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South Park “Make Love, Not Warcraft” was very popular and fan’s favorite immediately after release, and even won the Emmy Award during peak hours for an outstanding animated program in 2007.
In fact Parker thought that “making love, not warcraft” is so bad as it would ruin South Park Legacy, and at the time he said, “I have lost it. I don’t know how to do this anymore.”
Secondly to “Scott tenorman must die” on the IMDB user score, “Make Love, Not Warcraft” is still celebrated for being one of the best chapters in the series, which was a huge relief for Parker, that he could not even sleep the night before he went on the air because he was so anxious for giving so much less than a season.
We can’t give up the world … from Warcraft
“Making love, not warcraft” is unique South Park Episode because Blizzard Entertainment, the company that produced the influential MMORPG, helped with a significant amount of the animation after approaching by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Would be given South Park A six -day production schedule, animate the 3D gameplay from scratch would have been a monolithic undertaking, but thanks to Blizzard’s willingness to help with the gameplay sequences, it became a possibility.
In an all-hand-on-deck manner, South Park Animators were able to import real character designs from Warcraft world into their animation and lip software sync them with the dialogue they had recorded for the show.
What is even more impressive is the fact that the gameplay is “Make Love, Not Warcraft” an actual gameplay that was captured by Blizzard and South Park Studios with Parker directing their movements. Parker described the whole process as directing a live film, but instead of working with actors he told Blizzard workers where to walk on the maps so he could set up shots and execute the scenes as he had written.
Inspired the animation process of the script
In the typical South Park Fashion, “Make Love, Not Warcraft” was produced under a tight schedule, which often requires frequent rewrite as the chapter begins to take shape. Fortunately, the collaboration with Blizzard helped Parker finish writing the episode because something unique had happened while shooting the gameplay scenes: someone broke into the private server Blizzard had set up for the episode, and started killing their characters while they were trying to shoot scenes.
If you are familiar with the episode, this is actually a vital plot point, as Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, and Stan find themselves in a similar position after a high status Griefer still runs around and killed their characters when they try to work their way through various campaigns.
As it happens, there is in fact a confidential “touch of death” that high status Blizzard employees could use with appropriate approvals to prevent such cases from occurring, which led to the creation of the in-chapter weapon, a thousand truths sword, which helped the (and randy) boys to defeat the slaughter-slaughter Griefer they could finally and capable.
When you’re not sure, just let it go
Although Trey Parker completely hated “Make Love, Not Warcraft” when the episode was almost complete, he was spoken off the shelf South Park Co-creator Matt Stone and executive producer Anne beguno, who is far too familiar with his creative process. As stated in 6 days to sky and other di -i -i interviews, Trey Parker Admittedly, it gets too close to his own work and struggles to see any redemption qualities when the production comes down to the wire and has to turn something in the network for broadcasting.
South Park The production schedule forces Parker, well known that he criticizes his own work, to push by doubt because it has no time to question the creative process when a deadline is fast approaching. Thankfully, he has the right people in his corner because if he was not encouraged to let him go and release his creations to the world, we would not be blessed with innovative chapters such as “Make Love, Not Warcraft.”
