If you haven’t heard of Clint Hackleman’s Myndflame yet, it’s about time you did. Primarily a WoW video production team, their top-notch editing skills really need to be seen to be believed — and even then, it might be a little difficult to accept just how good they are.
Illegal Danish is known as their best known and longest-running series, having lasted and held a healthy fan-following since 2006. It initially started out as Zinwrath: The Movie, but Illegal Danish has snowballed into its own totally hilarious soon-to-be three part series.
And I do mean “series” — Illegal Danish: Super Snacks clocks at over 20 minutes, and its sequel Illegal Danish 2: Escape from Orgrimmar is over 24 minutes long.
To really understand what’s going on watch Zinwrath first and then Super Snacks followed by Escape, they are totally worth your combined 50 minutes of watch time. Watching them in order not only makes it easier to understand (I accidentally watched them in reverse, actually), but it really shows how their editing skills have progressed over the years.
The upcoming movie in the series, Illegal Danish 3: The Ballad of Dirti G, looks like it is going to take everything from the first two and multiply it tenfold. Myndflame outlines the plot below:
Van Kraken has created his ultimate brew, the flask of ten thousand souls. The flask is so powerful that only by combining it with the power of the Illegal Danish can it be consumed without fear of death. Even coming into contact with a single drop could be fatal, so Van Kraken forces the remaining residents within the corrupt city of Gnomeregan to help him build a device capable of containing its power. While evaluating the device he realizes that it’s been designed only for a gnome, and with his enemies closing in and relations wearing thin with his allies he must quickly find a susceptible gnome to harness the power and lead his army of Kraken Knights.
It sounds a lot more serious than it will most likely be, but the trailer for Illegal Danish 3 really is serious business. Seriously awesome business.
The trailer is a total mock up of the Starcraft 2 trailer with the Marine getting suited up. And it really, quite seriously, is the best WoW character model and doodad manipulation and editing I’ve ever seen. Anyone unaware of the source would swear Blizzard made it themselves for the laughs.
The original Illegal Danish 3: The Ballad of Dirti G trailer can be seen right here, but to really grasp how well it’s done you need to watch the side-by-side version that shows the Starcraft 2 trailer and the Illegal Danish 3version running at the same time. Identical in all aspects but models and the final line. Truly professionally done.
If you haven’t seen the Illegal Danish series yet, now is the time to do it and get hyped over the third movie, because it’s going to be big once it hits. Really big.
Here is the sequence you should watch it in:
Zinwrath:
Super Snacks:
Escape from Orgrimmar: