If you’re the type of person who will turn right around after watching a movie to re-watch it with the commentary track, then you’re going to enjoy what WoW Classic is doing with its Patch 2.1 trailer.
In a new video, Lead Cinematic Narrative Designer Terran Gregory broke down what the team was trying to do with this Black Temple reveal while pointing out the various tricks and foibles along the way.
“Most of these shots were all driven by player characters,” he said. “We had no custom animation. We were only working with the game animations as they existed. And so almost all of these scenes were acted out, in a sense, like a role-playing scene.”
Source: World of Warcraft
Activision-Blizzard is considered a controversial gaming company owing to a long string of scandals over the last few years, including the Blitzchung boycott, mass layoffs, labor disputes, and executive pay fiasco. In 2021, the company was sued by California for fostering a work environment rife with sexual harassment and discrimination, the disastrous corporate response to which compounded Blizzard’s ongoing pipeline issues and the widespread perception that its online games are in decline. Multiple state and federal agencies are investigating the company as employees strike and call for Bobby Kotick’s resignation. As of 2022, the company is being acquired by no less than Microsoft.
