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dwarves, fanvid, hobbit trailer, lotro, misty mountains cold, mmorpg, richard armitage, roleplay, song, thorin, video
When two of my obsessions collide (Lord of the Rings Online + Richard Armitage’s voice) this is what happens; my own visual interpretation of the song from the Hobbit trailer. Please watch in 720 HD!
After indulging in a few screencap comparisons, I realized it would not be that hard to make a video (maybe just a tiny bit hard, but far more fun than most creative things I’ve done).
If you just happened upon this and wondered “What the heck?” then these posts, Adventures in Dwarf Appreciation and Freryn as Thorin, will fill you in. The clips were captured by recording locations within the game using FRAPS, and then edited in Corel VideoStudio Pro. This is my first gaming video, so I figured a short song was a good place to start, even though I was dying to add clips of trolls, and Mirkwood spiders, but the lyrics did not call for it. Maybe another time!
bccmee said:
Very cool idea! Congratulations on your creative fanvideo. 🙂
DarkJackal said:
Thank you much! I’ve only done three fanvids before (and they were all a pain in the ass to get as I wanted, and it’s why I’ve only done three). It was a fun change to go “film” the clips myself. Felt like a mini Peter Jackson for a few moments. And then I woke up! 🙂
Mulubinba said:
I like it! I’ve just read the two other posts about Freryn and I think I could be tempted to have a go at LOTRO … except I would probably spend too much time on the computer.
DarkJackal said:
It’s as addictive as smoking, or cocaine! I’m almost not kidding. Unless you decide you really don’t like it, then you will spend a lot of time on it once you start.
Macfeast said:
Nice one, well done! I have actually been working on a similar thing myself for an earlier segment of the trailer, namely Gandalf introducing the dwarves. As it turned out, my Thorin was remarkably similar to yours; I’m actually a little scared now that mine will come across as a rip-off of yours😛
DarkJackal said:
Great minds…as they say🙂. If I had more character slots I would try to make more dwarves, but aside from Gloin, it looked hard to recreate most of the others. I look forward to watching your video. Drop me a note to let me know when you post it.
Macfeast said:
Just finished it; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tghj-mIhE
Some dwarves were noticeably easier than others, I will put it that way. I found Thorin to be one of the easiest, along with Balin and Dori. For others, I had to resort to some other methods; Taking advantage of a bug that makes facial hair disappear to pull of Kili, as an example. In fact, some of them would probably have been easier had I made them humans (Bombur and his mutton-chops, for one), but I ended up doing them all as dwarves in the end.
Big fan of the blog, by the way; Have followed it for a while now, but never commented until now.
DarkJackal said:
I love it to death!! That was a lot of work getting all of those dwarves and costumes as close as possible! Gloin in the cobwebs, freckle faced Oin, and Bifur…well it just is him! And your Thorin stops my heart just a wee bit (seriously what is wrong with me??, I might as well grow a beard and become a dwarf groupie!) I hope you don’t mind if I make a post about it, because I’m going to!
Gratiana Lovelace said:
Wow, Darkjackal!
This is an amazing video animation! The backgrounds were incredibly detailed. Watching it in 1080 is definitely a plus!
I’ll add your video to my Hobbit resources links for others to enjoy.
Cheers! Grati ;->
DarkJackal said:
Thank you! The look of this world is what keeps me coming back to the game, long after I’ve reached the highest level, and done all the quests I can stand.
If you link to the video itself just note that I actually re-uploaded it in a new aspect ratio that works better with the youtube player, so the highest res is now 720. I’m still new to the whole video world.
The Starry Mantle said:
I love it, great job!😀
DarkJackal said:
Thank you!
grendel's mum said:
I like it! Hope you don’t mind my posting this fab video on my blog?
Thanks for sharing!
DarkJackal said:
Certainty. Thanks for watching!
Devonna said:
This is amazing! I loved it
DarkJackal said:
Glad you enjoyed it!
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JasRangoon said:
Love this! I’m so impressed by your music video.🙂
DarkJackal said:
Thanks. It was massive fun to do.
preludeinz said:
Seriously wonderful. I loved recognizing the places your shots came from, it was all beautifully realized. Especially loved the Fire Drake from the Nurz Ghashu as Smaug.
DarkJackal said:
Thank you! I must have gone through the Nurz Ghashu skirmish 20 times before the drake appeared. I used to get that encounter all the time, but the minute I wanted to film it, it went on holiday! The fly-over shot was worth it though!
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saraleee said:
Wow! I loved your video–it’s terrific! The dragon was awesome, and all the details are great.
DarkJackal said:
Thanks! I’m smitten with those details! I’m so much more visual than textual.
Adrian Tan said:
Brilliantly done mate, brilliantly done! And I must say, everytime the song plays, I get goosebumps. December cannot come soon enough. =)
DarkJackal said:
We only have 9 months to go! Thanks for watching!
mwin said:
Very good job!
DarkJackal said:
Thanks!