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So, the trailer for Warcraft dropped a couple of days ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxoz1…
Wow. That looks…..reeeeallly bad. Not Uwe Boll bad, granted, but certainly as bad as any other cinematic adaptation of a video game IP.
Why the hell didn’t they go full CG? Compare it to one of the latest World of Warcraft trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYNCCu…
See? Don’t all the visuals just gel better than the CG/Real life mash-up that the movie is promising?
Now, at its peak, World of Warcraft had about 12 million players. I think it’s down to about 5 million at the moment. This movie is going to make money, sure, but so did the first Tomb Raider film, and for precisely the same reason: the fans will go and see it.
The last time I visited Azeroth, though, was in 1995, with Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, so any of the characters and settings developed across the course of World of Warcraft are unknown to me. If they show up in the movie, I would neither know it nor care. To me, all the trailer is showing is a strange cocktail of Narnia, Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. One that doesn’t tempt in the slightest, purely because it looks so very bland. It just has a bunch of stuff that I’ve seen elsewhere, with none of the visual flare that compels me to buy the occasional Blizzard art book.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxoz1…
Wow. That looks…..reeeeallly bad. Not Uwe Boll bad, granted, but certainly as bad as any other cinematic adaptation of a video game IP.
Why the hell didn’t they go full CG? Compare it to one of the latest World of Warcraft trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYNCCu…
See? Don’t all the visuals just gel better than the CG/Real life mash-up that the movie is promising?
Now, at its peak, World of Warcraft had about 12 million players. I think it’s down to about 5 million at the moment. This movie is going to make money, sure, but so did the first Tomb Raider film, and for precisely the same reason: the fans will go and see it.
The last time I visited Azeroth, though, was in 1995, with Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, so any of the characters and settings developed across the course of World of Warcraft are unknown to me. If they show up in the movie, I would neither know it nor care. To me, all the trailer is showing is a strange cocktail of Narnia, Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. One that doesn’t tempt in the slightest, purely because it looks so very bland. It just has a bunch of stuff that I’ve seen elsewhere, with none of the visual flare that compels me to buy the occasional Blizzard art book.
Thank you, anonymous benefactor.
Some kind (unnamed) soul gave me a month's core membership. Thank you, sir/madam :)
DevArt goes full evil.
I’m not going to rail about how material on the site is being scraped for use in AI Composites, or about how DevArt’s “protection” against it is a new check-box that you will have to manually tick for each and every image you’ve uploaded. No. Misuse of your work and DevArt incompetence are expected at this point. Once something is put online, that’s it; it’s no longer under your control. That’s the nature of the beast. You don’t like it; don’t upload content. What I am furious about is the deluge of AI composites flooding my feed, here. I see more of that crap than genuine new content, now. And to make it worse, DevArt has its own AI tool (https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Create-AI-Generated-Art-Fairly-with-DreamUp-933537821) which, while they absolutely-pinky-promise it will not cannibalise user content, is only going to exacerbate the problem. I’m now completely convinced that DevArt is no longer a site that serves artists in any capacity. Not only that; it no longer has any
Werewolf Wednesday Artbook
I've returned to Lulu as their print quality has dramatically improved. The first thing I'm peddling through their service is a collection of my Werewolf Wednesday pinups. (I was legitimately blown away by the quality of the proof copy I ordered!) It's now available here.
Password Retrieval emails.
Is anyone else getting a "Password Retrieval" email from DeviantArt over and over again? I was concerned that there was a security issue at play but I see that there's an option in settings to STOP such emails for 60 days, which itself is weird. Why would THAT be needed? What the hell is going on with the platform NOW?
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Just saw it, AND IT WAS AMAZING!