not making the wings flap was a missed opportunity, but it still looks fire🔥

1:00 scared the shit out of me i thought my mouse broke

Taylor Swift flying to her next concert 12:11

5:31 "Even the tongue is rigged" _alowlwolwlo_

It's badass that they decided that this task was worth sponsorship, those dudes are definitely the nerdy type!

these animations make real life look like 8-bit rendering💀

Your version looks very eerie and captures impending doom. But the beauty of the original was that Deathwing was in constant agony, his body was being ripped apart constantly, so him flapping and kind of flailing clumsily through the world added another level to it. Literally like a bat out of hell. I dont think Deathwing would be gliding that serenely through the air.

9:00 You can just hear his rig screaming in agony haha

The final two shots of Deathwing flying over Stormwind are jaw-dropping.

Wow, it's hard to wrap my head around the physics simulation. The fact that you can preview it in real-time is just mind-blowing!

Oh man now I gotta log into my old wow account

The added vortices really drives home the realism which makes it way cooler. Beautiful touch

Polyfjord-this one hit levels of nostalgia that I didn’t even know existed. The curve, the lols.. this is a masterclass of content creation. Thank you for this 🙏🏻

Just imagining the amount of fuel used to produce the amount of smoke is humbling.

11:57 this shot is beautiful. Looks likes something straight out the house of dragon series.

I’ve been wanting to create more advanced sims with ember-gen, but I hit a dead end with my creativity. This video sparked my creativity again. 🙏Thank you!

embergen is just magic, being able to do real time simulations with such quality is insane

Your skill level is INSANE, honestly you´re a awesome! Everytime I watch one of your videos my mind is blown :D great work!

This makes me want a ton of How to Train Your Dragon sequences, specifically involving the Monstrous Nightmare (I think this simulation would make that dragon pop immensely) and then unrelated to EmberFX, I'd love to see some electricity sims/anims with Toothless

In warhammer 40k universe you could go really wild with this quiality. Really good job!!!

Just wanted to saay. I got into Blender during Covid for a bit, had a break for 3 years and picking it up again and feel confident following your tuts. You were the reason I found Blender. No idea how, I just came aross some of your amazing work. Sound,Animation,Modelling,Tutorials. All amazing and thank you for creating the inspirational stuff you do.

This is very cool. You asked for suggestions, I think a werewolf transformation would be cool. Also I know you have already done a transformation but a full vehicle transformation would be very nice, I think there are transformer games.

still one of my favorite shot cines. wow has been one of the reasons I got into CG, and seeing this now here is insane! great video

Love that you can hear the fan's spool in the background when he's working in ember.

Ember Gen is so insanely cool and capable of the things ot does, it is mind boggling. I am currently working on my job expanding to animation and 3D simulation (I am currently a creative writer) via all the things I learned in the past 2 years from channels like you, and then I will finally be able to experiment around with the full version of the entire JangaFX roster via the work subscription. Truly, thank you very very much for all the work you put into your videos and the level and quality of explanation you give. It literally helped me change my life towards more and more creativity. Next stop - my own game (in another few years).

WOW this is amazing

This video is so inspiring. Thank you for what you do

Polyfjord just changing the blender community dynamics with his unique incredible ideas Love you poly ❤❤

Something with Star Trek would be cool

I think having the wings flap a couple times and increasing the wind movements could have brought this up a level. Still looks sick even if it does look kinda stationary

That smoke is insane, the fire is aight.

Holy smokes 11:56 that is probably the most badd ass anything I've ever seen of a dragon ever even compared to movies, that gives that sense of force of power, it reminds me the scene of the balrog on the bridge

Okay I recognized DW but I spit out my coffee when you mentioned HoTs, I have fond memories of playing that game with my siblings and it’s so cool to hear it brought up by my favorite Blender artist 🥹

Wow! This video was so interesting and i wish i knew how to do what this guy does and play around with adding ember gen to weapons to give new affects! The deathwing model w/ effects is EPIC!

Never knew I wanted to play wow with one of my favorite KZfaqrs

Amazing video man, I reaaaally have to try all the jangafx stuff WOW! Thank you for the video !

I love that the Best WoW related stuff is not from everyone but Blizzard Nowadays

The heroes of the storm model feels so much smoother... blizzard missed so much opportunity when they finally released deathwing. This made my day to see and so refreshing ❤

Dude, I love how you love doing this stuff!

embergen is such a phenomenal piece of shoftware. We getting liquigen soon and i'm hyped.

Dang this looks awesome, would love to see what you can render from Helldivers 2 they have quite a few explosions :)

I got very excited if I see something like this in the game

You should do something Star Wars related. I always love seeing epic lightsaber and blaster battles, especially when there's smoke or fog involved.

I know most animators for dragons use bats as reference, maybe you could find a bat wing flap animation and apply it, exaggerate the movements out a bit, slowing at all the points where direction changes to increase the weight of the animation. I think it would be amazing to have a really dynamic shot like the original where you include the wind vortex as deathwing spreads out into a glide after flapping to get over a mountain. It would also be cool to see death wing perched on an actively exploding volcano, before roaring and taking flight. Also the movie Reign of Fire has some fantastic dragon animation reference, specifically you could look at the fight near the end. If you search "reign of fire run like the wind" you will find the scene I'm talking about but there is an excellent shot of the dragon with a bunch of smoke all over it flapping it way towards camera, some other great shots of the dragon flying around in that scene too.

Thank you so much for awesome ideas and thanks embergen

Damn EmberGen does look amazing. They need to get this kind of fluid simulation into Unreal5, especially for water, as UE has good fluid sim for volumetric effects allready.

Embergen is definitely a game changer, waiting for the day they officially release liquigen. Would love to see you cover more WoW videos, I tried recreating one of the Warcraft3 trailers and it nearly cooked my laptop.

i'd love to see you re-animate an airbender, firebender, waterbender, and earthbender from avatar the last airbender... see a side by side of the four elements bending... that would be kind of cool...

I think if you had increased the dragons speed the wings not flapping would not have looked weird, also in the night shot the smoke should have been darker I guess

It looks like a jet from far away but still good

Flapping wings is what makes the original trailer look insane, hopefully you can attempt it in the future.

Say what you want about the business end of Blizz, but the art department just blows my mind every expansion. Even vanilla WoW's trailer was ahead of its time for the time and still holds up so well today.

11:56, I really love this scene. The colors just work perfectly with eachother and the subtle lighting coming from the dragon make such a cool effect! Please take inspiration from Subnautica. Really loved the mechanical squid video!

Wow.. (no pun intended) This is absolutely amazing, that you can do this sort of thing EVEN better then the original, becuase of advancements in technology! I've played WoW since it came out in 2004, and I remember I was in AWE when the original intro scene was done, and played. It was mind blowing, considering what was considered 'normal' at the time. I remember reading that it took an entire render farm months to compile that scene, and it's barely 5 minutes long. Now, a single computer can utterly trash that time, what a time to be alive!

when I tried to make this on my old laptop, it was so good that I could even smell the fire!

like that though process and all discoveries through it. thx for sharing 🧡

That was flipping amazing!

the wings moving so flatly is so uncanny especially with it flying so slowly

I love the sense of megalophobia that seeing Deathwing fly overhead gives in your animation. Like your world is being eclipsed by this cataclysm level monster.

This made me think of the old 3D Mark 2001. ("Game 2" in the benchmark, Dragothic, is a dragon flying and spewing fire) You could remake the "Game 3" scene Lobby (The matrix). See how good destruction, smoke, movement you can make now, vs then. At least the destruction could be fun.

Yeah a new video! Your great work always teaches me something new, keep up the good work and thank you

tbh i didint expect this video, and its amazing

the HOTS model looks so goofy standing, but how you made it fly... dayum

The final product almost looks like actual found footage of the Cataclysm. Good job on it!

totally fantastic. unqualified opinion. wings flapping and the fire surging with it woulda been wild

I love how you can hear Poly's PC fans trying so hard to cool down his pc

Infinite supply of gasoline to the wings of the dragon.

The fire actually didn't hit for me, but man oh man those smoke effects were next level awesome, great job

6:54 "Let's FIRE up EmberGen" I see what you did there 😁

I'm a HOTS player and you just blew my mind dude wtf 🧡 I think the fire parts should have some noise variation so it doesnt look like too uniform

I really love that you didn't try to recreate the original but looked at what planes do to air and mimic this behavior. The fire part seems a bit too smooth tho. I checked on youtube there is actual footage of plane engines catching fire and there is a lot of turbulence and detail going on in the fire. I would love to see this in your render too.

that has so much potential omg

5:33 best moment, we need polyfjord out of context

That is badass mate, damnnn!

that looks amazing!

that turned out amazing

dude you gotta do more video game cinematic stuff! This was amazing!!

This is so satysfyig to watch! :O

im stoked you took wingtip vortex into account

Amazing. Only thing to improve would be the wings flapping like the original. I am very impressed.

pretty cool video. wish i learned something like this xD

Absolutely incredible job, my only gripe is that the fire from his wings look a bit like the wings are spewing out fire, like a fire breath, as opposed to being on fire which was what the original seemed like. I may be wrong there, but something I definitely noticed.

Can you create a harry potter based visual effect?? Unbelievably amazing video by the way!!

your very cool with robots, plzz make some video on Transformers

THE EYES!!!!! they are literal fire

So cool .. I am looking forward to seeing what you do with the new aesthetics of the DUNE movies

First, this was amazing and it's really cool to see you using all of these tools to create something interesting. Definitely awesome work. However, the fire looked more like a jet engine, and the sense of scale of flames wasn't really there. In the original, it 'feels' more like lots of small explosions, that behave in a chaotic and more 'fiery' way. Whereas your final, yeah, feels like a very large, controlled booster rocket.

Absolutely cool and nice work ! I used to tinker some 3D animation stuff like 10-14 years ago on WoW, and i'm amazed at how it's easy to extract and animate stuff now compared to the old day ( you had to rig everything yourself back in the day ), and it took literaly hours to render it. Cuda wasn't really something, and it was a pain even with a gtx980 lol. What you can try is to model and animate is the wake of Sindragosa by the Lich King, like in the WOTLK trailer !

Talking of franchises, i suggest exploring the Xenomorph /Aliens franchise 😁

love the editing in this video

Oh my god...! So good!

I,m watching you from Egypt you are the best ❤

The scene from Independence Day 1, where the spaceship comes out of the burning cloud for the first time, might be an idea

Yeah, my friend who introduced me to HotS is a deathwing main, and he only referred to him as “the big death kitty” because he thought deathwing moved like an angry cat XD

THIS LOOKS SO EPICCC

awesome skill and amazing result

Just amazing!!!

It actually looks like a plane that is crushing down in heavy smokes

Jetwing be looking nice today!

Wow, this is awesome