I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but Gnomes aren’t the only race to not be featured in a CGI cinematic, there are no Goblins in cinematics either. There have been 2 trolls (BC intro and Old Soldier) and everyone disses the Gnomes for being absent in cinematics, but Goblins have been neglected for a long time that pretty much everyone has forgotten they were never added in a cinematic either.
That’s because Goblins and Gnomes aren’t really all that photogenic. I think it has something to do with the noses and ears respectively.
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I feel like these look normal? I mean I never notice them
I think night elf ears are much more noticeable personally
Add some fur and you have Vulpera ears… cute and fuzzy on a fox, but bald and green? Nah, yuk!
Gnomes and goblins are there. They’re just under the lens fov.
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You called?
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Because they’re not furry enough.
Sorry, all the budget originally allocated for gnomes and goblins went into rendering Anduin’s facial hair.
It wasn’t a very large budget to begin with.
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Also, who needs a kite when you and tie a gnome to a piece of twine and watch him take off with a running start, and it’s nose would make a decent rudder… And Goblin kites are already in the game, though the new improved Goblin kite is attached to a gnome with flappy ears…
Honestly I wouldn’t expect to ever see the Gnomes, Goblins or Vulpera in any cgi cinematic.
Blizzard probably doesn’t want to figure out the height difference between them and the other races for CGI because once they do, there will be conversations on the true heights and what’s canon, what’s not etc etc. I also imagine just the scaling of them would be irritating to do.
That’s my tinfoil hat theory.
For what it’s worth in the BfA cinematic they did show a line of dwarven riflemen behind a line of human footmen so they’ve worked with scaling between different heights on races.
They even managed to sneak a single Draenei in there, but no gnomes. Poor gnomes.
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Funny enough is the flying machines in the cinematics do have gnome models. 
https://external-preview.redd.it/ZuRbINtK3YU2FU18MXpuRWk-Bon9WvoFfXCO3DaGTmE.jpg?auto=webp&s=cb4e35b1217ddf756f62b802672aa679f5dca1b9
…and I think we could count the statue in booty bay. 
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/729096.jpg
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There’s the Goblin statue in Booty Bay in the Cataclysm cinematic.
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There were also 2 different trolls in the BFA expansion cinematic.
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Goblins are the ones producing the cinematics.
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Goblins are beautiful!
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Yeah but gnomes are still a good foot shorter than dwarves. I think the proportions would be off in CGI personally. Would love to see if they could do it, but I can understand them being more difficult to do due to this.
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I dont know how to feel about some of yall.
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Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Clare Harner, 1934.
Don’t cry for us, OP. We’re in the funnier animations - the world could not handle the amount of uncanny valley we’d bring to the table. She is not ready yet.
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Gnomes operate the Cameras. We goblins are operating the napalm.
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