the Warcraft movie trailer

pmiller001

anybody else excited?
i'm really looking forward to it. 
Been looking for an announcement time or something, but i'm having trouble. Anyone else having luck?

ninja edit: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxoz13Bthc

slipsius

11am PT

pmiller001

Ohh exciting. Thanks slipsius. 
Do you know if they'll show it on twitch? or do we need a blizzcon ticket to appreciate it. 

soulstice

My guess is that it'll be on during opening ceremony which should be broadcasted on the public stream.  Either way it should be on youtube a few minutes later at the latest.

slipsius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxoz13Bthc

RaptorCWS

I have mixed feelings after seeing this.

skankerzero

I still wish this was CG.

aesir

Yea... I dunno.  The plot feels pretty shallow.  Or maybe it's the characters.  It feels like the boiled everything down to the most standard, generic, thing ever.

X-One

Yeah..I know I'm going to go watch it, but I would have really preferred if the whole thing was CG. The humans just look so out of place to me, given the proportions of the orcs/creatures. 

slipsius

They did an amazing job on the human armour. But ya. Something about mixing the real humans with CG orcs. Or in that one case, what seems to be a human female in orc makeup. Just a little uncanny for my taste. 

pmiller001

the orc female is garona, she's a half breed. 

Blond

who sincerely thought this was not going to suck? 

RaptorCWS

plenty of people since this is kind of the first look anyone has had at it

Blond

Movies made after popular game franchise tends to be average...

RaptorCWS

this looks below average...

R3D

Worried about the pocahontas plot. I'm surprised they didn't do a full CG movie, looking at how good their cinematics are.

Swizzle

They're going to have to pull some crazy script magic to actually make this decent, because the trailer did absolutely nothing to make me want to see this.

Pretty nice CG on the orc faces, though.

Blond

Pretty nice CG on the orc faces, though.

He agrees.


Edit: I just noticed...He has earrings on his fangs..dat guy's a real hipster...

leslievdb

i bet if it had a football with a lightsaber in it we`d all be stoked !

Steve Schulze

It takes am awful lot to chip through all of that jade.

I think it looks amusing. The plot was always going to be a pastiche because that's what Warcraft is - A bunch of ideas lifted from elsewhere and blended into one slightly lumpy smoothie.

Compositing looks like it's got a ways to go. The CG on live action is unlikely to ever be perfect, but I'd expect it to improve markedly before release. They've got some lovely stuff going on there with characters and environments.

It's unlikely to be an amazing movie, but my interest is piqued sufficiently to give it a go. 

slipsius

Im definitely interested because they want to make this a series. So while the plot of this one may be nothing special, it's just the origin story. The ones after will really dig into the meat of the warcraft universe.

And the more i watch the trailer, the more im interested in it. And the less bad i think the CG is, so much as its a look they are going for. 

RaptorCWS

Compositing looks like it's got a ways to go. The CG on live action is unlikely to ever be perfect, but I'd expect it to improve markedly before release. They've got some lovely stuff going on there with characters and environments.

I think its the compositing that looks bad to me. I may have amped myself up too much looking forward to the trailer so that could also be it. I am looking forward to the movie since I have been a fan of Blizzard and Warcraft since WarCraft II was the first game I ever bought.  Hoping it will be good and I will have to eat my words.

Sage

reminds me of avatar a bit. seems like it will be interesting.

rollin

I think the orcs are super fun! Really positively surprised. (Not sure about the plot though)

Burpee

Who cares about the plot, we got orc riding wolves 

Popol

Well I guess I'm one of the few ones who really enjoyed the trailer, haha. I didn't expect much and was blown away by the art.

Tekoppar

I don't have any hope for the movie at this point.

LRoy

Wow that's a lot of negative reactions. I thought it looked pretty awesome.

Cay

I heard all kinds of amazing things about the trailer.. but after watching it I have mixed feelings.
I just hope I will not think about Travis as "Ragnar Lothbrok" the entire time of the movie. That would certainly ruin it for me.

praetus

There are a few things I could gripe about but turning a huge game universe into a 2 hour movie means some things are going to change.  The only thing that really stood out to me though was baby Thrall.  Way too bright looking compared to anything else in the tent when he was shown.  I will say though that looking at shots from Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World in the trailer vs what was released in theatres there is a ton of color correction and compositing in general that could change.  All in all though, I know my wife and I are looking forward to it.

Moltar

CG, amazing.  But after watching the trailer I really felt as if it was lacking something, I dunno.

RogerP

I thought it was pretty solid for a first trailer. I've never been interested in Warcraft/WOW so I don't know much or anything about the story itself. So as far as the visuals go I like what I see.

Deathstick

Eh, the mixture between the humans versus the cg humans vs the cg orks vs reallife kind of bothers me but who knows maybe it'll be good. I was really hoping for something more akin to their full CG cinematics for WoW, Diablo, and Starcraft 2. Now that would be a treat

pmiller001

I say, 
A lot of interesting ideas going around regarding this trailer. I've always been a fan of this cg look. I'm super into the fact that, they're keeping everything highly saturated and really big, just like warcraft. I'm also glad they're using actual people. I've always been a fan of their cg cutscenes, but I've already seen FF: the spirits within, and I dont think i'd like to see that play out again in Theaters ;P. Considering how well this looked on the first cut of this trailer i'm looking forward to the visuals when it gets released. 

lotet

the live action stuff looks fake
 the CGI looks really grounded and part of the world though, lol, never though I would write that sentence.

Deathstick

It's funny how so many casual people say the CGI looks bad in movies, when half the time it's because the compositing with the live action was done poorly

Then again, compositing is technically images altered on a computer, so maybe they're half right?!. o_O

pmiller001

Uh oh, Deathstick callin em out AGAIN. 

slipsius

That's because everyone lumps CGI and compositing into one category. The stuff they do on the computer looks off for some reason. That's what people mean.

lotet

yeah, the CGI part is most likely comped with image based lighting, so they fit the world perfectly! as for the actors on green screens its sadly a different story.

ArtisticTiger

omg seriously can't wait. loving the stylized look with the orcs too.

oglu

orcs are fine...
http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/warcraft-movie-orgrim-rob-kazinsky.jpg

Steve Schulze

That's certainly an authetic looking orc war camp.

slipsius

that screen shot is amazing. ugh

skankerzero

This movie may be the first in which the 3D characters look more convincing than the real life humans.

Shiniku

Everything looked pretty good, the green baby stood out though.

I feel weird about this. The trailer makes me definitely want to see it, however nothing really looked particularly interesting about it outside of the visuals. I guess I just want to go to see the effects. Hopefully a second trailer can help build some excitement for the story.

lotet

actually, for me the humans are more uncanny then the orcs, and thats whats weirding me out xD

ambershee

Yeah the people don't seem to fit in. They should have gone whole-CGI, just having a couple of actors here and there in an otherwise totally CGI environment just looks funky, especially when the composition is off.

I didn't think the trailer was necessarily bad, but it did look generic as feck, even for Warcraft.

RN

I wish they had gone with a feature-length 'this'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64

leslievdb

what i`m guessing with the full cg animation and it not being done a lot is that the general moviegoing audience considers full CGI movies as cartoons (aka kids movies) and don`t take them serious at first glance which would result in a lot less people going to see the movie.
I assume this sentiment will change in the years to come but it will take one movie that does it so well that it changes general opinion and it will be a mayor risk.
The wow movie is already a risk , you know it has a large fanbase but they`re trying to appeal to a broader audience and making it full cgi would limit that audience once again creating an even bigger risk.

anyway all of the above is speculation and even though i work at blizzard i don`t know any more about it as the rest of you so don`t take any of this as official reasons why they`re not doing a full cgi feature

ZacD

Yeah I was hoping the movie would basically be long Blizzard cinematic. Instead it looks more like Avatar with orcs. 

Autocon

Massive Warcraft fan and this movie had lots of good in it with some bad.

Story, Characters, Locals, Actors and CG all seem interesting and could be great with a director who is such a fan of the original games.

The Orcs, there village and a lot of the full on CG shots look PHENOMENAL. The compositing of the Live Action actors mix in with the CG backgrounds look straight out of 1993. Yikes that is rough. Nothing seems connected. They look and feel like it was all green screened. Which of course it was, but come on. With how GOOD the Orcs look and how much money must have been dropped for that you should get someone who can composite the film together.