Diablo 3 Casting - Barbarian

Introduction

In 2010, when everybody was waiting for release of Diablo 3 I made "Diablo 3 Casting - Barbarian" funny animation. Jay Wilson (game director), Diablo and Worgen (from World of WarCraft expansion) are making X-Factor style casting for Diablo 3 hero. Ladies and gentleman - here is Barbarian!



Story

I totally forgot about that movie, I wanted to release it together with expanding my Polish Diablo 1 fansite with Diablo 3 content. I never did it and movie left forgotten on my hard disk.

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

Making of

It took me 2 days of work from concept to final movie. Back then there was not much materials from Diablo 3, so I used voices from first official released gameplay movie, I watched it like 83248763264 times, I remember I really enjoyed it and wanted play D3 so badly.



I started with very, very fast and raw concept:

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

Made some cut-out of Jay Wilson:

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

Made 3D background and started to put 2D characters into it. Orginal concept was to put Paris Hilton as judge...

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

...but I changed my mind and put Worgen. I think it was time when Blizzard announced that new class in WoW and many people was very disappointed.

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

Here are 2 more screenshots, the sound files with voices and pure render from 3D Studio Max. Ah, software, I used Adobe Photoshop for most of graphic, Adobe Flash for animation, basic sound recorder from Windows and 3D Studio Max for background.

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

Diablo 3 Casting - Making of

And that's it. Did you enjoy my animation? Feel free to comment :)