Avatar Days gets it right. I think this is a great short film that “listens” to the players of World of Warcraft. The film was the winner of the 2009 Rushes Soho Shorts festival’s documentary category, and is now being released to the public after the completion of that year’s circuit.
Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ’4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities. Advanced 3D technologies and Motion Capture animation were used to insert the players’ in-game characters in place of their real selves against the backdrop of the banal urban landscape which they inhabit.
Avatar Days from Piranha Bar on Vimeo.
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