Teleport to World of Warcraft

http://www.dailymotion.com/videox8qbog
It was time to take my collage experience to the next level.
This time I decided to teleport a real life character into a 3D game, World of Warcraft. The real life character seems a bit pixelized on the edges of his body, since the lighting was not good enough to make a perfect distinction between the actor and the background. I used a green shower curtain that I bought from IKEA for a 3.99 euro as a chrome key green screen :) Not professional but a cheap solution for hobbyist film makers.

For the collaging, I first used key-light plug-in for Adobe After Effects to make the curtain disappear and the vector paint effect to delete some other parts of the scene. Then logged in to my World of Warcraft account. Defined a macro and wrote “/applaud” in it. And dragged and dropped this macro button on Action Bar slot 1, so that whenever I press 1 on my keyboard my character would clap her hands. Then the nice trick of making the menus disappear comes: you just have to press CTRL+ALT+Z and everything but the world and characters disappears. After capturing this scene I got both movies to Adobe Premiere and made final transitions and added some tittles.. That’s it.

Now the problem is, I haven’t been playing wow for over a year, but for the sake of my upcoming project I reactivated my account. Let’s see how addictive it will become this time :(

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