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==Diablo 3 Cinematics==
[[File:Cinematic-candles.jpg|thumb|300px|Candles are lit in the intro cinematic.]]
* '''[[Cinematic: WWI 2008]]''' was the first, released with Diablo 3's premiere at the Paris WWI event, June 2008. This cinematic introduces the game world, hints at the plot, and shows some great scenery.
* '''[[Cinematic: WizardThe Black Soulstone cinematic]]''' was the second cinematic, released debuted at Blizzcon 20082011 and offered the first preview of one of the full game cinematics. This machinima style movie introduced the Wizard characterwill show after Act 2, and showed her marching boldly through setting up plot events in Act Three. Note that this is a slightly-edited version of the Tristram Cathedralmovie, past scornful villagers, en route with a few things removed to a final battle with [[Leoric]], the Skeleton Kingpreserve plot spoilers.
* '''[[Cinematic: MonkDiablo III Introduction cinematic]]''' was debuted in December 2011.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-opening-cinematic-revealed] This is the third full game opening cinematicwhich players will view before the action begins in Act One. It introduces [[Leah]] and [[Deckard Cain]], shares extensive background history of Sanctuary, released at Blizzcon 2009. This machinima style movie introduced and leads into the opening action of the Monk character and showed him battling Cultists in Arcarnusgame, before a final battle against a disguised with the mystery of the [[falling star]] that crashes into the [[Morlu CasterTristram Cathedral]].
===Class Intro Movies===
These were produced in the game engine, machinima-style, and debuted with each of the final three classes, at Blizzcon in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Blizzard declined to go back and retroactively create introductory cinematics for the [[Barbarian]] and [[Witch Doctor]] as they thought it would be too much effort for little purpose.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/barbarian-and-witch-doctor-cinematic-trailers/]
* '''[[Cinematic: Wizard]]''' was released at Blizzcon 2008. This machinima style movie introduced the Wizard character, and showed her marching boldly through the Tristram Cathedral, past scornful villagers, en route to a final battle with [[Leoric]], the Skeleton King.
* '''[[Cinematic: Monk]]''' was released at Blizzcon 2009. This machinima style movie introduced the Monk character and showed him battling Cultists in Arcarnus, before a final battle against a disguised [[Morlu Caster]].
* '''[[Cinematic: Demon Hunter]]''' was released at Blizzcon 2010. This one introduced the [[Demon Hunter]], and made clear the growing expertise of the Blizzard cinematics guys with the machinima style of in-game movie making. (Though many fans found the dialogue painfully corny.) In the film the Demon Hunter finds signs of a massacre, tracks the one human survivor and defends her from another attack of demons, before recruiting her as a new Demon Hunter.
::We don't have a big focus on in-game cinematics. We try to tell our story through action, through questing, and through events. We do have a lot more scripted events, but we separate those from in-game cinematics in the fact that we don't pull control away from the player.
Since that time, the preview of [[The Black Soulstone cinematic]] and the [[Diablo III Introduction cinematic]] have shown two of the five full cinematics, to the satisfaction of most fans.
===In-Game Cinematics===
::The team debated implementing realtime-cutscenes using the game engine (as is done in Starcraft 2) but scrapped the idea since it would have been too much work. There are too many characters, too many NPCs, and with five classes, times two for each gender, plus 18 different armor sets/appearances.
==Cinematics vs. Machinima==
Beginning with [[World of Warcraft]] and continuing into [[Starcraft 2]] and [[Diablo III]], Blizzard started to produce has produced two types of cinematics. The traditional, fully CG cinematics are animated short movies about the games. These are produced by the Blizzard cinematics team in much the way a movie company like Pixar creates their feature films, and while these movies originate from the same concept art and designs as the rest of the game, almost all of the artwork and environments are created from scratch for the filmfilms.
The newer type of "cinematic" that's been used extensively to promote World of Warcraft and now Diablo 3, is created with the game engine itself. This technique is known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Machinima], and players can make this type of movie themselves, simply by recording what their character sees as they play. The better fan -made movies are edited down from many hours created with the assistance of footagethird party tools, and usually add include soundtracks, dialogue, and sometimes even original special effects and animations. One fine WoW example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgW3ogaV84 can be seen here].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs_blue Red vs. Blue], A fan-made series using the Halo game engine, has become a huge internet success, with episodes even being sold on DVD with the consent of game publisher Microsoft.
