WoW Movies: Avatar Days
I kept noticing strange sayings in Trade Chat today as I was wandering around Dalaran, but didnt seem to flinch to much since it is trade chat. The occasional “don’t smile at me” had me a little bit spoofed, and since I just returned from a short hiatus I was wondering if I had missed something. So as I was trolling the WoW blog universe today good old WoW.com didn’t let me down as to what everyone was ranting on about. Avatar Days is an incredibly vivid video production which brings the World of Warcraft characters out of the game and places them walking around the real world as the ego of the real life players in the game, or would it be the real life characters in the world? Either way really the video is an incredible art piece which has apparently been the talk of the WoW community for going on a week now. So to keep you guys up with the cool kids we have decide to post up on it as well, simply because it is such a beautiful piece of work really.
The film won the 2009 Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival’s category for Documentary, and has just now been recently released since the end of the film festivals tour. The basic theme is a documentary of four wow characters who lives are intertwined deeply with their online persona’s in such a way that they feel to be their characters in real life. It isn’t until the players look into the mirror that you realize their true identities, at least thats my sort of cultural trying to smart spin of it is. Check the video you will be amazed at how well it has been put together, we generally try to seek out things that other people aren’t posting on but this one is a must see that I don’t want anyone to miss.
Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ’4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities. Advanced 3D technologies and Motion Capture animation were used to insert the players’ in-game characters in place of their real selves against the backdrop of the banal urban landscape which they inhabit.
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