By Robert Scucci
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South Park’s “Make Love, Not Warcraft” was a critical favorite and fans immediately after its release, and even won an Emmy Primetime Emmy prize for an exceptional animation program in 2007. But behind the scenes, the creator of the Trey Parker series literally begged the worst thing he ever produced at the time.
In fact, Parker thought that “making love, not warcraft” was so bad that it would ruin South Park’s The heritage, and at the time said, “I lost it. I don’t know how to do that.”
Secondly behind “Scott Tenorman Must Die” on the IMDB user odds, “Make Love, Not Warcraft” is celebrated to date to be one of the best episodes in the series, which was a huge relief for Parker, which could not even sleep the day before the night to launch the series of the season of the season of season 10.
We cannot abandon the world… from Warcraft
“Make Love, not Warcraft” is a Southern park episode because Blizzard Entertainment, the company that produced the influential MMORPG, in fact helped with a substantial quantity of animation after being approached by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Given South Park’s The six -day production calendar, the animation of the 3D gameplay from zero would have been a monolithic company, but thanks to the will of Blizzard to help with the gameplay sequences, has become a possibility.
In fashion all hands on the bridge, Southern park The animators were able to import real conceptions of characters from World of Warcraft In their animation software and lips synchronize them with the dialogue they had recorded for the show.
What is even more impressive is the fact that gameplay in “Make Love, not Warcraft” was a real gameplay that was captured by Blizzard and Southern park Studios with Parker leading their movements. Parker described the whole process as making a live film, but instead of working with actors, he told the Blizzard employees where to walk on the cards so that he can install photos and perform the scenes as he had written them.
The animation process inspired the script
In the typical type Southern park Fashion, “Make Love, not Warcraft” was produced in a tight schedule, which often requires frequent rewritings as the episode begins to take shape. Curiously, the collaboration with Blizzard in fact helped Parker to finish the editorial staff of the episode because something unique happened by turning the gameplay scenes: someone burst into the private server that Blizzard had set up for the episode and began to kill their characters while they were trying to shoot scenes.
If you know the episode, this is actually a crucial plot, because Kyle, Kenny, Cartman and Stan find themselves in a similar situation after a continuous high rank grade to run and kill their characters when they try to make their way through various campaigns.
In fact, there is in fact a secret “touch of death” that high -ranking Blizzard employees could use with appropriate approvals to prevent such cases from happening, which led to the creation of the weapon in the episode, the sword of a thousand truths, which helped the boys (and Randy) to defeat the mourning of the queue killers once and for all so that they can finally play the game (Randy).
If in doubt, let him go
Although Trey Parker absolutely hated Make Love, not Warcraft “when the episode was almost finished, it was talked about the edge by Southern park The co-creator Matt Stone and the executive producer Anne Garefino, who know her creative process too much. As indicated in 6 days to be broadcast and countless other interviews, Trey Parker Admittedly, is too close to his own work and has trouble seeing qualities of redemption when production comes down to the wire and he must transform something into a network for dissemination.
South Park’s The production calendar obliges Parker, which is well known for criticizing his own work, to pass doubt because he simply has no time to question the creative process when a deadline is quickly approaching. Fortunately, he has the right people in his corner because if he was not encouraged to let him go and release his creations in the world, we would not be blessed with revolutionary episodes like “Make Love, not Warcraft”.
