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Myndflame is at it again. To promote Illegal Danish, Myndflame's popular World of Warcraft machinima series, they spent 700 painstaking hours recreating the Starcraft 2 Trailer. Take a look at their work and see what you think.

Watch the trailers side-by-side, or combined (stacked in one window) in the videos below:

Starcraft 2 Trailer Remake Using Warcraft Machinima:

Original Starcraft 2 Trailer:



To recreate the trailer, the Hackleman brothers used WoW Modelviewer, a program that extracts characters and models from World of Warcraft’s game engine, then heavily modified and composited these elements in 3-D using popular video software, Maya.

The scene with the shoulder armor being placed onto the gnome was the most difficult because it used a complex combination of 2-D and 3-D effects with more than a 100 layers.

Both Trailers at Once:


Hat tip: NewTeeVee