The new season of “South Park” started off with a bang this week. And their point of pop culture scrutiny this week was the “World of WarCraft.”(WoW) About two weeks before, the season premier, on Wednesday night, there was a mini trailer for the episode on the “WoW” website. It later moved to Youtube, Google and such.
After seeing the episode I was enthralled with the amount of production effort that Blizzard, the game design company for “WoW,” put into the episode. The “WoW” scenes within the S.P. episode were animated by Blizzard.
Although, players do have the ability, through certain programs, to capture videos and screen images, they can’t capture what was captured in that episode. One can easily tell that the South Park animation team did not animate the “in game” scenes, using one of the games various capturing programs.
A huge give-away is characters in “WoW” never move their mouths while speaking in the game, which happened all the time in the episode. This is a first for the Blizzard animators add that kind of in game animation just for the TV show. These weren’t blizzards A games typical CG rendered sequences. The amount of time it must have taken Blizzard to achieve these were pretty impressive.
Also the amount of misuse use of “WoW” game features spells, abilities and such really prove how much Blizzard and WoW were in on the joke. It was go to see the target of South Parks scrutiny helping out with the joke. Only true player of the game really got every joke that came out of their potty-mouths.
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