This clip is previsualization that was made for Blizzard Entertainment by The Third Floor Inc. Here we see the inception of the "KD sequence" as laid out from the storyboards. I have other work I created from this game I will post as well.
My roles included:
-previz shot creation
-layout
-animation
-motion performance
as i've said on blizz forums and tl.net it's vomit inducing.
i am completely shocked by it. caused me to lose all faith in blizzard. i have never been so dissapointed before in my life.
Blizzard is a shell of it's former self.
No need to overreact, that looks to be just an early outline of the cinematic. Something to show Blizz to see if they're going in the right direction.
Obviously, most of it will probably be completely scrapped and redone, and the rendering job will be done at a much higher level that requires longer processing times. There aren't even any particles or shadows in there. It's just a moving storyboard.
You need to trust that they know what they're doing in the cinematics department. Because Wings of Liberty already shown us the "standard" level of quality in their main cinematics, and it ain't too shabby.
im not commenting on the image quality or anything. i know it's a previs. my issue is the writing. WoL was pretty damn bad. Diablo 3 demon hunter class reveal was pretty awful. This? this takes a giant shit on the entire starcraft 1 storyline.
I don't believe in leaks. It's all planned out by the company to have it "leaked" so that people will be able to get little tidbits. When leaks first happened they were real but not anymore, they happen too often.
On topic with the "leak" I find it kind of cheesy. I didn't really expect much from blizzard I'm just hoping the campaign writing that leads to it isn't as bad. Starting to hate how the plot is turning out. Only good thing was Mengsk getting what he deserved. I mainly blame the merge with activision since I have nobody else to really blame.
its fake -.- Anybody think that it can be the end?
1: the "video" is a an amateur work.... not blizzard quality
2: kerrigan isn't zerg.
3. the voice actings aren't the original. Mengsk's voice more deeper and more
4. one of kerrigans voice cutted from the previous game with bad quality XD
5. the sound from transformers XD
I agree with the transformers part, and that's about it. Can't really say video quality since it's just a moving storyboard and it doesn't need details to be official, it was probably a pitch or presentation to keep the higher ups happy with the project.
The voices were probably used so they wouldn't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a moving storyboard.
Kerrigan still had the dreadlock tentacles or whatever. Also, I read that the campaign is going to be RPG like with kerrigan assimilating other species and whatever into the zerg dna to make them stronger and herself, which must mean she is now in control of the infestation or something. It never really said she was deinfested.
Ya, since it's a moving storyboard they might have just pulled some music to show the kind of mood they want to have. That one is more BS than my other answers.
its fake -.- Anybody think that it can be the end? 1: the "video" is a an amateur work.... not blizzard quality 2: kerrigan isn't zerg. 3. the voice actings aren't the original. Mengsk's voice more deeper and more 4. one of kerrigans voice cutted from the previous game with bad quality XD 5. the sound from transformers XD
anything else?
it's a previs. it's a simple animation so they can see what it'll look like. it doesn't cost much money to make and can be done quite quickly. just laying down the framework so to speak.
kerrigan wasn't 100% deinfested at the end of WoL. HotS is supposed to focus on her development and evolution in controlling the swarm. she obviously gets back to full strength by the end of the campaign.
the voices. Chris Metzen isn't credible enough for you?. they are obviously placeholders as there is no point paying full time actors a shitload of money to produce a previs.
the guy has many many many more previs videos hes done on his vimeo site. including the scene where kerrigan is captured by the swarm.
it's obviously not fake. it's obviously not fan made. it's definitely something made under blizzards command.
it may or may not actually be the ending cinematic since it's actually been up there for a long time (few months>a year)
but the fact this monstrosity even made it this far? it's just as bad. something this horrible actually made it past the storyboard?
About it being fake or not. I have to say it looks pretty legit. It follows the previous storyline pretty well since, as told before kerrigan has not been deinfested completely. She still had that creepy hair at the end.
I didn't like the ending at all. Very cheesy. In addition, i have never seen anything leaked by blizzard. They are getting worse and worse with each project they make. Blizzard's demise started with lich king, the we got sc2 story line which was also very cheesy and predictable and now heart of the swarm.
I am giving my all hopes to Diablo III. IF they fail there I have nothing to say. I will just be in deep depression, remembering good times of playing SC1 WC3 Diablo2... They were epic.
Up until now I thought that blizz was the only company who did the how it was in the old days. I am really really disappointed. You just can't imagine how I miss those days.... :(
F* you Activision!!!
Its definitely legit because the guy who leaked it on accident is apart of the studio who does the Blizz cut scenes. He just forgot to set the video to private and a shit storm happened.
All I can say feedback wise is. Gorge lucas 2.0. When you have a franchise like Star Wars/StarCraft it seems impossible to screw up. They do it. chris metzen is a has been and should be fired.
Interesting to see people's reactions to the story. I personally never was into SC1 so that was my reasoning for why SC2 storyline didn't 'do it' for me so to speak. War3 and WoW did however... it felt amazing progressing through those, waiting for Medivh's next move etc... maybe I just prefer fantasy... or maybe you guys are right... maybe they are getting worse?
lol, i assumed it was visually disgusting, since it was vomit inducing for you. I just watched the demon hunter revealing, and it really was horrendous. Looked like they tried to take WoW and make it darker looking.
Feels like they're forsaking the people that have played their games all this time, just to market all their newest games to their WoW players. So saddening...
For those that wanna blame Activision, i do believe there is good reason to hold them responsible.
But to be more exact, its the merging of Activision and Vivendi that made Blizzard what it is today. Everyone and every project must look "useful" or you'll get scrapped for something more profitable. Business is business, i think blizzard was forced to drop quality on everything to boost revenue and insure their own survival. I blame the bad economy.
Is it just me, or could all the models that were in the cinematic be from WoL? The arcturus model didnt look that well and the human kerrigan, and im not sure bout arcturus, but those models didnt appear in WoL and might be made by someone else. The other models couldve been reused by anyone with some skill in the editor. Mengsk's office looked a hell lot like the place Raynor met Valerian on the cattlebruisers. The only thing i cant explain is the voice acting, but apart from that anyone with the editor and some 3Ds max skill couldve made this cinematic. But then Blizz couldve just been using the models as placeholders till they make their own, right? The only argument i have against that is the Arcturus Mengsk model - they have a better one, why not use it as a placeholder instead of the crappy one?
I'm not siding with anyone here. I dont know whether its legit or fake - i just put out the facts that for me make it a possibility to be fake.
Also, on the site i saw the cinematic, someone in the comments had a good point - Who says its the end of the HotS? It could possibly be an alternative ending to WoL that they scrapped and now their old preview cinematic couldve been leaked. WoL might have had an entirely different storyline before which was scrapped for all we know.
Or blizzard just scrapped this possible ending and leaked their cinematic preview for it on purpose to make the real ending when HotS comes out way more surprising. Or they leaked it to see what people would think.
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It has been everwhere now that I would just put it up here
Kotaku's article
http://kotaku.com/5709838/ending-leaked-for-starcraft-iis-next-chapter
Quote from the sources of the video:
This clip is previsualization that was made for Blizzard Entertainment by The Third Floor Inc. Here we see the inception of the "KD sequence" as laid out from the storyboards. I have other work I created from this game I will post as well.
My roles included: -previz shot creation -layout -animation -motion performance
Video is ©2010 TTF and Brianweaver.com Starcraft 2, Starcraft II and "Kerrigan" "Zerg" and "Arcturus" characters are ©2010 Blizzard Entertainment
Edited out youtube videos, Activision has been pulling it out. Let's do our PTR job on this guys
Nerdgasm.
as i've said on blizz forums and tl.net it's vomit inducing.
i am completely shocked by it. caused me to lose all faith in blizzard. i have never been so dissapointed before in my life.
Blizzard is a shell of it's former self.
@maverck: Go
No need to overreact, that looks to be just an early outline of the cinematic. Something to show Blizz to see if they're going in the right direction.
Obviously, most of it will probably be completely scrapped and redone, and the rendering job will be done at a much higher level that requires longer processing times. There aren't even any particles or shadows in there. It's just a moving storyboard.
You need to trust that they know what they're doing in the cinematics department. Because Wings of Liberty already shown us the "standard" level of quality in their main cinematics, and it ain't too shabby.
@onisagi:
im not commenting on the image quality or anything. i know it's a previs. my issue is the writing. WoL was pretty damn bad. Diablo 3 demon hunter class reveal was pretty awful. This? this takes a giant shit on the entire starcraft 1 storyline.
I don't believe in leaks. It's all planned out by the company to have it "leaked" so that people will be able to get little tidbits. When leaks first happened they were real but not anymore, they happen too often.
On topic with the "leak" I find it kind of cheesy. I didn't really expect much from blizzard I'm just hoping the campaign writing that leads to it isn't as bad. Starting to hate how the plot is turning out. Only good thing was Mengsk getting what he deserved. I mainly blame the merge with activision since I have nobody else to really blame.
its fake -.- Anybody think that it can be the end? 1: the "video" is a an amateur work.... not blizzard quality 2: kerrigan isn't zerg. 3. the voice actings aren't the original. Mengsk's voice more deeper and more 4. one of kerrigans voice cutted from the previous game with bad quality XD 5. the sound from transformers XD
anything else?
I agree with the transformers part, and that's about it. Can't really say video quality since it's just a moving storyboard and it doesn't need details to be official, it was probably a pitch or presentation to keep the higher ups happy with the project.
The voices were probably used so they wouldn't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a moving storyboard.
Kerrigan still had the dreadlock tentacles or whatever. Also, I read that the campaign is going to be RPG like with kerrigan assimilating other species and whatever into the zerg dna to make them stronger and herself, which must mean she is now in control of the infestation or something. It never really said she was deinfested.
Ya, since it's a moving storyboard they might have just pulled some music to show the kind of mood they want to have. That one is more BS than my other answers.
Leaks, leaks everywhere...
Damn it.
it's a previs. it's a simple animation so they can see what it'll look like. it doesn't cost much money to make and can be done quite quickly. just laying down the framework so to speak.
kerrigan wasn't 100% deinfested at the end of WoL. HotS is supposed to focus on her development and evolution in controlling the swarm. she obviously gets back to full strength by the end of the campaign.
the voices. Chris Metzen isn't credible enough for you?. they are obviously placeholders as there is no point paying full time actors a shitload of money to produce a previs.
the guy has many many many more previs videos hes done on his vimeo site. including the scene where kerrigan is captured by the swarm.
it's obviously not fake. it's obviously not fan made. it's definitely something made under blizzards command. it may or may not actually be the ending cinematic since it's actually been up there for a long time (few months>a year) but the fact this monstrosity even made it this far? it's just as bad. something this horrible actually made it past the storyboard?
About it being fake or not. I have to say it looks pretty legit. It follows the previous storyline pretty well since, as told before kerrigan has not been deinfested completely. She still had that creepy hair at the end.
I didn't like the ending at all. Very cheesy. In addition, i have never seen anything leaked by blizzard. They are getting worse and worse with each project they make. Blizzard's demise started with lich king, the we got sc2 story line which was also very cheesy and predictable and now heart of the swarm. I am giving my all hopes to Diablo III. IF they fail there I have nothing to say. I will just be in deep depression, remembering good times of playing SC1 WC3 Diablo2... They were epic. Up until now I thought that blizz was the only company who did the how it was in the old days. I am really really disappointed. You just can't imagine how I miss those days.... :( F* you Activision!!!
Its definitely legit because the guy who leaked it on accident is apart of the studio who does the Blizz cut scenes. He just forgot to set the video to private and a shit storm happened.
All I can say feedback wise is. Gorge lucas 2.0. When you have a franchise like Star Wars/StarCraft it seems impossible to screw up. They do it. chris metzen is a has been and should be fired.
In comparison to Starcraft 1. The story in Starcraft 2 is the most lame, cheezy, generic story Ive ever seen in my life. Fail.
@maverck: Go
lol, i assumed it was visually disgusting, since it was vomit inducing for you. I just watched the demon hunter revealing, and it really was horrendous. Looked like they tried to take WoW and make it darker looking.
Feels like they're forsaking the people that have played their games all this time, just to market all their newest games to their WoW players. So saddening...
For those that wanna blame Activision, i do believe there is good reason to hold them responsible.
But to be more exact, its the merging of Activision and Vivendi that made Blizzard what it is today. Everyone and every project must look "useful" or you'll get scrapped for something more profitable. Business is business, i think blizzard was forced to drop quality on everything to boost revenue and insure their own survival. I blame the bad economy.
One image describes it perfectly:
XDDD :P.
@Lonami: Go
hey this aint 4chan! Resize those images!
Is it just me, or could all the models that were in the cinematic be from WoL? The arcturus model didnt look that well and the human kerrigan, and im not sure bout arcturus, but those models didnt appear in WoL and might be made by someone else. The other models couldve been reused by anyone with some skill in the editor. Mengsk's office looked a hell lot like the place Raynor met Valerian on the cattlebruisers. The only thing i cant explain is the voice acting, but apart from that anyone with the editor and some 3Ds max skill couldve made this cinematic. But then Blizz couldve just been using the models as placeholders till they make their own, right? The only argument i have against that is the Arcturus Mengsk model - they have a better one, why not use it as a placeholder instead of the crappy one?
I'm not siding with anyone here. I dont know whether its legit or fake - i just put out the facts that for me make it a possibility to be fake.
Also, on the site i saw the cinematic, someone in the comments had a good point - Who says its the end of the HotS? It could possibly be an alternative ending to WoL that they scrapped and now their old preview cinematic couldve been leaked. WoL might have had an entirely different storyline before which was scrapped for all we know.
Or blizzard just scrapped this possible ending and leaked their cinematic preview for it on purpose to make the real ending when HotS comes out way more surprising. Or they leaked it to see what people would think.