Guild Wars 2

This is something that I have been wondering about for a long time. As an animator and video editor myself, I have been long wanting to do a GW2 video. And since we currently aren’t given the tools to make these (like WoW does), I was wondering if there was any way to do this. I saw that someone made a video with GW2 characters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWCTlxEp6Ds) that appears to be made using animation program, but I don’t know how they did this. Any help would be much appreciated.

3D Studio Max & Adobe After Effects

(love that video btw, he makes some really great stuff!)

That wasn’t my question. My question was HOW did he acquire the models/get the lighting and rendering right for the video. I want to make a GW2 video, but I don’t know where to get the models.

AFAIK this is the same guy that did a few similar videos in GW1.
Extracting models and textures from the dat files shouldnt be too hard. Not sure about bone info (rigging, etc) – he probably had to rig the models to a skeleton himself and then animate them.

As said – lots of work in a 3d modelling and animation program finalized in a movie editing program.