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A 40k series or movie of some sort is long overdue. There's so much potential, especially if they don't shy away from over the top grim dark violence, character deaths and the like. I think a live action series aimed at adults would probably be well received even by normies. But anyway, this is a step in the right direction, and it's really cool that they went to the fandom for talent.

Maybe they can do a Horus Heresy series via the medium of TV. That way, our grandchildren's grandchildren will finally be able to see the Siege of Terra fully realised in animation!

Yes, that was a joke about GW taking forever with the HH.

Obvious as it may sound, there are virtually limitless stories that can be told using 40K. Starting with Marines is a good place to go, but I hope that's not the place we stay.

 Grimtuff wrote:
The ones they've used in their recent videos are awful at times. The Chaos Lord dude in the Vigilus video has such an unimposing voice- it's like if David Beckham was a SM.

Hey, now, it's Chaos we're talking about here! Maybe one of his mutations caused him to have an unimposing voice?

...now I want to see the Bloodquest movie they never released.

Eumerin wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:
The ones they've used in their recent videos are awful at times. The Chaos Lord dude in the Vigilus video has such an unimposing voice- it's like if David Beckham was a SM.

Hey, now, it's Chaos we're talking about here! Maybe one of his mutations caused him to have an unimposing voice?

The classic, and genuine, Silly Voice mutation/reward.

I love the idea but I have seen better CGI in adult films. I hope this was a proof of concept type video and not final footage.

 Thairne wrote:
I wish to know if it is better than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-MteECxZUY

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGPMJ8A0QY

There is some simply INCREDIBLE stuff out there.

Still, I'm really happy to see them tackle this!

This is still the best piece of animation of Marines that I have seen.

Quality remains to be seen, but the fact they're branching out to different media is a good thing.

 Pacific wrote:
Looks cool! Liked the pan-back camera shot at the end.

How is this likely to be distributed? Youtube or any chance of something like this ending up on Netflix?

Limited edition punch card box?

Movies and series about games and/or toys generally aren't that good. So I'm gonna keep my reservations on this one.

But I am very curious what this us gonna be...

ummm...that clip looks like crap. Really GW? More early 90's era looking CG?

There is no way I am going to watch something that looks that bad.

But the stories you say?...yeah, freakin space marines. How boring are they? If they're not having daddy issues and rebelling they're killing in daddy's name.

GW...Be ballsy. Give us a Gaunt's Ghosts animated series on Netflix.

And PLEASE drop the cheesy CGI.

ender502

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
That Helsreach looks artistically interesting. Is it worth the watch?

Stunning adaption - lots of nice touches over the audio book - eg having some female voice talent for those characters - especially good for the Imperator Titan Princeps.

Watch and enjoy!

Helsreach is definitely worth the watch in my opinion. Also, I would warn not be thrown off by the initial artistic approach, as the animation continues to evolve throughout the series.

I am definitely excited to see what the developer can accomplish now with GW's backing!

 Mr Morden wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
That Helsreach looks artistically interesting. Is it worth the watch?

Stunning adaption - lots of nice touches over the audio book - eg having some female voice talent for those characters - especially good for the Imperator Titan Princeps.

Watch and enjoy!

Helsreach looks way better than that CG nightmare of a teaser.

ender502

Given that it is the Helsreach folks doing this I have high hopes as their previous work (on their free time) is amazing.

I really wish they would hire the Lord Inquisitor guy though, I was devastated when he cancelled the project.

 vonjankmon wrote:
Given that it is the Helsreach folks doing this I have high hopes as their previous work (on their free time) is amazing.

I really wish they would hire the Lord Inquisitor guy though, I was devastated when he cancelled the project.

YEah that is more unlikely he is done he wants his own projects and his own IP.

Helsreach looks way better than that CG nightmare of a teaser.

Ehh. We only saw like a minute. Maybe the marketing department at GW hasn't really dealt with animations before so they cut it a bit too much.

Also if people haven't read Devastation of Baal Please do its one of the best 40k books in dark imperium.

Looks like the intro cinematic to a PS2 game.

Bad CG trailer is bad.

I don't have a problem with the animation, I just hope the story and voice acting are good.

doesn't seems too interesting unfortunately. It look to be in the vein of that terrible Space Marines movie they made a few years ago.. Shame that they didn't hired the Lord Inquisotor guy instead. Looked so much better and original

 streetsamurai wrote:
doesn't seems too interesting unfortunately. Shame that they didn't hired the Lord Inquisotor guy instead. Looked so much better and original

That ain't happening.

Bad CG TRAILER

Its not that bad. Whats the 'bad' criteria here? Inhuman or uncanny valley?

What is the quantifying applications here for 'bad cg'. None of the effects were off, it was just cut together poorly and was too quick. Not enough establishing shots or time taken between sequences / scenes in the trailer. Which would be the only gripes with it. The animations were fine, the textures look great. please quantify.

 Asherian Command wrote:


Its not that bad. Whats the 'bad' criteria here? Inhuman or uncanny valley?

What is the quantifying applications here for 'bad cg'. None of the effects were off, it was just cut together poorly and was too quick. Not enough establishing shots or time taken between sequences / scenes in the trailer. Which would be the only gripes with it. The animations were fine, the textures look great. please quantify.

Dude, it looks practically PS1 levels of CG...That's what i'd call bad.

 ender502 wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:


Its not that bad. Whats the 'bad' criteria here? Inhuman or uncanny valley?

What is the quantifying applications here for 'bad cg'. None of the effects were off, it was just cut together poorly and was too quick. Not enough establishing shots or time taken between sequences / scenes in the trailer. Which would be the only gripes with it. The animations were fine, the textures look great. please quantify.

Dude, it looks practically PS1 levels of CG...That's what i'd call bad.

You're either being hyperbolic to a genuinely farcical degree, or you have a pretty warped recollection of old CGI.

The best what I have seen so far was Helsreach. The Space Marines in that project were actual characters and not one dimensional soldiers which can only grunt and howl.

What an absolute poop that is? The quality of render and animation is appalling.
No thanks GW

Kindly do not circumvent the language filter - BrookM

 Yodhrin wrote:

 ender502 wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:


Its not that bad. Whats the 'bad' criteria here? Inhuman or uncanny valley?

What is the quantifying applications here for 'bad cg'. None of the effects were off, it was just cut together poorly and was too quick. Not enough establishing shots or time taken between sequences / scenes in the trailer. Which would be the only gripes with it. The animations were fine, the textures look great. please quantify.

Dude, it looks practically PS1 levels of CG...That's what i'd call bad.

You're either being hyperbolic to a genuinely farcical degree, or you have a pretty warped recollection of old CGI.

I'm probably not being fair to the PS1...It may well have been better.

This trailer is utter crap. More of the same. How geriatric are the people making decisions that they would see that and be "that'll wow em!"

I'm probably being silly. The GW decision makers saw it and probably said "Those lemmings will just eat that up like every other piece of crap we put our logo on"....and then laugh their way to the bank.

ender502

Looks fine to me.

It often feels like there's only two types of CGI on the internet - whatever the current state of the art is and "oh noes so bad my eyes!"

Comparisons to PS1 era CGI are absurd, and only sound uninformed at best and either hysterical or intentionally malicious at worst. No bloody wonder GW still doesn't allow comments on their YT channel - they'd have so much pointless nerdrage to wade through every time they did... anything.

It's an in house project by a tabletop games company, not the latest Blizzard cinematic, so I'll look at it like that and say looks okay, let's see how it turns out.

 ashcroft wrote:
Looks fine to me.

It often feels like there's only two types of CGI on the internet - whatever the current state of the art is and "oh noes so bad my eyes!"

Comparisons to PS1 era CGI are absurd, and only sound uninformed at best and either hysterical or intentionally malicious at worst. No bloody wonder GW still doesn't allow comments on their YT channel - they'd have so much pointless nerdrage to wade through every time they did... anything.

It's an in house project by a tabletop games company, not the latest Blizzard cinematic, so I'll look at it like that and say looks okay, let's see how it turns out.

Peoples expectations are a bit high for a modelling company

They use CAD but I don't think they can use that for CGI.

I completely agree its just silly to be angry about it. I know student projects that had months in the bakery and don't look half as good as that trailer.

blimey that titan looks like total crap, dont mind everything else but daaaaaamn, that thing had better be pre high res textures or something, proportions seem all off too.

anyway, as long as the story is good, i can let the animation go.... please dont be ultramarines.

 Formosa wrote:
blimey that titan looks like total crap, dont mind everything else but daaaaaamn, that thing had better be pre high res textures or something, proportions seem all off too.

anyway, as long as the story is good, i can let the animation go.... please dont be ultramarines.

read da article its blood angels.

I mean, if you had taken like even just 3 seconds to watch the trailer you could see that they aren't UM haha.

Hell if you even just glanced at the thumbnail of the video you can see a crimson red loyalist dreadnought.

Asherian Command wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
blimey that titan looks like total crap, dont mind everything else but daaaaaamn, that thing had better be pre high res textures or something, proportions seem all off too.

anyway, as long as the story is good, i can let the animation go.... please dont be ultramarines.

read da article its blood angels.

BlaxicanX wrote:I mean, if you had taken like even just 3 seconds to watch the trailer you could see that they aren't UM haha.

Hell if you even just glanced at the thumbnail of the video you can see a crimson red loyalist dreadnought.

No no, They're referring to the 'ultramarines' MOVIE, I think. It's this 2010 CGI film about 40k that flopped, IIRC. the people mentioning it are worried this show will end up with a story on par with that movie.