Designer Reacts to Diablo IV Announce Trailer | "By 3 They Come" 

Another Amazing Diablo IV cinematic.....what did you guys think? What should we watch next?

For bonus, there's a side quest chain in game which has you go to find out what happened to this expedition, aptly named By Three They Come, and as part of it you visit the same passageways, door and Gate as in the cinematic.

The first time I watched this, my eyes were stretched wide open the entire time Lilith's 'birth' scene played out. It's just so disturbing and captivating. I've never seen a more interesting take on a 'portal' or 'summoning.' It had just this intense, birthlike imagery that was just so gross and yet profound. And the final image of her giant flesh cape was just grotesquely majestic. I love the concept that you can present 'evil' in a way that feels gross and dark and yet somehow elegant and beautiful. I think the 'rose petals' are just supposed to be bits of flesh from the 'portal' and the purpose is for them to fall and appear as though they are roses. Breathtaking.

The petals are a theme in the game for wherever she goes, they're "Blood Petals". Blizzard are truly masters of cinematics, every main IP they made have insane ones. I think you watched SC2: Legacy of the Void, you could also check out SC2: Heart of the Swarm which is my favorite, and SC2: Wings of Liberty.

They've even improved in realism in human faces since this trailer. The facial fidelity and acting on Anduins face for The War Within trailer I believe makes it past the uncanny valley, definitely worth a watch.

What I really love about this trailer is that if you play the game you can play a quest line that gives you the whole prestory to this trailer. You follow in the clerics footsteps and unravel what happened to him. Extremly fascinating!

Lilith's face when she's standing there in the close up is _i n c r e d i b l e_ The choice to give her this sort of, wonderous indifference is so interesting and perfect. It's literally like she's a newborn, fresh into consciousness, taking in the environment with her eyes focusing around on things unseen behind us as she faces the camera. The bones beneath the translucent skin, the heart beating in her ribcage, all of it. Her pressing through the gristle and membrane to be 'born' is absolutely captivating. The blood petals in her descent, the incredibly tender joining of hands, the soft grace with which her foot first gently touches the ground. Incredible artistic design, cinematography, and overall visual execution!

Pro Tip: Any door that requires a blood sacrifice to open, isn't worth opening.

*Anthony Howell's voice is SO good. SO much gravitas. I know it's not a part of what you're analyzing as a motion designer, but that man has voiced so many characters I love. I like Elias(the guy who knew exactly what was going on) for that exact reason. Edit: Elias is played by Anthony Howell, not Steve Blum, my mistake! Steve Blum voices Mephisto in Diablo IV.

The color shifts and tone shifts of this cinematic are amazing, but they nailed some really small things that show a really loving attention to detail. Capturing realistic facial movement is tough in animation but if you watch the character's eyebrows, you see the muscles moving in a way that is totally accurate to human emotion. When he cowers, his brow wrinkles in a way that perfectly communicates fear. Then when he looks up, his brows press together in a way that communicates anxiety. Then when Elias tells him he came seeking knowledge, you see the brow muscles conveying realization and then acceptance. Then you see the muscles in his face relax when he dies and finally, his face is locked in an expression of awe. They crossed the uncanny valley. If you didn't know you were watching an animation, you wouldn't be able to tell those weren't real facial muscle movements. They nailed it!

I have not seen any company that captures my attention through cinematics like blizzard. If only they made long movies, tickets would be sold out. The music is so intense when Lillith is summoned. I think I have watched this video and especially the battle with Inarius more than a hundred times and still I don't get tired.

I don't know why this trailer has gained a second life but I'm here for it.

Please do all the world of warcraft cinematics, you're gonna absolutely love it! From a fellow motion designer

Please do the new WoW cinematic The War Within. I'd love to hear your take on the particle effects and textures. BTW, the whole cinematic is hand done. No mocap which I almost didn't believe.

I remember the hype at Blizzcon when they showed this trailer. They showed it with very little context to what it was and the roar of the entire event center after the video was over was electric.

I just found your channel and I really like your breakdowns. You have to watch the Diablo 3 cinematics as well. They are really awesome as well.

I miss this game... (still has it installed but no drive to keep playing)

This incredible trailer led to the biggest launch for any video game in history. Simply had peeps on their edge of their seat for the hype. Really looking foward to the next trailer for the 2024 expansion, which will unveil the next baddie. (no spoilers here :o)) Love the analysis!

One detail I love that everyone seems to miss, to foreshadow that the "Captain" character if you will, is the bad guy is when they get to the door he says "Break the seal", indicating he already knew there was a magic seal on that door - as well as when the rogue character says "Are you out of your mind? He's not going to make it" the captain responds "He HAS to." because he knows he needs 3 sacrifices.

It's so dark, gross ,evil but beautiful at the same time when she comes. Blizzard cinematics have always been top tier. Especially being a diablo guy. The ones in Diablo 4 sometimes even got me emotional cuz they were so well done

If you want to understand the history of Diablo, I suggest you look and react to the 4 Books of Lorath. Well worth watching.

I love these more technical breakdowns of the cinematics - and I’m a long time Blizzard fan and player of their games - Blizzard games cinematics are 1000% 10/10 everytime. Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft - ALL have great cinematics that I look forward to if you choose to jump head first down this rabbit hole of game cinematics.

Blizzard Cinematics are the crown jewel of the company. They have knocked it out of the park time and time again over decades. Very few can truly hold a candle to there dominance. This particular cinematic, I think deserves every ounce of praise it gets for it's mastery of advanced 3D technology, it's storytelling, and unbelievable execution.

My man! Finally! I told ya to watch this ages ago :D :D :D

Honestly the Diablo 3 cinematics are master pieces in themselves. I'd really love for you to see "Sacrifice"

Starcraft 2 Ghosts of the Past Trailer...insane story telling from ingame and cinematic

Highly recommend all of the Overwatch(another Blizzard franchise) cinematics. The Last Bastion, Kiriko cinematic, Dragons and Honor and Glory are my favorites.

Love your content. I have some constructive criticism. You say in the opening you'll try not to talk too much during the video, which is a good thing. I have paused at 1:06. You've already said multiple things that added nothing while breaking immersion of the viewer. I really wish you'd lesson the talking while watching for the first time. It's up to you of course, but I find as the viewer it really dampens the atmosphere of the cinematic. It also doesn't help that your voice is so loud in comparison to the video you are watching. I'm looking forward to more reactions in the future!

Yo, you gotta react to Astartes. Warhammer fan made video. But its so raw, you dont wanna miss it

There's something about essentially "birthing" a mother into existence. Lilith was essentially born here, hence the flesh like tapestry that's akin to a womb or hymen. It's a very elegant, yet still grotesque way of introducing her.

yeah.. whatever your opinion is about blizzard... there is really nothing better out there when you talk about cinematics... they are just perfect..i would love to see a behind the scene on those.. but unlikely to happen anytime soon..

Watch the Lilith vs Inarius fight cinematic dude from diablo 4 it’s so good lol

i'd love to see you react to the new 'World of Warcraft The War Within Announce Cinematic' from Blizzard, it's the most realistic cinematic i've ever seen from them

Love how eldrich this one fells, wish they had kept this design for her during the whole game.

The rose petals were the flesh from the 3 after creating the portal. twisted stuff lol

This was the trailer. Had us all hyped up until we played the game.

All of Blizzard cinematics are amazing. Even the ones from mid-90's (granted, the tech wasn't there)

My interpretation is that the moment the 3 victims sacrificed their blood to open that first door they essentially entered into a magical contract. Everything that happened to them after that moment had been consented to even if they absolutely didn't want it to happen.

Blizzard does cinematic so much better than any other game company. There is literally no one else as good at making us invest in cinematic and then shit the bed with gameplay 😂

Blizzards overall story telling have been slacking abit the past few years. But there Cinematic teams have always been 1 of the best in gaming.

The little village is once more Tristram. The hole in the church we follow down was created in a game trailer of a previous part.

Blizzard or better to say Microsoft now, really needs to consider a tv series about Diablo world, i think it will be insane

Maybe you have it in the pipeline already. But you should react to World of Warcraft: The War Within Announce Cinematic (another Blizzard creation). It looks so realistic its borderline uncanny valley.

you should react to the world of warcraft: the war within cinematic.

Blizzard's cinematic department has always been a masterclass in cinematics. Shame the rest of the company lets their cinematic team down all the time.

For all the hate Blizzard gets ( and I get why as being a 19 year player on WoW ) there is one thing they excel at above other studios, and that's doing Cinematic trailers.

Rose petals or gobbets of flesh? How much horror you want?

Please watch The War WIthing World of Warcraft Cinematic, Blizzard is killing it there.

If you pick any Blizzard Cinematic at random, I promise you’ll be impressed

If they make a movie, it will be the best dark fantasy ever. But they will never leave the monetization of mobile games fot this...

It’s blood petals, not rose.

The statues are pregnant.

Watch and react to World of Warcraft: War Within Cinematic. You will be blown away

Plis watch The World of Warcraft: The War Within cinematic, is realistic!!!

they should make movies instead of games at this point xD

U can react ro warframe The new war trailer.

Yes the trailer was reaaly good...after that the game was trash. Really strong bli$$ -.-

And then you play the game...

Too bad the best things about Diablo 4 were just the cinematics.

Those aren't rose petals. Think "skin". 😉😉

The trailer is good but the game is garbage😂

blizzard movies is good...but the game itself....its horrible thing.

It's a shame the game ended up being a mmolite pile of poo.