Blizzard veteran Bill Petras he died at the age of 54 years old. Petras is a career 24 years long started in in the early 90s as part of the development team GameTech (Ripper, Star Crusader, and BloodNet), the first project for Blizzard he was StarCraft on which he was credited for storyboard, 3D and cinematic art.
Od 1997 to 2005. he was chief art director for World of Warcraft while the game was a global phenomenon, 2005. he left the company and participated in its founding Red 5 Studios (Firefall), in in January 2010 he returned to Blizzard where he worked as chief art director za Overwatch and Overwatch 2. He left the company in October 2021.
The news of his death on LinkedIn he shared Harley D Huggins who also worked for Blizzard and he was A close friend of Petras. Commemoration for Bill Petras will be held in the coming days.
"Piše ovu vijest sa slomljenim srcem, Bill Petras a legend of the video game industry he died suddenly. Billy was a gifted young artist who worked for Blizzard Entertainment for nearly two decades. He was extremely proud of his work, most notably as Art Director for World of Warcraft and Overwatch."
"Billy and I at Blizzard we came the same week and we were friends for the past 28 years. I will miss ours constant long conversations about life, game development, games, art, comics, toys, monster movies, and Conan. Nedostajat će meni i svthere is koji su ga znali."
