hey hey guys I know how Iroquois is pronounced now. I can't go back and change it Edit: i also know the bridge is on top of the ship. I can't go back and change it now
Bro it’s a French word and no one knows where it came from. You pronounced it one of the two acceptable ways according to Wikipedia. Don’t listen to those dinguses. I bet that translation would be lost 500+ years into the future anyway. They probably don’t even know there were other ways to pronounce the word way back now.
This is canonically the battle that got Keyes promoted to Captain. After the battle the admiral shows up at Keyes' room and basically goes "You got some balls to pull a stunt like that, but it worked, and folks need hope. Enjoy your new rank."
more info: before this event, Keys was passively despised or looked down by the high brass of the military for an incident, during his training days if I am not mistaken. it was an experiment that went wrong, getting some of the participants killed or gravely bounded. and he never snitched, even if others did during the subsequent investigations. his determination gained the interest of Dr Helsey, seeing the man could keep a secret, and so she chose him to accompany her in her secret project of studying the potential candidates for the Spartan Project that created John 117 and all his ''brothers and sisters''. due to this, Helsey managed to give him a promotion that allow him to command the Iroquois. this battle and the following conflict between the reinforcements of the UNSC and Covenant would ignite some of the biggest ''canon events'' of those years: Autumn conflict -after the victory of the UNCS reinforcements over the Covenant reinforcements that came hours later, a covenant device would secretly attach itself to the Iroquois and transmit to the Covenant information of its locations and all those others it had been since attaching itself to the hull. with that, the Covenant discovered the location of the planet Reach, which immediately led to the events of the first game.
I know I’m a year late to this, but this is a very well done animation. It really feels like I’m in a unsc academy room watching a 3d recreation of a military tactic, its not overly flashy and it shows all the events in clean details.
@@falcore91 very good analogy. im surprised they even sent the frigates after them, 1 light destroyer was no threat to them. Could of just left it flying around orbit while they commenced the invasion.
@@oxymoron02In real life it’s a lot harder to coordinate an attack on a superior target, just look up - video of a spear vs sword 1v3, or details on the assassination of Caesar, if the target is stronger than the attackers individually, nobody wants to be first person to get bodied, a group tends to only attack together when the person is on the ground or cannot fight back, and any slight mismatch in timing just leads to the target beating up one person before the other
Pretty sure this is the only time I've ever seen the effect a MAC round accurately depicted. It's not a bloody laser as seen in H4. It's your ship sawn in half by the subject of Isaac Newton's fever dreams. Not only too fast for the bare eye to see, but too fast for the brain itself to process. Also, the summary animation was actually very straight-forward. I remember going over the Keyes Loop illustrations in Halsey's journal in the Halo Reach Limited Edition and hoping to see that animated one day. Well done.
@@dj11o9er Nope, the lasers were indeed the Infinity’s SMACs, the infinity is not equipped with any laser weaponry with the only UNSC ship to do so being the Anlace and Mulsanne frigates to my knowledge
Thank you for this. I've read Fall of Reach over and over but never could wrap my head around what this actually looked like. It was the maneuver that made Keyes a living legend in the UNSC.
Absolutely adored this, this is really fantastic work! Not related to the animation per se, but I love how the carrier sees Keyes solo three of their ships (including a destroyer!) and basically goes "nope, fuck this" and just leaves as soon as it deploys its complement. It's not sticking around to see what happens next.
Actually a remarkably mature and humble decision from the covenant, who you'd usually expect to just get madder and dumber the closer they get to defeat
Actually it's part of the Covenant's tactics, which Keyes picks up on later in the book, which is basically "deceive and distract" since the Covenant are willing to sacrifice ships and entire fleets if it means their goals are achieved, and in this particular battle, their goals were met, which was to acquire Forerunner relics. The second battle only started because now the Covenant needed to get the relics off the planet and again, the Covenant were simply distracting the humans with a pointless (in their eyes) battle while the real work was being done
If I'm command a fleet that has clear technological and numerical superiority and suddenly come across an particular enemy that destroys 3/4ths of my forces with some very unusual maneuvers then I'd become VERY concerned. Great job on keys part even if it was a last ditch effort.
Somewhere, though Keyes did not know it, Preston J Cole is giving a slight smile, and raising a glass of whiskey to him. I like how you completely shrink Jagger's bullshit down to a single bit of a sentence. As it should be, for a coward such as him.
Pretty sure the Iroquois grazed the top of the enemy destroyer, since he destroyed the bottom of his own ship. Unless he flipped around, but either way: spectacular work!
He did flip it around, the bridge is on the top of the UNSC ship, it would've been decapitated and lost with all hands, it's mentioned in the book that they spun around
Agreed, can think of several scenes just in the book "Halo First Strike" I'd love to see visualized like this, though some of those will need even more challenging effects
I *vividly* remember reading this in the book and it was riveting. It was late and I had to be out the door by 4:30am for work, but I couldn't put the book down. This battle is even more badass now after seeing this animation. You earned yourself a sub, good sir. 👍
You probably won't read this, but I just want to say thanks. As someone who read and re-read those first three halo books an alarming number of times in my childhood, every scene in them is firm;y cemented in my mind. You took one of my favorites and brought it to life in a way no scrap of Halo media with all their massive budgets has been able to achieve.
No, you're right. I definitely won't read this. 😁 but no thank you man! I pored over reach, first Strike and onyx myself, over and over again 😅 I just realized my halo animations are all from those 3 books 😶
I love visualizations like this. Especially for this scene, something ive gone back to re-read multiple times just because of how well its written and tense the fight gets. Great work! Definitely sharing this around :)
Thanks for recreating one of the most epic scenes in Halo lore. Your narration, the bg music and especially the animation was amazing. Granted it's not Blur studios quality 😂 it did a fantastic job at explaining the maneuver
I don't know why TH-cam randomly recommended a year old video from someone I've never seen before, but I am glad it did! This was really well done and a fun watch!
This is a great presentation. It's simple to understand and covers all the major points as well. I remember reading this in the novel and being blown away. The biggest thing the games fail impart on the player is space battles. They happened a lot in the lore but you rarely see them in game.
I really like the clean, simple art and animation style here, gives me a little nostalgia for some old space combat games I used to play. Hope you keep it up, I'll keep an eye out.
Those frigates were probably unable to detect the shiva nuke drifting towards them since they probably thought it was just random space debris probably from the now destroyed covenant destroyer
Covenant ships detection systems are radically sensitive to the point the Elites had a habit of turning off systems due to annoyance of constant alarms that it hindered combat performance. All Covenant ships can detect anything with it's radiological scanning systems at light speed range that not even ONI crude cloaking systems on their prowlers can work 100% of the time. Most likely they turned theirs off during this engagement because the plasma torpedoes were firing is giving off blinding amount signals being detected by their systems.
A small side note, the Iroquois ejected it’s redling reactor before engaging the pair of corvettes so it speed out system. Because it had no more Archer missles and no reactor to charge the MAC systems, the Halberd destroyer couldn’t chase after the departing carrier so it alerted the other two inbound UNSC ships: the Allegiance and Gettysburg of that carrier.
At what point did the Iroquois eject its reactor? I just read through the passage (and the damage report) and didn't see anything about a missing reactor.
@@cyborgsoldier117 I'm reading it now- Right after destroying the destroyer (heh) they fired the thrusters and then went into the slingshot. The engine coolant failed and they vented the fusion reactor PLASMA, but not the reactor. Then they fired the chemical thrusters to break orbit, detonated the nuke, and fired the MACs at the frigates. I'm not seeing anything about dumping the entire reactor, and the repair section in the next chapter says nothing about the reactor needing to be completely replaced.
@@djcanimations5111 ok I stand corrected. The reactor plasma was dumped. It’s been years since I read the first book. Also there’s an audiobook called the fall of reach on TH-cam. Go to part 6 Video at the 1:03:50 mark and you’ll hear it.
You're not wrong, that's the way the text is in my copy of "The Fall Of Reach" that I grabbed in 2004. The undercarriage of the Iroquois was abraded almost entirely through as a result, which is what I'd expect from running a ship over another one at such tremendous speed. I'm not sure if there was an edit made in the revised book later on or if the top/bottom difference was an "oopsie" from the animator, but no matter what this animation was pretty damned cool! I'm not going to let that one thing ruin this awesome creative piece! 🙂
@@Turbofurby There were a lot of things I was trying to figure out how to do in Blender, while also making sure the timing and everything worked together. I decided I'd make it a bit easier on myself and not try to rotate Iroquois belly up.
I read it again just now- The bottom of the Iroquois grazed the "prow" or front, in modern nautical terms, of the destroyer. So the ship would have rotated like 90 degrees and flown right in front of the destroyer... but then it said that it nudged down slightly. Not sure which way is down in that scenario lol, so like... some artistic freedom, i guess
I started listening through the halo books, I was really hoping someone would make animations for all the awesome battles and I just got this in my recommendations. This is awesome! I hope you continue making more of these, while I binge watch all of your channel : )
This is AMAZING!!! This is the kind of stuff that makes me love the community. Couldn't subscribe and like faster! Would love to see you tackle the fall of reach since we have bits of info but no one has done the hole thing yet. Anyways keep up the great work!
Excellent work! I would definitely be game to see more stories from Halo retold from a tactical perspective. This gave me similar vibes as The Operations Room which covers historical conflicts in a similar manner.
@@Hadgerz The Expanse is one of the best visual depictions of hard sci-fi space combat we have, that's what makes it sort of unique. I could also say this depiction reminds me of COADE, which is super cool because I've never imagined Halo battles in this way. Space is appropriately vast, ships aren't engaging each other at point blank ranges or firing broadside at each other, velocity is actually a factor (they don't magically stop), and orbital mechanics appears to actually be used. It reminds me that Halo was intended to be hard sci-fi.
In-lore, space combat is exactly like that in The Expanse in Halo. Covenant ships being superior in just about every way is why the UNSC have to develop new strategies & more powerful engines to maneuver.
Nice work on thi video. Shows it quite clearly how he did it in the book. 200 years from now some human space commander reads about this maneuver and uses it in combat. Lol
I like to imagine this trick probably impressed more then a few elites who heard about it. At least the ones who weren't drinking the Great Journey Koolaid too much
Recently read the book. Still can’t quite wrap my head around this concept. The simplification really helped but the nuke thing still has me puzzled. I guess Keys is just too brilliant
He essentially cold dropped the nuke and knew it'd slowly make its way to the frigates, then during the fighting he blew up a ship which took the other covenants minds off of anything else but their ship, and so they missed the nuke drifting towards them until it was too late. Then Keys probably manually detonated it once they were in range since he probably had the nukes trajectory being tracked by the ships computer and knew exactly where it was. The people in the frigates probably had no idea what even happened before they died.
@nordicnostalgia8106 okay so... let's say the ship was flying *north* at 1,000 mph. They fired the nuke *south* at 900 mph. The nuke wasn't going fast enough South to overcome the Northbound speed of the ship. So it was essentially going the same direction as the ship, but significantly slower, due to the ship's initial speed. Basically, 1000 mph-900 mph=100 mph north. Mythbusters actually did an experiment on this a little while ago
The Halo games have never done the justice to the space battles described in the books. Ships in the games always engage at near point blank range, with no real tactics shown at any time. It’s a shame really, because the space battles in the books really made the covenant seem so awesomely powerful
oddly enough keyes was really smart in this battle, cause of a few factors one, being while he was alone his ship was fast, by human stander while it had light armor the ship had the same amount of power as a capital ship, the other one was using the planet own gravitational rotation to sling shot himself around the planet too gain more speed then the enemy ships, covenant also made the fetal mistake of getting too cocky. They had seen so many human ships fall that they figure just one ship would be an easy kill this was their downfall. The other one of course is timing keyes had too time alot of his attacks if he was off by even a second it would spell doom for him and his crew, the odds were against him and using the enemy own weapons too damage their own, along with humans most powerful weapon that is known too disable shields, it was a possible victory.
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I know how Iroquois is pronounced now. I can't go back and change it
Edit: i also know the bridge is on top of the ship. I can't go back and change it now
i think i found it, i've commented it in the original vid :3
Bro it’s a French word and no one knows where it came from.
You pronounced it one of the two acceptable ways according to Wikipedia. Don’t listen to those dinguses. I bet that translation would be lost 500+ years into the future anyway. They probably don’t even know there were other ways to pronounce the word way back now.
@christopherpugnetti5827 I'm saying, I looked it up and that was the pronunciation I heard 🙄
@@djcanimations5111 Exactly. Anyone complaining about it can get bent.
Iroquois can be pronounced either way, everyone knows what you're talking about, and it's not that huge a difference.
This is like a squirrel killing 3 people and the 4th one runs
HAAA no way 🤣🤣🤣
Id change it from squirrel to rabbit if you know what I mean lol
@@theanarchist7575It's just a bunny, how deadly can it be???
@@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy Monty Python reference
@@theanarchist7575i think you mean THE rabbit of Caerbannog, its not just any rabbit
Keyes: "fire the nuke backwards"
Crew: "why?"
Keyes: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Trust me bro.
Covenant: *gets nuked*
Keyes: "Ha ha! Threw that shit before I came in the room."
Ahhh this made me laugh xD
"AND HERE COMES THE ONE-TWO"
*fires MAC rounds*
@@djcanimations5111I'm CRYING 😭😭😭
This is canonically the battle that got Keyes promoted to Captain. After the battle the admiral shows up at Keyes' room and basically goes "You got some balls to pull a stunt like that, but it worked, and folks need hope. Enjoy your new rank."
more info: before this event, Keys was passively despised or looked down by the high brass of the military for an incident, during his training days if I am not mistaken. it was an experiment that went wrong, getting some of the participants killed or gravely bounded. and he never snitched, even if others did during the subsequent investigations. his determination gained the interest of Dr Helsey, seeing the man could keep a secret, and so she chose him to accompany her in her secret project of studying the potential candidates for the Spartan Project that created John 117 and all his ''brothers and sisters''. due to this, Helsey managed to give him a promotion that allow him to command the Iroquois.
this battle and the following conflict between the reinforcements of the UNSC and Covenant would ignite some of the biggest ''canon events'' of those years:
Autumn
conflict
-after the victory of the UNCS reinforcements over the Covenant reinforcements that came hours later, a covenant device would secretly attach itself to the Iroquois and transmit to the Covenant information of its locations and all those others it had been since attaching itself to the hull. with that, the Covenant discovered the location of the planet Reach, which immediately led to the events of the first game.
I know I’m a year late to this, but this is a very well done animation. It really feels like I’m in a unsc academy room watching a 3d recreation of a military tactic, its not overly flashy and it shows all the events in clean details.
I needed this, thank you! I'm working on the next battle animation right now
I really liked both the polished animation and the simplified one. The latter is so cute
I don't believe in space And have taken too many drugs to believe in something so ignorant. So this looks like a bunch of silly bullshit to me.
Just read this moment in the book and Capitan Keyes was such a badass
Wasn't he?? :D
Unrealistic though. The Covenant ships just wait their turn like bad guys in a martial arts movie, rather than all firing on the Iroquois at once.
@@oxymoron02 Why send everyone in the room to swat a fly? To the covenant assigning a pair of frigates would have already been overkill.
@@falcore91 very good analogy. im surprised they even sent the frigates after them, 1 light destroyer was no threat to them. Could of just left it flying around orbit while they commenced the invasion.
@@oxymoron02In real life it’s a lot harder to coordinate an attack on a superior target, just look up - video of a spear vs sword 1v3, or details on the assassination of Caesar, if the target is stronger than the attackers individually, nobody wants to be first person to get bodied, a group tends to only attack together when the person is on the ground or cannot fight back, and any slight mismatch in timing just leads to the target beating up one person before the other
Pretty sure this is the only time I've ever seen the effect a MAC round accurately depicted. It's not a bloody laser as seen in H4. It's your ship sawn in half by the subject of Isaac Newton's fever dreams. Not only too fast for the bare eye to see, but too fast for the brain itself to process.
Also, the summary animation was actually very straight-forward. I remember going over the Keyes Loop illustrations in Halsey's journal in the Halo Reach Limited Edition and hoping to see that animated one day. Well done.
Pretty sure the 'laser' wasn't the MAC, but some other weapon.
@@dj11o9er Nope, the lasers were indeed the Infinity’s SMACs, the infinity is not equipped with any laser weaponry with the only UNSC ship to do so being the Anlace and Mulsanne frigates to my knowledge
What the fuck.
But that couldn't have been a MAC... MACs don't have fucken beams!
@@dj11o9er yeah but when has 343 ever made something that makes sense
Thank you for this. I've read Fall of Reach over and over but never could wrap my head around what this actually looked like. It was the maneuver that made Keyes a living legend in the UNSC.
This is criminally underrated, the entire halo fanbase should see this at least once, great work visualising this
yoooooooo why yall gassing me up like this man 😄😄😁😁
The Keyes Loop, or how the right people in the right place can turn overwhelming odds into jawdropping victory
Absolutely adored this, this is really fantastic work! Not related to the animation per se, but I love how the carrier sees Keyes solo three of their ships (including a destroyer!) and basically goes "nope, fuck this" and just leaves as soon as it deploys its complement. It's not sticking around to see what happens next.
Actually a remarkably mature and humble decision from the covenant, who you'd usually expect to just get madder and dumber the closer they get to defeat
Actually it's part of the Covenant's tactics, which Keyes picks up on later in the book, which is basically "deceive and distract" since the Covenant are willing to sacrifice ships and entire fleets if it means their goals are achieved, and in this particular battle, their goals were met, which was to acquire Forerunner relics. The second battle only started because now the Covenant needed to get the relics off the planet and again, the Covenant were simply distracting the humans with a pointless (in their eyes) battle while the real work was being done
If I'm command a fleet that has clear technological and numerical superiority and suddenly come across an particular enemy that destroys 3/4ths of my forces with some very unusual maneuvers then I'd become VERY concerned.
Great job on keys part even if it was a last ditch effort.
Somewhere, though Keyes did not know it, Preston J Cole is giving a slight smile, and raising a glass of whiskey to him.
I like how you completely shrink Jagger's bullshit down to a single bit of a sentence. As it should be, for a coward such as him.
Yeah what was that brief mutiny about?
@@Sidewinder11771 Man thought Keyes was crazy and didnt wanna die. Broke under pressure.
I’ve never understood this until now, amazing work on the video!
I'm glad I could help clear it up! Thank YOU!
Dude this looks like an actual historical retelling of a famous battle! Love it!
Pretty sure the Iroquois grazed the top of the enemy destroyer, since he destroyed the bottom of his own ship. Unless he flipped around, but either way: spectacular work!
He did flip it around, the bridge is on the top of the UNSC ship, it would've been decapitated and lost with all hands, it's mentioned in the book that they spun around
Si he did all that. Inverted?
@@adamstern5116 not really there is no up and down in space just orientation
The naval combat was the best part of this book. I loved these scenes, and I am happy that you visualized them.
Agreed, can think of several scenes just in the book "Halo First Strike" I'd love to see visualized like this, though some of those will need even more challenging effects
Thank you! I could not, for the life of me, figure out how the Keyes Loop played out, but this helped me a lot!
Glad to help! :D
Damn keyes was a MENACE
I *vividly* remember reading this in the book and it was riveting. It was late and I had to be out the door by 4:30am for work, but I couldn't put the book down. This battle is even more badass now after seeing this animation. You earned yourself a sub, good sir. 👍
You probably won't read this, but I just want to say thanks. As someone who read and re-read those first three halo books an alarming number of times in my childhood, every scene in them is firm;y cemented in my mind. You took one of my favorites and brought it to life in a way no scrap of Halo media with all their massive budgets has been able to achieve.
No, you're right. I definitely won't read this. 😁 but no thank you man! I pored over reach, first Strike and onyx myself, over and over again 😅 I just realized my halo animations are all from those 3 books 😶
Ty for putting the little details, like that red war paint on the Iroquois.
I love visualizations like this. Especially for this scene, something ive gone back to re-read multiple times just because of how well its written and tense the fight gets. Great work! Definitely sharing this around :)
This was one of my favorite moments in the Fall of Reach book, and seeing it animated just made it all the better. Well done!
Thanks for recreating one of the most epic scenes in Halo lore. Your narration, the bg music and especially the animation was amazing. Granted it's not Blur studios quality 😂 it did a fantastic job at explaining the maneuver
I don't know why TH-cam randomly recommended a year old video from someone I've never seen before, but I am glad it did! This was really well done and a fun watch!
I dunno why it did either! 😃 Glad you're here though! Thanks!
Here from the recent Canon Fodder. This is freaking amazing!
hold on- what cannon fodder?
OH MY GOD I FOUND IT
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT??? HLBDSYIPBABUDFPOAUFW PAUWAAIFYHYHAWAAAAAHHHHH I CANT
@@djcanimations5111 Could I be enlightened ?
@@kriegertechpriest7011 www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-encyclopedic-enlightenment
Scroll to the bottom 😁😁😁
@@djcanimations5111 NO FUCKING WAY BRO! YOU GOT SEEN!
This is a great presentation. It's simple to understand and covers all the major points as well. I remember reading this in the novel and being blown away. The biggest thing the games fail impart on the player is space battles. They happened a lot in the lore but you rarely see them in game.
this is a really good visualization of the keyes loop, great job
This was really entertaining, I'd love to see more animations of battle scenes from Halo lore.
I'm working on one! 87% done :D
I really like the clean, simple art and animation style here, gives me a little nostalgia for some old space combat games I used to play. Hope you keep it up, I'll keep an eye out.
Remember, both in fiction and in real life creativity is what makes stuff of legends or nightmares
Keyes: *fires a nuclear missile backward*
Keyes: It's a special tool that will help us later.
Very well done. I remember reading this about the first time and trying imagine it.
this is the type of content I love to watch.
I can remember reading this book as a teen, man, the brilliant ingenuity of the captain who wouldn't ever give up hope. Great video!
This is amazing. Thank you for making this.
this is really good! thanks for helping me understand it a bit better
I truly hope you’re proud of this. It felt like I was watching a minidoc on an actual event, good work!
Those frigates were probably unable to detect the shiva nuke drifting towards them since they probably thought it was just random space debris probably from the now destroyed covenant destroyer
Covenant ships detection systems are radically sensitive to the point the Elites had a habit of turning off systems due to annoyance of constant alarms that it hindered combat performance. All Covenant ships can detect anything with it's radiological scanning systems at light speed range that not even ONI crude cloaking systems on their prowlers can work 100% of the time. Most likely they turned theirs off during this engagement because the plasma torpedoes were firing is giving off blinding amount signals being detected by their systems.
A small side note, the Iroquois ejected it’s redling reactor before engaging the pair of corvettes so it speed out system. Because it had no more Archer missles and no reactor to charge the MAC systems, the Halberd destroyer couldn’t chase after the departing carrier so it alerted the other two inbound UNSC ships: the Allegiance and Gettysburg of that carrier.
At what point did the Iroquois eject its reactor? I just read through the passage (and the damage report) and didn't see anything about a missing reactor.
@@djcanimations5111 during the sling shot around the planet moments before confronting the 2 corvettes.
@@djcanimations5111 the Mac systems began slowly losing charge as well.
@@cyborgsoldier117 I'm reading it now- Right after destroying the destroyer (heh) they fired the thrusters and then went into the slingshot. The engine coolant failed and they vented the fusion reactor PLASMA, but not the reactor. Then they fired the chemical thrusters to break orbit, detonated the nuke, and fired the MACs at the frigates. I'm not seeing anything about dumping the entire reactor, and the repair section in the next chapter says nothing about the reactor needing to be completely replaced.
@@djcanimations5111 ok I stand corrected. The reactor plasma was dumped. It’s been years since I read the first book. Also there’s an audiobook called the fall of reach on TH-cam. Go to part 6 Video at the 1:03:50 mark and you’ll hear it.
I AM WATCHING ALL OF YOUR VIDS ABOUT HALO TACTICS NOW I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED THIS IN MY LIFE
it's one thing to read it in the book, but to see it in an animation you realize just how badass Keyes was
For some purple bricks, they blew up pretty good!
I could have swore that the Iroquois grazed *its* bottom against the top of the Destroyer, not the other way around.
You're not wrong, that's the way the text is in my copy of "The Fall Of Reach" that I grabbed in 2004. The undercarriage of the Iroquois was abraded almost entirely through as a result, which is what I'd expect from running a ship over another one at such tremendous speed. I'm not sure if there was an edit made in the revised book later on or if the top/bottom difference was an "oopsie" from the animator, but no matter what this animation was pretty damned cool! I'm not going to let that one thing ruin this awesome creative piece! 🙂
@@MadMac5 I have the revised edition from 2011 and they didn't change that detail.
@@Turbofurby There were a lot of things I was trying to figure out how to do in Blender, while also making sure the timing and everything worked together. I decided I'd make it a bit easier on myself and not try to rotate Iroquois belly up.
I read it again just now- The bottom of the Iroquois grazed the "prow" or front, in modern nautical terms, of the destroyer. So the ship would have rotated like 90 degrees and flown right in front of the destroyer... but then it said that it nudged down slightly. Not sure which way is down in that scenario lol, so like... some artistic freedom, i guess
@@djcanimations5111 either way the animation is still great
This is very cool. Almost feels like a lesson at a UNSC academy or something
Fuck I love keyes. His death made me tear up
excellent video man! Your writing, narration, and accuracy were all on point! Riveting stuff!
I started listening through the halo books, I was really hoping someone would make animations for all the awesome battles and I just got this in my recommendations. This is awesome! I hope you continue making more of these, while I binge watch all of your channel : )
Incredible work! I can't wait to see your other productions!
Great work brother! One of the best renditions I've seen of the Keyes loop. Thanks for putting this together :)
It's been a long time since I read the books, but this scene always stood out to me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Dude, this was wonderful!
This is AMAZING!!! This is the kind of stuff that makes me love the community. Couldn't subscribe and like faster! Would love to see you tackle the fall of reach since we have bits of info but no one has done the hole thing yet. Anyways keep up the great work!
Thank you so much Doc!
Also- MAN the Fall of Reach is a SERIOUS battle. that's the kind of thing that takes a couple of years and several people
Cool video man. I just read fall of reach so seeing this visualized is pretty neat.
Dam, just got done with the chapter of the book. Thank you for the animation.
Thank you! I might do the rest of the battle next. We'll see.
Love it. Always loved this moment from the books.
Keyes really said "watch this"
"Hold my pipe..."
Dude this is legendary i love it
This is AWESOME and you did an AMAZING job!! Good to see the books getting some more love, more recently
Great work!
this is a great gift you have given us!
This was awesome really liked the MAC damage visuals
THIS IS SICK
This was great!
Excellent work! I would definitely be game to see more stories from Halo retold from a tactical perspective. This gave me similar vibes as The Operations Room which covers historical conflicts in a similar manner.
I've always been so curious as to what the keys loop looked like thanks for this!
The fact that you still only have 576 subs after this stellar video is criminal. You deserve more
Very surprising to see some Expanse-like maneuvers in halo!
Also great animation man, amazing work!
'expanse-like' ...
this book was penned in 2001 💀
@@Hadgerz The Expanse is one of the best visual depictions of hard sci-fi space combat we have, that's what makes it sort of unique. I could also say this depiction reminds me of COADE, which is super cool because I've never imagined Halo battles in this way. Space is appropriately vast, ships aren't engaging each other at point blank ranges or firing broadside at each other, velocity is actually a factor (they don't magically stop), and orbital mechanics appears to actually be used. It reminds me that Halo was intended to be hard sci-fi.
@@michaelhenry3234 But people are stupid and big numbers hard.
In-lore, space combat is exactly like that in The Expanse in Halo. Covenant ships being superior in just about every way is why the UNSC have to develop new strategies & more powerful engines to maneuver.
@@tristanbackup2536 Ur dumb shut up.
Very well made, easy to follow.
Nice work on thi video. Shows it quite clearly how he did it in the book. 200 years from now some human space commander reads about this maneuver and uses it in combat. Lol
I like to imagine this trick probably impressed more then a few elites who heard about it.
At least the ones who weren't drinking the Great Journey Koolaid too much
Great work sir! The blender skills will come, keep working at it! Loved seeing this awesome moment from the books realized visually
That was amazing !
I really liked your narration.
good work!
Recently read the book. Still can’t quite wrap my head around this concept. The simplification really helped but the nuke thing still has me puzzled. I guess Keys is just too brilliant
He essentially cold dropped the nuke and knew it'd slowly make its way to the frigates, then during the fighting he blew up a ship which took the other covenants minds off of anything else but their ship, and so they missed the nuke drifting towards them until it was too late.
Then Keys probably manually detonated it once they were in range since he probably had the nukes trajectory being tracked by the ships computer and knew exactly where it was.
The people in the frigates probably had no idea what even happened before they died.
You're puzzled about how the nuke got where it was going?
@@djcanimations5111 So the nuke was launched in the opposite direction of the covenant ships yet managed to get right in between two destroyers
@nordicnostalgia8106 okay so... let's say the ship was flying *north* at 1,000 mph.
They fired the nuke *south* at 900 mph.
The nuke wasn't going fast enough South to overcome the Northbound speed of the ship.
So it was essentially going the same direction as the ship, but significantly slower, due to the ship's initial speed.
Basically, 1000 mph-900 mph=100 mph north.
Mythbusters actually did an experiment on this a little while ago
@@djcanimations5111 oh. It was simply dropped. When the word launched is used you picture it being propelled away
Such a shame that you gotta punch into that man's brilliant brain
*TV Series Keyes enters Chat*
"Well that was all for nothing"
Hey man, you did great with what you know and I really enjoyed this. Great work!!!
Thank you! :D
This was insane I love the book where the keys loop happened (The Fall of Reach book I believe) but to see it illustrated was amazing bravo
The algorithm has blessed you this day!
Amazing video dude. Keep ‘em’ coming! I really want to see the battle where they use the medical ships as shields.
YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD
Yeah no stay tuned, for real 👀
@@djcanimations5111 Holy Halo, Batman! You just got a new subscriber.
Just imagining how many Gs they were pulling doing all that.
Iv been trying to dip my toes into halo lore and I found this on my feed. I know I'm a year late but great work
Yeah no thank you! I'm kinda getting a resurgence right now out of exactly nowhere 😅
It’s too bad we didn’t have more books about this part of the halo covenant war. As tragic as it was there was a lot of bravery from the humans
Sweet animation! It really helps give an idea of the scale that thise fights are actually taking place at.
Appreciate that! Question: I'm getting a sudden influx of views and comments- how did you come across this video?
@@djcanimations5111 Randomly through the algorithm. I've watched a few vids by Installation 00 recently including his MJOLNIR helmet vid.
FINALLY SOMEONE DOES SO SOMETHING WITH THE IROQUOIS
@Diabetic_troglodyte6152 working on something else too 😁
Awesome video. The animation was great, can't wait to see more halo videos
This reminds me of the animations of blur studios in halo wars 1, i love it
Thats... wow. Thank you!
The Halo games have never done the justice to the space battles described in the books.
Ships in the games always engage at near point blank range, with no real tactics shown at any time. It’s a shame really, because the space battles in the books really made the covenant seem so awesomely powerful
This was fantastic! Cant wait to see more from you bro
Keys really was such a boss between this and crashing the Autumn onto the ring
Stellar, really love this vid.
awesome breakdown!
Thanks, darn turtle! 🐢
This feels like a real UNSC fleet academy lesson
This is almost exactly how i imagined how Keyes fought the Iroquois against the covenant.
oddly enough keyes was really smart in this battle, cause of a few factors one, being while he was alone his ship was fast, by human stander while it had light armor the ship had the same amount of power as a capital ship, the other one was using the planet own gravitational rotation to sling shot himself around the planet too gain more speed then the enemy ships, covenant also made the fetal mistake of getting too cocky. They had seen so many human ships fall that they figure just one ship would be an easy kill this was their downfall. The other one of course is timing keyes had too time alot of his attacks if he was off by even a second it would spell doom for him and his crew, the odds were against him and using the enemy own weapons too damage their own, along with humans most powerful weapon that is known too disable shields, it was a possible victory.
Dayum, look at that Keyes bump.
Bravo👏🏻👏🏻 great script and visual effects🤩
Beautifully well done!
This animation really gets the scale of the ships compared to the hugeness of a planet. Something even the games don’t really do all that well