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Who else doesn't play anymore but still enjoys the cinematics? Big applause for the animators team
Yea gametime is too expensive, miss the game so much but this was incredible to watch
never played and have no idea what is going on, but looks cool though
Its the only saving grace of WOW 😂
Tears
It isnt the same anymore since WOTLK but my last official game was Cataclysm
Anduin is probably the first CGI human ever that didn't trigger any uncanny valley effect in me. Absolutely insane.
Reminded me of Chris Pine
@@bobunder9944 reminded me of dese nuts
Steve Amell lawsuit incoming.
Steve Amell wants his face back
Shia LaBeouf
Your not going to sit here and tell me that blizzard couldn't make a 2-and-a-half-hour movie with this quality and voice acting. Give us what we want!
They already did man like 10 years ago 💀
@@menthol_pls He said with this quality.
the voice acting is horrific@@TinusRep
They can't. They didn't make this, they outsource.
Probably take 30 years
Even Anduin have PTSD for Shadowlands, imagine the player who have to sit through the whole patches
Underrated comment
Ok
Ouch!
"has"
Based
And right after Magni comes out of the ground and yells "AZEROTH WOONS MY FRIENDS!"
NOOO! *grabs mallet* YOU GET BACK IN THE GROUND!
CHEMPIOOON
NOT AGAIN... Considering even healing the woons is better than Torghast
😂
Wha' is it lass🎅
They outdid themselves with the quality of the filming this time!
Don’t they contract it out to special animation studios?
The most boring cinematic ever done in the history of WoW.
@@Shadenium1Nah dude
@@Shadenium1totally lol
@@Shadenium1 If only you understood the technical achievements made with this, you do realize this is CGI right? The fact they made it so realistic it almost doesn't trigger the uncanny valley is super impressive..
Thrall casts *Therapy Aura*.
mental surge.
That had me 😂
Beautiful touch when Thrall lets the blade rest on his body, it steadies Anduin's hand. Shows that his friends and their trust in him will get him through the trauma.
This is the best looking CGI ever, rivaling some of the best seen in film. Anduin straight up looks real
He legit looks like my cousin when he was younger.. like exactly.. 😂😂😂💀
Where do you think all the money goes too? Surely not the two weeks worth of content
Kinda looks like Stephen Amell (CW's Green Arrow actor)
And then you log into the game and it's like runescape.
This is is pretty much the standard from Blizzard Entertainment, their cinematics were always the best in the industry
This crossed the difficult uncanny valley barrier, it looks completely photorealistic and believable, amazing job by the cinematics team
Imagine an engine like that
@@midnightblue3285 imagine the 3000$ gpu needed for that
Nope, not past it. Dangerously deep in it. This is great work but they could have, should have done soooo much better. This is just state of the art graphics and not ahead of it like it used to be.
@@Hake2506 Looks good to me, in fact it looks sufficiently good to where anything more is just unnecessary.
Too bad the game itself isn't anything like this!
It doesn’t matter what happens to wow. Music and cinematics never disappoint me.
Can someone tell me how Thrall got there? Did he teleported?
except of dragonflight ofc
@@examplenameyoutube Power of plot, my boy! The power of plot!
Yeah some teleporting trinket probably from exalted Cenarion Circle
but the game disapoint you
Time by itself, heals nothing. That line broke me.
These are retelling of the past, these are quotes back from the Middle Ages.
We all live through that in life, with mistakes we once made. Things we wish we could change.
@@QuietTokes but you are not your past
This has to be the most realistic cinematic ever done. Blizzard cinematic department is from another planet.
Not just Blizzard, it's the most realistic I've seen from any studio, including dedicated movie studios
It was fantastic, up there with some of the Love, Death, and Robots episodes
Blizzard's cinematic team carrying the entire company.
Yeah! They're straight up aliens!
it's outsourced, not made by blizzard themselves - but yeah it's probably one of the best cinematics ever made in terms of realism@@TheRealLisaJSimpson
Man, if only we could get 1 hour shorts with this type of cinematic, I'd go to the theatre to see them or buy them or whatever. Amazing!!!
Yes
Exactly
Sadly it won’t happen, it takes around 9 month for Blizz to create 4 minutes cinematic. Unless Microsoft could just buy Disney or Pixar that probably would help
Buzzkill! XD@@heyred6427
If they're one hour long, they are not shorts.
The music and VA compliments the cinematic SO WELL. Absolute legends...
wow they finaly noticed the sword of Sargeras, it took time for sure
What sword?
What sword?
Now they gotta update the mountain they’re both sitting on to higher res textures.
What sword?
What words?
The cinematic team is unbelievably talented, you guys never disappoint.
Especially the managers directing it all. great job to them!
the only thing that never really dissapointed me about WoW has been the cinematic´s the story might not be the best. the game might not. but the cinematic´s like these have never been bad.
Yeah we get this comment every cinematic. We get it.
they just get better and better
All looks, no content.
Blizzard’s cinematic team is legendary. They’ve always pushed the limits of what’s possible even from the very first vanilla cinematic.
Now let's hope the rest of Blizz can measure up to the cinematic team.
@@mirceazaharia2094 for real
Blizzards cinematic team is the only reason people keep coming back. Cause they give the players hope that something has changed for the better with Blizzard and their dev team.
@@SlickRickTPBTotally agree 💯
Honestly even since before vanilla
1:04 ''we dont get to hide'' Fun little call back when saurfang said the same thing to thrall in the ''Save Haven'' cinematic
The boy Anduin hath becometh... *THE MANDUIN!*
😂bro got me cracking up
Lol
dumb
Season one of 'The Manduin' coming soon.
Andiun was Traumatized by Shadowlands, he just became the most relatable character in all of WoW for every player.
We were all traumatized by Shadowlands.
You're right...
@@thehousealwayswins8398That's what the comment said... Hence, why it's relatable lol
Bravo sir lol
@@thehousealwayswins8398 Shadowlands was good
The cinematic quality jump is unreal, it seems like they got rid of the caricature proportions & stylizations entirely now, this is movie level stuff.
blizzard has always made good cinematics but THIS?! this was INSANE!!
Agree -- VERY impressed!!
And the narrative is much better than before. That "1000 years ago" transition subtitle in the trailer of Dragon Flight almost made me rofl.
yeah the cinematic quality jump is unreal (5) xD
@@lixunxie6295 do you really think 'eye of sauron' thing is much better?
Watched it for the 3rd time today. The chills are still there
I'm literally shaking.
We also forgot that during BFA the whole premise was talking to Azeroth herself apparently.
Probably because Shadowlands was completely out of left field
Only Magni actually talked to Azeroth. The only part Anduin knew was that Azerite is her blood.
Crazy to think World of Warcraft came out in 2004 and we still get cinematics 19 years later
it's not crazy. It's crazy, that we will get hollywood like cinematics with such good quality of faces. CGI never fails by Blizzard for WoW.
@@KaironKamieven if the level of action differs, the quality of cinematic for every expansion has been movie tier. From childhood to now they’ve never let us down in that aspect
@@KaironKami Their art team and director seem to ALWAYS bring top notch stuff.
xd
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The look on Anduins face, the eyes, the quiver in the lips, even the jump when Thrall places his hand on Anduins shoulder, it was all done so well and probably the best simulation of emotion I've ever seen in CGI.
Terrible misuse of good talent. For the past few expacs they've spent tons of resources on making characters talk about their feelings.
@@Shadowiffyes sir.
@@Shadowiff true but this one seemed more real, less cringe than like the chromie stuff was.
it's called motion capture
It's capture motion done really really well.
Ridiculously amazing cinematic. Everything from the voices to the facial expressions are absolutely insane quality.
Don't forget Anduin's eyes when Thrall touches his shoulder. The PTSD is obvious. And the sand falling from Thrall's hand after he touches the ground? It's these effects that should win awards...
The Expression on Adnuins Face is absolutely crazy. These Cinematics are on top.
The look of Anduin is so freaking awesome. you can feel his pain in his eyes
We grew up with anduin 😢🫡
Yeah the cgi is evolving like crazy
You are young we grew up with Arthas..@@bmo14lax
Now anduin looks like jesse pinkman
Anduin got PTSD from Shadowlands.
2:30 That Arthas pose. Anduin is the Arthas that fought back against the darkness.
Good catch! Whoa...
Always the same dumb fanservice...
@@FightClass3Always the perpetually upset fanbase
@@FightClass3 cry harder.
Frostmourne hungers
notice the light in Shalamayne is gone
Thats one of the coolest cinematics ever. Gotta love when they are done so well.
Did anyone else notice the stance Anduin is in when he points his sword, it has WOTLK cinematic Arthas feels to it.
Blizzard keeps repeating itself. It's not the first time. Anduin did this in the BFA cinematic, then Sylvanas did it in the Maw.
@@MsLola2013 Drawing parallel's from generational trauma. Anduin is to break that trauma.
"After what I've seen? After what I've done?" - That harkens back to Saurfang in the "Old Soldier" cinematic from BFA.
Yeah that was the point lil bro
"People like us dont get to hide" Saurfang to Thrall in another BFA cinematic@@BMDowell
The CGI looks so realistic. Anduin's facial expressions are just seamless. Great work Blizzard!
When Blizzard wants to, they are the greatest CGI studio in the world
Way better expressions than Brie Larson.
CGI is great but this story is old & tired, like most remaining WoW players. Compared to Cinematics from Vanilla, TBC, WOTLK, Cata, Pandaria, this is really lame.
Wonder what they used to make it. Nvidia or AMD commercial graphics cards? How long did the production take? Like you said it looked so realistic.
Even Thralls eyes are full of emotions
can't get over the level of detail and realism, by the light.
Can't believe they revived Paul Walker for this clip
He never died, he was simply hiding just to show up for this cinematic. then he went in to hiding again
This is honestly some of the best CGI used yet. There are billion dollar movies that would be jealous of the fidelity used in this. Honestly great job to the trailer team!
Best CGI so far out there, hands down. No uncanny valley vibes. You can read Anduin face. Amazing.
Halo 2 anniversary is still the best CGI. This looks good but not even close imo
@@marcovidal9782bruh lol, best troll comment
Hes never looked so handsome! 🎉❤
but you can tell he's CGI. They arent trying to make him true photo realistic.
hold my Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within
Forever in love with warcraft cinematics. You have my eternal gratitude for making these and it's a priviledge to behold them. Thank you
Love the music in this, those strings doing the slow and sad version of Anduin's theme are beautiful
This was genuinely, beautiful. If only they made the warcraft movie like this instead.
or the game .....
@@Daz86. the game? people's computers would explode trying to run it if they made the game look like this.
@@cnacmahe mean to actually fixed reforged instead of abandoning and trying to make it seems they actually do somthing other than editing stats like buffon
Would've been the biggest financial failure possible. They once presented some numbers on the cost of such animation. Would be the most expensive movie ever.
Or just more of the Diablo 4 cinematics instead of ingame animations... :(
It took me until Thrall showed up to realize this wasn't live action.
The wow cinema team is za goat
same
ITS REAL TO MEHHH!!!😂😂😂
Who said Thrall isn't real?
I've never played World of Warcraft... this makes me want to play World of Warcraft.
Blizzard just give us an animated movie already! We know you can make it.
With everything happening in the industry, I’m so glad that Blizzard’s cinematic team didn’t falter.
You are cringe and out of touch, your opinion doesn't represent WoW fans. Two people talking like philosophers... It's extremely bad and childish. Obviously nobody cares about Thrall's or Anduin's feelings and the views and likes are proof of this. Probably the worst cinematic in the history of World of Warcraft
Eh, Riot cinematics are better
@@CBRN-115lmfao that's undying bias right there
Blizzard's cinematic team isn't going undo the damage that they have suffered during the last year. They are ruining their franchises one by one, it's pathetic.
@@Papitoti sure pepe
Blizzard disappoints in many ways but cinematics is never one of them. Insane job by the team!
art team always carried this game
Dragonflight *cough*
just makes the lack of quality of the expansion even more painful
Idk was Anduin really going to run his blade through thrall? needlessly dramatic
@@bChurafulshadowlands, bfa big time
You almost have me wanting to play again with this cinematic. Well played.
Still watching.. everyday😍 I love WoW so much! please be here forever! I've been with you for 10 years
Whoever designed Anduin here, the look, the subtle details... wow....
They really like Stephen Amell’s look. Lol
WoW*
He looks much more mature. not like baby king no more.
No. Hes terrribly designed ROFL
He need to cut out the soy from his diet
No matter what else is going on with the game you can count on the cinematics. wow that was good.
The game, the company, there's just this one thing you can trust Blizz on. 🔥
@@Aszkalon cope
@@Aszkalonthere been many wow copies,none of them has ever lasted that very long the run against wow. Wow even has subscription and that says alot about our love to this game
What are you talking about Thrall and Anduin were crying like little girls the whole time, NOT EVEN SYLVANNAS CRIED THESE CHARACTERS ARE LITERALLY WORSE THEN THE WOMEN WHEN IT COMES TO CONTROLLING THEIR EMOTIONS
@@austinroderick7967 Who in Warcraft does even control their emotions? Every character except maybe the titan creations are super emotional and impulsive. MoP has more than one questchain stating that.
For those that remember the end of Shadowlands, Anduin was broken, and this Cinematic shows the struggle was still real. His biggest concern was that he would call the Light and it wouldn't answer. But this shows that the Light is calling him. Still broken and with the belief he is unworthy, the Light shines to show him that it still Trusts him.
It's not the Light calling him lol, it's Azeroth, Thrall hears the same voice and in game so does Jaina too. Anduin has no faith in himself or anything and thus the light has abandoned him.
So Anduin is basically Jessy from breaking bad
Man wish you guys did full length movies like this
They really dropped the ball with the movie franchise. They could have made billions from it.
The costs to do that would be astronomical. Just these couple minute videos take ages.
You are probably right, sadly@@Nydas
Ot would literally be many times more expensive than oppenheimer and barbie combined Thats why we dont get them...
@@NydasAvatar has entered the chat
The way Anduin grips his sword after each little speech is an amazing lifelike telll of someone under immense stress trying to hold it together
he's also holding it similar to how the Litch King Arthas did during the WoTLK cinematic.
He just did like Arthas seens like foreshadowing.
Also how thrall stabilizes his shaking sword by putting his chest to the tip of the swords blade to show him he actually trust him. It’s a small detail, but it’s a huge one!
@@ArantyrDarkhandnot foreshadowing. Its referencing when he was under the jailers control
@@ConnorNotyerbidness Well or foreshadow that still something there.
So basically azeroth is asking for help ... Again
Kinda, sorta. In the past "Azeroth" was the collective of the living beings on the planet that needed saving. Here, it's the soul of the planet Azeroth itself. The planet is waking up, and there are nefarious beings with motives that seek to control, manipulate and/or destroy her.
They captured some serious emotion in this video. Bravo!
This are the movies we need to see, this cinematics have always being movie worthy.
No we need wod style cinematics and not this.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
Anduin's theme hits different every single time. That melody just gets me man
Tears and shivers! Perfection!!!
Work of Art! Absolutely stunning!!!
It's okay Anduin, we have no idea what you did, we skipped Shadowlands!
😂
Facts
Yeah absolute truth.
what did he do tho?
@@kakussubrado8966 Exactly, we don't know!
Man seeing Thrall and Anduin together looks 100% believable and natural. This is amazing!
World of Warcraft : Emotional Baggage
E M O T I O N A L. D A M A G E
That moment where Thrall is just giving Anduin that cold blank stare.. Our Boy Thrall has literally seen so much and always helped people overcome their darkness. He’s seen so much of similar struggle.. Idk the way he just gave that cold blank look got me. Feels like if anyone understood how Anduin felt, I’d be Thrall. 😢
Thrall sees his own arc, he blamed himself for Garrosh’s war and he fled. Anduin does the same.
@@daltoncook209 oh boohoo, woe is me
personally would have wish thrall would have died instead of any other horde character.
Poor Taretha....
@@radensukiperish
Glad to see Anduin is now rocking the middle aged cut in his 20's
He's past 20's by now
He've seen stuff.
no longer the little boy indeed
Anduin went from Brad Pitt to Karl Urban
@@crystalclark1025 weird, for me he doesn't look anduin he look tottaly different model and character ? why they changed him ? and why he is aged so fast ?
This music man and the animation, absolutely incredible.
Been fan since Warcraft 1 and this is definitely one of my favorite Blizzard cinematics ever.
There is so much pain, so beautifully portrayed here. This cinematic is so tight compared to the others. There's no sweeping battles, or pomp and flash. This is an incredibly powerful way to reintroduce Anduin.
Boring.
@@Hello-no7gm yes you are
@@Hello-no7gmclown
these men are so tired of war
Beautiful cinematic. The art and sound team knocked it out of the park once again.
Anduin in this looks UNCANNILY similar to an IRL buddy of mine, me and my friends were unnerved by the resemblance.
WOW Realm Reborn
It's really impressive that they managed to find an actor who looks just like Anduin
😂
Even more impressive that they managed to find an actor that looks like Thrall
@@denxx56 Good ole, Ron Perlman
ROFL @@denxx56
The most impressive part is that they found an actor that looks just like Gorribal
Everything is in the Eyes.... and they nailed it. Simply Beautiful.
My king... the years have not been kind to you...
OMG, epic, such quality, both music and picture.
The acting for Anduin is spot on. The distress, guilt and grief he's feeling is excellently portrayed to the viewer. The shaking of the eyes, the head snap when Thrall touches him and the quivering of his voice, it's so authentic. This is on another level of excellence.
Crazy how it's CGI and not acting
@@dominicluptak8488 It's most definitely motion capture, so there is someone acting and the VFX artists based their renders on that performance. Nonetheless the quality is absolutely impeccable.
@@vincentfdrumsThey said somewhere in an interview there was no mocap on this. All handmade animations directed by Chris Metzen and the team he has.
@@VraulJawripif that’s the case, this cinematic is beyond awesome.
@@VraulJawripWarcraft cinematics like this are almost always godly fr
The Horde and the Alliance face their greatest foe yet.... Depression.
😭😭😭
It's relatable so it should be effective lol
We making out of the hole with this one boys
😂😭
Anyone else waiting for Anduin to say "You have failed this city?"
The graphics are oh so good. Absolutely stunning.
Chris Metzen really knows how to deliver an announcement
He has charisma
@@blackvialand took the inspiring leader feat too
He needs to know because the cinematic is very bad. I'm not talking about the graphics.
He wasnt even back until recently...
FYI He was creative advisor of Blizzard since 2022 already @@Pepegalord
Wasn't entirely sure if Anduin was CGI or not. So frickin good!
That lich king pose...
the sword of sargeras being seeing after 3 expansions:hey what´s up
Truly one of the most beautiful animated cinematics I've ever seen.
And there was no special effects and explosions
"You needed time. We stayed away. But time, by itself, heals nothing." Epic words!
But time heals all wounds!
I've been thinking about that quote all morning.
@@MasterofthewebOnly physical ones.
@@MasterofthewebThe Wundz! Champion!
Nah. Those are emotional and potentially swaying words. Epic lines would be something like "you are not prepared" or "we will never be slaves, but we will be conquerors" or " the whole of azeroth will break, all will burn beneath the shadow of my wing"
Can't wait to learn all the Lore
Love how these cinematic trailers maje me want to play it again .
The quality of this cinematic is INSANE. just WOW
It is WOW, good job!
@@shake9662 they never fail. ♥
@@LayllasLocker yeah this cinematic is the coolest one since WOTLK in my opinion
The music adds so much to this scene, it just drove home every emotion being potrayed for me.
No CGI sequence has ever looked more real than this. Fantastic job. This is serveral cuts above the actual Warcraft movie. Bravo.
Love how Thrall’s chest/heart steadies Anduin’s sword/hand.
CGI Anduin looks more real than some of the top shelf actors I've seen, that's wild. Amazing job!
Anduin being what Arthas could have been. Wonderful trailer!
Anduin never had Arthas level of problems or corrupted sword with ancient orc shaman. It is like compare very easy mode vs Hellhardcore that Arthas played.
Anduin looks like he is racing for pink slips with Toretto.
Loved the sword pose of Anduin which is almost identical to the Lich King before waking up Sindragosa, seen in the WOTLK trailer.
To me it looked more like that frame in BfA cinematic where Anduin orders his troops to charge.
Also the "my son"
This just blown up my mind so hard... Anduin to be the next lich king??
@@AdrianRuiz-wb5mo Whos gonna tell him?
Reused animations is something very common. Lowers the cost of production, you know.
Did you notice that Thrall when his out of focus, looks like young Thrall with his OG armour? It’s a nice detail
Good point
FOR THE ALLIANCE AND FOR THE HORDE!
Time to light the blunt and crank the video quality up to 4k. Anduin has always been my favorite Warcraft character (Priest main in Hearthstone and WoW). Let's gooooo
I've had the same idea just now and found the comment
The Arthas reference with the pose is incredible.
yeah it is but that is all they got, pulling the nostalgic string of WrathLK while butchering Arthas back in SL.
@@Dayz3O6 Arthas served his purpose, 25 anima is no small deal.
the incorporation of Anduin's Theme (one of my favorite songs in all of WoW, tbh) here was SO well done.