Avatar Days is a short documentary about World of Warcraft players and their avatars, with four gamers sharing their thoughts about the characters they play as their virtual counterparts roam the dreary streets of Dublin on an overcast day. It was produced by animation studio Piranha Bar's Cormac Kelly, John O’ Connel, Will Sharkey and director Gavin Kelly.

The studio explains, "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."

The near seamless melding of the World of Warcraft online personas with the real world is ambitious enough, but it's even more impressive when you consider that the team shot, animated, and edited this in less than four days! According to Kelly, Avatar Days has already picked up a few awards along the film festival circuit, too!

[Via @SimonParkin]