Samwise Didier

Samwise Didier

Samwise Didier is the art director at Blizzard Entertainment. He is responsible for creating much of the artwork for computer games in the "Warcraft", "StarCraft", and the "Diablo" series. He is the senior art director on "StarCraft II". [http://pc.ign.com/articles/790/790185p1.html] Among the veteran Blizzard employees, Didier has been a consistent artist for many years, his unique style greatly influencing the game art.Fact|date=September 2008

Didier was responsible for the Pandaren, a race regarded by fans - and used by Blizzard - as a "joke race" but still with legitimacy within the lore. Among other things, panda icons also appeared accompanying much of Didier's art, and could be seen in "" as the emblem on the Night Elf demon hunter's warblades, a picture in the Paladin's book, and the ashes that form after the usage of the Blood Mage's Flame Strike ability has a pattern of a panda's face.

Cover art

Samwise does the art for Hammerfall album covers. He has done the following covers:

*2002 - Hearts on Fire (EP)
*2002 - Crimson Thunder
*2003 - One Crimson Night (Live album & DVD)
*2005 - Blood Bound (EP)
*2005 -
*2006 - Natural High (EP)
*2006 - Threshold

He has also done the cover art for Joacim Cans' (Hammerfall Singer) solo album, Beyond the Gates (2004).

Trivia

Didier's face is used as an icon and unit model in Warcraft III that can be accessed from WorldEditor. The model is a cube with his face on the sides, as well as another Easter Egg model of a kobold with his head transplanted onto it.

His face is also seen in the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, used as an icon for spells and abilities that do not have an image associated with them. For instance, several spells cast by quest givers use this icon. Since they are not real spells, they use this as the icon. They are visible if the "Show Enemy Spellcast Bar" option is enabled and an NPC is targeted during casting.

Samwise is also the vocalist for the popular Blizzard band L70ETC, which is entirely composed of Blizzard employees, including President Mike Morhaime on bass guitar.

References

External links

* [http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/profile_samwise.html Profile] at Sons of the Storm
* [http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/gallery.php?artist=samwise Art Gallery]


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