William Petras
aka:
Bill Petras
Moby ID: 28012
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Bill Petras is the Art Director on OVERWATCH from Blizzard Entertainment. Bill was also Art Director on the vanilla World of Warcraft. He left the studio in 2005 with other employees shortly after completing the game to found development studio Red 5 Studios Inc. Bill has returned to Blizzard Entertainment in 2010.
Credited on 29 games
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Diablo II: Resurrected (2021, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
WarCraft III: Reforged (2020, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
World of WarCraft: Battle for Azeroth (2018, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
StarCraft: Remastered (2017, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops - Mission Pack 3 (2016, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
World of WarCraft: Legion (2016, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
Overwatch (2016, Windows) | Art Director |
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (2015, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
Heroes of the Storm (2015, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
World of WarCraft: Warlords of Draenor (2014, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls - Ultimate Evil Edition (2014, PlayStation 4) | Blizzard Development Family |
Firefall (2014, Windows) | Red 5 Founders |
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (2014, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (2014, Windows) | Blizzard Development Family |
World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade (2007, Macintosh) | Additional Art |
World of WarCraft (2004, Windows) | Art Director |
WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (Collector's Edition) (2002, Windows) | 2D Artists |
Diablo II (2000, Macintosh) | Supplemental Play Balance Team |
Diablo II (Collector's Edition) (2000, Windows) | Supplemental Play Balance Team |
StarCraft: Brood War (1999, Macintosh) | Artists |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 21 games with Sam Didier
- 21 games with Michael Heiberg
- 21 games with Hung Nguyen
- 21 games with Geoff Fraizer
- 21 games with Pat Nagle
- 20 games with Chris Metzen
- 20 games with Justin Thavirat
- 20 games with Robert Pardo
- 20 games with Isaac Matarasso
- 20 games with Matthew Morris
Companies
- 21 games with Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- 6 games with Activision Blizzard...
- 5 games with Take-Two Interactive...
- 4 games with Firelight Technologies Pty. Ltd.
- 4 games with Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- 3 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 3 games with MicroProse Greensburg
- 3 games with GameTek (FL), Inc.
- 3 games with MicroProse Software, Inc.
- 3 games with SoftClub
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