Hello again everyone. About a month ago, due to a mistake on Vimeo's part, the original posting of BLIND was removed and even my account got deleted. Vimeo has apologized so everythings fine now, sort of. Unfortunately the account couldn't be restored to its original state. All of the comments, links, number of plays, and such were all lost. I apologize to anyone inconvenienced.

It's a real shame because there were over 1,000 comments lost and dozens of sites linking the original video. BLIND can be viewed elsewhere but I favored Vimeo because they track plays per day. The first day of release it got 457 plays on Vimeo. The next day it got 25,400 plays! The third day it got 248,000 plays! Ending up with over 1.6 million plays before deletion. I'm kind of proud of those numbers. Not bad for an unknown guy posting his first video online.

Just to be clear so BLIND isn't mistakenly deleted again, BLIND is not a gameplay video. It's a rendered animation that's similar to many CG films and television shows. The animations were made by me in a 3D application. I used game assets so I guess you could refer to it as a machinima in that sense.

Most likely few people will watch BLIND here since the old link went dead but I'm reposting in case someone comes back.
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update November 1, 2009

Hey everyone, I thought I'd give an update since I still get plenty of people asking about future videos. Currently I don't have any plans to continue with The Craft of War. I've been delaying letting people know this because I didn't want to disappoint. I had thought people would forget about BLIND after a while but there seems to be a steady stream of new WoW players that see the video and ask about a continuation. Why won't I continue? It has to do with me being laid off from work earlier this year. I had to focus on finding a job so I quit WoW because, I'm sure you would agree, playing WoW takes up a lot of time, lol. Since my forced break from WoW I've lost my interest in playing although I still visit the WoW blogs and am still part of the officers mailing list for my guild. Maybe I'll find something that'll motivate me to play again. :) I think I'd have to start playing again in order to be motivated to make more The Craft of War videos.

Even though I may not continue with TCoW I still plan on making more animated videos. Instead of being based on WoW I have some original concepts that I think will be totally awesome. Also, if you want to see more of my work you'll have to pick up future id Software games as I'll have a hand in their development. :) I won't mention my past work because I continue to improve. My past animations won't compare to my future stuff. Also, why should I mention games for a company that laid me off?! AM I RIGHT?!?! LOL!

Thanks,
Percula
percula.craft@live.com

credits:
song "Hide and Seek" by Namie Amuro
World of Warcraft models, music, sounds by Blizzard Entertainment
story, animations, editing, choreography by Percula