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‎Diablo 3 Cinematics

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	'''Cinematics''' or '''cut-scenes''' are movies seen in the game, or released as promotional tools, that tell the game [[story]], introduce new [[character]]s, or just generally serve as promotion or advertising. [[Blizzard Entertainment\|Blizzard]] has a long history of producing high quality movies through their in-house Cinematics Team, and these have been included with every game they've released since [[WarCraft II]].		'''Cinematics''' or '''cut-scenes''' are movies seen in the game, or released as promotional tools, that tell the game [[story]], introduce new [[character]]s, or just generally serve as promotion or advertising. [[Blizzard Entertainment\|Blizzard]] has a long history of producing high quality movies through their in-house Cinematics Team, and these have been included with every game they've released since [[WarCraft II]].

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 ===Class Intro Movies===
-These were produced in the game engine, machinima-style, and debuted with each of the final three classes, at Blizzcon in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Blizzard declined to go back and retroactively create introductory cinematics for the [[Barbarian]] and [[Witch Doctor]] as they thought it would be too much effort for little purpose.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/barbarian-and-witch-doctor-cinematic-trailers/]
+These were produced in the game engine, machinima-style, and debuted with each of the final three classes, at Blizzcon in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
 * '''[[Cinematic: Wizard]]''' was released at Blizzcon 2008. This machinima style movie introduced the Wizard character, and showed her marching boldly through the Tristram Cathedral, past scornful villagers, en route to a final battle with [[Leoric]], the Skeleton King.
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 * '''[[Cinematic: Demon Hunter]]''' was released at Blizzcon 2010. This one introduced the [[Demon Hunter]], and made clear the growing expertise of the Blizzard cinematics guys with the machinima style of in-game movie making.  (Though many fans found the dialogue painfully corny.) In the film the Demon Hunter finds signs of a massacre, tracks the one human survivor and defends her from another attack of demons, before recruiting her as a new Demon Hunter.
 ==Final Game Cinematics==

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 ==Diablo 3 Cinematics==
 [[File:Cinematic-candles.jpg|thumb|300px|Candles are lit in the intro cinematic.]]
-As of December 2009, there have been three Diablo 3 cinematics released. There are no plans to go back and retroactively create introductory cinematics for the Barbarian and Witch Doctor.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/barbarian-and-witch-doctor-cinematic-trailers/]
+During the development of Diablo III, Blizzard released three full CGI cinematics, and three class introduction cinematics which were produced machinima-style using the game engine.
-Click to the linked pages to see each cinematic, as well as screenshots and plot details.
 * '''[[Cinematic: WWI 2008]]''' was the first, released with Diablo 3's premiere at the Paris WWI event, June 2008. This cinematic introduces the game world, hints at the plot, and shows some great scenery.
-* '''[[Cinematic: Wizard]]''' was the second cinematic, released at Blizzcon 2008. This machinima style movie introduced the Wizard character, and showed her marching boldly through the Tristram Cathedral, past scornful villagers, en route to a final battle with [[Leoric]], the Skeleton King.
+* '''[[The Black Soulstone cinematic]]''' debuted at Blizzcon 2011 and offered the first preview of one of the full game cinematics. This movie will show after Act 2, setting up plot events in Act Three. Note that this is a slightly-edited version of the movie, with a few things removed to preserve plot spoilers.
-* '''[[Cinematic: Monk]]''' was the third cinematic, released at Blizzcon 2009. This machinima style movie introduced the Monk character and showed him battling Cultists in Arcarnus, before a final battle against a disguised [[Morlu Caster]].
+* '''[[Diablo III Introduction cinematic]]''' debuted in December 2011.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-opening-cinematic-revealed] This is the full game opening cinematic which players will view before the action begins in Act One. It introduces [[Leah]] and [[Deckard Cain]], shares extensive background history of Sanctuary, and leads into the opening action of the game, with the mystery of the [[falling star]] that crashes into the [[Tristram Cathedral]].
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 ::We don't have a big focus on in-game cinematics. We try to tell our story through action, through questing, and through events. We do have a lot more scripted events, but we separate those from in-game cinematics in the fact that we don't pull control away from the player.
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 ::The team debated implementing realtime-cutscenes using the game engine (as is done in Starcraft 2) but scrapped the idea since it would have been too much work. There are too many characters, too many NPCs, and with five classes, times two for each gender, plus 18 different armor sets/appearances.
 ==Cinematics vs. Machinima==
-Beginning with World of Warcraft, Blizzard started to produce two types of cinematics. The traditional, fully CG cinematics are animated short movies about the games. These are produced by the Blizzard cinematics team in much the way a movie company like Pixar creates their feature films, and while these movies originate from the same concept art and designs as the rest of the game, almost all of the artwork and environments are created from scratch for the film.
+Beginning with [[World of Warcraft]] and continuing into [[Starcraft 2]] and [[Diablo III]], Blizzard has produced two types of cinematics.
-The newer type of "cinematic" that's been used extensively to promote World of Warcraft and now Diablo 3, is created with the game engine itself. This technique is known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Machinima], and players can make this type of movie themselves, simply by recording what their character sees as they play. The better fan made movies are edited down from many hours of footage, and usually add soundtracks, dialogue, and sometimes even original special effects and animations. One fine WoW example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgW3ogaV84 can be seen here].
+The newer type of "cinematic" that's been used extensively to promote World of Warcraft and now Diablo 3, is created with the game engine itself. This technique is known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Machinima], and players can make this type of movie themselves, simply by recording what their character sees as they play. The better fan-made movies are created with the assistance of third party tools, and include soundtracks, dialogue, and sometimes even original special effects and animations. One fine WoW example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgW3ogaV84 can be seen here].
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs_blue Red vs. Blue],  A fan-made series using the Halo game engine, has become a huge internet success, with episodes even being sold on DVD with the consent of game publisher Microsoft.

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-| valign="top" width="50%"|'''Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Intro Cinematic'''
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+'''Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Intro Cinematic'''}}
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-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Final Cinematic'''
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+'''Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Final Cinematic'''}}
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 ===Diablo II Cinematics===
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-| valign="top"|'''[[The Calling]]'''
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+'''{{iw|The_Sister's_Lament The Sister's Lament}}'''}}
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-'''The Calling'''<br>
+'''The Sister's Lament'''<br>
 This cinematic is the introductory scene to [[Diablo 2]].  It was produced in-house by the Blizzard Film Department and released in March 2000.  It runs for 7:10.
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-| valign="top"|'''[[Terror's End]]'''
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+'''{{iw|Terror's_End_(cinematic) Terror's End}}'''}}
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-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction Trailer - ECTS 2000 / E3 2001'''
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+'''Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction Trailer - ECTS 2000 / E3 2001'''}}
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-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 TV Commercial - Xmas 2000 #2'''
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+'''Diablo 2 TV Commercial - Xmas 2000 #2'''}}
 <span style="font-size:85%; color:#C0C0C0;">Compilation of Diablo II cinematics in a TV spot.</span>
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-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 TV Commercial - Xmas 2000 #1'''
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+'''Diablo 2 TV Commercial - Xmas 2000 #1'''}}
 <span style="font-size:85%; color:#C0C0C0;">The classic 2000 Christmas commercial for Diablo II. A must-see.</span>
-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 Cinematic Trailer - E3 1999'''
+| valign="top"|{{center|<youtube>FLSNmKpCw6I</youtube><br>
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+'''Diablo 2 Cinematic Trailer - E3 1999'''}}
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-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 Cinematic Trailer - E3 1998'''
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+'''Diablo 2 Cinematic Trailer - E3 1998'''}}
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 This cinematic trailer was the first produced for Diablo II. The events presented in it are non-canonical; it was just a promotional video produced before the plot for Diablo II had been hammered out.</span>
-| valign="top"|'''Diablo 2 Announcement Cinematic - ECTS 1997'''
+| valign="top"|{{center|<youtube>ETAPd-tnY_E</youtube><br>
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+'''Diablo 2 Announcement Cinematic - ECTS 1997'''}}
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	==Final Game Cinematics==		==Final Game Cinematics==
		+	[[File:Cain cinematic concept.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Cinematic storyboard mapping out the final movie.]]
	There will be extensive cinematics in the full game, approximately twenty minutes of them, divided up into multiple short films which will be viewed before the game, after each act,[http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1017305p1.html] and after the final battle, much as they were in Diablo 2. [[Kevin Martens]] and [[Julian Love]] commented on that during a Blizzcon 2009 interview: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/exclusive-blizzcon-interview-julian-love-and-kevin-martens/]		There will be extensive cinematics in the full game, approximately twenty minutes of them, divided up into multiple short films which will be viewed before the game, after each act,[http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1017305p1.html] and after the final battle, much as they were in Diablo 2. [[Kevin Martens]] and [[Julian Love]] commented on that during a Blizzcon 2009 interview: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/exclusive-blizzcon-interview-julian-love-and-kevin-martens/]

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