World of Warcraft machinima contest winners
by Christopher Grant 
{ Oct 26th 2006 at 10:15PM }
The Blizzard/Xfire-sponsored World of Warcraft machinima contest is happening now on the lovely Stanford campus in Palo Alto, CA. The event kicked off with a screening of the 1st and 2nd place winners for all four categories: Music Video/Dance, Comedy, Short Feature, and Drama/Action. The winners earned some pretty sweet prizes, like an Athlon FX processor, an XFX GeForce 7900 GT video card, and more. The Best Overall winner, Jason Choi's operatic Edge of Remorse (embedded above), wins a "top end enthusiast PC" worth $5,000, courtesy of that other processing giant, AMD. Congrats, Jason!
We've embedded all eight winning videos after the break, along with links to the runners-up in each of the four categories.
Short Feature
1st Place -- Short Feature
2nd Place -- Short Feature
Runners-up -- Short Feature
Music Video/Dance
1st Place -- Music Video/Dance
2nd Place -- Music Video/Dance
Runners-up -- Music Video/Dance Drama/Action
1st Place and Best Overall Film -- Drama/Action
2nd Place -- Drama/Action
Runners-up -- Drama/Action
Comedy
1st Place -- Comedy
2nd Place -- Comedy
Runners-up -- Comedy
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
LaughingTarget @ Oct 26th 2006 10:33PM
I'm trying to figure out how they did some of these things. Does Blizzard have some kind of client only server that people can just screw around on?
Clockwork @ Oct 26th 2006 10:43PM
They use WoW Model Viewer, Wow Map Viewer and lots of editing...
Lutraphobic @ Oct 26th 2006 11:08PM
Wow. That was surprisingly good. No voice acting, either, or text. I'm impressed.
Happy @ Oct 26th 2006 11:19PM
I hate WoW but I like that music/dance ballad of the noob
T-Bag @ Oct 27th 2006 12:14AM
A nerd who already has a good enough comp to run WoW makes a video about 3 emos and wins another comp that he clearly doesn't need or deserve?
I hope he chokes and dies on a Dorito or something. Like that nerd that made that Goldeneye mod for HL2. lmfao
Tom @ Oct 27th 2006 12:16AM
That video sucks. Just watch South Park instead. It's much better.
Mox-HCI @ Oct 27th 2006 1:07AM
Very nice everyone! Had a awesome time being apart of the contest everyone of you guys did awesome. =)
Allen @ Oct 27th 2006 8:05AM
High production values, very polished and seamless, but why did the girl always have that stupid look on her face?
Tom Strong @ Oct 27th 2006 9:07AM
There needs to be a time limit on all Machinima contests. That was way too long.
Komrade Kayce @ Oct 27th 2006 9:43AM
That was an awsome video, it kind of had similarities to Record of Lodoss War, the Beld/Fahn fight.
BlindsideDork @ Oct 27th 2006 10:12AM
Screw that winner, I feel they didn't really use much of WoW to make it. I think the Ballad of the Noob was the best...real time!
trent @ Oct 27th 2006 10:59AM
there are lots of clever ways to orchestrate much of what they did using video editing software. most of it involves matting the actors into a seperate background vid to allow for a lot of the "camera" effects like depth of field and motion blur, etc.
thats why it looks so good.
crono141 @ Oct 27th 2006 10:28AM
I can't watch any of these right now. Any of them the second half of "Illegal Danish" from last year?
Angelo @ Oct 27th 2006 4:09PM
T-Bag you truly are a d-bag. Nickster is a fucking saint. You aren't worthy of living. I can't believe I am actually wasting my time replying to your pathetic excuse of bandwidth.
T-Bag @ Oct 27th 2006 9:05PM
- Angelo,
What's a "Nickster"? I'm just going to go out on a limb and presume he's the mastermind behind this pile of horse shit, am I right? Well either way it sounds like he's been excessively using lube on you ass for more reasons than one.
"You aren't worthy of living."
Aside from the fact that that makes no sense whatsoever, you do realize that you're defending a guy who makes videos for an online pc game right? Just knowing the guy makes you instantly gay, but to defend him/her/it as well... Just wow man. LOL
T-Bag @ Oct 30th 2006 12:27PM
- Angelo,
What's a "Nickster"? I'm just going to go out on a limb and presume he's the mastermind behind this pile of horse shit, am I right? Well either way it sounds like he's been excessively using lube on you ass for more reasons than one.
"You aren't worthy of living."
Aside from the fact that that makes no sense whatsoever, you do realize that you're defending a guy who makes videos for an online pc game right? Just knowing the guy makes you instantly gay, but to defend him/her/it as well... Just wow man. LOL
poae @ Nov 29th 2006 7:57PM
Craftingworlds.com just started up a new section of the site dedicated to the creation of machinima in WoW. They also have up the inside shots and talk about the creation of the South Park episode from the machinima perspective. :) Should check it out www.craftingworlds.com