WoW Machinima Renaissance

I don’t know if it’s just something I’m noticing just because I started making machinima videos thus have been getting fed more wow machinima content by the algorithm or if there’s a genuine renaissance in WoW machinima as an artform.

It really feels like the artform has expanded a lot since 2008 when we kinda had peak-wow machinima. I’m seeing more variety in the ways the artform is being explored than I recall back in the day.

I don’t know if it’s just the algorithm eating its own tail or there genuinely is a wow machinima renaissance going on. It might end up spawning an online wow machinima maker’s community.

Back in my day it would have been an angelfire webpage. I think theres tumblrs and discords and discblrs these days. There’d be a little animated anime gnome at the bottom hitch-hiking while holding a sign that read “WoW Machinima Turnpike”. And the Pook would be like, that’s a pretty sweet .gif and yeah I promouned it .gif and I don’t care what anyone says.

And then there was a day when you went to that angelfire webpage and it wasn’t there anymore. And then you were like, damn I wish I saved that sweet .gif

Damn, now the Pook has a sad.

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I’ve noticed it too. Gorak’s guide is some of the best stuff out there and most of it came out very recently (in relation to WoW’s lifetime).

Arthas Arrives (Animated Short)

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Back at the 2008 peak most of the machinima was either short and meme-ish or music or parody videos. Now you’ve got all that but also longer, film/tv styled machinimas, documentary machinimas, non-vocal story telling machinimas, group RP machinimas, e-sport machinimas there’s just such a huge variety.