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I'm pretty happy that GW is endorsing Astartes ( and 3 other artists/groups ) considering how gory it is. You definitely need to check out the trailer for The Exodite though.

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

Shouldn't this be about dino-riding elfs?

The creator has memory holed the original videos from YouTube and now it's exclusively found only on the WarCom site, and only as a supercut.

The video won't play for me on my browser, and I didn't think that the author would use 1984 as an instruction guide. Anyone happen to have saved the YouTube videos and can share them?

Best guess on how badly GW balls this up gets a free cookie from myself.

That's super great of GW to recognize and bring these talented people on board. Hopefully they don't squelch their creativity with cooperate BS.

 harlokin wrote:
Shouln't this be about dino-riding elfs?

It's just like "Pariah" being released without any actual Pariahs.

If they actually did an animation on dino-riding elfs, people might expect them to actually make that army for the table.

So...

My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines. Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
The creator has memory holed the original videos from YouTube and now it's exclusively found only on the WarCom site, and only as a supercut.

The video won't play for me on my browser, and I didn't think that the author would use 1984 as an instruction guide. Anyone happen to have saved the YouTube videos and can share them?

Best guess on how badly GW balls this up gets a free cookie from myself.

What browser?

The supercut is here, but not the artist's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A

Not sure how long that will last, but as they say - once something is on the internet...

 Daedalus81 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
The creator has memory holed the original videos from YouTube and now it's exclusively found only on the WarCom site, and only as a supercut.

The video won't play for me on my browser, and I didn't think that the author would use 1984 as an instruction guide. Anyone happen to have saved the YouTube videos and can share them?

Best guess on how badly GW balls this up gets a free cookie from myself.

What browser?

The supercut is here, but not the artist's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A

Not sure how long that will last, but as they say - once something is on the internet...

Yeah because I want to watch a supercut that ruins the pacing of the story with more encoding artifacts than a dead valve game. /s I managed to get around the video not playing on the WarCom site, but they've added SFX and music and ruined the entire thing. It's not a rehosting, they've totally mangled the sound design.

This is insulting to his fans and his supporters, and I hope this all crashes and burns around him, it's the least he deserves.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Best guess on how badly GW balls this up gets a free cookie from myself.

I would put my chip on something along the lines of "For the cheap cost of 14.99 per month, you can now sub to our "tv show" services and watch in high fidelity 720p what was once planned as free content !". (or supported by patreons, as it happens).

It's great for the guys that were doing these though.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines.

This is also my fear.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

That's very much the wrong attitude to take, though. We don't know how this will play out. GW could be funding him and giving him a team to increase the pace of him realizing his vision.

@BaconCatBug -Were you one of his patrons?

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines. Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

Wow, I can only wish horrible people like you are just like this on the internet and are somehow rational normal people in person.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Yeah because I want to watch a supercut that ruins the pacing of the story with more encoding artifacts than a dead valve game. /s I managed to get around the video not playing on the WarCom site, but they've added SFX and music and ruined the entire thing. It's not a rehosting, they've totally mangled the sound design.

This is insulting to his fans and his supporters, and I hope this all crashes and burns around him, it's the least he deserves.

Ah, there it is! The final ingredient for my mashed potatoes!

 Sentineil wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines. Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

Wow, I can only wish horrible people like you are just like this on the internet and are somehow rational normal people in person.

A guy who the moment he was given a bit of money decided to throw all creative integrity out the window, do a poor job of re-doing the audio because of legal issues, and memory hole his originals because sod you, got mine. I stand by what I said.

 Insectum7 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines.

This is also my fear.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

That's very much the wrong attitude to take, though. We don't know how this will play out. GW could be funding him and giving him a team to increase the pace of him realizing his vision.

I think "the guy" was taking donations to make further content. While the words are strong, I would understand the disappointment.

And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

dhallnet wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines.

This is also my fear.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

That's very much the wrong attitude to take, though. We don't know how this will play out. GW could be funding him and giving him a team to increase the pace of him realizing his vision.

I think "the guy" was taking donations to make further content. While the words might be strong I would understand the disappointment.

God forbid a person should be paid well by an IP for their skills and love of that IP. I bet the guy's a GW apologist, too. And hey, I must be, too! Let's just throw the whole thing out because we don't like the new sound mixing.

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

 Octopoid wrote:

God forbid a person should be paid well by an IP for their skills and love of that IP. I bet the guy's a GW apologist, too. And hey, I must be, too! Let's just throw the whole thing out because we don't like the new sound mixing.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?
I mean, I also agree that it's cool for him to be recognised. I'm just wondering how this is solved though.

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

Because, naturally, as soon as he is employed by GW, he won't make a sequel. That's a clear and logical assumption, based on... um... reasons.

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

Because, naturally, as soon as he is employed by GW, he won't make a sequel. That's a clear and logical assumption, based on... um... reasons.

You understand that his past work is now available only on GW's platform and that he is now making the next instalment on their behalf ?

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

I dunno. I havent read his contract or talked to him as to what happens next. I hope the deal has given him some financial stability and taken away the stress of potentially being smacked with a legal threat over what is obviously a massive piece of heartfelt work.

dhallnet wrote:

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

Because, naturally, as soon as he is employed by GW, he won't make a sequel. That's a clear and logical assumption, based on... um... reasons.

You understand that his past work is available only on GW's platform and that he is now making the next instalment for them ?

Yes. I bet GW paid for his work and employed his skills so he could NOT do what made him popular in the first place, and instead are planning to shutter his work, after just advertising it to the whole world. That makes sense. <nod>

 Flinty wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

I dunno. I havent read his contract or talked to him as to what happens next. I hope the deal has given him some financial stability and taken away the stress of potentially being smacked with a legal threat over what is obviously a massive piece of heartfelt work.

Anyone who puts money over principles is a bad person, period.

Ugh, the supercut now released does ruin the audio a fair bit, practically everything is worse than in the originals in this regard.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 Flinty wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

I dunno. I havent read his contract or talked to him as to what happens next. I hope the deal has given him some financial stability and taken away the stress of potentially being smacked with a legal threat over what is obviously a massive piece of heartfelt work.

Anyone who puts money over principles is a bad person, period.

Spoken from a position of privilege.

 Octopoid wrote:
Spoken from a position of privilege.

Yes, clearly I am a multi trillionaire with my own private moon, not someone working paycheque to paycheque in a minimum wage job. /s

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 Octopoid wrote:
Spoken from a position of privilege.

Yes, clearly I am a multi trillionaire with my own private moon, not someone working paycheque to paycheque in a minimum wage job. /s

Because the only privilege in the world is being a multi-trillionaire. It's impossible that being a wage-slave is actually an improvement over someone else's position, and the threat of legal action for doing something you love doesn't factor in at all. Well done.

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

Because, naturally, as soon as he is employed by GW, he won't make a sequel. That's a clear and logical assumption, based on... um... reasons.

You understand that his past work is available only on GW's platform and that he is now making the next instalment for them ?

Yes. I bet GW paid for his work and employed his skills so he could NOT do what made him popular in the first place, and instead are planning to shutter his work, after just advertising it to the whole world. That makes sense. <nod>

?
They employed him so he could make what he does for them and sell it instead of letting him release it for free, in competition with their own plans. I'm just wondering what happens of his patreons in this context. Is this too hard to get ?

I don't blame the dude, it's obviously great for him on multiple levels.

dhallnet wrote:

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Octopoid wrote:

dhallnet wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
And good for him. Put in a lot of effort and I hope GW gave him a massive payoff. Looking forward to.whatever comes.next.

And the guys funding him to make a sequel can just go look somewhere else ?

Because, naturally, as soon as he is employed by GW, he won't make a sequel. That's a clear and logical assumption, based on... um... reasons.

You understand that his past work is available only on GW's platform and that he is now making the next instalment for them ?

Yes. I bet GW paid for his work and employed his skills so he could NOT do what made him popular in the first place, and instead are planning to shutter his work, after just advertising it to the whole world. That makes sense. <nod>

?
They employed him so he could make stuff for them so that they can sell that too instead of letting him release stuff for free, in competition with their own plans. I'm just wondering what happens of the patreons in this context. Is this too hard to get ?

It's not too hard to get. It just seems like Chicken Little-ing that the sky is falling when we don't know what his contract is, or what his plans are, or what GW's plans are for that matter. Calmate, muchacho, and wait to moan about GW ruining things AFTER they've done so.

dhallnet wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
My guess is it will become a glorified advert for the new wave of Primaris Marines.

This is also my fear.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Seriously, feth this guy. I can only hope the whole thing crashes and burns at this point.

That's very much the wrong attitude to take, though. We don't know how this will play out. GW could be funding him and giving him a team to increase the pace of him realizing his vision.

I think "the guy" was taking donations to make further content. While the words are strong, I would understand the disappointment.

I can totally understand some wariness, I just wouldn't jump to conclusions. I'm definitely eager to see how this plays out. It could be great, it could be terrible.

Once donations are involved, we're talking about a situation where a person is getting revenue off an IP they do not own, which gets into sticky territory. For better or for worse GW has a lot of legal clout here.