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'Warcraft' Movie Post-Production |OT| 20 months of...hype? Maybe?
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Skellig Gra
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Me too. The crowd shots on the steps still look really bad.
It looks like the same shot from the first trailer, one would think they'll have things tightened up for the final release in June.
Princess Carl
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I see a lot of green blood coming out of that Orc I think.
KernelPanic
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I think it's looking alright. I'm not going to nitpick the CG as you can do that for any film but I get the feeling it will be decent.
Having played since the original Orcs&Humans it's almost enough to see it just to see that entire world on the big screen and I can't believe I'm the only one who feels that way.
Having played since the original Orcs&Humans it's almost enough to see it just to see that entire world on the big screen and I can't believe I'm the only one who feels that way.
phoenix296
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That first shot reminds me of the Warcraft 3 intro. They're doing an excellent job pandering to my nostalgia.
Triggerhappytel
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The visual effects are really nice, but I'm getting uncanny valley feeling from that. Almost everything looks very obviously filmed against a green screen.
lordfuzzybutt
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Yeah, that brings me back too. I remember being hyped as fuck back when I first saw it then got my heart broken when my video card didn't support directx 8.
tattooed_dwarf
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Finally!Oh shit, we got dwarvez (perhaps in Ironforge?):
Orcs don't have green blood, they have red/reddish black blood depending on which game you're playing.
Night elves have purple, draenei have blue. The rest are standard red.
With us.
Fly over to the West Coast? Nah. East coast gets to see it first.
The movie orcs appear to have green blood (or at least the green-skinned variety). We've seen it in at least two shots now. Green blood is probably easier to get away with in PG-13 then red blood.
BarringGaffner
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All vfx were completed last April.
Princess Carl
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Do you know that for this movie? I'm simply trying to explain the squirting liquid coming out of the orc on the right side of the gif.
But they don't have a cauldron like that in Stormwind.
I'm not so sure that's open sky in the background, looks like it could be opening to a giant cavern.
NOLA_Gaffer
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I'm not particularly interested in the Warcraft universe but Duncan Jones does good work, this looks to be a labor of love, and frankly I want the movie to be a success so we can get a Diablo adaptation, so I'll probably see it at some point.
That cloak tho
Ugh the CG on the dude is so bad in this shot. You can literally see them digital smush his body down to squeeze under the orc.
phoenix296
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This isn't the same Stormwind that is in WoW but I do agree that shot looks like Ironforge.
it really does look terrible.
That's disappointing, black would have at least been canon to the WC3 intro trailer.
Then don't go see it, you fucking CG nitpickers are the worst...
For anyone thinking that the vfx possibly won't improve, most of the scenes in the tv spot are taken right out of that first trailer which came out in november and is most likely much older.
I'm not saying that the final trailer or release version won't have odd vfx/composition though, but it probably won't be this bad.
They just want the real orcs to get a job too.
Full CGI would have been the dream but would the general public have gone to see it more than this? I have my doubts.
Full CGI movies not aimed at kids fail miserably at the box office.
If only Beowulf committed to digital boobies...
Glad I'm not the only one. Thought they would of had enough time to clean that up by now.
Weapons look nice, though
We're at least smart enough to realize they're not going for Space Jam, and that the aim of the CGI is to be believable alongside live action actors.
No but it has the aesthetics on how warcraft looks and feels from the oversized armor on the humans to even on the orcs that is always been the case for example.
I trust in ILM. Some of these shots are scary but they have done good work. I'm cautiously optimistic.
This shot is super weird. I am not exactly sure what happens, Lothar slides between his legs, but the sword is weird, like it ghosts through the body. There is supposed to be contact, but he still slides forward. He shouldve fallen.That cloak tho
He's sliding, sword in front of him. Sword collides with orc, pushing dude's body down. Sword slices through groin/ass, comes out the other end in a spray of blood. It's pretty straight forward.
He chopped his orc dick right off, bro. He definitely squishes down in an unnatural way, though.
Now I'm definitely Team Horde, all humans are good for are turtling up and cheesing with mortars and Mass Teleport. And going right for the groin.
SomeRandomWeirdGuy
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I honestly wish they'd have done a full "The Last Guardian" movie. It couldve been some good shit. But I get why they chose for that not to be the core of the movie.
As it stands, the lore I'm most worried about them fudging is the Kadghar/Garona/Medivh plot, Garona herself, and the old Horde. Khadgar and Medivh are super important, so if that plot ends up minimized then a lot of potential sequel impact is lost.
I know that Garona being half draenei itself was a retcon, but I hope they don't scrub that out. She's probably the wonkiest looking part of the movie, she really should've had some prosthetics to look more half draenei (like in the comics). She just looks like a painted human, and it's pretty silly next to actual orcs.
And I really don't want them to shy away from making the old Horde really evil. Because they were. And even when Orgrim took over they were still pretty damn shitty. Speaking of Orgrim, he's barely in the trailers, but he shouldve been the most important character on the Horde side. Them choosing Durotan when he was a nonentity in the first war is absolutely baffling to me.
I'm still hyped as fuck, but I can't help but be worried about the lore. I've been all into the Warcraft lore for most of my life, as silly as it can be, so it means a lot to me.
As it stands, the lore I'm most worried about them fudging is the Kadghar/Garona/Medivh plot, Garona herself, and the old Horde. Khadgar and Medivh are super important, so if that plot ends up minimized then a lot of potential sequel impact is lost.
I know that Garona being half draenei itself was a retcon, but I hope they don't scrub that out. She's probably the wonkiest looking part of the movie, she really should've had some prosthetics to look more half draenei (like in the comics). She just looks like a painted human, and it's pretty silly next to actual orcs.
And I really don't want them to shy away from making the old Horde really evil. Because they were. And even when Orgrim took over they were still pretty damn shitty. Speaking of Orgrim, he's barely in the trailers, but he shouldve been the most important character on the Horde side. Them choosing Durotan when he was a nonentity in the first war is absolutely baffling to me.
I'm still hyped as fuck, but I can't help but be worried about the lore. I've been all into the Warcraft lore for most of my life, as silly as it can be, so it means a lot to me.
Have you ever mudslid under and orc whilst cutting into his taint? unless the answer is yes, then you can't speak from experience...
It looks fine.
Full CG would have bombed but really, the humans just look completely out of place, all the time. Warcraft definitely has a cartoony over-the-top style and that's part of it's identity, doing a live action film that's true to the series is a fool's errand.
Still, day one I guess.
Still, day one I guess.
I get the sense they'll make her half human for the movie tbh
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