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123 people on cinematics? I've played WoW since beta, and until recently have seen all the content at all levels of the game raid-wise. This seems like a lot of
by boredguy8 17y ago
123 people on cinematics? I've played WoW since beta, and until recently have seen all the content at all levels of the game raid-wise. This seems like a lot of people for how few cut-scenes there are, and for the few pre-rendered FMV scenes. Am I missing something, or wildly underestimating what it takes to produce 3 minutes of FMV?
- cdr 17y agoI was hoping it was a typo.
- jeffcoat 17y agoThe groups responsibilities include "machinima sequences", which I take to include most pre-scripted in-game sequences that have NPCs doing something; triggered, say, by ending a quest. I suspect there are a lot of those. (I wanted to compare that number to the people writing the quests themselves -- it still does seem high -- but that group isn't explicitly mentioned. The keynote is definitely glossing over a lot, even at this level of detail.)
- pvg 17y agoI think when he said 'cut scenes' he meant the 'machinima sequences' as opposed to the pre-rendered cinematics. And there really aren't very many of those, either, far fewer than you seem to think - it's a very rare quest that ends with or contains such a sequence.
- fh 17y agoNot that rare, I remember a dozen or two across Northrend. Almost every major quest chain ends with such a sequence (and most of them involve the Lich King taunting you). Admittedly the many many quests along the quest chain typically don't have machinima sequences.
- zyb09 17y agoSorry what are you talking about? There's exactly one ingame cinematic in WoW (Wrath gate) and 3 prerendered once (intro video for each addon & maingame). That's it. The 123 people of the cinematic team at Blizzard produce videos for all Blizzard games and are currently heavily involved in Starcraft II, which is supposed to have an hour of ingame cinematics as well as several minutes of prerendered videos.
- pvg 17y agoThe poster is talking about things like 'Lich King stands around talking shit' and (the now defunct) 'Marshal Windsor takes an excruciatingly slow walk through Stormwind' scripted bits. They're still quite few and can't possibly require anything close to 123 people (Red vs Blue was done by two people, after all and probably has more machinima in two episodes than the entirety of WoW).
- gcampbell 17y agoI think that's the cinematics group for all Blizzard games, not just WoW. From the article: "Machinima sequences, teasers, and the amazing pre-rendered cinemas that make Blizzard games kick off with a flash are all created in this group."
- boredguy8 17y agoIf it's across all Blizzard games that makes far more sense, but the context of the talk is WoW: "...Blizzard Entertainment's J. Allen Brack and Frank Pearce took the stage to offer a detailed look into the inner workings of the genre-dominating World of Warcraft."