[Cinematic] Shakespeare in Warcraft

[StefanH2068]

I was thinking of making a cinematic viewable by 12 players; this cinematic would be a production of William Shakespeare's Romeo&Juliet.

The map itself would be very small in area, 32x32 or 64x64, as it would all take place in a theater, with the players' cameras never moving from their fixed position.

Map would obviously take place in all cinematic mode, with a Lordaeron Summer sky, no fog, time fixed at noon, and rays of sunlight. This would be to simulate the conditions of a Shakespearean theater; all plays had to be performed during the day so the actors and audience could see. There would also be no props on the set, to make it even more like an Elizabethan production.

I would like some feedback and/or help on this idea, which is why I decided to post this. I do not think that anyone has ever decided to make a map specifically to put on Shakespearean plays before in Warcraft III.

 

[Amigurumi]

this sounds interesting. I've never seen before such a cinematic, but it has it's cons:

• camera doesn't change, which can be boring after some minutes
• the background is always an image, no living in it
• animations. You have to do hundreds of animation for a unit, to make the cinematic alive

there are more, but it would be definatly an original work (except for romeo&julliet )

 

[StefanH2068]

I'm going to make sure to have many moving people and varied models, with many music changes.
Background in progress.

 

[wereguy2]

Wouldn't work... Shakespeare involves more than just dialogue. Hand gestures etc, not to mention the voice acting...

 

[Amigurumi]

animations. You have to do hundreds of animation for a unit, to make the cinematic alive

like I said, you have to make hundreds of animations for your models, and this will take a few years, if you aren't a good animator.
you have to do for each scene new animations. so it's kinda hard, but it's possible.

 

[CMarket]

Not completely impossible, but not worth the trouble in my opinion. As was mentioned, you would need a lot of animations, and besides that you would need to put in a great amount of effort in order to make up for the lack of camera movement, environment change, terrain... You'd be better off trying to recreate a movie.

 

[Hemlock]

Additionally, Cinematics do not cope that well with multiplayerness, it is possible and a few people have tried, but you get allot to deal with latencies, which is very annoying for correct timming, speach etc.

 

[uberfoop]

Ick. Creating a decent shakespearean-theatre visual in wc3 would be nigh impossible; as a result, the finished product would be little more than shakespear's words pasted onto a screen at a rate dictated by someone else.


There is a reason that, when humanity got its hands on a manipulable camera and an editing room, they made use of it; the 2-d medium demands it.