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 Darth Bob wrote:
Very impressive. Marcus seems like a really interesting character and I'm very curious where the plot will go. Apparently the lip syncing problem is due to the original language being in German. I kind of wish we could have gotten the German version with English subtitles. The German language works really well for 40k, I think.

That was my only disappointment. I too would love to see it that way.

 BrookM wrote:
It looks good, certainly a million times better than that official attempt.

A few things bothered me though..

- Some of the sounds are really out of place sounding, like the vase shattering and the gunshot, they sound like poor quality stock audio

- The copy-pasting of the same model Guardsmen and Space Marines at the parade is quite obvious, especially when the all have the same limited animation going on, which even when not in sync really stands out

- Some of the characters do a lot of gesturing and moving about to convey something, they look awfully busy

That said, really looking forward to the full thing.

It's an interesting take on Terra, perhaps a bit too clean and sleek looking, but an interesting take nonetheless.

Agreed. When I saw the same scratches on all the marines shoulders I couldn't stop looking at it. It doesn't matter how good something is, if there's a blemish then that's what our mind fixates on- we were warned about it in film class. That's the way our brain works.

That said, this was really well done. Excellent quality and exectution.

Thank you to the people who put a LOT of work on this.

I was telling a friend about this yesterday and then the prologue just popped up on my youtube page not soon after. Really impressive work overall. I love how he has envisioned the upper levels of Terra, it has an almost Parisian feel to it though I would like to see some more dark parts of the city later in the movie.

Other than the sound design (gun shot and vase breaking) I think it is perfect. I would like to see a dubbed German version as the lip sync really drags you out of the moment.

The animation is top notch. I paused and rewound the parts with the noble scrambling around just to admire all the little details.

Still holding out that with GW under new leadership this project will get a bit more support and maybe even lead to a full length movie at some point. One can only hope!

Very cool. Minor bits here and there that could be improved on, but as a whole, pretty much the best piece of 40k video I have seen so far. GW would be stupid not to sponsor this!

Nitpicking parts probably mentioned are the gun sound, lip not synching with voice, lack of crowd watching the parade.

I love the nearly naked serfs pushing the vehicle, mass guard formation, imperial fist parading. Well done overall.

Awesome work from those guys.

With over 160,000 views in just 13 hours after release, I imagine someone in GW will be taking note.

The Imperial Fists all appear to have terminator honours despite not being First Company.

Just to nitpick.

That was pretty damned cool. Some sounds were off (not the music - that was fantastic), but really my only criticism is that Terra's immediate orbit seemed very empty. Shouldn't Terra have tons of gak flying around it, from defensive platforms to ship yars to just Corucscant+ levels of space traffic?

 Ankhalagon wrote:
Wow, just wow!
Way better than Ultramarines.

For one thing, this clip didn't use a smoke filter to cover up bad animation and floaty physics!

Fantastic work. And the soundtrack is great, done by Adam Harvey, who also composed the Ultramarines one.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2087515/

Erasmus, who leads the TLI project, works on Star Citizen for a while now, employed at the Frankfurt CIG studio.

The amount of money such quality animation for an at least 80 minutes feature film is beyond everything GW could ever afford to pay for. It would also have trouble bring that money back, to be fair. Warhammer 40k is a small affair. People have unrealistic expectations. And GW has pointed out several times that the problem of giving out a licence for a movie is the fact there is no one out there interested to put a lot of money into a 40k film and they could not find someone who is also accepting the clause GW is the one selling the toys for it. Which of course GW cannot handle otherwise. Lego would never give out a licence for Lego films which allows the contractor to sell a toy line accompanying it.

The Lord Inquisitor is a great project. Fanmade. A lot of time spent without getting paid for.

But it does not fix the problems a 40k feature film has been struggling with. This is not going to start a new era of 40k movies. Maybe the Horus Heresy will be popular enough one day to find investors for such a project. Being New York Times best seller books could help with it.

I liked the Ultramarines movie by the way. For such a low amount of money they had at hand it was okay and I especially enjoyed the documentaries on the DVD. They made me appreciate the effort put into it and Ultramarines was entertaining enough given all the restrictions they had to cope with. I read the comic intro, watched the film, then the documentaries. You cannot ignore it was a labour of love too.

Fingers crossed the overall 20 minutes Lord Inquisitor film can be finished. It is great to see this universe getting visualized in animated form. The prologue has been an amazing start.

motski wrote:
Awesome work from those guys.

With over 160,000 views in just 13 hours after release, I imagine someone in GW will be taking note.

Hopefully someone in Hollywood/UK equivalent will notice as well. Actually nevermind. They'd feth the whole thing up.

Yes, let's just please keep Hollywood out of this okay. Last thing we want is a Space Marine fething a Sister of Battle after wiping out all the Orks in a decisive battle that saves mankind forever.

Glorious. Really glorious. The only negative is that it is so cool that it makes me even sadder that GW completely forget the best aspect of their setting (No Inq game :( ).

It is so good that I can't believe nobody at GW will fund this. If they have any brain, they should use it to promote their setting and even introduce a new inq game (SG has ressurected after all)

Impressive.

 streetsamurai wrote:
Glorious. Really glorious. The only negative is that it is so cool that it makes me even sadder that GW completely forget the best aspect of their setting (No Inq game :( ).

It is so good that I can't believe nobody at GW will fund this. If they have any brain, they should use it to promote their setting and even introduce a new inq game (SG has ressurected after all)

I'm just proud of GW for allowing it. Hopefully that will translate to them actually funding future products like this.

I thought AD-B had something to do with the story but that was long ago when the project started. It's great GW isn't stopping this and can't wait for the whole thing.

He is listed in the credits, but he himself has stated that his involvement with the project is minimal at best.

AD-B checked with GW before getting involved, as did the creator of this thing, as neither side wanted another Damnatus on their hands.

It's not perfect, but it's a fan creation, ultimately, so a lot can be forgiven.

And it gets so much so very, very right


I love the way he's built Terra, and the sound in the sequence in the parade building up from the guardsmen, to the Marines, to the dreadnoughts, to the Inquisitor's float gave me tingles...

 insaniak wrote:
It's not perfect, but it's a fan creation, ultimately, so a lot can be forgiven.

And it gets so much so very, very right


I love the way he's built Terra, and the sound in the sequence in the parade building up from the guardsmen, to the Marines, to the dreadnoughts, to the Inquisitor's float gave me tingles...

Precisely how I feel, I cannot and would not criticize this, as a labor of love, as a fan work, it's mind blowing. It genuinely made me happy and impressed me hugely.

It's great and I wish GW pays for their next one.

I don't like the cocky showboat inquisitor though. As someone on YT put it, he acts like a kid who has just stolen his father's keys or sth. Obviously my opinion can change after watching the whole thing etc.

Also the IG on parade looks fake, copy and paste too visible.

Nitpicks though and can't change how impressive it is, truely a labour or love. Or labour of hate rather (insert black metal riff, distant mumbling and a sound of a body torn apart heh.)

Man, I have waited years for these 9 minutes...and praise the God-Emperor, it was worth every minute.

Plumbumbarum wrote:
It's great and I wish GW pays for their next one.

I don't like the cocky showboat inquisitor though. As someone on YT put it, he acts like a kid who has just stolen his father's keys or sth. Obviously my opinion can change after watching the whole thing etc.

Also the IG on parade looks fake, copy and paste too visible.

Nitpicks though and can't change how impressive it is, truely a labour or love. Or labour of hate rather (insert black metal riff, distant mumbling and a sound of a body torn apart heh.)

I actually like the cocky attitude presented. Every other time I can picture an Inquisitor as very grim and simply dedicated to their job and nothing more. This guy the attitude of how good he is and that's actually not a bad thing in this setting. Makes him somewhat more dynamic if you will.

Plumbumbarum wrote:

I don't like the cocky showboat inquisitor though. As someone on YT put it, he acts like a kid who has just stolen his father's keys or sth. Obviously my opinion can change after watching the whole thing etc.

He's the young sidekick... the cockiness works in that regard, and I'm wondering if the path that cockiness leads him along will turn out to be a part of the story arc.

Plumbumbarum wrote:
It's great and I wish GW pays for their next one.

I don't like the cocky showboat inquisitor though. As someone on YT put it, he acts like a kid who has just stolen his father's keys or sth. Obviously my opinion can change after watching the whole thing etc.

Also the IG on parade looks fake, copy and paste too visible.

Nitpicks though and can't change how impressive it is, truely a labour or love. Or labour of hate rather (insert black metal riff, distant mumbling and a sound of a body torn apart heh.)

Yeah, it bothered me a bit also at first. But then, I guess not all inquisitor are of the stoic/phlegmatic kind. And since it is not unusual for inquisitor to be recruited from the slumps of hive cities, it kind of make sense that some would be rude, cocky and arrogant

Incredible work there. Looks great and the story was interesting.

Amazing, this is über-levels of fan work. Agree with the above that the space around Terra is a little empty - The Moon would probably be glowing with all of the hive cities residing there and whatnot (if my 40k fluff knowledge serves me correctly). I'm sure that the sound fx and lip-sync can be polished up in time.

The young Inquisitor 3dge_l0rd_1337 has my heretic senses tingling, the way he finished off that babbling Imperial noble would certainly please the Dark Gods, I reckon.

But yes, this is fantastic stuff. Hopefully it does indeed attract further attention, and the creators get all of the recognition they deserve (that's if it all works out and proves popular, which by all present indications seems likely). 40k is the sci-fi universe that we all see copied in video games, but not the silver screen. Whether it be in feature-film format or the increasingly popular short-episode filled series, who knows what the future may bring. (And please don't sell short on your IP, GW!)

Looks good so far.

 insaniak wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:

I don't like the cocky showboat inquisitor though. As someone on YT put it, he acts like a kid who has just stolen his father's keys or sth. Obviously my opinion can change after watching the whole thing etc.

He's the young sidekick... the cockiness works in that regard, and I'm wondering if the path that cockiness leads him along will turn out to be a part of the story arc.

Put me in mind of Carl Thonius and the blonde guy in Eisenhorn, Inshubel (?), who were both cocky sods, perhaps this one is a very recently elevated interrogator?

He's Ramsey Bolton

Inquisitors spend their days hunting the worst people, and then executing them. Inquisitors are not inherently nice people.

I like the young inquisitor. He is cocky and arrogant, but from his point of view, why shouldn't he be ? He operates at the highest levels of authority and literally believes he is on the side of righteousness.

EVERY faction in 40K is an army of bad guys that sees themselves as the good guys.

He's also clearly an underling of the Lord Inquisitor, as shown by the skype message. He hasnt yet had his sotic grimdarkness burned into him through centuries of service.