Behind the Scenes of Diablo III: Wrath
Posted 3 May 2012 by Nizaris
Bashiok‘s spidey sense has been revealed, and it was indeed Diablo related. This is an interview of the 2D short video called Wrath, which will be the 100% unlock for the Darkness Rises site. Chris Metzen joins the Titmouse team with director Peter Chung and crew to explain the reasoning and creativity that went into the piece we will be seeing in the near future.
The premise of the short film seems quite promising, as it will reveal much of the insight of how the Angiris Council works together, and the flaws within their ability to retain a cohesive bond. It has piqued my curiosity as to how this may tie into the larger story in Diablo III, and the stylized anime-esque feature looks to have promise in its representation of the franchise. As Chris Metzen says, “it’s like watching this story through Peter Chung’s eyes.”
If you’ve visited the official Diablo III launch site, you might have noticed that there are a few items waiting to be unlocked. The final item is “Diablo III: Wrath”–an animated short developed with the help of Peter Chung, the creator of Aeon Flux. The video above offers a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the short with comments from Peter, as well as Nick Carpenter, Chris Metzen, and James Waugh of Blizzard and Chris Prynosk–president and owner of Titmouse, Inc.Fans of Diablo III can help unlock “Diablo III: Wrath” by visiting the the launch site and participating in activities, such as creating banners and using various social media tools to share content created by other users. Diablo III is scheduled for release on May 15.
I’m certainly a lot more interested in seeing that final unlock now.
Yeah – I’m very glad that Blizzard seem to be learning from the mistakes of WoW and are making efforts to communicate the story of their games to fans outside of their novels. I don’t really want to have to read a based-on-the-best-selling-videogame novel in order to know what’s going on, so I appreciate things like this.
I like that 90% is wallpapers. WALLPAPERS!
Now maybe they’ll feature new artwork and be awesome, but given the past history of anticlimactic wallpaper prizes (1m FB likes springs to mind) I’m amused that they shows us this to get our hopes up for 100%, with still the wallpaper release between it and us.
Can’t the 100% unlock come any sooner?
OMG, this is pretty damn awesome!
This is really amazing, I love the more stylized art style, it actually does fit with Diablo. Though I’m guessing a lot of people won’t particulary care for it’s somewhat anime-like style.
Being a big time fan of Diablo AND anime, I fully approve of this art style and associated short. Two thumbs up!!
I wouldn’t say it carries any type of style because it’s very unique. I really enjoyed Aeon Flux mostly for the quality and uniqueness of the animation alone.
Calling Peter Chong’s style “anime-esque” really sells his artwork short IMO.
He doesn’t just create & reuse a bunch of simple/blocky stills.
Definitely looking forward to seeing this.
Why does the bearded president have his hood on?
It’s like wearing shades in a dark room.
I’ll just leave this here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8&ob=av3e
because you have to have a questionable fashion statement to be seen as an authentic ‘art director’
All I saw was a video of Chris Metzen doing his best Bono impersonation
yeah man, he was “riffin”
“high octane”, and “rad” you left out.
You mean a young Ringo Star?
Looks good, anime always good too. But still prefer the bits from ingame that we’ve seen by far.
@Eman “The uploader has not made this video available in your country”. I r sad.
Check Gamespot. It’s there
Link goes to the Corey Hart 80s cheese-classic Sunglasses at Night. One of these many searches should be available in your region.
I watched a minute to remind myself why I’m glad the 80s are long gone, and was amused that he 1) wasn’t wearing sunglasses, and 2) kept his mouth half open with his lips doing a duckface thing after every lip synched word. Emoting!
He finally puts them on at the 2:10 mark, they give him +10 to his intensity attribute.
And also they give -20 to light radius.
+1 and LOL
Yes, thank you Titmouse studios and Peter Chung for the random-ass anime interruption. Now can we continue the regularly scheduled program?
The one that involves random people whining for no reason? That apparently was never interrupted…
must you whine about every comment you disagree with?
Take a break, leave some rebuttals to others.
Hmm… Jumpy today, are we?
I’m not whining, but I chose to jest about how disconnected an anime style is from the style Blizzard has put forth all the way up to this point (excepting the freaky armor that’ll no doubt appear different in-game than what most folks have seen).
I feel this is just more ammunition to fight their potential uphill battle in Asian markets, and appease a niche in the US, all the while working with a celebrity and top notch artist. Good move, and I can’t wait to see the work, but again the style is a bit out of place amongst the somewhat realistic medieval-fantasy world we’ve seen thus far.
I’ve never watched anime. That said, it’s been my opinion from seeing clips here and there that anime can be VERY dark and medieval-fantasy. Sure the colors and drawing style is a little different, but the theme is still there. It’s funny, you say “realistic medieval-fantasy” which is something that only exists in our minds and in some pieces of art (be it movies, games, drawings, etc). So why wouldn’t it be able to exist in the anime world?
I’m looking forward to seeing this and broadening my view of the world. The clips looked pretty awesome.
Of course it can exist in a made up world… I’m just pointing out the FACT that VERY CLEARLY the style of Diablo’s art HAS VERY RARELY if EVER appeared in an anime sense. This is a huge 180 for art in the world of Sanctuary.
Art may vary wildly, but like any art i.e. music, movies, games, it can be somewhat categorized. This is clearly a new take on Sanctuary.
Hence me calling it “random-ass”.