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by Dwarmir on Jul 19, 2010 at 04:39 PM
This guy literally recreated lotro with his own animations. Must have taken months!
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Nutjob
Is it wrong that I found the blue lady a bit sexy?
Ceol
not if you are really a smurf
Gehlthir
hmm.....well not entirely sure about his claim, if indeed that is his claim. Do you have the original link please Dwar?

My instinct and experience tells me that for one person to have recreated all that content would have taken years not months; when you consider all the models of scenery, characters and incidental props, all the accompanying textures exactly mimicking those in-game, plus all the animations which also exactly copy the motions in-game. On top of that all the precisely copied combat and other effects...lighting etc...simply too good to be true I think. What it looks like to me is that he has very cleverly, and with the aid of his in-game associates, scripted and acted out some scenes and where the effects don't occur in game then he has added those in post-production. This in itself is worthy of merit and the piece itself, however he achieved it, is certainly very well done indeed and I'll bet he's after a job at CM

Anyway just my 2 cents (or maybe a whole dollar) worth
Gehlthir
Ah ok....found the link and looked at 2 of the 'making of' movies - I was correct as it turns out. What he did was use existing stock models where he needed unique movements and tracked in various things to existing captured in-game stuff. Nice work - I wonder when he finds the time to work AND play AND do this stuff on the side......nuff respect!!
Dwarmir
The guy uploaded a trailer for this about 4 months ago...so let's say it took him about 5 months including that trailer...which is a whole lot of work, but not years
Gehlthir
yeah totally - a LOT of work and a great result........watch this space