BlizzCon 2011 Panel: Making of the "Black Soulstone" Cinematic

This Blizzcon 2011 panel featured seven members of the Blizzard cinematic team, as they exhaustively detailed the creation of The Black Soulstone cinematic, which debuted at the convention that year.

This article provides a full write-up of the panel, with extensive imagery from it. You can also watch the panel via the Diablo IncGamers YouTube channel.

There was a fair amount of new monster artwork shown during the panel, but as the content focused on the technical aspects of creating the cinematic, there was little new game or plot information revealed.

The Black Soulstone Panel

The panel began with a showing of the three-minute cinematic itself, which is embedded below.

• See the Black Soulstone cinematic article for more information, screenshots, and analysis of the cinematic itself.