They reused shots... (spoiler)

[Aucald]

I just had a question. what happens when you die in shadowlands?
in maldraxxus for example? if you die in fae lands you were becoming a part of the grove, greenery etc if I remember correctly. But what about the rest of the places?

When you (the PC) dies, you become an unhoused soul that can re-inhabit your corpse pretty much at will. As for others in the Shadowlands it seems to vary somewhat. Constructs that die become unhoused souls that wander until collected or imprisoned, and the House of Constructs has what they call an "Essence Vault" where souls are stored for use in other constructs. When an unhoused soul "dies" it essentially discorporates into raw anima and seemingly disappears, either destroyed entirely or passing into yet another form of existence we know nothing of.

[Mumba]

Are people really so desperate to find miniscule things like this to validate their distaste for Blizzard?
The production team probably just felt it unnecessary to redraw a scene that already existed. No higher ups involved here.

[Zmagoslav]

It means fel lords are incredibly similar to maldraxxian guards, so they just cut a corner and reused the same art.
It's simple as that.

[Monster Hunter]

Reuse of animation is actually quite common, even big-budget studios like Disney do it regularly. Alternatively, it's possible that this scene explores the possible connection between the Shadowlands and the Legion i.e. the Helm of Domination and Frostmourne being implements given to the Lich King by the Legion. I think it's probably just a simple re-use of animation due to budgetary concerns, though.

I think the reuse was intentional hear not just to save time, they did actualy tweek it too.

I think it's ment to highlight that Maldraxxus and specifically the house of eyes was active in spying on and guarding against possible legion invasion of the Shadowlands.

Maldraxxus is the army of the Shadowlands, and blizz keep saying they exhist to guard the Shadowlands from External threats but up till now they haven't really given any example of those threats, now we know at least one of the threats they had there eye on.

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It means fel lords are incredibly similar to maldraxxian guards, so they just cut a corner and reused the same art.
It's simple as that.

Both of them are fel lords. There is a section in the trailer where draka sneaks into a legion camp and steals plans guarded by fel lords.

[Aucald]

I think the reuse was intentional hear not just to save time, they did actualy tweek it too.

I think it's ment to highlight that Maldraxxus and specifically the house of eyes was active in spying on and guarding against possible legion invasion of the Shadowlands.

Maldraxxus is the army of the Shadowlands, and blizz keep saying they exhist to guard the Shadowlands from External threats but up till now they haven't really given any example of those threats, now we know at least one of the threats they had there eye on.

That is possible, and something I made reference to in an earlier post. There is a connection between the Shadowlands and the Legion i.e. the Helm of Domination and the Scourge, so perhaps this cinematic was exploring that just a bit - it's unfortunately difficult to say as that little snippet of the cinematic isn't really substantive of anything if it is pertinent.

[rrayy]

Oh you take it personally when someone makes a joke at Blizzard's expense? Where was I rude? If anything the guy was rude to me, making wrong assumptions about me and patronising me. I've spent more time doing art then he did posting on these forums.

YOu outright admitted you are ytrolling when you said use used Small. Indie. Studio> every time to get a rise out of "Blizzard fanboys" You absolutely are being rude.

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Of course it is. Blizzard is reusing art-assets in their "hype videos". That's something that "the old Blizzard" would've never done. This is clearly yet another attempt to cut corners to cut costs, which has been a recurring theme that Kotaku has been reporting on the past several years.

No it isn't. It is tinfoil hat nonsense when all they are doing is staying on budget, not cutting costs.

[Monster Hunter]

That is possible, and something I made reference to in an earlier post. There is a connection between the Shadowlands and the Legion i.e. the Helm of Domination and the Scourge, so perhaps this cinematic was exploring that just a bit - it's unfortunately difficult to say as that little snippet of the cinematic isn't really substantive of anything if it is pertinent.

Yea, I think at least, only thing we can say is the house of eye's was keeping tabs on what the legion was up to, it also means I guess that at least some of the Necrolords can cross I to the mortal plane just as the kyrian can when they pick up souls.

[Orby]

These are not reusings... these are redrawings... where they copied the same animation the characters use...

In the video they clearly just reused 85% of the art lol

But thats not true, its very clear while these two drawings are the same they are tonally different, in fact its exactly like the the Disney video. its retraced and maybe even retoned. Adding rain instead of a clear day, adding a more darker tone instead of a lighter one, adding more light, adding a more appropriate background instead of one from the Twisting Nether. Basically they took the image and run it through photoshop to make it different, not far removed from what Disney did, except there was no Photoshop back then.



Also its been recently revealed this scene was intended. There is a lot of theroycrating going on around that even the writers are aware of.

[GreatNameForSmurfingExTee]

Also its been recently revealed this scene was intended. There is a lot of theroycrating going on around that even the writers are aware of.

Don't ruin the fun for the edgelords here... most of them prolly use edge as brower while listening to linkin park wearing their flame-shirt.

[Raven]

https://i.imgur.com/TpZtCfN.png

What could this mean?

I think it means something crazy like, Legion really needs more architects, are you a architect, apply today.

[Verdugo]

Also its been recently revealed this scene was intended. There is a lot of theroycrating going on around that even the writers are aware of.

"Confirmed" why should I believe a company. "G-g-g-guys this is all on purpose, you will see, pinky promise!"

[rhorle]

"Confirmed" why should I believe a company. "G-g-g-guys this is all on purpose, you will see, pinky promise!"

Why follow or discuss if you just automatically assume Blizzard is lying?

[iamthedevil]

Confirmed to be an offworld legion base by blizz employee on twitter.

[Verdugo]

Why follow or discuss if you just automatically assume Blizzard is lying?

There is only so many times I can give them benefit of the doubt.

[KainneAbsolute]

Nobbel shared that Wow's Cinematic Director Supervisor agreed with a tweet about Draka stealing a map from a Legion World.

[deenman]

''Disney does it too!''

Ow yeah Disney...... another behemoth that fell to greed and SJW agendas. Comparable indeed.

what is a ''sjw agendas''?using women and minorities or some lgbtq people in film more often?those dastardly heathens! how dare they represent more than just white cis men in films! monsters!

[shadowmatrix]

There is only so many times I can give them benefit of the doubt.

Then I suggest you stay far away from Dragonball Z, your head would explode.

[KrayZ33]

"Intended" - yeah... sure.

Because it's surely their intention to re-use art in that way so we ask ourselves "are they just lazy, or is the some new story element because they changed the background colour?"

What I believe them about this is that it was intented to show a legion world/building. But they sure as hell could've done a better job showing that.

[scrappybristol]

I don't mind it.

Even if it was a reused asset, they gave us a pretty good reason.

The Legion already managed to make off with 2 legendarys from the Maw, of course Sargeras would want to conquer the Shadowlands for his own use.

[Relapses]

"Intended" - yeah... sure.

Because it's surely their intention to re-use art in that way so we ask ourselves "are they just lazy, or is the some new story element because they changed the background colour?"

What I believe them about this is that it was intented to show a legion world/building. But they sure as hell could've done a better job showing that.

Taliesin framed the absolutely hilarious absurdity of this cynical take better than I ever could.