Some people are quick to judge these character trailers as big cheese cinematics, just watch the Cinematic Trailer. Granted the Monk announcement was pretty horrid, though the Demon Hunter had great atmosphere.. Just as Eld said, it's not a cinematic, it's just a class reveal.
They created a new cinematics team at some point, to handle these kind of things, I think talked about it in the making-of WOTLK. So as far as I know it's not a product of the main cinematics team.
If these are not real time then something is really wrong with the cinematics guys down there. And as well all know they fucking rock, that just means these are all real time. They better not skimp on the prerendered cinematics like in SC2.
That's the problem with setting the standards to high as a company :p, people expect nothing less than pre-rendered high-quality cinematic trailers with the best quality in the entire industry. But atleast these are not going to be the ingame one, since when they do those they it's in the vein of sc2 ingame cinematics.…
Laaaaaaaame! This comes nowhere near the coolness and achievement that were the original D1+2 cinematics. I'll never forget the raven picking that eye. This is just in-game animated stuff but still... total cheese. Had only the game/cinematics retained the look of the actual D3 logo...…