Shaggy
Vice Admiral
I'll probably get flamed for this but here's my idea.
I've been thinking that it might be cool if someone made a WC movie in CG animation. I'm not talking about something like Final Fantasy: TSW, or anything cutesified like Finding Nemo or Toy Story. I'd like to see something like the cinematics in Diablo 2 or Warcraft 3, and I'll say it before anyone else does and take the heat " Hey, and maybe Blizzard can make it along with a new WC game, Woohoo!"
Seriously, though, I really like the style and look of the CG animations in a lot of Blizzard's games. They don't try to make it as realistic as possible, ala FF, or simplify the look like many of the Pixar flicks. They have an interesting look that's more like an oil painting rather than the traditional look of a film, CG or real.
I think it would be cool to see a film made in this style, and even better if it were a WC film, but ultimately it would probably be a major gamble that would probably go against a WC film, rather than aid it.
But, just so you know here's how I'd do it:
I'd take End Run, dropping the opening part and refering to it in the exposition of the story rather than give it screen time. This way you can jump straight into the story and introduce Bear and the Tarawa, because the story focuses on them for the main part of the story. Then if a franchise springs up you could carry on with Fleet Action and maybe make up a few more before Bear takes over the Coventry during WC3. They should hire professional voice actors, not known actors, for the voice work, having Donald Sutherland and James Woods doing voices in FF really detracted from accepting the realism of the characters because I recognized their voices and automatically attach there likeness to the role, which doesn't tend to fit the screen appearance. For this reason they should cast people who work in animation, there face is largely unknown and therefore doesn't pop up with their voice like James Woods might. You could cast Mark Hamill in some roles, because next to Blair his voice over work is very very good, though Blair should not appear in the film, at least not until a franchise is established, with his name in the mix it may be to closely associated with the WCM.
Then it should be produced quietly under a pseudonym until it's cut and ready to test, that way there is less time for negative preconceptions to germinate, and when it's already to go you hype the hell out of it. Because if there's one thing reality TV has taught me, it's that you can get people to watch dog crap on stick dry for twenty-two episodes if you put enough commercials out there for it.
I've been thinking that it might be cool if someone made a WC movie in CG animation. I'm not talking about something like Final Fantasy: TSW, or anything cutesified like Finding Nemo or Toy Story. I'd like to see something like the cinematics in Diablo 2 or Warcraft 3, and I'll say it before anyone else does and take the heat " Hey, and maybe Blizzard can make it along with a new WC game, Woohoo!"
Seriously, though, I really like the style and look of the CG animations in a lot of Blizzard's games. They don't try to make it as realistic as possible, ala FF, or simplify the look like many of the Pixar flicks. They have an interesting look that's more like an oil painting rather than the traditional look of a film, CG or real.
I think it would be cool to see a film made in this style, and even better if it were a WC film, but ultimately it would probably be a major gamble that would probably go against a WC film, rather than aid it.
But, just so you know here's how I'd do it:
I'd take End Run, dropping the opening part and refering to it in the exposition of the story rather than give it screen time. This way you can jump straight into the story and introduce Bear and the Tarawa, because the story focuses on them for the main part of the story. Then if a franchise springs up you could carry on with Fleet Action and maybe make up a few more before Bear takes over the Coventry during WC3. They should hire professional voice actors, not known actors, for the voice work, having Donald Sutherland and James Woods doing voices in FF really detracted from accepting the realism of the characters because I recognized their voices and automatically attach there likeness to the role, which doesn't tend to fit the screen appearance. For this reason they should cast people who work in animation, there face is largely unknown and therefore doesn't pop up with their voice like James Woods might. You could cast Mark Hamill in some roles, because next to Blair his voice over work is very very good, though Blair should not appear in the film, at least not until a franchise is established, with his name in the mix it may be to closely associated with the WCM.
Then it should be produced quietly under a pseudonym until it's cut and ready to test, that way there is less time for negative preconceptions to germinate, and when it's already to go you hype the hell out of it. Because if there's one thing reality TV has taught me, it's that you can get people to watch dog crap on stick dry for twenty-two episodes if you put enough commercials out there for it.
