An interview with Nick Carpenter, Blizzard cinematic creative director, has surfaced on Blizzard’s StarCraft 2 site.

It features 3 parts: Concept, Storytelling and Technology.

Nick talks about the creative process for both the artwork and story, and elaborates on the technology required to create the amazing 3D videos Blizzard is known for.

” When you see all the intricate pieces of the armor coming together, you really get to appreciate the power and the toughness of the marine unit from a whole new perspective. But this is only the most basic unit; this is your cannon fodder, your red shirts. If the creation of a mere marine is already this cool, just imagine what it must be like when a goliath or a siege tank is assembled. Essentially, we picked this scene because we felt it was a great way to return to the StarCraft universe - open up with something small, but finish with something really big.”

Here’s hoping for a follow up Goliath cinematic!

Make sure to grab the preview cinematic movie from our video server if you haven’t seen it already.

This is going to be a rough time. StarCraft 2 has been announced, and we’ve all seen the preview movie… but now what? With no new information coming out, all that’s left is fan speculation and endless previews and guesses. Here are a few interesting articles that fit this description:

http://www.firingsquad.com/features/starcraft_2_preview/

“This may come as a surprise to some people, but this is StarCraft II. It’s not going to be Company of Heroes, it won’t be Age of Empires, and it certainly isn’t going to be Supreme Commander or Homeworld. Anyone expecting anything else except fundamental StarCraft gameplay is going to be sorely disappointed.”

FiringSquad’s Jakub tells it like it is, and offers a nice analysis of what makes StarCraft StarCraft.

Next up, two previews at IGN:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/790/790158p1.html

This preview summarizes a few panels with Blizzard developers, namely Rob Pardo, Chris Sigaty, Dustin Browder, Mike Morhaime, Paul Sams, Chris Metzen, and Jungwon Hahn. The guys answer a few burning questions about the game.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/790/790160p1.html

This preview deals with the new units featured on the preview video. Specifically: The Zerg Banelings, Terran Reaper, and the Protoss Colossus, Immortal, Phoenix, Stalker, Warp Ray, Phase Prism and of course, Mothership.

That’s it for now. We’re all starved for new information, but when will Blizzard deliver?