Run Orc Run - BlizzCon 2016 Movie Contest Entry

Run Orc Run is a short animation I submitted to the BlizzCon 2016 Movie Contest, it’s a simple story about an Orc who steals a precious Night Elven artifact and attempts to escape through the Ashenvale forest, with Night Elf rangers hot on his heels. I spent about 2 months on this project, in the evenings and weekends and any spare time I could spare, just so I could meet the deadline for the contest. However, there’s been no news about winners, and with a week until the con I have to assume this entry didn’t win :( Hat’s off to the real winners though :) All the models and characters from this animation were taken from the game World of Warcraft and exported using the WowModelViewer, a fantastic piece of software that allows you to see all the assets that the talented artists have created. I then imported those models into Maya and tweaked, textured, rigged, animated, lit, and rendered them, before sending those finished images into After Effects for compositing. The m