{"id":1017506,"date":"2026-01-12T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=471239"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:19:46","slug":"how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"How Netflix\u2019s Remarkable Life of Ibelin pulled off its World of Warcraft scenes without Blizzard\u2019s knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two World of Warcraft characters, a human man and woman wearing mostly black, sit next to each other in a forest in an animated sequence in the doThe Remarkable Life of Ibelin\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge.png\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\"><em>The Remarkable Life of Ibelin<\/em>, now streaming on Netflix, is one movie nested inside another. The outer movie is a sensitive, moving documentary about Mats Steen, a Norwegian <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>player who died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25. Within that is a more humorous, colorful, but still deeply felt animated movie capturing the adventures, friendships, crushes, and guild drama Steen experienced online with his character Ibelin \u2014 a rakish, mustachioed ladies\u2019 man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The animation, rendered using authentic in-game <em>WoW <\/em>models, is more than just a gimmick. As Steen\u2019s condition and its attendant mental health challenges pushed him to retreat from the real world, his life within <em>WoW <\/em>and his role-playing guild, Starlight, became the core of his existence \u2014 something his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/disability-47064773\">parents discovered only after his death<\/a>. The contrast between these richly animated sequences and the home video of Mats sitting nearly immobile at his computer is simultaneously heartrending and uplifting. The animation is the only way to capture the totality of his life: The movie explores how the virtual setting let him experience physical freedom, romantic connections, and a deep sense of community he wasn\u2019t able to enjoy in the real world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe title=\"The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Official Trailer | Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lM_hkJ0Rl-c?rel=0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Watching <em>Ibelin<\/em>, I assumed <em>WoW<\/em> developer Blizzard must somehow have been involved in its making \u2014 the quality of the animation is so high, and it\u2019s so authentic to the game\u2019s world. But director Benjamin Ree and animator Rasmus Tukia told me they actually put off contacting Blizzard until their film was nearly finished. Ree and producer Ingvil Giske had been working on the film for three years before they reached out to the game studio at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cWe wrote them an email saying that <em>we\u2019re a small Norwegian production company, we made this film<\/em>,\u201d said Ree, laughing. \u201c<em>Can we use your IP, your world, for free and without any involvement from you?<\/em>\u201d Ree said Giske called this doing things \u201cthe Norwegian way\u201d \u2014 \u201cWe just took the rights and tried to ask for forgiveness afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Blizzard invited the filmmakers to its offices in California for a high-stakes screening. Giske was relaxed, but Ree, who calls himself \u201cvery neurotic,\u201d took extra doses of asthma medication \u201cin order to breathe\u201d before the meeting. He needn\u2019t have worried. \u201cWe showed them the film and then one of the bosses turned around to us, and he was crying. He said, \u2018It\u2019s a fantastic film and you will get the rights to use<strong> <\/strong>[whatever you need].\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tukia had been nervous, too, although he knew from experience that Blizzard is surprisingly liberal compared to some other companies when it comes to use of its assets. He\u2019s a member of <em>WoW<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/rgufaf\/i_really_miss_the_old_world_of_warcraft_youtube\/\">machinima<\/a> fan animation community, which Blizzard has traditionally supported. \u201cThey\u2019ve always been supportive of us, of anyone using their assets, and that extends to their music as well,\u201d he said. \u201cThey won\u2019t come with these copyright infringement [takedowns] or whatever, because I think in the end it kind of helps them promote their game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tukia started playing <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>in 2005, when he was 12, and not long after, he was using the game to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3jXXeltwkY\">simple animated videos<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PivotalYT\">his YouTube channel<\/a>. Around 2015, he discovered the software the community created to export the assets they want to use from the game files to use in animation programs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/maya\/overview\">Maya<\/a>. The quality of Tukia\u2019s output suddenly leveled up; he went from making crude faux music videos to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QtbqI80SzCA\">slickly edited, character-driven short stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge.jpg\" alt=\"A standing male World of Warcraft character with a blonde ponytail and mustache offers a bouquet of purple flowers to a female character with a black ponytail who\u2019s sitting on a split-rail fence in a forest in Netflix\u2019s documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin\" title=\"A standing male World of Warcraft character with a blonde ponytail and mustache offers a bouquet of purple flowers to a female character with a black ponytail who\u2019s sitting on a split-rail fence in a forest in Netflix\u2019s documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Netflix\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ree found those videos when he was researching ways to visualize Steen\u2019s online life. He had an amazing resource to work from: Starlight provided Steen\u2019s family with 42,000 pages of role-playing logs, character diaries, forum posts, and out-of-character chat logs, illustrating the relationships Steen had built as part of his extensive online fantasy life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ree knew this archive held a universal story, and he just needed an accessible way to tell it. \u201cI saw it was almost like a coming-of-age story there, and I could recognize a lot of the things Mats had experienced through Ibelin inside of <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cMy goal was that my 94-year-old grandmother would feel included into this world, but at the same time [we would] make a representation of the game that [<em>WoW<\/em> players] would feel was representative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The humorous, sometimes sentimental tone of Tukia\u2019s videos and his fondness for expressive close-ups on characters\u2019 faces were just right. \u201cWe thought that his YouTube channel was amazing. It felt very truthful to the game,\u201d Ree said. He journeyed from Norway to Tukia\u2019s native Sweden, expecting to meet at the offices of a small animation company. Instead, he found himself at Tukia\u2019s parents\u2019 house, pitching the film over a dinner of Tukia\u2019s mother\u2019s lasagna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI was very moved, and it didn\u2019t take a lot of convincing for me to join,\u201d Tukia remembered. \u201cThe fact that they wanted me to have my hands [on] animating someone\u2019s life [\u2026] I mean, the world is fictional, but the settings and the people there are very much real. So I just found it such an honor to get the role of animating real people, based on real events. I took that very seriously. I really didn\u2019t want to misrepresent anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"Ibelin and Mats Steen.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A large proportion of <em>The Remarkable Life of Ibelin<\/em>\u2019s run time is animated, but Tukia worked mostly alone, animating all the key characters, doing the camera work, and editing his segments; two other YouTubers helped out with background characters, rigging, and rendering. (According to Ree, the only help Blizzard provided was to supply a leveled-up character so the team could capture some actual in-game footage to use alongside the animation.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tukia resisted the temptation to apply too much gloss to the <em>WoW<\/em> world in developing his own animation. \u201cI mean, the whole movie is about authenticity, in the end,\u201d he said. \u201cWe could have gone the way of just enhancing, making the lighting look super good, and all the textures we could have uprezzed, but it wouldn\u2019t really have felt authentic to the material. We really just wanted it not to look like a movie, but like a game <em>represented<\/em> as a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Authenticity to <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>was one concern, but it was even more important that the animation would be truthful to Steen\u2019s and his guildmates\u2019 storytelling, and their self-expressions within the game. Fortunately, their text role-playing was highly specific and illustrative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cWhat\u2019s fascinating about their kind of role-play is that they write such detailed descriptions, also about actions and character emotions,\u201d Ree said. \u201cSo Mats would write for Ibelin, like, \u2018Ibelin seems sincere yet saddened.\u2019 And this gave us a lot of possibilities to creatively interpret that writing, that role-play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The filmmakers consulted with Starlight\u2019s members throughout, so they were confident they would get the guild\u2019s approval when they finally screened the film for them. \u201cThey had one comment that they felt was a mistake, and that was that a lot of the women Ibelin was interested in, they usually wore more\u2026 leathery clothes,\u201d he laughed. \u201cSo after that feedback, we went back again and we changed some of the clothes to the female characters to give them more leather. After that, we locked the edit.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge-2.png\" alt=\"A group of World of Warcraft characters sit around an inn table in The Remarkable Life of Ibelin\" title=\"A group of World of Warcraft characters sit around an inn table in The Remarkable Life of Ibelin\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tukia says his favorite scene in the movie is a montage showing the flirtation \u2014 within the role-play, but perhaps a little bit beyond it as well \u2014 between Ibelin\/Mats and a character called Rumor, played by a guild member called Lisette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cIt kind of signifies a little bit of playfulness, but also this first crush type of feeling,\u201d Tukia said. \u201cAnd you see that [Mats] gets into this\u2026 It\u2019s the epitome of his happiness, in a way. In the film, he likes to run, because that\u2019s his way of showing that his chains are broken. And for him to actually run with Rumor, inviting her to run with him, I think that was really beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This fragile, illusory, but emotionally very real world is one Tukia recognizes, because it\u2019s a world he comes from. \u201cI met my partner online,\u201d he said. \u201cThe YouTube team that I do videos with, I met them online, too. So in a way, most of my life has revolved around meeting people online. I obviously didn\u2019t have [Mats\u2019] handicap, but I think most gamers can see themselves somehow in his situation as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">For Ree, the world Steen and his guild shared was both foreign and kind of nostalgic \u2014 a reminder of the kinds of friendships he formed at an earlier time in his life. \u201cThe main thing that I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about after making this film is the value of spending a lot of time together, and that is what I envy a lot,\u201d Ree said. \u201cWhen I look at Mats and his friends, they spent, like, five hours every day hanging. It was very similar to the feeling of being a child, when I [would] just run up to the neighbor and we were just hanging. We had time to just stay together. It also shows why around 50 people wrote to Mats\u2019 parents after he passed away, about what he had meant to them. Mats changed so many people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The Remarkable Life of Ibelin<\/em> is streaming on Netflix now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/world-of-warcraft\/471239\/wow-movie-netflix-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-animation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, now streaming on Netflix, is one movie nested inside another. The outer movie is a sensitive, moving documentary about Mats Steen, a Norwegian World of Warcraft player who died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25. Within that is a more humorous, colorful, but still deeply felt animated movie capturing the adventures, friendships, crushes, and guild drama Steen experienced online with his character Ibelin \u2014 a rakish, mustachioed ladies\u2019 man. The animation, rendered using authentic in-game WoW models, is more than just a gimmick. As Steen\u2019s condition and its attendant mental health challenges pushed him to retreat from the real world, his life within WoW and his role-playing guild, Starlight, became the core of his existence \u2014 something his&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/how-netflixs-remarkable-life-of-ibelin-pulled-off-its-world-of-warcraft-scenes-without-blizzards-knowledge\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1017507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Netflix\u2019s Remarkable Life of Ibelin pulled off its World of Warcraft scenes without Blizzard\u2019s knowledge | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, now streaming on Netflix, is one movie nested inside another. 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