Blizzard artists join Laguna art school faculty
by Alex Ziebart 
May 24th 2008 at 2:00PM
A few days ago, Gadgetress at ocregister.com wrote about the perks of attending the Laguna College of Art & Design, or more specifically, being on board their new video game program. Thanks to a well connected chair of the Game Art major, artists from Blizzard Entertainment, Dreamworks Animation, and Double Helix Games are on staff. Gadgetress also talks about a few students in particular, as well as Blizzard's new University Relations program. Personally, I can't think of many companies better than Blizzard or Dreamworks to have a hand in educating upcoming artists on the industry. Both of them are quite good at developing distinct, marketable styles, and obviously the individuals on staff have extensive experience in the industry. Considering this college is located near the Blizzard Campus, it's likely many of the individuals in this program have dreams of working for that particular company. Being taught by the very people you'd like to one day work with must be way cool.
Filed under: Odds and ends, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Scoottie May 24th 2008 4:46PM
So we might get more then 3 models for all the items in WoW?
Badger May 24th 2008 7:55PM
I know this technically might count as a 'complaint' on Scoottie's part, but: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *BRILLIANT*
jacksonibanezpeavey May 24th 2008 8:18PM
Yeah, it's nice to have big industry people to help out and give
people something to aspire to. Let's be honest though, most people
don't know who the hell Blizzard is, let alone want to work for them.
We WoW players are the minority looked down upon by the majority of
people, even other gamers. And you know what? Other than Blizzard
Fanboi's, most people think we're sucking at the biggest teet around
for liking the stylized graphics in wow. After all, WoW offers
NOTHING other games, even if spread out, do not and do better.
Hell... I like WoW. It's simple and it would run well even on my
older, and now replaced, laptop. That's what makes WoW big. They
sacrifice. They give up quality for playability. I don't know if this
is a bad thing exactly but MMO's strive for immersion.
Any game with a half assed story and better graphics puts wow to
shame. Wow's "kill 10 boars and return to me" mentality is seriously
lame and *will* be a detriment at some point. It's not Blizzard's
fault that most of their other rival games have fucked up in some big
way, but it *will* be their fault that they eventually bite the dust.
Their drug dealer customer support plan will come to bite them
sometime.
And, for all who feel the need to respond with some cliche response
for Blizzard, understand this: they took what others did, improved
upon it, and got complacent in their position on top. It *will* screw
them. I like their game but it's a pain in the ass in a lot of ways.
If you say otherwise you either a) are a DPS spoiled newbie; or, b)
are an apologist. Assholes throughout time have had apologists. The
quality of any centralized figure means absolutely nothing if they
are widely enough known.
Compare Blizz to any other popular company and give me relevant
reasons why they are better. For anything you say there is a counter
argument. Therefore, you fanboi's mean nothing and are doomed to sink
with the ship. Blizzard is not immune to failure, regardless of the
player base. This is a business and we are the sheep to their herder.
Sheep move to greener pastures. Despite playerbase, we will move on at
some point and look back at how damn shitty this game was, in part,
how great it was in others, have nostalgia, but ultimately, never be
able to regain the feeling of compassion our empassioned selves hold
for it.
Disagree if you will, all it means is that you play too much to
realize the reality of the situation. Get some fucking sunshine. Am I
wrong? If so, prove it, otherwise, suck the damn corporate tit and why
don't you bank with Wamu, M&T, or B of A while you're at it? If you do
business with any of them, you're too oblivious to talk about
anything, so STFU you corporate apologist, illegal alien supporting,
asshats.
It's a known fact those companies allow illegal aliens to bank in the
US (read: all the damned protests; google). If you see Blizzard as
some godsend to gaming, you're poorly disillusioned and bound to
leave the industry. Good riddens, I say.
In short, get disillusioned or accept failure and betrayal. Blizzard is a corporate conglomarate, no different from any other company who outsources their workers to India, except they get American douchebags to do the job for them. I love this game but I'm realistic. WoW is a fad. Get it or feel lost when it's gone. They're too big to encounter a "WoW Killer" but they will fall to "wow killers." Mike Schramm, come tell me I'm wrong, because this game got you on TV. Badger, you too because this site recognized you for one errant post and now you're entitled to be an authority on *everything* they post. To hell you at least you disillusioned two. Badger has more skill than most writers you have, especially fucking Moo... dumbass, irresponsible, neglectful much? Hire badger so we can at least criticize someone who knows not to post bukkake BS on a fucking kids site.
To everyone else, as I'm sure some will see this last paragraph, see this for what is is. The college kids are lucky but I'm sure Blizz feels real nice know people like the bloggers on this site will support, or at least publicize, everything they do because they indirectly pay their bills. Recently, they've shown themselves to be lackies to Blizzard's whim. And why? Because, hell, AOL the corporate conglomarate and all the blogger's boss says so. Independent jounalism my ass. I read because Meta-gaming is entertaining while at work but, fellow meta-gamers, don't be disillusioned to think that anything you read on here is anything less than self-serving rabble.
For reference, see "The Care and Feeding of Warriors" several colums ago. Rossi has the most talent out of anyone they have writing on here and he got completely wiped across the floor by commentor Tamral. Rossi, why not make a post to prove him wrong or concede your own error? You're an entertaining writer but is there not responsibility on your part to serve the loyal reader?
Read this and reply, if you think you can prove me wrong. Read half and go to hell, because you're the common reader and worthy of neglect. /spit.
dAnixx May 25th 2008 4:43AM
did u reach maximum words?
jacksonibanezpeavey May 25th 2008 6:36AM
did u evr go to school? (See: I'm an under the bridge troll)