The making of World of Warcraft intro

[drrsc]

If only the game toons had even 1/4 the polygon count of the characters in the cinematics I'd still be interested in playing.

[RedPlayerOne]

WoW was such a beautiful, inspired game.

[TripodGRANNE]

Wheres the in game graphics lmfao



[icytadbull]

what is the song at 1:12?

[Schoening91]

nice

[seretide2nice]

WoW Fails.

[Tormino98]

@seretide2nice Then why are you watching this video?

[seretide2nice]

@Tormino98  Cause some one ( i ) want's to know how its made but anyways Runescape is bether.

[seretide2nice]

@Tormino98 And also geus what I played it one day and after dieing i quited. Its just a fail game. and its for nolifers maybe like you.

[Tormino98]

@seretide2nice The Fact that you quit when you die means you fail.. that means you only play crappy games that you play it one day means that you didnt give the game a chance so you can not even say anything about WOW

[wizard101magic2]

i hate the human male faces they look like they have botox all over them

[hutstuff156]

wow blizzard dont do any thing small, it would proberly take me 2 weeks just to moddle the human to look as good as it douse here and thats without the design

[nabilsakrani]

probably took them more time to make that then a patch,i'd rather have the "crappy" graphic you're talking about then wait 10 years for an expansion/patch

[Wandride97]

I lol'd at the multicolored bear

[crimy51]

music of isla inocentes??

[Zambeb]

Blizzards are masters!!!

[MisterJimbo101]

why cant wow look like this today? :P

[Safegold008]

@MisterJimbo101 You pc cant even run it...

[MisterJimbo101]

@Safegold008 i got a high end pc, you know nothing about that

[Safegold008]

@MisterJimbo101 LOL... Ya...

[Safegold008]

@MisterJimbo101 I got Alienware m17x :D

[MisterJimbo101]

@Safegold008 i got teh Aurora, so dont tell me i dont have a nice one :P

[Cirofost]

@wowdwarf97 Calm down

[40paschal]

it must have token years to script world of war-craft..... every single detail and thats just for world of war-craft the original

[ionveau]

@40paschal The whole game runs on the original everything afterwards is just low quality textures and models

[HawK047]

When I first saw this intro, before I got the game I was like "This just cant be how the game looks!"

And I was right.

[torgny4444]

@HawK047 Well the game could look like that but how many players would they have do you think ;)

[GeekingForJesus]

@torgny4444 None. These graphics can't be rendered in real time. Not yet, anyways. That's why it took them days of processing after they hit "Render" before the trailer became a trailer, as opposed to minutes.

[torgny4444]

@GeekingForJesus Yes, and how many computers would be able to handle that quality? mine could but i would have very much lag i think.

[GeekingForJesus]

@torgny4444 It doesn't have to do with lag. I've got a GTX 590, an Intel Core i7-2600k, and 8 gigs of DDR 3 RAM. My computer could no where near handle the graphics of this trailer at a playable frame rate. And probably even below 1 or 2 frames per second. The computer has to render every frame. In a game, it can render many frames per second, but for something the quality of a really high quality trailer, the computer takes a lot longer to render the frames, because it has much more to do.

[torgny4444]

@GeekingForJesus Ah, yes i see your point :)

[Zei33]

@HawK047 not many computers, even now could handle that quality

[urmibish]

Just Thik .. It ill Be Like This Someday .. Deffently Not To Far From Now

[urmibish]

Reminds me of God Of War

Grpahics are liek the same as this in HD

[JaffaCakeGamers]

The Night elf Close up looks Like Felicia Day to Me!

[rshoogstad]

it's time to get these models into the game for real

[MrPenobe]

@rshoogstad you can only go into so much detail on things before it becomes a burden on your system. in Huge Open World games such as this one to have Really high detail would make this game unplayable for most everyone, that is why the game looks as it does, they have been upping it slightly but trying to keep it optimized at the same time which is a must,

[rshoogstad]

@MrPenobe sadly thats totally true but wouldn't it be awesome if it was possible to get these models in as playable?

[MrPenobe]

@rshoogstad hell yea.

[zamaroc]

3:10 where can i tame that pet? ROFL

[Bannannenn]

Imagine how many bugs that orc gets in his mouth.

[FilmTrailersChannel]

Very Impressive...

[WateryIce54321]

THE ORC IS TO DETAILED, MY EYES...

[dablow5454]

that is really cool

[TheLawlbreaker]

If the game really was this detailed, I'd still be playing.

[Ycediablo]

@TheLawlbreaker if the game was this detailed, your computer would have exploded...

[wildboy789789]

i dont have the patients to be a cinimatic graphics designer... im a game designer all the way... id rather make 20 animals, treasure chests and barrels than try to spend all day making 1 realistic face

[Marbas777]

that should have been the graphics, not that shit that is in the actualy game

[linkinl1]

i have always wondring what the good games used to make the game.

is it anywone so know witch ?

[itschinese]

@linkinl1 blizzard used a program called 3Ds Max to make most of their games, other companys might use "Maya Studios"

[stankorange]

Does ANYONE here know what program(s)/Software(s) they used to make these characters from begining to finished model? Im looking and i could use your help!

[ShakeZulaTheMicRula]

@stankorange Probably 3DS Max, like every other game studio.

they might use Zbrush for fine details or something.

Not sure about the engine they use, though.

[wildboy789789]

@stankorange every 3d model starts with a program called "3dsmax"... you can take alot of time in 3dsmax and get a realistic charicter that will still load quickly, these models usually get imported into the game... now if you want movie quality like this video, you get a very basic model in "3dsmax" just to get the shape, then you import the model into a program called "mudbox" which covers your model in mud so you can sculpt wrinkles and scars and make it look like movie quality :)

[wowddo]

Wow... My dream is to be a game designer... maybe when I am 30 I may have that knowledge(in 16 years). But I want it now...

[mustycuz]

@wowddo man i have been studying game design for a while and i can create characters like that and its not fun and games. Its full of stress and pain, we only do it for the end product.

[wowddo]

@mustycuz And then you can feel proud over yourself for making the design of a game that can be epic and awesome!

[cepomwa]

lol did they actualy used 3D smax?

[TheGnomelandSecurity]

@cepomwa i think they used maya..the expencive one like the 2k 1

[cepomwa]

@TheGnomelandSecurity it's the same to me, I always thought they used their own software kind of pixar thing.

[malasarma]

tyvm for this video, just what i always wanted to see, hope one day i will able to make something like this, that is my dream, and i will make it come true :).

[MarceloAnimador]

1:21 ??????

[sampad01]

Blizzard Rulez!!! what did they use? max 3???

[aezakmei]

They CANT put models like these ingame, because if someone has low graphix he will not be able to play wow, +blizz needs MORE AND MORE players for MONEEEEY!!

[huddzzii]

i can only guess they used zbrush when creating the models.

[Lolismad]

2:28 never noticed before but if you watch the night elfs' ass you'll see a texture glitch

[GeekingForJesus]

This was made in 2003 and STILL looks better than any trailer made to date. The Old Republic's trailers are probably second best, visually, but even they don't top WoW's original cinematic. I wonder what Blizzard's "next gen MMO"'s trailer will look like. But if the game isn't fully-voiced like TOR, I just won't play it.

[darkmankill1]

they made this how long ago?

[CHR1551LV3R]

@darkmankill1

i think they made it in 2005

[BjornBS]

thumbs up if you wished they would make a movie with these kind of art! :)

[ALIOOOOOOOH]

whats the song at 0.53 to 1.47

[shansik]

I think the game is never gonna look like this. Its not about technology. They will need a thousand of artist to make game with graphics like this.

[Freedomfoe07]

@shansik the cinematics showing a little more than 5 years ago are our graphics today, actually our graphics today are even better. Just imagine what graphics will be like in 5-10 years... will be like that one cinematic of wrath of the litch king.

[optimusbee2y09]

thumbs up to blizzard you've done a great job

i love playing frozen throne especially dota

[shadowdragonx2]

OMfg if the characters actually looked like this.. my god.

[TheDarkermanzz]

f*ck this i'm crying :( I miss wow.. damned.. i played 6 years.. and i stopped i had to go to a psychologist. Just beceause of this game I was addicted on this game. If i couldn't play I hit my mom.. And now.. 2 years ago.. ill miss this game.. But i still think on my bad, bad memories

[TimmeyMaster]

@TheDarkermanzz me too!

i never ply this game but i hit my mom too. it was because the dream. A wow player say to me: Kill your MOOM. and i do that...sry mom ;( 

[ejgde]

if the game only looked like this, dont get me wrong i love wow

[Freaky962]

whats the msic in the background?

[Jakiladd]

RAINBOW BEAR!

[rickrowie]

i want this ingame :D

[ChrisJohnson2K]

With 12 million paying subscribers, WoW is the largest MMORPG in history. Going into their 4th expansion in almost 7 years, they're one of the most successful game developers. Now, why can't they make a WoW console add-on.

[Nickpatient]

@ChrisJohnson2K Playing WoW or infact any other MMO for that matter on a console would be stupid without a keyboard for the many bind keys you need, or for even typing. There's also the problem of what console would handle such a huge world? At this point my wow folder is 27.1GB! And then they'd have to see if they'd make a good profit? I think not. And finally, what's the point?

[ChrisJohnson2K]

@Nickpatient Not literally an MMO. I said make an add-on. Where as, basically it's a spin-off of World of Warcraft, for the console, but with the epic cinematic graphics. You can't sit here and say it wouldn't be successful. It doesn't matter at this point anyways, they already announced that there will be a 4th expansion. You seem knowledgable, so I have a qustion for you. It'll be posed in a 2nd comment.

[ChrisJohnson2K]

@Nickpatient Blizzard holds the first and second place record for fastest selling PC game in a 24-hour time slot (WotLK/1ST, BC/2ND). So, my question to you is, do digital downloads count as part of the purchased gaming count? Because I'm willing to bet if it does, Cataclysm will once again break that record. If not, however, I'll feel a little mad because I made a bet on it. Answer would be appreciated.

[Nickpatient]

@ChrisJohnson2K I can't see a reason why it wouldn't count. I don't actually know. Music sales and charts have included digital downloads so I'm sure games do too. Even without the downloads I'm sure Cataclysm will break records. - As for the console addon, I'm sure they could do it but they're busy with Starcraft 2 content and WoW and their new unamed MMO and ofcourse working on Diablo 3. If they made a warcraft for console I think an RTS would be cool. (Warcraft 4 please!) :)

[kristian1115]

Wow just reached 12 million players... BEAT THAT!

[Tadddius]

We Can Do This Graphics In Real Time With nVidia PhysX Cloth Simulation.

Too Bad Blizzerd Designs There Games For Pentium 3.

[heroclix0rz]

@Tadddius Why do you think there are so many players? They have to aim their game at lower specs. It's why they keep going strong and games like age of conan and Aion go hardly noticed. They've done a damn fine job making it look nice with very low specs.

[ahaghoobeance]

@Tadddius they could make the graphics that good but it would require a very expensive PC and some people do not have that type of money

[Delete0Humanity]

Oh my god! Gief skills to do that!

[poopchunk3]

get a ps3.....

[jaredz88]

i love how they make the intro seem so promising.

[KillerKnut24]

are there the making of's of the other cinematics too? where can i find them?

[KillerKnut24]

2:04 i wish that my orc looks like that ingame =)

[krystoff42]

I wish these was in-game graphics

[kmelalzate]

Motherfuckers ;)

[ZibiAMVStudio2009]

does someone have an idea of what program did they use? :D

[Chro801]

@ZibiAMVStudio2009 Lots of big companies code their software themselves.

[GENERICCEREAL67]

@ZibiAMVStudio2009 Don't listen to Chro. They mostly use Maya 2009, 3DS, ZBrush, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop.

[racenuke]

@ZibiAMVStudio2009 3ds max

[DancingDruidStudio]

if only the game looked like this xD

[nankoek]

Go to vanillagaming(Point org) for clawssic wow private server, it just look like the old times gd private server :D!

[Tbannu]

3:12 DISCOBEAR!

[Norsken2]

@Balisong72 3ds max

[ToxinBlade]

looking at 2:05

it would be nice if they added tattoos in the game

[gremlin986]

what is the name of the song?

[puttefnask]

The day this game looks like this, I will play it. Can't be too long. =)

[itsallhere234]

wow thats insane, i wish i could work for blizzard n do this stuff

[Blue138UEF]

i could kill for knowing what programs they ue and ue them too!!!!!!!!!!

[giggdaw]

@Blue138UEF its either Maya Autodesk or 3D Studio Max

guaranteed

[MBGamingLegends]

@Blue138UEF lol you would need a team of animators because it would take you fucking ages to achieve this kind of thing alone

[MonSteh]

by the time we have 4th gen consoles, these will be able to be generated.

which is most likely 2012-2013

[MBGamingLegends]

@MonSteh if the entire game had graphics like that and production started in say 2013 we wouldn't get the game until like 2016 and that's only if they devote their lives to it 

[MoshinGerNade]

thumbs up if you think the bear at 3:10 should be a real pet in WoW. Rubix Bear

[Astrapogiannos14]

You can only imagine what blizzard games will look like when these artists have the technology to put character models like that in the game in real time.

[CRAZEDMARINE]

@Astrapogiannos14 they could but when u play it would be just so laggy cause the computer just wouldn't be able to process it quick enough for it to look decent

[Astrapogiannos14]

@CRAZEDMARINE Well know it would not be playable, too many polygons for a game. But in the future it will be possible.

[philhalo66]

@CRAZEDMARINE well... 980x and 4 480's might

[matthew22389]

@CRAZEDMARINE um you guys do realize that half life 2 crisis and many other games run on computers and they have equal and/or little lower graphics then this

[darkdowngrade]

@matthew22389 equal...

[Kox300]

@Astrapogiannos14 actually the problem is no PC could run a game with graphics llike this

[Astrapogiannos14]

@Kox300 I am talking about the future. Are you just trolling me?

[Kox300]

@Astrapogiannos14 oh sorry, i didnt realized you are actually retarded...

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[deadmeu]

@Astrapogiannos14 The graphics would be better than real life O.O

[ConverseKai]

@Astrapogiannos14 and also u can imagine how much game with this technology does requier space and grapics ....

[Vikinatorn]

@Astrapogiannos14 The tech wont really matter. Most of the things you see are hand animated, and it would take a really really long time to make a game like WoW with quality like this. For one, it takes longer to model, secondly it takes alot longer to rig, and third, it takes a shittonne of time to animate. So even if it would render with basicly the same tech, it wouldnt look as good in motion. Because devs simply dont have that amount of time on their hands.

[PrawdaUnia]

@Vikinatorn You forgot a crucial point: the consoles and the computers take a few minutes and even hours to render a single frame. You would need a supercomputer (or a cluster of computers) to render everything in a couple of milliseconds to make a game.

[Vikinatorn]

@PrawdaUnia Sigh. If you were to read up to the post i was replying to, you would realize i didnt forget anything.

Astrapogiannos14 said " ...when these artists have the technology to put character models like that in the game in real time.", which basicly implies we hypothetically had the tech to run this in real time. I just didnt feel like saying what he had already said, which is, as you said too, we do not have the required computers. Not even supercomputers can do this in realtime yet.

[BDO917]

@Astrapogiannos14 lord of the rings has that technology if they came togethor wuth WOW it could be one epic game Lords of Warcraft

[Mastermind12358]

@Astrapogiannos14

the games would take many many years to make

[Awia00]

@Astrapogiannos14

Crysis 2 anyone?

[anyadkurvapicsaja]

@Astrapogiannos14 i think they could, but then there wont be over 6 million wow players, cuz half of those players have crappy PCs

[LasseLundster]

@Astrapogiannos14 Well that's not going to happend any time soon...! Perhaps in our lifetime but that's it lol.

Each of those models probably take around 10 minutes per frame to render out, and we need a minimum of 15 fps, Adding physiqs and real-time reflections and so on we probably hit 20 minutes per frame, but considering revising, texture baking and so on perhaps it's only one 1 hour rendring time for the 15 frames per second...

I'm sensing a problem here. Add enviroment to break the law

[wildboy789789]

@LasseLundster yeah, there is a reason they have a program for game graphics and another program for movie graphics... and by the time the game graphics are this real, movie graphics will be far past this... so peoples dreams of a game as good as the opening video isnt going to happen lol

[ZombieTaxiDriver]

@Astrapogiannos14 it would be cool to see, but i like the cartoonish art style in actual WoW gameplay. if it got that realistic i think i would just play oblivion lol

[wildboy789789]

@Astrapogiannos14 that would take FOREVER to get somthing that realistic in a 3d world... seriously, mudbox covers your charicter in millions of polygons, its meant for movies... a computer game wont even run if your charicter is over 5000 polys and the game world has too many polys it wont even load... while it would be cool to see a game with realistic graphics, i dont think it will happen untill the year 2130 lol... you have to be able to run the game on your customers computers also

[Tyraxio]

If someone knows animation a bit better than me then please tell me wrong, but if they make the cinamatic figures in 3d, why is the look of in game wow so much more rough and less detailed? Couldnt they make the figures as pretty as cinematic?

[daniel101191]

@Tyraxio because then only people with £400+ PC's would be able to run it at minimal settings. The graphics are like they are so anyone can play the game. =]

[Tyraxio]

@daniel101191 It would be worth it though

[UrkoWoW]

ITS THE HULK

[bigbortz25]

WTF?!

[vegnachaos]

so wish wow 2 will look like these grafs

[mikegreend99]

So friggin awesome!

[ZiotheZero]

There's no Undead guy in that.

[luckeyace1]

@ZiotheZero I KNOW! wtf's up with that?

[gamermcgee]

@FrozenSparky

B/c I doubt many..-- I'm not even gonna answer that. :l

[worldwar470]

nice masks



[ablastijl]

Iff I can make animation Like this I would make a movie... Best animation ever

[Norsken2]

@ablastijl blizzard actually has the best cgi in the world. They even beat pixar. Which is why blizzard is making and have been for 3 years a cgi movie about warcraft.

[JulianLangis]

@TehDazzer

Lag.

[KillJoy9001]

Tauren for the win! Gentle giants of the plains!

[ramprire]

Human mages = the most epic

[Sovvolf]

Wow, how... I mean just how. The animation is so responsive and smooth... makes me feel like nothing. They must have had some real talent on that animation... real talent. Thumbs up to you guys... smashing work.

[jazzj2]

i wish the graphics in wow were as good as this

i mean have you seen the human face in wow!?

[thevide0kings]

back then it was good i miss it to

[ruach12355]

Good Times, I Remember The First Time Playing. 2006

[maisterileo]

would be awesome to play as one of those...

[connortimoti]

that bald dwarf looks like that angry english man who is also bald and he yells a lot

[happygamestvfun1]

thats sint show anything....

[Vikitoria00]

what about the troll running on a raptor for a few secs? :(

[MadPumpkinGames]

@Vikitoria00 I know :{ I was waiting for that one the whole time. Troll has been my favorite ever since they first existed in Warcraft Lore... Warcraft III levels are always better with a troll thrown in there.

[teakwondomasterhta]

was that not in bc ?

[Zilva86]

I'm the 60,000 viewer! o.o

[melzen97]

i love orc :D

[Ranemus]

Tauren is the most epic race in WoW

[Daisukevd]

Great.More pleas, moooore from this^^

[KudoBrothers]

When the models are spinning around can you imagine if those were the playable characters you can be! One day it'll probably come to that.

[ZireLazh]

The taurens tail looked like he was having a boner.