Re: Why Is Diablo 4 SO BAD!? - We were sold an Incomplete, Broken, Buggy Game!! Deliver a completed game, Blizzard! This is NOT cool! - Blizzard D4 Team can do much better!. Cheers to the cinematics team for pulling off such great storytelling.Attention: Diablo Community and Activision Blizzard Management

The emotional depth that animation achieved with Donan’s face in this scene is just great. The most satisfying part of rigging to me is seeing what the animators do in context with everything. Their facial pipeline is rock solid and I really liked that process. Leading up to Donan, I had rigged several faces on WoW and D4 which had gotten me used to #Blizzard's facial system so rigging his face went pretty smoothly. The system wasn’t overly complicated but it took a decent amount of finesse to behave and deform nicely. Second, how the belt and everything that dangled followed the spine and legs. First, how his cowl rig followed a mix of the spine, clavicles and arms. It was requested to make the animators lives a bit easier by having accessories follow the main body rig in as much of a natural way as possible. Rigging Donan also presented some good challenges. On top of that, it had to be juggled with a 4 max joint influence. There are a lot of fleshy and hard surface areas stacked on top of each other that also had to deform nicely with the spine and neck. Thanks for making that happen Brandy Stiles! I loved the challenge of that rig.

I requested to stay in cinematics a bit longer because I really wanted to rig Amalgam, that terrible seven headed dog creature. This was the last cinematic I worked on before my transition to the D4 game team. When I got hired as an in-game rigging tech artist on #DiabloIV, I was a rigger on the cinematics team with a shared focus between WoW and D4.

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