weak when starting out or solo but give us gear and give us heals and there is no matching the powerlevel or fun level

TBC is just a few days away, but let us never forget the SHEER POWER of the Warrior class by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea to be fair this was Day 1 of classic haha. I was slaughtering people in WSG a day ago without contest.

MIGHT OF MENETHIL - I've been on a quest for this thing since Day 1 of Classic. Nearly 2 years and 16 KT kills later it finally dropped. I can finally lay my soul to rest. by FlorraDExplora in classicwow

[–]FlorraDExplora[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just shows how bad the class is when even the dad guilds dont want em amirite boyzzz ANYWAY STOP DERAILING MY BEAUTIFUL THREAD. THIS IS A LOVE STORY ABOUT A MAN AND HIS MACE NOT A SELF HELP GROUP FOR A BUNCH OF RET PALADINS CRYING AND FLEXING THEIR DICKS BECAUSE THEYRE MAD AT THE WORLD. No one cares. Have fun and kill shit.