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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/10/introducing-the-next-wave-of-warhammer-animations/

In short?

Astartes is canonised and officialificared. The talented chap behind it is now working on a follow up.

A new Tau animation is well under way, with a rather spiffy looking teaser.

Also mentioned but not really shown off? The Exodite, Primaris the Last Templar and Iron Within.

All rather exciting, I trust you’ll agree.

Nice. Congratulations to them and well deserved.

Shame they didn't get the fella who did Death of Hope. Old school Realm of Chaos vibes from his animation.

Some very cool news, I really like GW going to the talent and recruiting them.

One thing of note is that the Last Templar and Iron Within aren't on youtube anymore, but can be still watched if you don't mind Valrak talking over them on his channel.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

A new Tau animation is well under way, with a rather spiffy looking teaser.

Also mentioned but not really shown off? The Exodite, Primaris the Last Templar and Iron Within.

The new Tau animation is The Exodite. So that one is shown.

The degree of trolling necessary to make an Exodite short and center it around the goddamn Tau is just glorious.

Agreed, and it's kind of delightful.

Great news! I have been hoping this would happen for quite some time now. Astartes is a phemonemal piece of moviemaking and seeing the creators behind it getting support from GW (and hopefully a nice big budget) is awesome.Same goes for the other creators, not seen any of their stuff but I look forward to seeing what they create.

That short clip for The Exodite looks equally great. Who knew Tau could look so cool!

No such thing as Tau that look cool, but I'll watch it anyway.

I just saw the email. OMG. So.excited. I really hope that corporate dullmuggery doesnt intrude here. Astartes was basically perfect. Just throw money at him to do more of the same!

I give them 6 month tops before they part ways with GW for creative differences.

I'm hoping that for the most part, these creators will be able to retain as much creative control as possible, without GW jumping in and wanting serious changes.

Related: the old Exodite teasers are no longer up, which is a shame, because Teaser 2 was so neat.

Reaction videos are still up though, if you still want to catch it.

I'm pretty excited, I've been excited for Exodite since teaser 2 and its nice to see fan projects get some support.

I think this is great news and marks another step in the direction of GW becoming their own studio. Happened with Marvel and can totally see GW trying to go the route.

Fantastic news - can't wait to see the Iron Warriors in action. Curious how much they'd be paying the Astartes guy, given that he already turned them down in the past thanks to how much he was making from his day job + patreon combo, but regardless it's brilliant that he's on board.

Astartes is now no longer on Youtube unfortunately as a result. Shame that they'd take down content that they're advertising.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Astartes is now no longer on Youtube unfortunately as a result. Shame that they'd take down content that they're advertising.

That's because the whole thing is on Warhammer Community now if you want to watch it.

Hope this helps to speed up the animation so we can get the next part quicker.

So it says where can we watch them, stay tuned to find out.
And have a MyWarhammer account.

My assumption is that it’ll be a paid portion of the app or website or whatever.
Perhaps buy each one, or a monthly rental I suppose but then you could just wait till they are all on and binge it all (not exactly gonna be 100’s of hours of stuff..

I certainly think we should be paying for it (not something I like doing, paying for things that could have been put online for free), but for the creators that could be where revenue comes from to pay them. Which they for sure deserve (I mean yeah GW will make a load of money too, but ya know..)

 Commander Cain wrote:
Great news! I have been hoping this would happen for quite some time now. Astartes is a phemonemal piece of moviemaking and seeing the creators behind it getting support from GW (and hopefully a nice big budget) is awesome.Same goes for the other creators, not seen any of their stuff but I look forward to seeing what they create.

Agreed. This is what GW (and other companies) should do when their fans do stuff, particularly stuff so utterly good. Instead of C&Ding them, give them a job.

Time to buy more stock, sounds like GW is not only planning on developing into a Lucasfilm-esque multimedia studio but potentially heading in the direction of offering its own streaming services down the line (I'm sure thats on a 10+ year plan somewhere).

That being said, it feels like GW has spent more time telling us about their tv/film/animation efforts than actually showing us anything. Its been what 2 or 3 years now since they first started talking about Hammer and Bolter and Angels of Dearth or whatever its called and they still haven't released anything other than I think a soundtrack (note - is it just me or is it weird to release a soundtrack for a film that hasn't actually released yet?) and a couple of short teaser trailers.

I get these things take time, but it feels like an unfocused scatter-brained approach to content development, they keep starting projects but not delivering on any of them.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Time to buy more stock, sounds like GW is not only planning on developing into a Lucasfilm-esque multimedia studio but potentially heading in the direction of offering its own streaming services down the line (I'm sure thats on a 10+ year plan somewhere).

That being said, it feels like GW has spent more time telling us about their tv/film/animation efforts than actually showing us anything. Its been what 2 or 3 years now since they first started talking about Hammer and Bolter and Angels of Dearth or whatever its called and they still haven't released anything other than I think a soundtrack (note - is it just me or is it weird to release a soundtrack for a film that hasn't actually released yet?) and a couple of short teaser trailers.

I get these things take time, but it feels like an unfocused scatter-brained approach to content development, they keep starting projects but not delivering on any of them.

My sense of time isn’t great at the moment, but I’m pretty sure we really started seeing the animation stuff during their first few COVID previews, so a little under a year ago. Certainly not 2-3 years.

'Even more animation?' Was some of the previously previewed stuff actually released somewhere? This sounds like more of the same- snippets, but no content.

I'm sure we started seeing it way before Corona I want to say at least a year before?

Thing is these projects take time and I hope GW takes their time with them to make them quality. Whlist they've dabbled in the past I think they are making a serious go of animation this time!



And I'm really glad to see Astartes get official recognition - that's got to be a great thing for the guy behind it even without being brought in to work on more officially as well!

 ImAGeek wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Time to buy more stock, sounds like GW is not only planning on developing into a Lucasfilm-esque multimedia studio but potentially heading in the direction of offering its own streaming services down the line (I'm sure thats on a 10+ year plan somewhere).

That being said, it feels like GW has spent more time telling us about their tv/film/animation efforts than actually showing us anything. Its been what 2 or 3 years now since they first started talking about Hammer and Bolter and Angels of Dearth or whatever its called and they still haven't released anything other than I think a soundtrack (note - is it just me or is it weird to release a soundtrack for a film that hasn't actually released yet?) and a couple of short teaser trailers.

I get these things take time, but it feels like an unfocused scatter-brained approach to content development, they keep starting projects but not delivering on any of them.

My sense of time isn’t great at the moment, but I’m pretty sure we really started seeing the animation stuff during their first few COVID previews, so a little under a year ago. Certainly not 2-3 years.

A quick google search indicates that the first announcement about Angels of Death came in December of 2018, so yeah about 2-3 years ago.

It's cool and all, but I'm pretty sure the Astartes guy is pulling in like 20k a month from Patreon.

Patreon tells you how many people subscribe doesn’t it?
How many does he have, and what’s his lowest offer, like $1?


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Or what’s his lowest proper tier. As they do it something like that don’t they?
I don’t follow anyone on it or anything..

Lowest Tier is $2 and he has 9717 Patreons

 TalonZahn wrote:
Lowest Tier is $2 and he has 9717 Patreons

IIRC Patreon takes 40% of those $2, but even if all those 9,717 supporters are at the lowest tier level he's still theoretically getting somewhere around $11,660/month before taxes and whatnot.

I mean, I'm glad that this is getting "Official" support and backing now.

I was just pointing out that, without knowing the details, he could be losing a ton of money.

Or maybe GW knows about the Patreon and gave him MORE money, which would be awesome.

Or, they let him keep the Patreon and do previews there?

No idea, just a topic of thought/discussion.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Time to buy more stock, sounds like GW is not only planning on developing into a Lucasfilm-esque multimedia studio but potentially heading in the direction of offering its own streaming services down the line (I'm sure thats on a 10+ year plan somewhere).

That being said, it feels like GW has spent more time telling us about their tv/film/animation efforts than actually showing us anything. Its been what 2 or 3 years now since they first started talking about Hammer and Bolter and Angels of Dearth or whatever its called and they still haven't released anything other than I think a soundtrack (note - is it just me or is it weird to release a soundtrack for a film that hasn't actually released yet?) and a couple of short teaser trailers.

I get these things take time, but it feels like an unfocused scatter-brained approach to content development, they keep starting projects but not delivering on any of them.

My sense of time isn’t great at the moment, but I’m pretty sure we really started seeing the animation stuff during their first few COVID previews, so a little under a year ago. Certainly not 2-3 years.

A quick google search indicates that the first announcement about Angels of Death came in December of 2018, so yeah about 2-3 years ago.

Huh.

Yeah. Then selling completed animations to GW (I can’t see them paying a wage).
He’s making some good cash!
Though deservedly so I guess, he’s very skilled.

(And the fact lots of people get paid for dancing on an app - and not even in their underwear - so making an online living isn’t unusual)