Warhammer 40.000 Astartes Animation 8K 2.0 (Remastered with Neural Network AI) 

Although thats true, the Warhammer universe is SO MASSIVE, with so much lore, yet so much unknown, that you can make anything and make it canon. Obviously you can't go crazy, like making a god stronger than all existing ones, or a huge chapter or even secret race that manipulated all events. Yeah thats to far. I might make something of my own, like a small splinter chapter or a new race at the edge of the galaxy. But hey, Warhammer is already fantastic itself.

@@_Cohuna the homebrew/fanfic stuff is my favorite part of 40k. It’s really the community that keeps the hobby going.

​@@baalgar5530 bro, the angry marines chapter is so funny.

the artist that made this is now employed by games workshop

They told him to take down his videos

@@YellowHerb sad but true

@@YellowHerb That just comes with live-action tho, it doesn't mean it can't be good, 40k needs more character focused stories imho.

@@YellowHerb The Raid and Dredd 2012 showed you can make damn good films with pure action.

henry cavill is named as the executive producer, so he will have the last say in whatever is done. and we already know he is a fan of sticking to the source material

Amazon has failed Tolkien fans like never before, so of course one would be apprehensive about what they'd do with this.

that psyker could fuck them all up that was def not an overkill

@@johnyguitar258 I am pretty sure that marine punched his head off. The bolter rounds were just insurance.

@@johnyguitar258 rule #2 double tapp

Like Johny said, possessed Psykers are nothing to take lightly for how much damage they can do, so rather than letting him fall to the ruinous powers and become an issue, they dispatched him right away in the most "merciful" way.

I saw this discussion somewhere else already. One guy made an argument: The Marine was not overkilling, but he was on spot. According to the Tabletop Rules, a Chaos Demon takes on average 4 hits to kill. That Marine was Ammo efficient

The scene that captures this comment is at 245 when the heavy weapons team kicks up. Everything is there. And to put on point about the marines being brutal, two shots and the point of view is incredible

You articulate my own impression perfectly. The shots where the marine takes heavy fire from a lascannon, recognizes the threat, and drops a smoke grenade in the same movement as he takes cover to switch to his plasma weapon... just beautiful. The bit at the end where the same marine just instantly completes the neck stab he never had any intention of failing to execute the moment the psyker's shield fell is the same. Fast, efficient, deliberate, with every spent bit of effort moving towards their objective is how I expect Astartes to operate. Scene direction like this is SO much more exciting and satisfying than any amount of cartoonish posturing.

@@AdamG-ng6gl Thanks mate. Just one small point to add: Note that when the lascannon starts firing, the Marine immediately returns fire with the bolter. He fires three shots and two of them hit the lascannon emplacement, but don't penetrate the shield. Only then he drops the smoke grenade, takes cover and switches to the plasma gun. The action is so fast and superhumanly efficient that it took me several rewatches to get these details.

I’d like to imagine how good the Star Wars Sequel trilogy could have been if there were regiments with even a portion of the mechanical menace Astartes had (maybe the Knights of Ren that turned out to be jokes in the end).

I love this comment.

or at 4:50 you can see the bolter rounds get reflected by the psykers oncoming shockwave

In the opening sequence as the boarding torpedo is entering. You can see the fighter craft take out the engines.

didnt see that before, good eye! and crazy detail, love this animation

Also because bolter shells are rocket propelled so they have some backblast

youre a legend for pointing that out. Everytime I rewatch it I spot a new detail and its incredible.

You said blackmail incorrectly!

and from a kiwi too (new zealander) cant wait to see what he does with their financial backing. Screw all these people that say otherwise. GW see a talent when they do. Look at all the authors they have writing the lore, Dan abnett, mike lee etc they werent born from GW's butt hole. This is the prelude to a proper 40k series. At least I hope so anyway. The emperor protects brother.

@@miscnchipnelson8101 Games Workshop are tyrants and money-grubbers, and their only decent writer is Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Dan Abnett and Graham McNeill used to be good but their stuff has become very prosaic.

@@miscnchipnelson8101 We await what they'll do.

@@miscnchipnelson8101, I think he did that official Primaris Intercessor video similar to Iron-Man suiting up for the first time in the MCU. Said Primaris video was most probably also inspired by the Raptor video on RU-vid, which was awesome. And... Still waiting on Astartes II, which I'm betting he's expanding upon since starting with GW.

Passion and corporate are not 2 words that can generally be used together

Par for the course in todays shiite storm clown world.

I can only assume that GW has a problem with some absolutely terrible leadership, just some “number go up” ghouls or some old nerds who refuse to admit that their vision of their universe is weaker than what the fans of it can produce. They are sitting on a goldmine but all they care about is selling more nuggets. Incredibly short sighted stupidity or overinflated ego, one of the two, or maybe both.

Goatse, now more than ever.

@@CosmicSphincter As the company has said "We are a model company. Not a game company" AKA they ONLY care about selling models. All other things are supposed to funnel in to that market.

To be fair, motivated people can achieve a lot more than unmotivated ones, just look at what ISIS achieved...

agreed, everything about this animation is TOP tier. you could tell me this a sneak peak for a mega budget Hollywood product, i would totally fall for it. I will watch his career with a great interest

@@kespec Main reason he's able to pull it off is genius set- / scene-design. What I mean by that is that he primarily chose closed off spaces and corridors for majority of the scenes. This alleviates a lot of heavy duty work he would've been forced to do for backgrounds, good backgrounds take a ton of time and they generally make or break this level of animation in terms of realistic look. Not only that but this also allows him to use very intentional lighting, he gets to avoid any natural lighting that uses the sun or environment, meaning a whole lot less work for simulation and matching the light to the sun etc. The usage of dark scenes and or scenes that only carry one strong light source again allows him to hide spaces where he otherwise would need to place lots of good looking assets. A general rule of thumb for any CGI is that, the darker it is, the easier it is to make it look good because you can hide imperfections. This is very important for a 1-man job as not only are their skills stretched thin (no other artists to aid them), but also safes a toooon of time, meaning they can spend more time on polishing the stuff that has greater impact. This person is unbelievably skilled, it doesn't matter what talents you're born with. For this level of solo-work you just need to have incredible skill that's been amassed with lots, lots and lots of practice. The most jaw-dropping thing is seeing someone this skilled in visuals, be so unbelievably skilled in the audio side of things, these two do not carry overlapping skills like cgi, animation and cinematography does. The audio production is nearly flawless which is just unheard of for the amount of practice it requires to reach this level in both fields (visual and auditorial).

@@NomSaucereally helpful comment. Thank you 🙏

It's literally in the lore that they are super duper rare to the point that the majority of the universe don't even believe that Astartes exist And them being so rare should tell that they are basically the special forces of the special forces I mean they're literally demi Gods That's why I find GW astartes so lame because they act so cartoonish

they literally are glory obsessed sycophantic, fanatical warroir priests, where have you been

*Agreed!* I don't know this franchise too well, but their cold, swift efficiency makes perfect sense, and it's so impactful. They don't stop. They don't waste movements. They don't flinch. When that marine was trying to get close to those telepaths, he didn't even pause to process the fact that he was being telekinetically crushed. The *_whole_* time they had him subdued, he was completely focused on finishing the knife attack. The moment he was freed, he didn't stop to pull himself together, or drop a one-liner. He just instantly finished the fatal blow he was already in the middle of executing. Now that's rare, tactical and realistic (well, for a superhuman space marine).

My mistake. He _does_ pause just a little, but he's so quick to finish the attack that blink and you'd miss it.

well for the blood ravens i akways regarded "glory-obsessed" as fitting :D 100% with you though!

Unfortunately the artist was hired by GW to work on their own animations. Knowing GW lately, all they'd do is butcher it into oblivion. Sometimes the best we can do, is let it die.

Another Space Marine exclusive sausage fest like most of their media? Yeah, would be cool but not necessary.

It is better in its original audio and music not this GW version.

@@TWLpontus Where is the original?? Can you paste a link please? And thank you!

All they can see is plastic sales, they don’t seem to understand how cool their universe could be and how much appeal it can have by simply expanding on different elements of it - or their past attempts lack the special sauce that their fans can access but they can’t, so the number go up ghouls won’t even try. The incredibly dumb part is that the popularity of astartes shows that it’s already there, they don’t have to do research, this animation got millions of views and made people notice 40k who would have never cared had they seen the Hasbro ass shit GW puts out. They are morons, plain and simple.

It actually is. Just pause it and scroll to random parts.

where i didnt see any teleports

Underated comment, never noticed it after watching it several times. Thank you!

​@Mike Jones put .25 playback speed at 12:20 and at 12:21 the flashes on the top can be seen if you can't with normal speed

@@MikeJones-lf4bl The small pillars on the ground ;)

damn i didn't even notice that.. you have a sharp eye

Well GW basically loved his work that they offered to sue the shit outta him or work for them, lol

animators are great, but what made this astounding was the modeling done and texture work. maybe I'm biased since Im a 3d modeler but the graphics were astounding.

the creator got the highest amount of recognition one could ask for, he literally got hired by Games Workshop (company who produces Warhammer) because of these animations, and that's why the original videos aren't on his RU-vid anymore, they got moved to the Warhammer Community website

@@CalSniffsMilo not sure if you know update but here it is: For those wondering what happened, Games Workshop (GW) introduced new intellectual property rules this year that completely forbid any fan-made animations or basically any community productions that use GW content. They basically told all of their most hardcore fans to delete everything they had passionately worked on for years for nothing other than the love of the hobby, purely out of a misplaced sense of greed. Astartes didn't upgrade. It was buried.

@@CalSniffsMilo What does he do for them? Art director or something?

@@jonber9411 not sure we weren't filled in on the details, all we know is that he works for them now.

@@CalSniffsMilo Ahh yes the highest recognition, when a company sues you and forces you to work for them for what you created.

only just now did i notice that the lasguns used by the gun crew that fires a rocket at the marines have accurate lasgun sfx. lasguns fire fx were originally described almost like a snapping whip, and you can hear that if you listen close. took me *THIS LONG* to hear them or even notice them-

I think he didn't blast his arm off by mistake, it was more like a last ditch effort to free himself out of the orb's pull

Small correction, that’s a multi laser, the same thing usually found on a chimera turret or sentinel walker

the marine shot those few shots to hit the target and track it, sure they can see thru smoke but it allowed the single plasma shot to be so precise

He deserves a damn medal alright! But instead GamesWorkshop did this to him; 10:25 😞

what was changed?

@@JUMOWAx games workshop changed the final music and re-edited some scene with new sound.

@@JUMOWAx yes and not for the better

The ORIGINAL creator of this is a man named RICHARD BOYLAN. He has a channel. He created this by himself years ago. Warhammer has since picked him up and haven't heard a peep about some type of finish to this incredible set of shorts. Fingers crossed.

@@chrisjones367 even on his patreon?

Or 6 seasons at 40 hrs.

Yes, the eternal sausage fest that is Space Marines and only Space Marine, in essence WH40k

@@TheAnimaAnimal You understand that all the Astartes are clones, right... of a dude. Most soldiers are dudes. All of these ones, on both sides wore masks, so mot sure if they were all dudes. Yes, war is a big sausage fest, lol. I'm sorry you find this revelation disturbing, though I confess, I can't see how having a few women getting blown into bits in the mix, or a set of tit armor here and there would have improved the action. You know, considering the only spoken words in the film were spoken by the warp entity. WHo could have identified as a woman, who knows?

​@Josh Indermuehle Bro first off Astartes are not clones. You exposed yourself. Every Astartes is an individual that was 99% most likely a very very young child that went through the process of taking in the geneseed,in no way are they clones. They have their own personalities,goals and choices. Second off there are no female Space Marines it's literally not possible for a woman to become a Space Marine whatsoever so yes every single one of them are men. I recommend actually learning about 40k instead of watching a video and trying to lecture people when you don't know the literal basics.

​@@TheAnimaAnimal You should check out the Adeptus Sororitas. Aka Sisters of Battle. Aka the nuns with guns. They are one of the most powerful groups in 40k. Beings a lot of them are blanks, they are one of the few surefire answers to a psyker threat. And they are only female. 40k is way more inclusive than you'd think at first glance.

@@TheAnimaAnimal Trollolol

also oversaturated and contrasted so weird.

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welcome to Warhammer 40k my friend, in the grim darkness of the far future, there is ONLY WAR.

The issue for me is trying to determine where the lines should be drawn between the two ends of this debate: "an artist should have exclusive rights to profit from their own work" and "an artist's work belongs to the world to enjoy". As an artist I've experienced both aspects of this and I feel both are valid points... but I've also struggled with figuring out when and where one is more valid than the other. It sucks that GW put the clamps on new Astartes works when fans have kept 40K going after all these years. But at the same time, it is their property, and the fact that they're a large company doesn't change that. Frankly, suppose their size does change the circumstances: if I had a great artistic idea and I managed to grow it into a multi-million dollar company, at what point did my art go from "I should be rewarded for my artwork" to "the art belongs to everyone"? Was it the moment I made money on it, or simply as soon as I put it out there into the world? This isn't about defending GW's actions and more about a discussion about this concept of artistic ownership, maybe even tapping into "death of the author" (albeit focused more on ultimate ownership over ultimate meaning). It sucks that a large corporation can have that kind of power over an artistic property that we all love, but the powerful using their money to control art is a tale as old as time... consider that a lot of famous Renaissance paintings were commissioned art pieces paid for and owned by the rich and powerful of their time: does it continue to be owned by the family (assuming it was passed down through the generations) or do they now belong to the world?

@@nickfifteen Unfortunately it does belong to the people with the copyright ,that's the law but the company should of had more foresight than to just shut them off and let the fans see more . They should be more open as it is free advertising for them and that is where they should of been looking at it.

Hopefully that's because they are collecting creators for an actually good movie/show for a change.

Yes

Hate to be real here, but they won’t. GW has a long and storied history of fucking shit up. =[

They won't. They just wanted it for themselves and chain the guy who made it. Their mission was successful.

Imagine a 6ft tall Juggernaut in full armor, weighting at least 600 pounds, hauling at full speed right at you, with such agility that would defy laws of physics since something so big and heavy shouldn't move that fast... Yeah, that would definetly terrify any non-Xeno. Amazing job

@@kpsmorera 6ft tall? I'm 6ft tall. I think marines are like 8ft or something.

Can we talk about the one marine that was waltzing in Robocop style

@@kpsmorera 7 to 8 feet out of armor, probably closer to 10 in armor.

​@@juble7086 It varies. Just like with normal humans. Even short marines tend to make normal humans look child sized though.

Yeah, it makes no sense why they would sue the guy. I mean look at all the other tubers that use Warhammer property to make money and grow their channels. Must feel really scary as a big company being threatened by homegrown animation that's better that yours

agreed

The guy who made these was hired by Games Workshop to make more. It's been a long time since we've heard anything, lets hope that means they're working on something with a longer format, a story and voiced characters.

theyll pair him with 'creative directors' (diversity hires). dead in the water.

i thinka movie can definetly be made out of this but it's a lot of work it would cost manpower time and money

Henry cavill

well you got your answer... and it's being produced by someone who actually cares about the source material so we hopefully won't have a repeat of the witcher.

They are the Retributors. It's an Imperial Fist founding. You can find some good lore videos about them on RU-vid.

They’re an imperial fist successor, just find some rules that match em

10:40 A glimpse of Tzeentch itself.

Get into it. I'm not a hardcore fan, but the lore is incredibly rich and expansive. 😊

Who is here? I have failed brother We have all failed the Astartes deny our touch You must return break your seal We will never survive (xx) take the others?

I felt sick once I realized they fucked with the audio... It ruins it bruh.

Huh? Gamesworkshop changed the audio? Where did you hear that? I thought the uploader himself did those edits. No?

@@JMastura +1, totally unnecessary imo

@@KarusMBII No. GW bought the thing and has made it their “own.” Listen to an original version of Astartes and you’ll notice a *ton* is different, audio-wise. The soundtrack had actual choral/chant things going on, and sounds were much more beefy. The only thing this version improved was resolution.

I would sit through a 10 hour movie

It was a fan made project. Unspecified marines and aliens. The creator was hired by Games Workshop.

ah mais nan, je ne saivais pas! donc on est pas pret de voir de futures videos de sa part...

@@captainchacha15 Malheureusement non , c'est fort peu probable, a moins que les têtes pensante de GW on la bonne idée d'exploiter le potentiel de ce type en l'aidant par tout les moyens .... ce serait rentable pour eux , ils pourraient faire des Jeux vidéo, des films , série d'animation 3D. Mais au vu de comment ces Boomer British font de la merde avec une licence à gros potentiel, c'est mort. Vivement qu'ils crèvent ou partent pour se faire remplacer par de jeunes fan qui écoute la commu bourrés de bonne idées, et seront quoi faire pour exploiter Warhammer.

Je suis dégoûté, car là on avait vraiment moyen d’avoir enfin un vrai film de qualité sur wh40k…