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March 6, 2024 at 11:30 a.m. – At the beginning of the year, Blizzard lost its great cinematic director Marc Messenger. As we say goodbye, we take a look at some iconic cinematics that we have to thank the man for.
At the beginning of the year, 1,900 employees at Blizzard were laid off in connection with the acquisition of Microsoft. This also included some developer positions and 83% of the remaining esports team. While many of these developers announced their departure on social media and many tears were shed, the WoW team didn't even notice that during this period Marc Messenger left the company hat.
He was over 16 years at Blizzard and about it all the time as Cinematic Director employed. According to his LinkedIn profile, he has been freelancing since January 2024. It's a huge loss for WoW, Diablo and the rest of the Blizzard universe. Because as you will see below, Marc has Messenger some iconic cinematics produced.
We owe these cinematics to Marc Messenger
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During his time at Blizzard, as Cinematic Director for World of Warcraft (buy now), he created the following cinematics, among others: Dragonflight Announce Cinematic Trailer, Dragonflight Legacies, Shadowlands Cinematic Trailer, Shadowlands Afterlives, Battle for Azeroth: Varok Saurfang's Mak'gora (see above).
Marc Messenger was also involved in a series of so-called “animated shorts” such as the Warbringers series in BfA, Legion shorts, Lords of War, Warlords of Draenor, Mists of Pandaria Cnematics, Cataclysm and other small video snippets that Stories of Blizzard games have driven forward.
For Overwatch He recently worked on A Great Day (Overwatch Animated Short Feat. Mauga) and Mauga Origin Story. Diablo 3 players may also have seen a cinematic from Messenger: The Shadow of Death (Reaper of Souls Opening Cinematic).
For Hearthstone He worked on the cinematic “Titans”, which, however, was criticized by fans of the trading card game literally torn became. The cinematic from August 2023 did not correspond to the high quality that one is usually used to from Hearthstone and the other Blizzard cinematics. Do you think the quality of the cinematics in WoW and Co. will suffer as a result of Marc Messenger's departure?
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