Update: On 3/27/24 Syama posted on his LinkedIn asking for vfx help with a homebrew project accompanied by a short teaser for it: www.linkedin.com/posts/syama-pedersen-339b8761_looking-for-some-vfx-help-for-a-little-homebrew-activity-7178565260147138560-CsAT Disclaimer: Some viewers have reported mild siezures triggered by sounds in this video. Edit: The original creator has been hired on by GW to continue the project and contribute to others. As such the originals are no longer available on TH-cam, the project is now on Warhammer Community. Links have been updated. I'm not sure how this news will affect the future of the project, but I find myself feeling pessimistic. I hope I am wrong. Either way, this video will remain up as long as I am allowed to and I have added a mega link for this edit, sans the first intro text, at the bottom of this comment and the description. Edit2: GW in their infinite wisdom has decided the world needs yet another streaming platform, so any future projects will now only be available on Warhammer+. Needless to say, this is a disappointing turn of events. Putting the content exclusively on their own, much less popular, website was bad enough. This video itself has garnered nearly 300,000 additional views since that move. That's free publicity they would deny their artists in order to greedily sell exclusivity. To then put the content behind yet another barrier, this one now monetary and a recurring subscription, and expect anyone to sign up for it is foolish greed and I don't see many people doing it. If they do it will be in support of the artist, but I fear as always in the end they will be the ones to get the short end of the stick. Edit3: www.belloflostsouls.net/2021/07/games-workshop-clamping-down-on-fan-animations.html Tl;Dr: Games Workshop bought up most of the the creators of the most popular fanmade animation projects, put their future work behind a subscription paywall, and has now made a policy making fanmade animation projects IP infringement. Notably, this only applies to animations. 40000 IQ. Edit4: th-cam.com/video/SxS2kRFni_o/w-d-xo.html Anyone interested in helping GW in the battle against heretical intellectual property thieves? Then I have just the job for you. Parts 1 - 5 of the Astartes Project by Syama Pedersen, edited into one video for convenience. I played no part in the making of this film. All credit goes to the creator: Astartes Channel th-cam.com/channels/FMtdiQILuTZr22sKUeAOOA.htmlfeatured Astartes Animation on Warhammer Community www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/ www.patreon.com/astartesfilm www.paypal.me/astartesfilm instagram.com/astartesfilm/ Download link for this edit (link is currently down due to GW copyright claim, currently attempting to resolve this): mega.nz/file/z951AIwb#1ap2FzWfrGbjjNA7tNAuctc8LfVI0Uag8Ll-skTLTpk
possibly becos all the best russian content creators are being repressed from doin hobby work and recruited to put their quality animation into the current war for the betterment of russian state image:) there were a few projects that looked promising. Haven't heard much updates to them recently
I love how at 5:20 the marine being held was 100% still trying to stab that dude with all his might the entire time he was frozen. Cause the second the field dropped he was balls deep in that dudes neck.
yeah, the space marine was being squashed to death and in great pain, yet not for a moment did he stop trying to kill the psyker. that's scary and cool
It’s such a good display of both the IMMENSE power psykers can wield (singlehandedly suspending and slowly crushing an 8’ dude who weighs multiple tons in power armor and just ripped half of a ship’s crew in half with no effort), and the utter contempt and rage Astartes possess when confronting literally any enemy.
The scary part about fighting these big boys is that even though the "enemy" did everything right - Identify the breach position very quickly and set up a crossfire kill zone right there (just look at how big the ship is in the intro, yet they were there to meet them with over a dozen men at different angles/levels), fortify surrounding corridors with heavy weaponry, ambush tactics with anti-materiel rifles and suicide bombers, long range mega gatling cannon, willing to sacrifice their own troops ... and it STILL felt like a walk in the park for the Astrates.
@@Chronaxy don't forget their tanks, artillery and the fact that unlike other horde faction like orks they have some of the best generals and strategist.
I find it extremly refreshing to have competent bad guys for a change. And that alone shows just how superior spacemarines are to any regular guardsmen. Even if you do everything right when fighting them, your chances are still slim.
Oh my... In the autocannon sniper scene i've never even noticed the sniper actually has A SPOTTER on his side... That's why the space marine fires twice... I swear there's a new detail every time i watch this masterpiece again
I see a lot of people praising the animation. But can we talk about the sound effect tho? It's very on point. The muffled explosion in space (I know you got no sound in space, it's only for the sake of the animation). The sound of bullet hitting the armor, the sound of barrier and psychic activating, footstep's, heck he even knew to make conversation muffled so it build up the tense. All and all, this guy not only a genius in animation but also in sound effect.
The ship is pressurised, just FYI. The first bit with the landing craft only has sound from the view of the ship we are following, some very muffled explosions, but that would be the gasses from said explosion hitting the ship. No sound in space is a bit of a tricky thing. Sound doesn't travel in space, but an explosion would blast gass and debrid to anything nearby.
@@Anschlagen thanks for the info. I have really little insight about this. This is the sole reason I barely tried to do sound effect of space or sci fi in general. The insight about this tiny little detail is needed for the realistic result.
@@Anschlagen Thank you, I was just about to comment this; a lot of people don't realise sound is essentially just matter vibrating. So long as there is something being expelled (most often gas), there is sound, even if it moves through space before it's finally heard by human ears. Tl;dr: so long as something that was affected by the explosion reaches your body/ears, you'll hear it as a 'sound'.
9:58 i just realised that this Psyker Yelled "Recall them immediately!!" and then tried to regain focus and that's how he got possessed by the sphere. He lost concentration in order to warn the space marines the impending doom and in the end he got possessed by the spheres because of it. I honestly think that's a cool detail kinda shows that not all Psykers are mentally crazy.
@@0BBFilms0it’s a Yu’Vath artefact of doom. The psykers were likely the planetary royalty who were corrupted by it and were trying to create more psykers. The big gold body is likely a frame they were building to house the consciousness inside the orb.
Never seen or heard about that sphere before, but some people are speculating that its an old artefact from a chaos-corrupted alien race called Yu'Vath. But the guy that made the animations said he just made up something(My source is some 5 year old reddit thread, where a guy have emailed the creator of Astartes and he has posted the answers). Meaning it, it could be a powerful alien psyker, artefact or a warp entity. Your guess is as ours.
I still cannot believe this was fan made by a single person. It is absolutely insane. Not a SINGLE frame was done without care for the quality of production but also care for the lore of WH.
@@xXalexis190Xx That's an understatement. The man is THE first to really illustrate the super-human skills that the space marines are meant to have. This is by far the best representation of a space marine down to every motion, the rest being unable to even hold a torch to what this guy created here. The man is an absolute genius. I'm honestly sad they snatched him, it's probably better for him but considering how hateful GW is of their fans they won't allow him to make anything this fucking good. GW truly survives because of the honest love their customers have for Warhammer and one in a million fans is able to make something like this that makes the rest of us briefly forget that Warhammer is in the hands of scumbags. But they remind us fast, don't they?
@@Evilfish82 The scene were the space marine ran in an attempted to kill the psycher was amazing the sense kf speed was crazy but at the same time you still see that it is a mountain of a human being running
Same boat, bro. Hasn't stopped me from watching this shit, like, 5,000 times in the last month. Fucking sickest animation ever. AND it needs to be said that it is insane how much this 13-minute story can draw you in with almost zero dialogue. That's the mark of a true artist right there.
I like this audio far more than new in community... PS Just was watching the video on official gw community... New audio sucks( I will save this original masterpiece for my good memories and will wish the author good luck and much money from gw. He deserves it, but does gw deserve him? Hope they will let him make what he wants)
The only movie about Astartes that truly conveys how elite these troops really are. While Space Marines often look cartoonish in other videos, even in official Games Workshop clips, here you really get the feeling you are up against humanity's most advanced warriors. The silent professionalism in which they move. Every shot a hit. Armour impenetrable by ordinary weapons. Superhuman speed and reflexes. Also their incredible willpower in the fight with the psychers. Simply outstanding!
The psyker encounter was a good example of their actual tactical intelligence (every other supersoldier portrayal take note!) And the orb was a better indication of their willpower, unable to be corrupted as the Sergeant approached and all other defences failed.
Agreed. This was the turning point at which I became interested in WH40K. The first few times I've found it, first time was when it was mentioned by Isaac Arthur, second when I found out they're basically top sci-fi army here th-cam.com/video/FSGl-QsJYXk/w-d-xo.html. Both times I left uninterested. I thought the character art looked funny / clumsy, I thought they'd intentionally bee lined it to OP status among sci-fi armies, the inclusion of magic, orks especially, had me thinking it was more fantasy than sci-fi, and the 'Status Quo' Dystopia (goal being to maintain things as they are if at all possible rather than to improve the situation) didn't interest me at the time. This changed that. I was still unappreciative of it my first view, but I was impressed, and had a few questions, so I went to see a lore explanation of this... and came away absolutely Stunned at the amount of thought that goes into Every little detail. This launched me down the WH40K animations Rabbit Hole along with more Lore. I still wouldn't say I understand enough of the WH40K universe to consider myself a fan yet, but it's certainly caught my attention.
"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear."
I have played the Space Marines since the late 90s, but I never truly "got them" until I watched Astartes. The thing made clear here that no other 40k media captured before is a Space Marine is a monster from the perspective of a human. The scene that made it all click was the instant the psycher's hold on him is broken, immediately the knife is on it's way to his neck. He wasn't struggling to break free, he was single-mindedly trying to kill the psycher the whole time. Just singularly amazing visual story telling. Added so much more to my appreciation and understanding of the universe of 40k. Too bad we won't get any more fan projects like this.
Didn't see anyone mention this yet, but at the end of the video there are actually 4 flashes as the other 4 marines appear in the scene. 3 of the arrivals are on top of those distant pillars, but the very first flash happens *behind* the one on the far right at ground level. All five marines survived their trip through the warp, but that first one might have to dig himself out of the sand.
@@malcontender6319 I'd better call it *_"clarity of thought before rashness of action!"_* The Adeptus Astartes are so ironically deadly against those who are on their level (or below) because they're basically mass-produced "10-10 Str/Int Super Soldiers." This is a trope that many people enjoy in media, needless to say. I personally love it due to the idea that it reminds me of the "power scale diff" between "the typical video game protagonist" and... literally everyone else... Yes, I just joked how I often compare gamers to Space Marines because everyone else in Warhammer 40,000 has yet to "get gud!" unironically.
The best thing about Astartes is that the creator made Space Marine's enemies competent. It's just that the tactics and abilities of the Space Marines are superior in every way.
"superior tactics" *casually walk around in the open while being shot at* *slowly walk around the ship, no rush amitire?* *still gets ambushed twice* Honestly; they seemed pretty incompetent; mostly just relying on their superior strength and resilience to win; they were pretty good shots but the only piece of "tactics" we saw from them was when they tried to ambush those golden boys.
I just want to point out that this guy, by leaps and bounds, is a better director than most people in Hollywood. The action is clear, easy to follow, exciting, and has none of the stupid action tropes found in modern movies; no stupid shaky cam, no super quick cuts, no dumbass melodramatic slo-mos, none of that crap. It just goes to show that sometimes an inspired amateur knows a hell of a lot more than the professionals crapping out their big-budget bombs and calling it art.
@@StarboyXL9 Uh... sure... totally not because they follow trends or anything... nope... gotta be this biiiiiiiig conspiracy for the West to, uh, kill the uh... th-the West. It's like that meme with the kid pointing the gun at the back of his own head 🤣
@@dboot8886 Stop trying to gaslight him. No human actions are binary; something can qualify as one thing while qualifying as another. The 'demolition of the west' could also qualify as 'following a trend'. The other user said 'chosen for their lack of vision and talent' - you said 'follow trends' - these are extremely similar qualities. Please, logic is an integral skill to living life without wasting your own effort; I'd strongly recommend taking the time to learn the common rules and fallacies of logic so that you can save your effort & time in the future.
Whats amazing about this animation is you don't have to be a fan to enjoy it and more likely than not, I think this is single handedly capable of getting people interested in 40k.
Not only did GW take down the originals and put them on its own site, they even modified it for the worse. Green filter, changed sounds and they even deleted the absolutely kickass after credit scene. I dont know why was it so hard to respect the dudes vision when it was already perfect. He went up and beyond for everyone. Nonetheless thank you for letting me rewatch the original!
@@Maverick619-CAExactly, sad shit man. I really do believe this and TTS getting so much love from the community is what caused GW to lose their shit and launch its campaign against fan animators. I don't know if it came from jealousy or spite since GW has never made anything good animation wise.
Funny thing I just noticed - Syama did not delete the project off his artstation page. Instead, he's linked each episode to timestamped parts of this very video.
One thing I like is that the perspective is resolutely outside the armour. You can tell in some instances (the coordinated attack on the Chaos sorcerers, the scene with the Inquisition psyker) that communication *happens*, but it remains contained within the armour. To outsiders, the Astartes look like they operate by telepathy or some sort of gestalt intelligence, and it makes them that much scarier. Yes, I realise that was most likely driven by a lack of voice talent, but that only makes it *more* impressive. The creator took a real lack and turned it into a strength of the end product.
While watching, I also imagined that they were in constant coms, however, it was all radio coms internal to their armor and wasn’t broadcast outside of the suit. Either way, I loved this!
Soldiers often fight without speaking as they already know what to do. I don't think they're communicating except with the ship as they have no reason to since each Marine knows exactly what to do at any moment.
@@ImranKhan-gs2hyI hate that I laughed at that. I'm picturing somebody from games workshop punching him square in the face with the force of a semi truck. 😂
@@xadadax1 He was bought out by the licensing lawyers. Basically he works for GamesWorkshop now to avoid a lawsuit. He isn't allowed to make anything pertaining to warhammer IP ever again.
For anyone wondering the size of the ship at the beginning. The turrets for the Macro-cannons on the sides you will see tiny specks of lights just a little above them. Those are a special pane windows which typically would be 50-70 feet in height and 20-30 feet in width. Those tiny specks are roughly close to 100-210 square foot area which is around 1/8th of a football field. With that tiny size we can at least guess this ship belonging to the Battleship class. If I recall correctly, that is around 6-7 Km in length, 1.5-2.1 Km in height, and 900 m - 2 km in width.
Yea after watching this I went to watch an over 1 hour two parter video about lore of every WH40k race. I didn't enjoy the game too much as RTSes aren't really my thing but the lore is badass.
I've never see anyone else mention this. You can actually see the other space marines warping in at the end on the pillars in the distance. Wild, never noticed despite countless watches
Just blew my mind. I thought that was music, and the poor guy was alone(as were the others) in some vastly far planet. Now I know the pain train was just relocated.
@@weltschmerz333 Service Studs are metallic studs attached to the skull of a Space Marine, which visibly protrude through the skin of the forehead. The awards signify the number of the Marine's years in service to the Chapter. Different designs and shapes of studs denote different lengths of service. At the end of the video when he takes his helm off to vomit (you know he's been thrown into another reality since a space marine wouldn't vomit for pretty much anything else) he has the service studs that equal 200 years of service (2 silver, each representing 50 years, and 100 for gold). What's insane is his rank...imagine fighting aliens, demons, mutants, the darkest creatures in the universe for 200 years and still nothing having a high rank (he's not even a lieutenant).
@@MCristian1988 thank you so much for explaining, I have been into 40k for like 6 years and never heard this before I always assumed they were some kind of cybernetic augment...always learning new stuff about 40k :D
Honestly, the fight scene at 4:00 is incredible. No Wasted Actions, no "toying" with them, just two equally powerful and intelligent enemies taking a fight to the death seriously.
Wasted movement and unessecary pauses when two enemies or groups of enemies meet in combat in cinema has always been a gripe moment for me. Like we always have to have the shot of the "big reveal" of the monster. It needs to stand there and growl for fifteen seconds. And no. No one ever shoots the monster during this time. In fact, the monster closes the distance somehow and kills people. "
@@PastaBicepsPsykers, and if I heard correctly it says in the Creator's patreon that they're in fact nobles of the rebellion who have augments to improve their psychic powers (the extra spine thingies)
yes, truly it's ridiculous. other companies would kill for their fans to make such high-quality advertisements for their IP, but GW is INTENTIONALLY and FEVERISHLY stamping it out. Incompetence personified.
@@elricvanekimus Don't give arch your attention, he's a white supremacist. On his other channel he has appeared with White Nationalist "The Golden One" and with the neo-nazi organisation Stormfront.
I don’t know anything about Warhammer 40k. I just started and im loving every bit of lore and story I could find on the internet. This was absolutely amazing.
I love how the creator respects the viewer. Not everything is handed to you, you have to think about what you're watching and hearing and how it relates to other things. Incredible.
@@APersonOnTH-camX just remember to like the universe, not the company which stole it and copyrighted as their own. This animation has been taken down from official channel due to copyright from GW , then they sued the animator into working with them.
Yeah... I dunno man, it seems like they kinda screwed him. If you go to his youtube page theres just his announcement video and nothing else. I haven't tried to find this series on the GW website but I hear it's a much worse version quality-wise with some weird edits. Some of the hearsay also mentioned an NDA so I dunno man. Very glad this version survives here though
@@shrekneutron1587I mean, he’s being paid by GW to produce another series. Isn’t it great that a fan animator was so good that they hired him and he can support himself?
@@hobbyhaven9862 With the way GW's behaving, I wouldn't call anything they do 'great'. They've done more than enough to earn themselves a spot on my boycott list.
@@shieldphaser I definitely believe they bought the guy out in order to suppress his work in the name of some copyright bullshit. It's been 3 years and we haven't heard any updates from Syama Pedersen. Change my mind.
@@thomasmcdevitt253 I mean. We hear nothing. See nothing. Then 4 years later BLUR studios, known for Love Death Robots comes out and animates 20 minutes of best 40K content we have ever had, and Syama Pedersen is "just" a layout artist. How do you know that Game Workshop even had anything to do with the animation work? Syama might've fought to be on that project, you don't know and neither do we dumbasses.
@@HollowEffect1621 only if they're using the kind of ruleset where every possible little thing has to be accounted for rather than just checking range and rolling the damn dice
Well, boys, this is the only thing we have left of original Astartes now. May GW not ruin his vision, but at least we still have this to remind us what was. Edit: so the answer is now clear. GW did force him into their fold in order to push their paid streaming service. GW shoots themselves in the foot (with a bolter) once again.
I really like that the Space Marines NEVER talk in this. It makes them seem even more badass. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a Chapter Master or someone like that giving a pre-battle speech about glory and The EMPEROR and getting them all hyped - but then once they're on the mission, they're just so synced up and all know their roles so well that they don't have to say anything. They just kill shit.
I'm pretty sure they do talk, you can hear the helm vox of the marines a few times. The vid just gives us an external view on them, like their enemies see them, and unless a marine activates his vox caster, they appear nearly silent, which is even more impressive considering their size and their huge armor.
@@InCognito-vx8gi That's a great point! We're outside observers in this, so we wouldn't hear anything they said unless they were using a caster/speaker. So even if they were talking to each other, like you said - no one facing them would know it. Which I think makes them even scarier as an enemy!
I've always thought that concept is dumb considering astartes are in a constant state of "hyped" for battle lol Most of the CG movies I see of astartes are ruined for me by the voice acting or writing. Astartes use words the same way they use bolter shells.. Not a single one is released without a purpose.. Wasting time speaking information that is not useful or have purpose is not something an Astartes wouldnt do. I think under very rare instances should we here them speak and it should be very mechanical, emotionless and to the point. I yield a little more in the novels when it comes to this because I can put my own spin on how they say it etc but in videos hearing someone else voice act their words.. cringe..
@@deepblue1846 You mean you don't like it when they yell, "BROTHERS!!"...? Haha. I understand what you mean, though, and I agree. I like to think of it as - there's a job for everyone. There are probably guys who talk more, because their role demands it (leaders, basically), but I figure the troops on the ground wouldn't typically NEED to talk much at all, like you said. They've got helmets with a HUD full of sensor displays, maps, all that shit - so they probably know where everyone is and what they're doing at almost all times. So unless something's really gone awry on the mission, why bother? And even if they HAD to talk to each other, like In Cognito said, only they would hear it. Which again, to an outside observer, makes them scary as hell. Regardless of what happens, all you would see is them just silently changing tactics as necessary, and continuing the fight.
Best and most believable adaptation of the Adeptus Astartes as written in the books. Too many depictions get them wrong as slow, lumbering tanks: I laughed with outright joy seeing them run the 100 yard dash in just a couple seconds in full armor. Absolutely awesome video for 40k fans!
@@rdklgrunt6985 you mean fluff or crunch? They are much weaker in tabletop than they are intended to be fluffwise. A proper Marine can't outrun a Banshee, but they are damn fast lol.
@@Ammoniumbicarbonat And not just humans, an Astartes Marines are stronger 1v1 against most enemies, but when they meet against their elite soldiers, then they are in trouble. I think what hinders the space marines the most is their lacking numbers and how fractured they are. I know it is the effect of the Horus Heresy. Also their aging tech and equipment - I think I read somewhere, that their armor can't be made anymore, that the tech is lost and actually all armor sets are from old storage, passed down from older marines who can't fit in them or made from the good parts of broken sets.
9:57 Anyone else hear the psyker say "recall them immediately"? The amount of detail in this continues to blow me away. Every time I come back to it something else makes me marvel.
I know, and I feel like doing that is what caused him to lose control. He stopped focusing on communicating with the sphere to save those marines :( so sad
I also think that the main Astartes soldier turns his head because he heard the order to fall back (I imagine he was caught off-guard by the order, hence him actually turning his head despite the voice likely coming from inside his helmet). But, as we all know, he and the others are sucked into the ball basically immediately after this.
Yet, nothing comes close to this marvellous creation. By this single individual. A studio tried and failed and didn't come close to the brilliance and amazing graphics, characters, action, and accuracy. To quantify the prowess of Space Marines into reality for cinematic viewing, is still not achieved. Comics, books, graphic novels, imagination creates more than what reality can do. This is a masterpiece overall.
@@pancytryna9378 this. Sittin fancy with the entire codex collection for 6e and completed BFG 2010 FAQ on TTS. I had no idea what I was doing back when first collecting tau any way. 4e codex in 5e rules saw half my stupid items as worthless.
Dude same here. I'll be honest I use to not understand 40k fans but this video is what hooked me, so underrated. We need this guy to make and direct the movie
Same and even tho I didn't understand anything about it besides what a space marine was bc of how much it's used in other Sci-fi I still felt like I could follow what was happening, I was asking, "what is that?", "who are they?", "what the hell just happened?", but not in an annoyed way, in an awestruck way. Seeing this as one of the first things I ever knew about warhammer as an adult effected me like seeing stars wars for the first time as a kid, I was hooked from then on and haven't gone one day without reading, listening, or watching something about the warhammer universe
That psyker was so incredibly powerful. Not only could he peer into the minds of those psychic orb creatures, but he resisted being possessed by the caged one long enough to hold himself in place, disconnect his “harness” tying him to the orb so the creature couldn’t escape back to it, but also to scream “RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY” loud enough for it to be audible thru his helmet and warn the chapter master of the danger to his men. He did his duty to the last, and only in death did his duty end. Given a merciful end by the chapter master and his captain. His strength and actions saved the Chapter's ship, and the lives of everyone on board. A possessed psyker is a thing of absolute terror. Truly, even the chapter master and his captain were in extreme danger as they assessed the situation. That’s why the master waved away his third, to hold the next line in case they failed in containment. The scream is most likely the death rattle of the psyker’s soul barely hanging on to coherency before being torn apart by the orb creature’s psychic powers. And before it’s even over the chapter master has hands on him and ends him mercifully swiftly, with the captain making sure all vital parts are destroyed to prevent even the slightest chance of a possession. I like to imagine the inquisitor psyker and the chapter master were associates, and they expected each other to do their duty. That confidence, the anchor that psyker had to “the chapter master must be warned, and he will do his duty freeing me from a possession” is why that psyker was able to push himself until his soul literally burned away inside of him.
so the psyker is the one in the red hood and hes working with that white space marine? then he gets possessed while listening into the two orbs communicating and warns the white marine before being mercy killed?
I saw someone point out that after the tentacle creature grabs the astartes in the void, it is attacked by a smoky mist identical to the one the inquisitor was giving off.
Syama Pedersen asked for help on a homebrew animation in a LinkedIn post two days ago (March 27, 2024). It looks like he's currently working with a studio called Digital Bones. There's a teaser video released with the post and as per his usual specs, it's amazing. Legends never die.
@@LordGhentsis Doubt it. Considering how corpo‑centric this place is becoming, and don't even get me started on the Warp entity designated as 'Gee‑Dubs'.
I love Henry Cavill as an actor, I think he's great and he seems to be a big big fan of 40k wich is optimistic but like we saw with The Witcher, a lot of different people can interfere and mess it up. I feel like animation is really the way to go with this universe. I don't feel that it will be as dark and gory and edgelord if it's live action.. We'll see I guess !
@@_KimJong-un_ at least for warhammer he’s the executive producer. Which means he could get some final says about the direction of the project. Plus he could probably fund the whole project himself by being half naked on onlyfans whispering things like “the emperor protects” >\\\\
0:57 there’s so many subtle things in this scene. The landing craft approaches from a blind spot, then you can see the enemy ship respond by going full thrust upon visual contact and firing countermeasures. It’s all just so organic.
Can you also notice how the escort attack aircraft from the first frames of the episode inflicts a rocket attack? a blow to the engines and quickly leaves along the ship, and the air defense misses it
oh my god, how is this attention to detail even possible? I could kinda understand, if the makers of these clips are a whole team out of multiple people, but it seems, its only one guy! Its crazy, the abilities of some people...
It also looks like the thunder hawk or something fires something that disables the engine because just before the boarding torpedo hits the ship, the engines go dark.
The fucking design and detail. The smaller drone takes the missles, the backhanded knife. The smoke dissipated from the plasma pistol, the amazing sound design
Damn I love this shit so much. I realized after watching the whole thing just now I watch this freaking regularly and notice something new every time. I acknowledged the fighter that launches in front of the transport but never really paid attention to it after everything starts happening. Dudes out there running distraction to keep the deck guns off the transport... I can't believe the amount of detail Syama Pedersen put into this.
In regards to the OP's comments. YES!!!! Sure, even if the Astartes could technically be talking to each other over mics: the perspective the audience has DOESN'T HAVE TO HEAR THAT. Instead, we get the perspective of an observer in the room. Which really helps sell just how terrifying and how "whisper quiet" to "deafeningly loud" an event like this would be. ❤
They all got their helmets on, pretty sure when they don't want to broadcast, you can't hear what they are saying inside the helmets, they can communicate to each other thru their coms units, pretty sure on their HUDs they can even see what the others are looking at if they choose to broadcast/recieve. WE just can't hear what they are saying.
I love how there was so much hate about this being a reupload and now everyone is praising it for being the only source of the original Edit: I wasn't expecting to open an entire argument in the comments honestly lmao
Because at first it was theft, now it's conservation. The difference is availability. It's like a first edition printing where they fucked up later printings and this is the only good version left.
@@ComotoseOnAnime its not really theft if the video isnt monetised and they made a convenient stitching of all the parts. If he had uploaded all 5 parts seperately, and monetised the video, then it would have been theft. What he did was archival.
@@hoffa9000 Copyright laws do not agree with that. And while Copyright laws can suck my balls, in this instance it's still infringement, actually a double infringement seeing as GW owns the rights to shit like the word Astartes. So technically speaking even the creator wouldn't have a leg to stand on in this instance unless you could argue transformative work, which GW would outright REEEE at.
Its saddening that Astartes is the best content on Warhammer+, they actually got everything right when it comes to Spacemarines. 1. They hardly or never talk 2. They don't die by just one shot 3.They are fast, tactically superior warriors 4.They are a brute unstoppable force ...saddening, because it needed an outside developer to show GW how it s done
I'm a complete newb when it comes to anything WH, but regarding #1 I think someone else broke it down and said they do talk, it's just that no one on the outside can hear (aka they have comms built inside their helmet or whatnot). This is also why it was concerning when the guy using the beads got possessed. The higher rank guys were alarmed when he could be heard outside his helmet, meaning he was screaming so loud that sound was escaping through, also then evidenced by illuminating his screaming face in horror through the visor. I'm actually curious, so if that guy got it wrong I'd like to know if the other guy was making that ish up, and the marines don't actually communicate.
@@Yeschanz It depends on the chapter, there's ALOT of speeches that the space marines do before battle. It's based really on the chapters flavor with some like the Raptors and Ravenguard being silent and tactical, and others like the Black Templars being more "Knights in armor" themed. 40k is HUGE with so much to explore and so much that fits basically everyone's tastes. Welcome aboard!
It’s honestly so sad - They have so much money and all the time in the world and they have yet to deliver anything on this level of animation. Even Pariah Nexus - compared to Astartes Pariah Nexus is just so mid
@@YeschanzMarines talk lol, I have no idea what the commenter is on about. But what you do get is that some chapters are more silent and stoic and don't talk much because that's just the culture of that certain group of Marines. Read the first 3 or even just the first Horus Heresy books, it's full of Marines talking to and cracking jokes with one another. It's hard not to get close to a guy when you've been fighting alongside him for the past 200+ yrs
@godz52 on most machine guns have a selector switch, for different firing modes like single ,full auto, or burst fire , a progressive trigger has to firing modes depending on how far you pull the trigger back in this case a light trigger pull single shot but full trigger squeeze will give you full auto filing
10:42 If you look closely, a great subtle touch is how the Space Marine pulls back when that creature's face appears, makes them still feel human at how unnerved seeing something like that so close so suddenly can get you.
@@zakshei Not at all. There are some chapters, but many don't see the Emperor as a God. That being said, the Retributors-Chapter shown in the movie are quite religious.
Bruh, the Inquisitor straight looked at the commander as he over heard the daemons talking about possessing him. He knew what was coming and warned the space marine thus saving the entire ship with that simple gesture. What a boss, took his fate with absolute loyalty.
He saved more than the people on the ship. He was the one that blasted the warp entity when it tried dragging the Space Marine squad into the warp. Although, the space marines didn't look like they landed somewhere hospitable.... so maybe he only prolonged the inevitable in their case.
@@svendays I disagree. Im pretty sure the Space Marine who blew his arm off is the one who killed the warp demon. He's getting pulled in by a massive tentacle demon. (right before they get sucked in he see's the demons true form with a bunch of tentacles.) right before he gets pulled into the orb aka "the warp" he looks into it. As you see his vision goggles light up. He sees where the demon is that is pulling him and his comrades in. He then aims his mega blaster gun (or whatever that is) at the demon in the warp and fires. I guess because of being partially in the orb it also blows his arm off. Then it shows the point of view of his comrade being held by the tentacle demon and it shows his comrades blaster shot, shoot in and blow up the demon.. which then causes them all to be dropped in who knows where
@@willmarisela nope, the chaos entity that comes in and grabs the orb entity is a warp predator, the orb entity used psychic power in the warp and attracted the attention of all the nearby hungry things which then devoured it.
You can hear him shout "Recall them immediately!" The dude screamed so loud you could hear him through the helmet. Same with the chanting he does when he stands and turns to the commander.
Something I love about this is that they perfectly portray just how powerful space Marines and psykers are. In the game and such they're pretty much everywhere and die pretty often so you don't really grasp the concept of just how godlike they are. Space Marines are designed to be one man armies against normal foes they're pretty much unstoppable and this perfectly betrays it. A small squad is enough to decimate dozens if not hundreds of standard combatant soldiers, a standard space Marine is virtually bulletproof to normal weaponry and even most heavy weapons are rendered useless. Simultaneously they can run at superhuman speeds despite their heavy armor and can rip apart steel with their bare hands. Meanwhile this also shows you the power of psykers, you think that these are something special like powerful bosses but they are just standard psykers all of them have that power and you can see what they're capable of. It just really sells the weight of what kind of monsters exist in this universe
And how vulnerable the mind of a psyker can be when compared to other entities in the warp, it's something people don't grasp until they really read into warhammer being a psyker is not "oh hey I have godlike powers XD" it's an amplification of the bad just as much as the good.
You're absolutely right! Remember the time during the Great Crusade on Planet 63-19 (Book: Horus Rising)? The Imperial Guard wasn't able to fight through a heavily defended tunnelsystem, held by the forces of the planets rebelling administration. *Six weeks* the fights continued, with no gain whatsoever. Then Adeptus Astartes (10. Company of the Lunar Wolves) under the command of Cpt. Garviel Loken arrived and took the tunnel system, the outer palace, and seat of power within the hour.
I agree. I think the Dawn of War 2 trailer shows how powerful an Eldar witch can be as well cause she fries one dude with lightning in an insant but the Force Commander is able to resist it for just a second to close the gap
I don't know much about warhammer, but I really appreciate how the action happens in real time, no repetition, no dramatic pauses. It's not something you see all that often in animation, and it offers a unique kind of... viscerality. We're shown what two overpowered factions seriously trying to end each other looks like, and neither of them is going to slow down for us. But despite going so fast, the video is still full of details for you to find if you just go back and look. It's not using the fast pace to hide a lack of effort.
The fact that they're using comms through airtight helmets, and you can HEAR the psyker yelling through his helmet is telling of just how bad the situation was. "Recall them Immediately!"
i know nothing about warhammer. this is stupidly good, wtf. have seldom seen something so entertaining or so well directed. the animation? gold. the framing? the pace? extraordinary. the emotion? the storytelling? hello? and you are telling me this is FAN MADE? i die.
I love the way he made the hallway scene at the beginning with regular people so we get a scale for the size of the astartes, I literally can’t even wrap my head around how big those houses are, and primarch’s are even bigger?
usally primarchs are almost the double of a space marine. Primarchs where unique. Some of them even had "feelings" which a Astartes doesnt have in a common way.
@@user-nr3ei8ji8u Emotions, primarchs have "extendet"! emotions. thats is usally diusabled by the marines except anger, rage and wrath. Because the Primarchs are the sons of the imperator and the SM are just "tools" made out of the perfect "human" soldier
@@StoffiePrductions Marines are still men, depends on the chapter for the process of creation and training. But they are not all mind wiped, emotionless drones. They still have emotions just have a different perspective, being a walking war machine will do that to you. Like if you spoke to an ancient Knight or Samurai warrior, you wouldn’t have much in common, but they are still just men.
@@pianospawn1 The4y arent just man. U can compare samurais or Knights with Space marines. Samurai's walked the bushido codex because of strong feelings. Space marines are almost without any feelings which could lead to failures. Also they arent just "men" just remember they are geneteic experiemts 2 hearts, better muscles and more. If u describe SM as "just men" u think Eldar are elves aswell
The fact this was made by one person is still just so amazing. I'm happy to hear they got a job because of this, lets hope they're treated like the artistic demigod they are. The textures, the models, the animation, the sound design, the lighting, the scenery, everything is so damn amazing, fluid, impactful, and beautiful.
@Roshaun Roache Because everything that made Astartes great will be rotted away under GW since they will never allow him the same freedom and amount of control he had when he was not under their influence.
@Roshaun Roache GW is games workshop and unfortunately they own Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy and the second one has already been ruined by them with the End Times fiasco.
The detail I love the most is how the multi-laser gunner could've taken out the lead astartes, were he to wait just a few seconds longer. The routing troops were clearly luring the enemy into that chokepoint of a corridor; if the guy let the marine reach at least halfway in, he would not only spare his comrades, but also keep the enemy under direct fire for a few more precious seconds. That many las-blast hits would've compromised the armour's integrity, even wound the astartes with enough hits to the eyelenses and joint seals. But the gunner panicked, opened fire immediatley upon sight and that was it for everyone. Not that taking out one of the five would accomplish much, maybe it'd cost them another casualty in the fight with psyker brothers, but they still reach the artefact and place the beacons. The mortal troops were clearly professional soldiers, but in the end they were still only human. I love proper 40k so damn much. Fuck GW.
Astartes have good vision. He would've simply seen him and shot him down the moment he came into the corridor. Which is why the gunner started shooting right as soon as he saw him.
@@ernimuja6991 He does just that, but bolt pistol rounds do not work, so he throws a smoke/flash grenade, causing the enemy gunner to stop the torrent of las-blasts, takes cover, switches weapons and shoots a plasma blast. Plasma weaponry is delicate, if tried to pull it out in that hail of enemy shots, it could've been struck and compromised, not to mention that he'd be under a stream of fire for the entire duration of the switch. I am not saying that the multilaser would've killed him, but it'd likely compromise the armour/deal a few minor woulds through the seals. An astartes in compromised armour is put at a huge disadvantage for the rest of the fight, as they do not have a techmarine with them to perform repairs.
I don't know whether the lore/"rules", so to speak, have changed dramatically in the last 15 or so years - and not that I disagree with you - but the only thing that I can fault about this series is that this Lascannon should have torn the Astartes in half. Lascannons were designed to cut through the armor of tanks, walkers and speeders, much less the armor of a lone space marine. But it says a lot that these guardsmen, of a sort, brought a Lascannon to a bolter fight. That's the only fault I can raise with this series and even then I realise how inconsequential it is to what is the best 40K animation ever made...
@@TheR1g That's not a lascannon, it's a twin-linked multilaser, sort of a lasweapon answer to a machinegun/infantry support gun. No lascannon in the galaxy has this high rate of fire. It's one thick beam a few times per minute.
@@MizantropMan Fair enough. Thanks for the info. It was just the profile of the thing looked, at first glance, like it was a lascannon... but I stand corrected! Thanks!
And if you see their statistics in TTRPGs like Dark Heresy, Deathwarch or even Black Crusade you'll see that you are god damn right. To slaughter an astartes you must be a high tier character, and not every career (class) or build can do it. Some high tier assassins and psykers can if they are lucky enough but the problem is if you failed at oneshot spacemarine and has no ways to restrain him or somehow wait until next turn you would be dead.
The Terminator T-800 would be destroyed by a regular Astartes trooper. A T-800 could walk through the defences at the White House, (that is until the probable man portable rockets and hidden mini-guns pop out of the false pillars and colonnades). A T-800 is OP, and a common Space Marine is his boogie man.
The first 3 episodes make them look as ruthless killing machines but the last part is my favorite. Even with all their strenght the only thing they can do against the horrors of the Inmaterium is survive.
This is so lore acurate. So many places in the books they keep on describing the shock and awe of astartes yet so few movies and games have come close to actually capturing it. This is spot on. The sheer speed, precision, weight, coordination, confidence and bravery of an astartes is really awe-inspiring...
I'm very unfamiliar with the lore, what faction are the space Marines fighting here? I showed my buddy this the other day and neither of us are very knowledgeable about W40k
@@TiddyTwyster IIRC the foot soldiers are theorized to be Umbra, and the Orbs are (to my understanding) a different type of Psyker enemy not well understood (thus the red cloaked Inquisitor)
@@TiddyTwyster Fan chapter and probably made up rebellion, I wouldn't be surprised if the 'Argosa System' didn't exist prior either. But GWS hired on this guy so this was all made canon cuz it fits the universe so well. The psyker automatons, the orbs, the place they get sent to, etc are all new creations by Pedersen.
The almost not noticeable detail at the end is the Astartes response time. He just got his arm blown off, got flung around in the void and then teleported to some unknown place. It takes him just a few seconds to start looking at his surroundings. It is the equivalent of being kicked in the stomach, thrown down a flight of stairs into a dark room and being told you have 6 seconds to identify your surroundings.
He really sold Astartes being pretty much near inhuman warmarchines. Their actions are close to being, but not entirely, robotic. Beings bred and trained for warfare. I just love it.
A Chaos-corrupted Psyker would be a threat large enough to endanger their entire ship. They needed to FULLY eliminate him before possession fully took over
It's really cool that GW are basically telling anyone who is passionate enough to make an animation to fuck off. Pretty disappointing when a company punishes its fanbase for loving the IP.
For some reason I just love that small moment at 8:03. They continue to walk towards this object with no stop in movement, then it proceeds to launch out a small amount of force to make itself known and active. Each of them stop for a second, staring straight ahead and then get right back to moving, not giving a damn one bit.
The directing here is brilliant. This is visually brilliant. These guys should direct real Hollywood movies. This is as good as any action sequence I have ever seen.
@@OneBiasedOpinion yes, I see it like a psych attack too. Less of a force push and more of a psychic scream. Their unflinching advance is impressive with either though. There are many points throughout the video where a normal man would definitely pause with either fear, or lost in the moment. Who knows how long that captain and the psyker have known each other. Could’ve been years. But the min he lost control and succumbed to the warp madness, he didn’t hesitate a single moment to put his fist through his face
Spiked sphere: Who's here? I have failed. Caged sphere: We have all failed. The Astartes defy our touch. Spiked sphere: You must return. Break your seal. Caged sphere: It's impossible. Spiked sphere: We will never survive. Caged sphere: You must. Take their bodies Psyker: "Recall them immediately!"
Is it "Take their bodies" or "Take the alpha" ? I hear "take the alpha". Also after the Psyker says 'recall them immediately' I feel like the sphere says something else. "at last..." or "alas" something.
More like, CEOs of big companies: "Something like this cannot be made without us giving ourselves and our friends some million-$ bonuses along the way, nuh-uh"
@@red_cosplay You get what you pay for, and when you constantly invest money in the upper echelons and neglect, or even get rid of, the core labour, you end up with a substandard product. The worst part is, the executive management is by and large employed due to nepotism, not merit. They all seem absolutely terrible at their jobs (though are somehow good at making money for shareholders), because they actively sabotage creative design, they artificially inflate prices while product quality gets worse, and they end up creating an incredibly unsustainable profit line for their company, because you can't make infinitely increasing profit unless you have infinitely increasing consumption, which won't happen if you cut wages/workforces and nobody has money to spend. It's honestly a huge problem, but apparently these people at the top of the economic ladder have no idea how the economy works...
@Word Of Mouth It's absolutely insane, because a sustainable economic state gives far more income in the long term. Forcing an economic bubble to expand seems leads to recession in the long run, and everybody loses money... I honestly question the education and intelligence of many of these corporate managers, they are largely the result of nepotism, yes, but they should realize that they are destroying the company they work in over time (by being completely deaf to the consumers) while also shooting themselves in the foot with a bullet that is going to hit hard in a few years time.
Download this ASAP because the creator officially joined GW ranks and the original videos have been removed from youtube... And not only that, GW posted the videos on their community page and fucked up the quality and even changed some audio and video parts.
I think they legally had to change some music because games workshop didn't own the rights to that music or something, but the whole thing is stupid as hell.
Apockiller they are genetically enhanced warriors vs regular soldiers ofc they are gonna slaughter the regular soldiers no matter how well trained they are
i totally agree with you here . i swear i wish he make a movie like this . but like 1 hour + . omg this guy will make something epic i know! he have talent and all skills . i really apreciate his job and work !
What I admire too is that he captures the Tenacity the space marines have. The sheer effort they put into THE MISSION and to complete it. its intense and scary, but also epic.
To add on. Around 4:90 when they engage. Even the slightest hesitation from the enemy and you can see the perseverance from the Space Marines to instantly go for that opportunity. This has me more intrigued then most movies do in less then 15 minutes. I wish he could make a continuation for the Astartes, Because im insanely curious what happens with them! D:
I don't see any effort required though. they more or less waste time taking cover from weapons that CLEARLY struggle to scratch the paint of their armor. Take the smoke grenade use early on for example. Why even use that when the lazes were literally doing NOTHING to that armor. everyone in that armor could literaly walk past everyone exept the guys with the spines. It looks tacti-cool, but , given energy or kinetic ammo has a difference, there's nothing on that entire ship that can actualy do anything against them. Even the spine heads could do little more than lightly shove a few of them without completely gimping themselves. Why would the enemy even waste time shooting back when the only apparent move is to lock every door and passage and simply make it require too much effort to move forward.
@@TheRocketdrive They have no other option as locking doors and waiting them out wont stop an Astartes assault squad as they have ways of breaching reinforced steel doors. Unless the situation is completely fucked will not leave until the objective is complete. Plus they're dead no matter what because in 40k unless you're important or you're being captured to become a slave no one takes prisoners.
@@TheRocketdrive I interpreted it as his armour would have breached if he'd continued to take fire at that rate while moving down that corridor... he could tank a good few seconds of it but by the time he reached the end it would have melted through. That was a multilas I think and their damage accumulates, his armour would have heated to extremes even it can't cope with. Same with the heavy rifle and rocket launcher you see used and the guy running with what I assume is a Melta-bomb... all these weapons are designed for breaching Power Armour level targets. Astates are extremely durable but their armour does have a breaking point, you can see later on he's taken damage to it and that was from the multilas
This is great! Shame GW just decided it's illegal to ever do any sort of fan-made Warhammer Animation (or other fan content) ever again. They even went after peoples' Patreons. Ah GW really just is amazing at being horrible.
@@TheRecklessBravery Games Workshop (GW) are the owners of the intellectual property. They own the rights to these Space Marines and all the rest of the universe.
4:55 The scene where the Astartes pushes through Psyker powers, fueled by pure strength and hatred and rage, shit is so intense. This is such an incredibly well made animation. It's phenomenal.
Hatred and rage are for the Khorne worshippers. The (Non-Chaos) Space Marines just have immense willpower and mental discipline coming from their brutal training.
@@jinpachibobochan3532 nah regular marines feel righteous fury. how do you think marines fall to khorne? even if enhanced, marines are humans, and thus feel emotions just as others do. just...also they're really fucked up psychologically lol and conditioned
@@brightestlight9462 Righteous fury isn't rage and hatred, though. Any emotion has different kinds of types, some positive, some negative. Even love can be twisted into something not so positive. If you let rage and hatred lead your sword, then you will eventually start to behave like a violent savage - but if you allow your fury to only give your strength, but wield the sword with mental discipline and skill, then you will fight like a master of your body, mind, and soul. Stuff like that. The former is most likely to become entrapped by chaos. The latter not so. Well, that doesn't mean you will have your mind corrupted by rage and hatred after just a small amount, but I'm speaking here of those that revel in these emotions, using them as mental fuel for their strikes. Killing something out of rage and hatred corrupts. But it is tough to theorize all that stuff anyways regarding Space Marines. Not only do they live in a time of 'There is only war,' but they aren't exactly normal humans. How and why a space marine becomes corrupted by chaos, manipulated into thinking that becoming a follower of Nurgle is a good idea, I have no idea. Nurgle followers sound like crocodile drug junkies.
The best depiction of how fast and incredible space marines are in battle. Not john woo stuff. Just realism, skill and efficiency. An amazing video. Other Warhammer 40k should try to imitate this incredible clip. Just bang on.
The attention to detail is just unreal. At 10:30 you can see the space marine's cloak billow in the pressure waves caused by the bolter's firing. It's incredible.
If you watch closely at 1:37, you can see the smoke being blown in different directions from each individual weapon. It's blink and you'll miss it level of detail.
@@harleyeames17 I dont see the markings, maybe you're confusing it with the marks from the lasgun shots they took? The little circles, which is still amazing attention to detail and lets us track our main character
RIP the potential future work of this artist. It is unbelievable that after this short film that demonstrated how amazing WH40K could have been on film that we will never see any more. :( Edit: this turned out NOT TO BE CORRECT, I confused this artist with another
GW will tame his work down to take aim at hook the children. I mean they need fresh meat for the meat grinder that is 40K......even though they will substitute meat for cotton candy and disappoint its fan base like clockwork.
@@killdozer__oto6979 He won't be a part of it, though. His creative vision is the reason this stuff is so unique and good. GW has already tried to make 3D animations, this guy made it WORK.
GW hired him though……what I was saying was how GW is soo good at ruining a good thing…..I thought that is what you meant by “RIP the potential work of this artist…..” because I thought you were referring to how GW will dictate what he accomplished on the future.
Part of the problem was the use of copyrighted sound/music in the original. Specifically, the Dredd (2012) soundtrack is featured. It fit so well because Dredd's composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, also did the soundtrack to Dawn of War 3. But rather than working to get the permission to use the original sound design, they instead did a rush job to the shit sound on their site.
The fact that GW have anything to do with it at all doomed it. Terrible move on the part of Syama Pedersen to have anything to do with that shit company, sure hope the money was worth it in the short term. Because it wont do a thing for his career, or bring him any fulfilment in life.
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR yep it is terrible, I am glad that he's financially stable now since he's being paid way more than before but now I won't expect anything better to come out from his work not with GW taking control on whatever they do
I know it is a very minor thing, But I love the complete silence of the Astartes, You don't her them bark out orders over Vox, just silence, that makes them far more intimidating in my opinion.
I feel like super-enhanced warriors with decades, if not centuries, of rigorous training and combat experience under their belts wouldn't need to say much in a typical boarding action like this. They've done it hundreds of times and know exactly what to do and how to do it as each situation arises. They only speak when something needs to be said. Space Marines screaming all the time seems pretty dumb. Very silent and extremely precise in their movements works much better and makes the most sense.
Likely more an artistic choice on the part of the filmmaker. They're speaking as needed during the operation, over the vox, we just can't hear it. For example, the captain is obviously speaking at 9:59 but we don't hear it. We, the audience, is seeing them the way those doomed heretics are: silent, merciless, and unstoppable. The ones that were stuck to the sphere may have had some words...
People had best start downloading this while they still can. This is all that remains of the original versions now that GW has taken down the TH-cam originals and replaced it with a lower resolution version on their website that ruins the mood with idiotic audio and music changes. I don't imagine GW will let reuploads like this stick around long.
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Update: On 3/27/24 Syama posted on his LinkedIn asking for vfx help with a homebrew project accompanied by a short teaser for it:
www.linkedin.com/posts/syama-pedersen-339b8761_looking-for-some-vfx-help-for-a-little-homebrew-activity-7178565260147138560-CsAT
Disclaimer: Some viewers have reported mild siezures triggered by sounds in this video.
Edit: The original creator has been hired on by GW to continue the project and contribute to others. As such the originals are no longer available on TH-cam, the project is now on Warhammer Community. Links have been updated. I'm not sure how this news will affect the future of the project, but I find myself feeling pessimistic. I hope I am wrong. Either way, this video will remain up as long as I am allowed to and I have added a mega link for this edit, sans the first intro text, at the bottom of this comment and the description.
Edit2: GW in their infinite wisdom has decided the world needs yet another streaming platform, so any future projects will now only be available on Warhammer+. Needless to say, this is a disappointing turn of events. Putting the content exclusively on their own, much less popular, website was bad enough. This video itself has garnered nearly 300,000 additional views since that move. That's free publicity they would deny their artists in order to greedily sell exclusivity. To then put the content behind yet another barrier, this one now monetary and a recurring subscription, and expect anyone to sign up for it is foolish greed and I don't see many people doing it. If they do it will be in support of the artist, but I fear as always in the end they will be the ones to get the short end of the stick.
Edit3: www.belloflostsouls.net/2021/07/games-workshop-clamping-down-on-fan-animations.html
Tl;Dr: Games Workshop bought up most of the the creators of the most popular fanmade animation projects, put their future work behind a subscription paywall, and has now made a policy making fanmade animation projects IP infringement. Notably, this only applies to animations. 40000 IQ.
Edit4: th-cam.com/video/SxS2kRFni_o/w-d-xo.html
Anyone interested in helping GW in the battle against heretical intellectual property thieves? Then I have just the job for you.
Parts 1 - 5 of the Astartes Project by Syama Pedersen, edited into one video for convenience. I played no part in the making of this film. All credit goes to the creator:
Astartes Channel
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Astartes Animation on Warhammer Community
www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/
www.patreon.com/astartesfilm
www.paypal.me/astartesfilm
instagram.com/astartesfilm/
Download link for this edit (link is currently down due to GW copyright claim, currently attempting to resolve this):
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Will you take down this video if the creator releases a supercut of his own?
@@kickflipinyaface I will unlist it.
@@kickflipinyaface goddamn leeches popping up everywhere
@@sirflytrap1926 Sorry you feel that way.
@@Maximum_Bacon ok snowflake
The creator of Astartes got in hand in creating the Secret Level Warhammer episode. This man deserves nothing but respect and success.
I definately felt his style in the episode but is there anything that actually confirms he did have a role in the production?
@@djmoonbass he is credited as a layout artist at the 17:05 mark
@@doughrock I was so fckn STOKED when I saw that. Man’s truly deserves the credit. The respect.
Had his signature all over it, the fact he’s so far down in the credits is criminal
Still don't understand why they didn't make a full-fledged series. Secret level is a massive letdown.
3 years later and this one man still hold the title of best animation ever.
I come back to it every 6 months for a Refresher.
possibly becos all the best russian content creators are being repressed from doin hobby work and recruited to put their quality animation into the current war for the betterment of russian state image:) there were a few projects that looked promising. Haven't heard much updates to them recently
@@AremStefaniaK th-cam.com/video/BApbaOduZGY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pUO1-_rUTZFcW3cX :)
@@AremStefaniaK perhaps you and other dumb idiots shouldn't talk about something they have not a slightest idea. "Repressed". What a clown.
@@AremStefaniaK projects like?
the best defense against the astartes is having a ship with really narrow hallways and low ceilings
basically, a human-sized spaceship
Until they make their own hallways.
Dude its Astartes, they'll just rip open a way if there's none.
Until they get Terminator armor and make their own hallways
*an enemy without shelter is without hope*
I love how at 5:20 the marine being held was 100% still trying to stab that dude with all his might the entire time he was frozen. Cause the second the field dropped he was balls deep in that dudes neck.
yeah, the space marine was being squashed to death and in great pain, yet not for a moment did he stop trying to kill the psyker. that's scary and cool
It’s such a good display of both the IMMENSE power psykers can wield (singlehandedly suspending and slowly crushing an 8’ dude who weighs multiple tons in power armor and just ripped half of a ship’s crew in half with no effort), and the utter contempt and rage Astartes possess when confronting literally any enemy.
@@OneBiasedOpinionplus the space marines insane ability to resist psyker powers.
Balls deep in his neck😭
“Balls deep in that dude’s neck” is crazy work
The scary part about fighting these big boys is that even though the "enemy" did everything right - Identify the breach position very quickly and set up a crossfire kill zone right there (just look at how big the ship is in the intro, yet they were there to meet them with over a dozen men at different angles/levels), fortify surrounding corridors with heavy weaponry, ambush tactics with anti-materiel rifles and suicide bombers, long range mega gatling cannon, willing to sacrifice their own troops ... and it STILL felt like a walk in the park for the Astrates.
Well said. Yes exactly this.
yes cuz they are just rebels. Elders, chaos marines, sometimes orcs and tyranids can be real pain for marines
@@zippyparakeet1074 yes technically you are right but guardmans are outnumber everything. They are billions and their power comes from from this. :)
@@Chronaxy don't forget their tanks, artillery and the fact that unlike other horde faction like orks they have some of the best generals and strategist.
I find it extremly refreshing to have competent bad guys for a change. And that alone shows just how superior spacemarines are to any regular guardsmen. Even if you do everything right when fighting them, your chances are still slim.
Oh my... In the autocannon sniper scene i've never even noticed the sniper actually has A SPOTTER on his side... That's why the space marine fires twice... I swear there's a new detail every time i watch this masterpiece again
Holy shit.
Damn, you’ve got better eyes than me. I just thought he was being safe or shooting the gun as well.
Timestamp?
@@wilhelmlyskltt5451 2:42
Yeah def hard to spot at first. You can see his eye specs and his hood when they open fire. Super cool
I see a lot of people praising the animation. But can we talk about the sound effect tho? It's very on point. The muffled explosion in space (I know you got no sound in space, it's only for the sake of the animation). The sound of bullet hitting the armor, the sound of barrier and psychic activating, footstep's, heck he even knew to make conversation muffled so it build up the tense. All and all, this guy not only a genius in animation but also in sound effect.
The ship is pressurised, just FYI. The first bit with the landing craft only has sound from the view of the ship we are following, some very muffled explosions, but that would be the gasses from said explosion hitting the ship. No sound in space is a bit of a tricky thing. Sound doesn't travel in space, but an explosion would blast gass and debrid to anything nearby.
@@Anschlagen thanks for the info. I have really little insight about this. This is the sole reason I barely tried to do sound effect of space or sci fi in general. The insight about this tiny little detail is needed for the realistic result.
@@Anschlagen Thank you, I was just about to comment this; a lot of people don't realise sound is essentially just matter vibrating. So long as there is something being expelled (most often gas), there is sound, even if it moves through space before it's finally heard by human ears.
Tl;dr: so long as something that was affected by the explosion reaches your body/ears, you'll hear it as a 'sound'.
The sound design is really good. It really sells how powerful these guys are.
Sound is awesome In agree. 4:20ish when our boy is going 20mph you can hear the slight whine of his suit
9:58 i just realised that this Psyker Yelled "Recall them immediately!!" and then tried to regain focus and that's how he got possessed by the sphere. He lost concentration in order to warn the space marines the impending doom and in the end he got possessed by the spheres because of it. I honestly think that's a cool detail kinda shows that not all Psykers are mentally crazy.
He may also be the one who attacked sphere at 11:44
Hey man, I'm a new fan to Warhammer and have a rough understanding of the lore. Was that sphere some kind of Tzeentch artifact? Or something manmade?
@@0BBFilms0it’s a Yu’Vath artefact of doom. The psykers were likely the planetary royalty who were corrupted by it and were trying to create more psykers. The big gold body is likely a frame they were building to house the consciousness inside the orb.
Never seen or heard about that sphere before, but some people are speculating that its an old artefact from a chaos-corrupted alien race called Yu'Vath.
But the guy that made the animations said he just made up something(My source is some 5 year old reddit thread, where a guy have emailed the creator of Astartes and he has posted the answers). Meaning it, it could be a powerful alien psyker, artefact or a warp entity. Your guess is as ours.
@KageKrigeren cool man, thanks for an explanation!
When your fan film is so well made and so damn badass that the official company decides to make it canon.
And are so intimidated by it they force not to make any more. -_-
@@drafezard7315 wait what
@@thewidowskiss7675 GW might as well be renamed the nazi party. There's a reason the original is no longer on youtube. Look into it.
@@Vexed_Vixen why is that tho
@@thewidowskiss7675 "look into it"
Im not explaining everything here in a comment 5 people are gonna read
Edit: this aged poorly
I still cannot believe this was fan made by a single person. It is absolutely insane. Not a SINGLE frame was done without care for the quality of production but also care for the lore of WH.
not to mention that attention to detail is crazy too.
This is the product of passion and love of the lore. Its very hard to pay anyone to do same quality work.
@@xXalexis190Xx That's an understatement. The man is THE first to really illustrate the super-human skills that the space marines are meant to have. This is by far the best representation of a space marine down to every motion, the rest being unable to even hold a torch to what this guy created here. The man is an absolute genius. I'm honestly sad they snatched him, it's probably better for him but considering how hateful GW is of their fans they won't allow him to make anything this fucking good. GW truly survives because of the honest love their customers have for Warhammer and one in a million fans is able to make something like this that makes the rest of us briefly forget that Warhammer is in the hands of scumbags. But they remind us fast, don't they?
@@Evilfish82 yeah they do
@@Evilfish82 The scene were the space marine ran in an attempted to kill the psycher was amazing the sense kf speed was crazy but at the same time you still see that it is a mountain of a human being running
Me, who knows nothing about warhammer 40k: wow this is fucking awesome
Watch bricky all warhammer factions explained its really good for new people.
I've known about warhammer for years and still barely know anything about the universe and lore due to how vast it is.
i have no idea whats happening, but its pretty sick
WELCOME BROTHERS!!
Same boat, bro. Hasn't stopped me from watching this shit, like, 5,000 times in the last month. Fucking sickest animation ever.
AND it needs to be said that it is insane how much this 13-minute story can draw you in with almost zero dialogue. That's the mark of a true artist right there.
Rewatching this in honor of the new Secret Level Episode on Prime. IT WAS SO AMAZING!
The Secret Level episode makes this look clean! (had a friend direct me this way after I told him about the Secret Level ep)
This creator had a huge hand in creating the secret level episode believe it or not
It was AMAZING
Grabbing this for historical archiving.
how are you downloading it?
@@sierra1598 4k video downloader is probably the best program
I like this audio far more than new in community...
PS Just was watching the video on official gw community... New audio sucks(
I will save this original masterpiece for my good memories and will wish the author good luck and much money from gw. He deserves it, but does gw deserve him? Hope they will let him make what he wants)
@@sierra1598 also in TheChrach's comment is a mega link to download it
@@malkenvrel6289 Yeah best to use that mega link in the pinned comment. It's probably the highest quality version available.
The only movie about Astartes that truly conveys how elite these troops really are.
While Space Marines often look cartoonish in other videos, even in official Games Workshop clips, here you really get the feeling you are up against humanity's most advanced warriors.
The silent professionalism in which they move.
Every shot a hit.
Armour impenetrable by ordinary weapons.
Superhuman speed and reflexes.
Also their incredible willpower in the fight with the psychers.
Simply outstanding!
The psyker encounter was a good example of their actual tactical intelligence (every other supersoldier portrayal take note!) And the orb was a better indication of their willpower, unable to be corrupted as the Sergeant approached and all other defences failed.
Agreed. This was the turning point at which I became interested in WH40K. The first few times I've found it, first time was when it was mentioned by Isaac Arthur, second when I found out they're basically top sci-fi army here th-cam.com/video/FSGl-QsJYXk/w-d-xo.html. Both times I left uninterested. I thought the character art looked funny / clumsy, I thought they'd intentionally bee lined it to OP status among sci-fi armies, the inclusion of magic, orks especially, had me thinking it was more fantasy than sci-fi, and the 'Status Quo' Dystopia (goal being to maintain things as they are if at all possible rather than to improve the situation) didn't interest me at the time. This changed that. I was still unappreciative of it my first view, but I was impressed, and had a few questions, so I went to see a lore explanation of this... and came away absolutely Stunned at the amount of thought that goes into Every little detail. This launched me down the WH40K animations Rabbit Hole along with more Lore. I still wouldn't say I understand enough of the WH40K universe to consider myself a fan yet, but it's certainly caught my attention.
"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear."
@@bluemike807 "No sickness will blight them" (laughs in Nurgle)
I have played the Space Marines since the late 90s, but I never truly "got them" until I watched Astartes. The thing made clear here that no other 40k media captured before is a Space Marine is a monster from the perspective of a human. The scene that made it all click was the instant the psycher's hold on him is broken, immediately the knife is on it's way to his neck. He wasn't struggling to break free, he was single-mindedly trying to kill the psycher the whole time. Just singularly amazing visual story telling. Added so much more to my appreciation and understanding of the universe of 40k. Too bad we won't get any more fan projects like this.
Imagine putting your heart and soul into working on the Ultramarines movie only to be completely out done by one kiwi madlad.
I feel like if their heart and souls were put in to it, the Ultramarines movie would've turned out very differently.
? By a kiwi?
@@reefy5316 its a silly term for ppl from New Zealand, based off the kiwi bird
@@SissypheanCatboy would be funny if it was a literal kiwi fruit. Would still have more soul than GW.
@@Endless_Jaguar Not brass. Nickel and dimes.
Didn't see anyone mention this yet, but at the end of the video there are actually 4 flashes as the other 4 marines appear in the scene. 3 of the arrivals are on top of those distant pillars, but the very first flash happens *behind* the one on the far right at ground level. All five marines survived their trip through the warp, but that first one might have to dig himself out of the sand.
Damn bro, Nass should replace their telescopes with your eyes
@@anonim4102 😂😂😂😂
Ахринеть, я увидел это только спустя 5 лет!
Amazing spotting!
incredible, how you spot it!!!
The way the animator has made eery movement of the astartes be so deliberate and confident is impeccable.
The rhythm of their steps sounds like impending death. The audio alone deserves praise.
@@malcontender6319
I'd better call it *_"clarity of thought before rashness of action!"_*
The Adeptus Astartes are so ironically deadly against those who are on their level (or below) because they're basically mass-produced "10-10 Str/Int Super Soldiers."
This is a trope that many people enjoy in media, needless to say. I personally love it due to the idea that it reminds me of the "power scale diff" between "the typical video game protagonist" and... literally everyone else...
Yes, I just joked how I often compare gamers to Space Marines because everyone else in Warhammer 40,000 has yet to "get gud!" unironically.
@@trumediamix1 ur so braindead its unreal
You mean "lore accurate".
The best thing about Astartes is that the creator made Space Marine's enemies competent. It's just that the tactics and abilities of the Space Marines are superior in every way.
"superior tactics"
*casually walk around in the open while being shot at*
*slowly walk around the ship, no rush amitire?*
*still gets ambushed twice*
Honestly; they seemed pretty incompetent; mostly just relying on their superior strength and resilience to win; they were pretty good shots but the only piece of "tactics" we saw from them was when they tried to ambush those golden boys.
@@captainnyet9855 space marines are boring. Thats all im gonna say.
@@terrelldurocher3330 why are you here then?
@@BlueCraneBlue i like the low level enemies trying to stop the space marines.
@@terrelldurocher3330 fair enough.
I just want to point out that this guy, by leaps and bounds, is a better director than most people in Hollywood. The action is clear, easy to follow, exciting, and has none of the stupid action tropes found in modern movies; no stupid shaky cam, no super quick cuts, no dumbass melodramatic slo-mos, none of that crap. It just goes to show that sometimes an inspired amateur knows a hell of a lot more than the professionals crapping out their big-budget bombs and calling it art.
That's because most directors in Hollywood are deliberately chosen for their lack of vision and talent. It's all part of the demolition of the West
@@StarboyXL9 Uh... sure... totally not because they follow trends or anything... nope... gotta be this biiiiiiiig conspiracy for the West to, uh, kill the uh... th-the West. It's like that meme with the kid pointing the gun at the back of his own head 🤣
@@dboot8886 gaslighting shill
@@dboot8886 Stop trying to gaslight him.
No human actions are binary; something can qualify as one thing while qualifying as another. The 'demolition of the west' could also qualify as 'following a trend'. The other user said 'chosen for their lack of vision and talent' - you said 'follow trends' - these are extremely similar qualities.
Please, logic is an integral skill to living life without wasting your own effort; I'd strongly recommend taking the time to learn the common rules and fallacies of logic so that you can save your effort & time in the future.
@@SyndicateOperative ... the schizophrenia blesses us this fine day.
Whats amazing about this animation is you don't have to be a fan to enjoy it and more likely than not, I think this is single handedly capable of getting people interested in 40k.
One thing I’ll always appreciate about this is that it actually managed to make the bird beak helmet look cool for once.
Beakies were always cool.
Yep, Corvus Power Armor pattern is one of my favourites.
I noticed that right away because I'm a geek for armour, nice to see irl inspired helmets in play
@bishop takes king snowcone helmet amirite
Hound skulls are fucking sick what do you mean
Not only did GW take down the originals and put them on its own site, they even modified it for the worse. Green filter, changed sounds and they even deleted the absolutely kickass after credit scene. I dont know why was it so hard to respect the dudes vision when it was already perfect. He went up and beyond for everyone. Nonetheless thank you for letting me rewatch the original!
Np, The Emperor Protects.
They also simply bought the dude up and made him disappear
@@Maverick619-CAExactly, sad shit man. I really do believe this and TTS getting so much love from the community is what caused GW to lose their shit and launch its campaign against fan animators. I don't know if it came from jealousy or spite since GW has never made anything good animation wise.
Because GW are a company of unimaginative, petty/petulant cvnts. And they hate that the fans have a better imagination than them.
@@therealistintheboot8822I'm gonna say it's due to spite.
Funny thing I just noticed - Syama did not delete the project off his artstation page. Instead, he's linked each episode to timestamped parts of this very video.
Certainly has a feel of "I'm trapped in here, lads"
Just proves that even the creator himself realizes that his work is being downgraded :(
Sad.
ouch
Holy crap, Time to sub to his patreon. I am no longer standing for GW bs, we need to fund this man to make more astartes that's actually good.
4 years later and this is still the best 40k video.
I'm here too lol
One thing I like is that the perspective is resolutely outside the armour. You can tell in some instances (the coordinated attack on the Chaos sorcerers, the scene with the Inquisition psyker) that communication *happens*, but it remains contained within the armour. To outsiders, the Astartes look like they operate by telepathy or some sort of gestalt intelligence, and it makes them that much scarier.
Yes, I realise that was most likely driven by a lack of voice talent, but that only makes it *more* impressive. The creator took a real lack and turned it into a strength of the end product.
Radio tho
While watching, I also imagined that they were in constant coms, however, it was all radio coms internal to their armor and wasn’t broadcast outside of the suit. Either way, I loved this!
Nothing in this video was related to Chaos -- it was all ancient xeno technology. (confirmed by the artist)
Pretty sure theyre boost psykers not chaos psykers i may be wrong but thats the impression im under
Soldiers often fight without speaking as they already know what to do. I don't think they're communicating except with the ship as they have no reason to since each Marine knows exactly what to do at any moment.
Syama Pedersen, the creator of this animation, is a one man triple A animation studio. This is incredibly well animated and directed.
💯!
But then GamesWorkshop did this to him 10:28
@@ImranKhan-gs2hy what happened
one man studio... sounds like a good name for a studio
@@ImranKhan-gs2hyI hate that I laughed at that.
I'm picturing somebody from games workshop punching him square in the face with the force of a semi truck.
😂
@@xadadax1 He was bought out by the licensing lawyers. Basically he works for GamesWorkshop now to avoid a lawsuit. He isn't allowed to make anything pertaining to warhammer IP ever again.
4:22 When the Emperor says he's signing autographs.
"This brings a smile to my face."
When you realize there's no poo pouch in your power armor.
I would just die right there. See that running at you, knowing you cant stop them.
@@bludraco1 I have no idea what Warhammer even is, but scary is scary, and I'd follow your advice
Bro i see a space marine running towards me
Im unplugging my cable
For anyone wondering the size of the ship at the beginning. The turrets for the Macro-cannons on the sides you will see tiny specks of lights just a little above them.
Those are a special pane windows which typically would be 50-70 feet in height and 20-30 feet in width. Those tiny specks are roughly close to 100-210 square foot area which is around 1/8th of a football field. With that tiny size we can at least guess this ship belonging to the Battleship class. If I recall correctly, that is around 6-7 Km in length, 1.5-2.1 Km in height, and 900 m - 2 km in width.
I would pay 1 dollar for every minute for a 7 hour movie of this masterpiece. The Emperor protects.
The Emperor protects
That would be $420….. nice
Shut up and take my money
Thank Intellectual Property
@@euanmcl1831 If I can re-watch it as much as I want, ...that's a win.
Ngl, this actually made me get into WH 40k lore just to understand it. That's how good this was.
Same here
Same here. Started off with the Inquisitor Eisenhorn books from Dan Abnett.
th-cam.com/play/PLl6BRvEJ-auZ5aYPHj1B3pKJ_pLjg9qNU.html
Yea after watching this I went to watch an over 1 hour two parter video about lore of every WH40k race. I didn't enjoy the game too much as RTSes aren't really my thing but the lore is badass.
@@DraconasTenZHG Bricky?
I've never see anyone else mention this. You can actually see the other space marines warping in at the end on the pillars in the distance. Wild, never noticed despite countless watches
Yeah, i tought it is just the music but those bang sounds are their warping sounds. Neat.
Just blew my mind. I thought that was music, and the poor guy was alone(as were the others) in some vastly far planet. Now I know the pain train was just relocated.
What time?!?
@@josephharmon5992 12:24
I've watched this a dozen times and never noticed that, awesome, thanks man!
Syama did such a good job on the secret level episode
The marine at the end has 200+ years of service. Imagine surviving 200 years in 40k Universe.
how do you know
@@weltschmerz333 Service Studs are metallic studs attached to the skull of a Space Marine, which visibly protrude through the skin of the forehead. The awards signify the number of the Marine's years in service to the Chapter. Different designs and shapes of studs denote different lengths of service. At the end of the video when he takes his helm off to vomit (you know he's been thrown into another reality since a space marine wouldn't vomit for pretty much anything else) he has the service studs that equal 200 years of service (2 silver, each representing 50 years, and 100 for gold). What's insane is his rank...imagine fighting aliens, demons, mutants, the darkest creatures in the universe for 200 years and still nothing having a high rank (he's not even a lieutenant).
@@MCristian1988 thank you so much for explaining, I have been into 40k for like 6 years and never heard this before I always assumed they were some kind of cybernetic augment...always learning new stuff about 40k :D
@@weltschmerz333 me too what the heck haha
@@MCristian1988 holly sh**, that explains why he's so freaking good at his job lol
Honestly, the fight scene at 4:00 is incredible. No Wasted Actions, no "toying" with them, just two equally powerful and intelligent enemies taking a fight to the death seriously.
It's not incredible, it's reallistic, japanese narrative could take note of how an action scene must be done
Wasted movement and unessecary pauses when two enemies or groups of enemies meet in combat in cinema has always been a gripe moment for me. Like we always have to have the shot of the "big reveal" of the monster. It needs to stand there and growl for fifteen seconds. And no. No one ever shoots the monster during this time. In fact, the monster closes the distance somehow and kills people. "
who are these wizard dudes
@@PastaBicepsmy 40k knowledge is not the greatest but I *think* they were Chaos Psykers i.e. psychics who belong to a cult that serves Chaos
@@PastaBicepsPsykers, and if I heard correctly it says in the Creator's patreon that they're in fact nobles of the rebellion who have augments to improve their psychic powers (the extra spine thingies)
How ironic that in GW's zeal to protect their IP, they've done more damage to it themselves than any youtuber ever could.
yes, truly it's ridiculous. other companies would kill for their fans to make such high-quality advertisements for their IP, but GW is INTENTIONALLY and FEVERISHLY stamping it out. Incompetence personified.
its get even worst look at Archs Vids about Warhammer+ its like they wanna destroy thiere own franchise 🤨 th-cam.com/users/ArchTH-camvideos
@@elricvanekimus Don't give arch your attention, he's a white supremacist. On his other channel he has appeared with White Nationalist "The Golden One" and with the neo-nazi organisation Stormfront.
@@melandor0 definitely gonna watch It now
@@melandor0 very good
I don’t know anything about Warhammer 40k. I just started and im loving every bit of lore and story I could find on the internet. This was absolutely amazing.
I love how the creator respects the viewer. Not everything is handed to you, you have to think about what you're watching and hearing and how it relates to other things. Incredible.
That’s what’s so intimidating IMO
As a new fan, I can’t understand shit abt this animation, which is why it’s so fun to watch
@@APersonOnTH-camX just remember to like the universe, not the company which stole it and copyrighted as their own.
This animation has been taken down from official channel due to copyright from GW , then they sued the animator into working with them.
@@secretname2670 that's a dick move.
I never really thought of it this way before.
@@secretname2670 Wait they stole the universe? U saying 40K wasn't originally GW's property? Not familiar with the history of the brand.
true talent is rare.. and this guy? puts studios to shame.
Not him, he just took someone else's hard work and edited it together to syphon clicks.
@@culley8841 bro, i know.. im talking about astartes.. ^^
@@culley8841 To be fair, the linked the original
If he worked with the guy who made "Death of Hope" that would be an epic film!!!
I could not agree more
Funfact, his fananimation became so popular that besides hiring Syama Pedersen. GW also made his Space Marine Chapter Canon.
Yeah... I dunno man, it seems like they kinda screwed him. If you go to his youtube page theres just his announcement video and nothing else. I haven't tried to find this series on the GW website but I hear it's a much worse version quality-wise with some weird edits. Some of the hearsay also mentioned an NDA so I dunno man. Very glad this version survives here though
@@shrekneutron1587I mean, he’s being paid by GW to produce another series. Isn’t it great that a fan animator was so good that they hired him and he can support himself?
Opposite. Theyre paying him to not make anything@@hobbyhaven9862.
@@hobbyhaven9862 With the way GW's behaving, I wouldn't call anything they do 'great'. They've done more than enough to earn themselves a spot on my boycott list.
@@shieldphaser I definitely believe they bought the guy out in order to suppress his work in the name of some copyright bullshit. It's been 3 years and we haven't heard any updates from Syama Pedersen. Change my mind.
Here after secret level fucking amazing work from syama again
Wait he was part of the production????
@@d4darwin458 Yes
All of the dumbasses talking about how games workshops stopped him can stfu now
@@d4darwin458 yes. participate in layout artist team.
@@thomasmcdevitt253 I mean. We hear nothing. See nothing. Then 4 years later BLUR studios, known for Love Death Robots comes out and animates 20 minutes of best 40K content we have ever had, and Syama Pedersen is "just" a layout artist. How do you know that Game Workshop even had anything to do with the animation work? Syama might've fought to be on that project, you don't know and neither do we dumbasses.
This guy got me into Warhammer 40k.
GW's actions towards their fans got me out of it.
I'm only in it for the lore. The game takes like an hour for a single person to take a turn lol
@@pogsothoth fuck that. I've been playing Catachans and holding my own pretty well
@@HollowEffect1621 Try Kill Team, a W40k game where you use one unit rather than a whole army. Alternating turns and streamlined gameplay.
@@HollowEffect1621 only if they're using the kind of ruleset where every possible little thing has to be accounted for rather than just checking range and rolling the damn dice
Me too except I'm not yet out. There's just so much lore and I've only scraped about 1%.
Well, boys, this is the only thing we have left of original Astartes now. May GW not ruin his vision, but at least we still have this to remind us what was.
Edit: so the answer is now clear. GW did force him into their fold in order to push their paid streaming service. GW shoots themselves in the foot (with a bolter) once again.
Download it and save this masterpiece
They will remove it soon. We need to get versions of this downloaded.
Download it quick, they're removing all other uploads
Download it. GW gonna copyright it.
we need someone who can do it with at least 2K. because lord, this shit is insane.
I really like that the Space Marines NEVER talk in this. It makes them seem even more badass. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a Chapter Master or someone like that giving a pre-battle speech about glory and The EMPEROR and getting them all hyped - but then once they're on the mission, they're just so synced up and all know their roles so well that they don't have to say anything. They just kill shit.
I'm pretty sure they do talk, you can hear the helm vox of the marines a few times.
The vid just gives us an external view on them, like their enemies see them, and unless a marine activates his vox caster, they appear nearly silent, which is even more impressive considering their size and their huge armor.
@@InCognito-vx8gi That's a great point! We're outside observers in this, so we wouldn't hear anything they said unless they were using a caster/speaker. So even if they were talking to each other, like you said - no one facing them would know it. Which I think makes them even scarier as an enemy!
I've always thought that concept is dumb considering astartes are in a constant state of "hyped" for battle lol Most of the CG movies I see of astartes are ruined for me by the voice acting or writing. Astartes use words the same way they use bolter shells.. Not a single one is released without a purpose.. Wasting time speaking information that is not useful or have purpose is not something an Astartes wouldnt do. I think under very rare instances should we here them speak and it should be very mechanical, emotionless and to the point. I yield a little more in the novels when it comes to this because I can put my own spin on how they say it etc but in videos hearing someone else voice act their words.. cringe..
@@deepblue1846 You mean you don't like it when they yell, "BROTHERS!!"...? Haha. I understand what you mean, though, and I agree. I like to think of it as - there's a job for everyone. There are probably guys who talk more, because their role demands it (leaders, basically), but I figure the troops on the ground wouldn't typically NEED to talk much at all, like you said. They've got helmets with a HUD full of sensor displays, maps, all that shit - so they probably know where everyone is and what they're doing at almost all times. So unless something's really gone awry on the mission, why bother? And even if they HAD to talk to each other, like In Cognito said, only they would hear it. Which again, to an outside observer, makes them scary as hell. Regardless of what happens, all you would see is them just silently changing tactics as necessary, and continuing the fight.
"SPESS MAHREENS TODAEH WE ARE IN SPESS! WE KNOW OUR DOOTY AND WE WILL DEW IT."
Tourist here. Had a fun trip, nice music, good drugs. Might visit again
Best and most believable adaptation of the Adeptus Astartes as written in the books. Too many depictions get them wrong as slow, lumbering tanks: I laughed with outright joy seeing them run the 100 yard dash in just a couple seconds in full armor. Absolutely awesome video for 40k fans!
It's easily the most terrifying thing about Space marines, and this is one of the only pieces of video where this is shown, just how fast they are
Of course space marines are fast... compared to guardsmen. But compared to eldar for example... not so much.
Dawn of War did a good job of showing their speed and agility. Tactical marines running during movement.
@@rdklgrunt6985 you mean fluff or crunch? They are much weaker in tabletop than they are intended to be fluffwise. A proper Marine can't outrun a Banshee, but they are damn fast lol.
@@fritcher4553 Fluff of course... tabletop wise they move just as much as a guardsmen.
We need a 40k movie just like this. Depicitng how powerful the Astartes are.
Quite frankly this show's more how powerless and weak they are relative to the cosmic entities they are dealing with.
@@bud389 Compared to regular humans they’re pretty fucking powerful. Just shows how grim the odds stacked against the Imperium are.
@@Ammoniumbicarbonat And not just humans, an Astartes Marines are stronger 1v1 against most enemies, but when they meet against their elite soldiers, then they are in trouble.
I think what hinders the space marines the most is their lacking numbers and how fractured they are. I know it is the effect of the Horus Heresy. Also their aging tech and equipment - I think I read somewhere, that their armor can't be made anymore, that the tech is lost and actually all armor sets are from old storage, passed down from older marines who can't fit in them or made from the good parts of broken sets.
@@88Xlmk fair enough
1 astartes could take over the world
*I think*
9:57 Anyone else hear the psyker say "recall them immediately"? The amount of detail in this continues to blow me away. Every time I come back to it something else makes me marvel.
I know, and I feel like doing that is what caused him to lose control. He stopped focusing on communicating with the sphere to save those marines :( so sad
WHOA
I also think that the main Astartes soldier turns his head because he heard the order to fall back (I imagine he was caught off-guard by the order, hence him actually turning his head despite the voice likely coming from inside his helmet). But, as we all know, he and the others are sucked into the ball basically immediately after this.
I hear "return them immediately" same meaning though.
@@cptawesome11 Recall makes the most sense.
Yet, nothing comes close to this marvellous creation. By this single individual. A studio tried and failed and didn't come close to the brilliance and amazing graphics, characters, action, and accuracy. To quantify the prowess of Space Marines into reality for cinematic viewing, is still not achieved. Comics, books, graphic novels, imagination creates more than what reality can do. This is a masterpiece overall.
I have no clue what’s going on but I’m enjoying every second of it.
I can answer any questions you might have :D
@@ObzTicle I thought Space Marines and Imperial Guard were on the same side?
@@jack9315 i'm pretty sure the crew and garrison of this ship were corrupted by that cargo they were carrying
@@adrianhirst484 ah okay. Thanks, also what actually was the big ball thing? Something to do with the warp
@@jack9315 That was what my first impression was but it could honestly be anything. For example, a relic containing alien consciousness or something
I love how they made the marines actually fast. Normally when you have something as big as a marine they are lumbering and slow. Wonderfull job
in universe marines are said to be way faster than they look
Their armors are supposed to be their "second skin" and feel not clunky at all, something very often misrepresented.
@@WeirdIncluded ah I see. Still. A very wonderful video.
Transhuman Dread, baby!
**collapses due to brain unable to comprehend something that big moving so fast**
@@jocosesonata *gets sucked through an inter-dimensional portal due to the fact that they are too fast.
Man. Sucks to think this might be the last great fan animation after the new announcements. Jesus.
It will be, but fear not if "GW" makes anything cool you can always pirate it
GW made an actual announcement? Can I get a link?
@@Rhydin123 That's just asking to get slapped down for fair use/parody.
@@Rhydin123 their desire to fuck with fan creations pisses me off lol
I'm gonna make a fan animation just to peeve them off now
@@pancytryna9378 this. Sittin fancy with the entire codex collection for 6e and completed BFG 2010 FAQ on TTS. I had no idea what I was doing back when first collecting tau any way. 4e codex in 5e rules saw half my stupid items as worthless.
I think this is the 7th time I've watched this and it just keeps getting better every time. Wishing for a full length movie stat....
Y’know, this animation has a special place in my heart, it was my first official introduction to Warhammer 40k.
Surprisingly your not the only one, many people were introduced to it through this fan film
@@JonP1245 checking in, had no interest in 40k before seeing these films
Dude same here. I'll be honest I use to not understand 40k fans but this video is what hooked me, so underrated. We need this guy to make and direct the movie
I've been into 40K for years, but this is exactly what it's about. This _is_ 40K!
Same and even tho I didn't understand anything about it besides what a space marine was bc of how much it's used in other Sci-fi I still felt like I could follow what was happening, I was asking, "what is that?", "who are they?", "what the hell just happened?", but not in an annoyed way, in an awestruck way. Seeing this as one of the first things I ever knew about warhammer as an adult effected me like seeing stars wars for the first time as a kid, I was hooked from then on and haven't gone one day without reading, listening, or watching something about the warhammer universe
That psyker was so incredibly powerful. Not only could he peer into the minds of those psychic orb creatures, but he resisted being possessed by the caged one long enough to hold himself in place, disconnect his “harness” tying him to the orb so the creature couldn’t escape back to it, but also to scream “RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY” loud enough for it to be audible thru his helmet and warn the chapter master of the danger to his men. He did his duty to the last, and only in death did his duty end. Given a merciful end by the chapter master and his captain. His strength and actions saved the Chapter's ship, and the lives of everyone on board. A possessed psyker is a thing of absolute terror. Truly, even the chapter master and his captain were in extreme danger as they assessed the situation. That’s why the master waved away his third, to hold the next line in case they failed in containment. The scream is most likely the death rattle of the psyker’s soul barely hanging on to coherency before being torn apart by the orb creature’s psychic powers. And before it’s even over the chapter master has hands on him and ends him mercifully swiftly, with the captain making sure all vital parts are destroyed to prevent even the slightest chance of a possession. I like to imagine the inquisitor psyker and the chapter master were associates, and they expected each other to do their duty. That confidence, the anchor that psyker had to “the chapter master must be warned, and he will do his duty freeing me from a possession” is why that psyker was able to push himself until his soul literally burned away inside of him.
I like to think the Imperium is hundreds of these heroic stories just like that happening all across the galaxy every day.
@@iadd7249 In a galaxy so big, I don't doubt you.
so the psyker is the one in the red hood and hes working with that white space marine? then he gets possessed while listening into the two orbs communicating and warns the white marine before being mercy killed?
I saw someone point out that after the tentacle creature grabs the astartes in the void, it is attacked by a smoky mist identical to the one the inquisitor was giving off.
he also helped out in death, his soul attacked the creature taking the Astartes in the warp.
Syama Pedersen asked for help on a homebrew animation in a LinkedIn post two days ago (March 27, 2024). It looks like he's currently working with a studio called Digital Bones. There's a teaser video released with the post and as per his usual specs, it's amazing.
Legends never die.
Just looked into that, looks great. I'll update the pinned comment with that news.
Is the video on TH-cam?
@@LordGhentsis Doubt it. Considering how corpo‑centric this place is becoming, and don't even get me started on the Warp entity designated as 'Gee‑Dubs'.
Finally some fresh news
@@peaceformula5830 Any further news to this?
This is the GOAT of SM WH40k storytelling. Nothing done in this universe before or since has been this good by any studio anywhere period.
If Henry Cavill can make his show even 75% as awesome as this, I'm a happy man
I love Henry Cavill as an actor, I think he's great and he seems to be a big big fan of 40k wich is optimistic but like we saw with The Witcher, a lot of different people can interfere and mess it up. I feel like animation is really the way to go with this universe. I don't feel that it will be as dark and gory and edgelord if it's live action.. We'll see I guess !
@@_KimJong-un_ at least for warhammer he’s the executive producer. Which means he could get some final says about the direction of the project. Plus he could probably fund the whole project himself by being half naked on onlyfans whispering things like “the emperor protects” >\\\\
@@johnson7156 Ahahaha sure man, you're right ! Only time will tell
@@johnson7156 can johnson win something or an award just for what he said bout cavill and OF dam made my day ahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhaahahha lol
@@_KimJong-un_ I completely agree with this. There's an otherworldliness that's hard to mirror with live action.
0:57 there’s so many subtle things in this scene. The landing craft approaches from a blind spot, then you can see the enemy ship respond by going full thrust upon visual contact and firing countermeasures. It’s all just so organic.
Can you also notice how the escort attack aircraft from the first frames of the episode inflicts a rocket attack? a blow to the engines and quickly leaves along the ship, and the air defense misses it
oh my god, how is this attention to detail even possible? I could kinda understand, if the makers of these clips are a whole team out of multiple people, but it seems, its only one guy! Its crazy, the abilities of some people...
@@svetchannel2998 Wow! Just wow! Thank you for this detail, I hadn't noticed it, even after watching Astartes dozens of times!
It also looks like the thunder hawk or something fires something that disables the engine because just before the boarding torpedo hits the ship, the engines go dark.
Also the way the counterfire from the ship arcs at a weird angles because of the different trajectories and speeds of the ship and boarding craft
The fucking design and detail. The smaller drone takes the missles, the backhanded knife. The smoke dissipated from the plasma pistol, the amazing sound design
The surround sound design was top-notch.
Damn I love this shit so much.
I realized after watching the whole thing just now I watch this freaking regularly and notice something new every time. I acknowledged the fighter that launches in front of the transport but never really paid attention to it after everything starts happening.
Dudes out there running distraction to keep the deck guns off the transport... I can't believe the amount of detail Syama Pedersen put into this.
I think one of the reason why other 40k animation don't hit as hard as this is their lack of dialogue. It maintains the mysticism and uniqueness
also apart of the lore is that they have radios inside their suits rather than speaking it outloud
i think there was plenty of dialogue. What you mean, do you want this to be the Serranos? habla habla? The guns do the talking
I honestly wish I knew who the masked phykers were at least that’s honestly my only question
In regards to the OP's comments. YES!!!!
Sure, even if the Astartes could technically be talking to each other over mics: the perspective the audience has DOESN'T HAVE TO HEAR THAT. Instead, we get the perspective of an observer in the room. Which really helps sell just how terrifying and how "whisper quiet" to "deafeningly loud" an event like this would be. ❤
They all got their helmets on, pretty sure when they don't want to broadcast, you can't hear what they are saying inside the helmets, they can communicate to each other thru their coms units, pretty sure on their HUDs they can even see what the others are looking at if they choose to broadcast/recieve. WE just can't hear what they are saying.
I love how there was so much hate about this being a reupload and now everyone is praising it for being the only source of the original
Edit: I wasn't expecting to open an entire argument in the comments honestly lmao
Lmao
Because at first it was theft, now it's conservation. The difference is availability. It's like a first edition printing where they fucked up later printings and this is the only good version left.
@@ComotoseOnAnime its not really theft if the video isnt monetised and they made a convenient stitching of all the parts.
If he had uploaded all 5 parts seperately, and monetised the video, then it would have been theft. What he did was archival.
@@hoffa9000 Copyright laws do not agree with that. And while Copyright laws can suck my balls, in this instance it's still infringement, actually a double infringement seeing as GW owns the rights to shit like the word Astartes. So technically speaking even the creator wouldn't have a leg to stand on in this instance unless you could argue transformative work, which GW would outright REEEE at.
@@ComotoseOnAnime wasn't this the same video where Astartes actually agreed for this upload?
Its saddening that Astartes is the best content on Warhammer+, they actually got everything right when it comes to Spacemarines.
1. They hardly or never talk
2. They don't die by just one shot
3.They are fast, tactically superior warriors
4.They are a brute unstoppable force
...saddening, because it needed an outside developer to show GW how it s done
I'm a complete newb when it comes to anything WH, but regarding #1 I think someone else broke it down and said they do talk, it's just that no one on the outside can hear (aka they have comms built inside their helmet or whatnot).
This is also why it was concerning when the guy using the beads got possessed. The higher rank guys were alarmed when he could be heard outside his helmet, meaning he was screaming so loud that sound was escaping through, also then evidenced by illuminating his screaming face in horror through the visor.
I'm actually curious, so if that guy got it wrong I'd like to know if the other guy was making that ish up, and the marines don't actually communicate.
@@Yeschanz It depends on the chapter, there's ALOT of speeches that the space marines do before battle. It's based really on the chapters flavor with some like the Raptors and Ravenguard being silent and tactical, and others like the Black Templars being more "Knights in armor" themed. 40k is HUGE with so much to explore and so much that fits basically everyone's tastes. Welcome aboard!
It’s honestly so sad - They have so much money and all the time in the world and they have yet to deliver anything on this level of animation. Even Pariah Nexus - compared to Astartes Pariah Nexus is just so mid
@@YeschanzMarines talk lol, I have no idea what the commenter is on about. But what you do get is that some chapters are more silent and stoic and don't talk much because that's just the culture of that certain group of Marines. Read the first 3 or even just the first Horus Heresy books, it's full of Marines talking to and cracking jokes with one another. It's hard not to get close to a guy when you've been fighting alongside him for the past 200+ yrs
@@Yeschanz Likely a built-in vox (comms, in WH terms). You can tell by the captain signaling them to open fire at 4:06.
This is what you get when you have a passionate, skilled artist create something without any outside corporate influence.
4:09 The inclusion of a two-stage trigger on the bolters is probably my favorite detail in the entire series. Syama knows his firearms.
He nailed so many details it blows my mind. JUST ONE GUY made this thing.
What the fvck the more i read these comments, the more fine, beautiful little details i notice in these animations!
My God-Emperor! ❤
Yeah its absolutely amazing!!!
Can you explain that to me please?
@godz52 on most machine guns have a selector switch, for different firing modes like single ,full auto, or burst fire , a progressive trigger has to firing modes depending on how far you pull the trigger back in this case a light trigger pull single shot but full trigger squeeze will give you full auto filing
10:42 If you look closely, a great subtle touch is how the Space Marine pulls back when that creature's face appears, makes them still feel human at how unnerved seeing something like that so close so suddenly can get you.
Unreal attention to detail, I never noticed that.
If you listen closely, before he's absorbed, "o God" comes forth from his lips.
@@MrAlubenco very true!! Damn
@@zakshei Not at all. There are some chapters, but many don't see the Emperor as a God. That being said, the Retributors-Chapter shown in the movie are quite religious.
@@MrAlubenco I can't hear anything.
Bruh, the Inquisitor straight looked at the commander as he over heard the daemons talking about possessing him. He knew what was coming and warned the space marine thus saving the entire ship with that simple gesture. What a boss, took his fate with absolute loyalty.
He saved more than the people on the ship. He was the one that blasted the warp entity when it tried dragging the Space Marine squad into the warp. Although, the space marines didn't look like they landed somewhere hospitable.... so maybe he only prolonged the inevitable in their case.
@@svendays I disagree. Im pretty sure the Space Marine who blew his arm off is the one who killed the warp demon. He's getting pulled in by a massive tentacle demon. (right before they get sucked in he see's the demons true form with a bunch of tentacles.)
right before he gets pulled into the orb aka "the warp" he looks into it. As you see his vision goggles light up. He sees where the demon is that is pulling him and his comrades in. He then aims his mega blaster gun (or whatever that is) at the demon in the warp and fires. I guess because of being partially in the orb it also blows his arm off.
Then it shows the point of view of his comrade being held by the tentacle demon and it shows his comrades blaster shot, shoot in and blow up the demon.. which then causes them all to be dropped in who knows where
The Emperor protects!
@@willmarisela nope, the chaos entity that comes in and grabs the orb entity is a warp predator, the orb entity used psychic power in the warp and attracted the attention of all the nearby hungry things which then devoured it.
You can hear him shout "Recall them immediately!" The dude screamed so loud you could hear him through the helmet. Same with the chanting he does when he stands and turns to the commander.
Just watched Secret Level and then came back to this and now going to watch the
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Something I love about this is that they perfectly portray just how powerful space Marines and psykers are.
In the game and such they're pretty much everywhere and die pretty often so you don't really grasp the concept of just how godlike they are.
Space Marines are designed to be one man armies against normal foes they're pretty much unstoppable and this perfectly betrays it. A small squad is enough to decimate dozens if not hundreds of standard combatant soldiers, a standard space Marine is virtually bulletproof to normal weaponry and even most heavy weapons are rendered useless. Simultaneously they can run at superhuman speeds despite their heavy armor and can rip apart steel with their bare hands.
Meanwhile this also shows you the power of psykers, you think that these are something special like powerful bosses but they are just standard psykers all of them have that power and you can see what they're capable of.
It just really sells the weight of what kind of monsters exist in this universe
Not to mention a lot of Astartes are psykers themselves.
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And how vulnerable the mind of a psyker can be when compared to other entities in the warp, it's something people don't grasp until they really read into warhammer being a psyker is not "oh hey I have godlike powers XD" it's an amplification of the bad just as much as the good.
You're absolutely right! Remember the time during the Great Crusade on Planet 63-19 (Book: Horus Rising)? The Imperial Guard wasn't able to fight through a heavily defended tunnelsystem, held by the forces of the planets rebelling administration. *Six weeks* the fights continued, with no gain whatsoever. Then Adeptus Astartes (10. Company of the Lunar Wolves) under the command of Cpt. Garviel Loken arrived and took the tunnel system, the outer palace, and seat of power within the hour.
I agree. I think the Dawn of War 2 trailer shows how powerful an Eldar witch can be as well cause she fries one dude with lightning in an insant but the Force Commander is able to resist it for just a second to close the gap
I don't know much about warhammer, but I really appreciate how the action happens in real time, no repetition, no dramatic pauses. It's not something you see all that often in animation, and it offers a unique kind of... viscerality. We're shown what two overpowered factions seriously trying to end each other looks like, and neither of them is going to slow down for us.
But despite going so fast, the video is still full of details for you to find if you just go back and look. It's not using the fast pace to hide a lack of effort.
Oh in the face of the Chaos Gods, everyone here is but a speck of dust in comparison.
The fact that they're using comms through airtight helmets, and you can HEAR the psyker yelling through his helmet is telling of just how bad the situation was.
"Recall them Immediately!"
i know nothing about warhammer. this is stupidly good, wtf. have seldom seen something so entertaining or so well directed. the animation? gold. the framing? the pace? extraordinary. the emotion? the storytelling? hello? and you are telling me this is FAN MADE? i die.
All I know of the man that made it is that he is not in animation by trade
I love the way he made the hallway scene at the beginning with regular people so we get a scale for the size of the astartes, I literally can’t even wrap my head around how big those houses are, and primarch’s are even bigger?
usally primarchs are almost the double of a space marine. Primarchs where unique. Some of them even had "feelings" which a Astartes doesnt have in a common way.
@@StoffiePrductions what do you mean by feelings?
@@user-nr3ei8ji8u Emotions, primarchs have "extendet"! emotions. thats is usally diusabled by the marines except anger, rage and wrath.
Because the Primarchs are the sons of the imperator and the SM are just "tools" made out of the perfect "human" soldier
@@StoffiePrductions Marines are still men, depends on the chapter for the process of creation and training. But they are not all mind wiped, emotionless drones. They still have emotions just have a different perspective, being a walking war machine will do that to you. Like if you spoke to an ancient Knight or Samurai warrior, you wouldn’t have much in common, but they are still just men.
@@pianospawn1 The4y arent just man. U can compare samurais or Knights with Space marines. Samurai's walked the bushido codex because of strong feelings. Space marines are almost without any feelings which could lead to failures. Also they arent just "men" just remember they are geneteic experiemts 2 hearts, better muscles and more. If u describe SM as "just men" u think Eldar are elves aswell
The fact this was made by one person is still just so amazing. I'm happy to hear they got a job because of this, lets hope they're treated like the artistic demigod they are. The textures, the models, the animation, the sound design, the lighting, the scenery, everything is so damn amazing, fluid, impactful, and beautiful.
Knowing how horribly GW butchered this miniseries on their own website? I fear for Syama's works...
It's not amazing. it's a fucking tragedy
@Roshaun Roache Nope just stating facts
@Roshaun Roache Because everything that made Astartes great will be rotted away under GW since they will never allow him the same freedom and amount of control he had when he was not under their influence.
@Roshaun Roache GW is games workshop and unfortunately they own Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy and the second one has already been ruined by them with the End Times fiasco.
The detail I love the most is how the multi-laser gunner could've taken out the lead astartes, were he to wait just a few seconds longer. The routing troops were clearly luring the enemy into that chokepoint of a corridor; if the guy let the marine reach at least halfway in, he would not only spare his comrades, but also keep the enemy under direct fire for a few more precious seconds. That many las-blast hits would've compromised the armour's integrity, even wound the astartes with enough hits to the eyelenses and joint seals.
But the gunner panicked, opened fire immediatley upon sight and that was it for everyone. Not that taking out one of the five would accomplish much, maybe it'd cost them another casualty in the fight with psyker brothers, but they still reach the artefact and place the beacons.
The mortal troops were clearly professional soldiers, but in the end they were still only human. I love proper 40k so damn much. Fuck GW.
Astartes have good vision. He would've simply seen him and shot him down the moment he came into the corridor. Which is why the gunner started shooting right as soon as he saw him.
@@ernimuja6991 He does just that, but bolt pistol rounds do not work, so he throws a smoke/flash grenade, causing the enemy gunner to stop the torrent of las-blasts, takes cover, switches weapons and shoots a plasma blast. Plasma weaponry is delicate, if tried to pull it out in that hail of enemy shots, it could've been struck and compromised, not to mention that he'd be under a stream of fire for the entire duration of the switch.
I am not saying that the multilaser would've killed him, but it'd likely compromise the armour/deal a few minor woulds through the seals. An astartes in compromised armour is put at a huge disadvantage for the rest of the fight, as they do not have a techmarine with them to perform repairs.
I don't know whether the lore/"rules", so to speak, have changed dramatically in the last 15 or so years - and not that I disagree with you - but the only thing that I can fault about this series is that this Lascannon should have torn the Astartes in half. Lascannons were designed to cut through the armor of tanks, walkers and speeders, much less the armor of a lone space marine. But it says a lot that these guardsmen, of a sort, brought a Lascannon to a bolter fight. That's the only fault I can raise with this series and even then I realise how inconsequential it is to what is the best 40K animation ever made...
@@TheR1g That's not a lascannon, it's a twin-linked multilaser, sort of a lasweapon answer to a machinegun/infantry support gun. No lascannon in the galaxy has this high rate of fire. It's one thick beam a few times per minute.
@@MizantropMan Fair enough. Thanks for the info. It was just the profile of the thing looked, at first glance, like it was a lascannon... but I stand corrected! Thanks!
10:55 if you look closely at the armor on the marine's hand, a pattern starts to form on it. Absolutely incredible amount of detail.
This makes the astartes look as strong, agile, and quick-witted as one would expect of a bunch of demigods
There are still Humans but technically more enhanced than regular humans such as gaurdsman!
And if you see their statistics in TTRPGs like Dark Heresy, Deathwarch or even Black Crusade you'll see that you are god damn right. To slaughter an astartes you must be a high tier character, and not every career (class) or build can do it. Some high tier assassins and psykers can if they are lucky enough but the problem is if you failed at oneshot spacemarine and has no ways to restrain him or somehow wait until next turn you would be dead.
The Terminator T-800 would be destroyed by a regular Astartes trooper. A T-800 could walk through the defences at the White House, (that is until the probable man portable rockets and hidden mini-guns pop out of the false pillars and colonnades). A T-800 is OP, and a common Space Marine is his boogie man.
HE. DODGES. AN. RPG. WHILE. WEARING. SEVERAL. TONS. OF. MECHA. ARMOR.
Absolutely awesome
The first 3 episodes make them look as ruthless killing machines but the last part is my favorite. Even with all their strenght the only thing they can do against the horrors of the Inmaterium is survive.
This is so lore acurate. So many places in the books they keep on describing the shock and awe of astartes yet so few movies and games have come close to actually capturing it. This is spot on. The sheer speed, precision, weight, coordination, confidence and bravery of an astartes is really awe-inspiring...
I'm very unfamiliar with the lore, what faction are the space Marines fighting here? I showed my buddy this the other day and neither of us are very knowledgeable about W40k
@@TiddyTwyster IIRC the foot soldiers are theorized to be Umbra, and the Orbs are (to my understanding) a different type of Psyker enemy not well understood (thus the red cloaked Inquisitor)
@@TiddyTwyster Fan chapter and probably made up rebellion, I wouldn't be surprised if the 'Argosa System' didn't exist prior either. But GWS hired on this guy so this was all made canon cuz it fits the universe so well. The psyker automatons, the orbs, the place they get sent to, etc are all new creations by Pedersen.
@@TiddyTwyster The Space Marines are fighting for the Imperium of Man, humanity's main faction. The people they're fighting are rebels.
The almost not noticeable detail at the end is the Astartes response time. He just got his arm blown off, got flung around in the void and then teleported to some unknown place. It takes him just a few seconds to start looking at his surroundings. It is the equivalent of being kicked in the stomach, thrown down a flight of stairs into a dark room and being told you have 6 seconds to identify your surroundings.
last part is pretty much Astartes neophyte training to survive the Initiation Rituals.
He really sold Astartes being pretty much near inhuman warmarchines. Their actions are close to being, but not entirely, robotic. Beings bred and trained for warfare. I just love it.
Six! You kidding? More like 1.3.
That punch then execution felt so personal
A Chaos-corrupted Psyker would be a threat large enough to endanger their entire ship. They needed to FULLY eliminate him before possession fully took over
It's really cool that GW are basically telling anyone who is passionate enough to make an animation to fuck off. Pretty disappointing when a company punishes its fanbase for loving the IP.
Jealousy. They are filled with jealousy.
They fucking killed TTS
Yeah it's so terrible how they hired the creator and gave him probably his dream job and now he gets to make official WH animations.
GW is an abusive father that wont listen
@@trevordenver9877 except they hired him on and had him collaborate with others. Now he getting paid to do this.
What a terrible company :P
For some reason I just love that small moment at 8:03. They continue to walk towards this object with no stop in movement, then it proceeds to launch out a small amount of force to make itself known and active. Each of them stop for a second, staring straight ahead and then get right back to moving, not giving a damn one bit.
Literally moving as much as they can and are like unstoppable
The directing here is brilliant. This is visually brilliant. These guys should direct real Hollywood movies. This is as good as any action sequence I have ever seen.
It really shows you how strong of mind they are, overcoming its compulsion and pushing forward over and over until it gives up.
@@Overcrox pretty sure that wasn’t “compulsion.” It was an actual psychokinetic push.
@@OneBiasedOpinion yes, I see it like a psych attack too. Less of a force push and more of a psychic scream. Their unflinching advance is impressive with either though. There are many points throughout the video where a normal man would definitely pause with either fear, or lost in the moment. Who knows how long that captain and the psyker have known each other. Could’ve been years. But the min he lost control and succumbed to the warp madness, he didn’t hesitate a single moment to put his fist through his face
Spiked sphere: Who's here? I have failed.
Caged sphere: We have all failed. The Astartes defy our touch.
Spiked sphere: You must return. Break your seal.
Caged sphere: It's impossible.
Spiked sphere: We will never survive.
Caged sphere: You must. Take their bodies
Psyker: "Recall them immediately!"
What happens when they got into the Spiked Sphere? What was the tentacle thing and black flames when the psyker was posesed?
How the heck did you translate that?
@@loganbaxter4685 He was the Psyker
@@IcespherePlaysGamesthen it's impressive he was able to tell us what he said with a bolter to the face.
Is it "Take their bodies" or "Take the alpha" ? I hear "take the alpha". Also after the Psyker says 'recall them immediately' I feel like the sphere says something else. "at last..." or "alas" something.
Big companies: "How is it possible to make a movie with millions of dollars and thousands of workers!?"
Fans: "Are you serious...?"
More like,
CEOs of big companies: "Something like this cannot be made without us giving ourselves and our friends some million-$ bonuses along the way, nuh-uh"
Accurate
@@red_cosplay
You get what you pay for, and when you constantly invest money in the upper echelons and neglect, or even get rid of, the core labour, you end up with a substandard product.
The worst part is, the executive management is by and large employed due to nepotism, not merit. They all seem absolutely terrible at their jobs (though are somehow good at making money for shareholders), because they actively sabotage creative design, they artificially inflate prices while product quality gets worse, and they end up creating an incredibly unsustainable profit line for their company, because you can't make infinitely increasing profit unless you have infinitely increasing consumption, which won't happen if you cut wages/workforces and nobody has money to spend.
It's honestly a huge problem, but apparently these people at the top of the economic ladder have no idea how the economy works...
Well most blockbuster movies have like anywhere between 20-80 million bucks but other than that I see your point
@Word Of Mouth
It's absolutely insane, because a sustainable economic state gives far more income in the long term. Forcing an economic bubble to expand seems leads to recession in the long run, and everybody loses money...
I honestly question the education and intelligence of many of these corporate managers, they are largely the result of nepotism, yes, but they should realize that they are destroying the company they work in over time (by being completely deaf to the consumers) while also shooting themselves in the foot with a bullet that is going to hit hard in a few years time.
Download this ASAP because the creator officially joined GW ranks and the original videos have been removed from youtube... And not only that, GW posted the videos on their community page and fucked up the quality and even changed some audio and video parts.
done
And apparently you can't even view them on Opera and Firefox browsers.
I think they legally had to change some music because games workshop didn't own the rights to that music or something, but the whole thing is stupid as hell.
th-cam.com/video/_zSxQnZ3TM8/w-d-xo.html
@@haydrionslaughter3747 I was wondering what's wrong. Fucked up.
Amazing how a fan project can make the Ultramarines movie look like a bad joke.
Apockiller they are genetically enhanced warriors vs regular soldiers ofc they are gonna slaughter the regular soldiers no matter how well trained they are
i totally agree with you here . i swear i wish he make a movie like this . but like 1 hour + . omg this guy will make something epic i know! he have talent and all skills . i really apreciate his job and work !
To be fair, ultramarines is 10 years old ^^ but yes that guy works is amazing
Wait there's a movie?
@Apockiller oh it's that. Yeah that sucks
what's impressive is how the sound design suggests so much more space and activity even when it's just a black screen
What I admire too is that he captures the Tenacity the space marines have.
The sheer effort they put into THE MISSION and to complete it.
its intense and scary, but also epic.
To add on.
Around 4:90 when they engage.
Even the slightest hesitation from the enemy and you can see the perseverance from the Space Marines to instantly go for that opportunity.
This has me more intrigued then most movies do in less then 15 minutes.
I wish he could make a continuation for the Astartes, Because im insanely curious what happens with them! D:
..and they shall know no fear...
I don't see any effort required though. they more or less waste time taking cover from weapons that CLEARLY struggle to scratch the paint of their armor. Take the smoke grenade use early on for example. Why even use that when the lazes were literally doing NOTHING to that armor. everyone in that armor could literaly walk past everyone exept the guys with the spines. It looks tacti-cool, but , given energy or kinetic ammo has a difference, there's nothing on that entire ship that can actualy do anything against them. Even the spine heads could do little more than lightly shove a few of them without completely gimping themselves. Why would the enemy even waste time shooting back when the only apparent move is to lock every door and passage and simply make it require too much effort to move forward.
@@TheRocketdrive They have no other option as locking doors and waiting them out wont stop an Astartes assault squad as they have ways of breaching reinforced steel doors. Unless the situation is completely fucked will not leave until the objective is complete. Plus they're dead no matter what because in 40k unless you're important or you're being captured to become a slave no one takes prisoners.
@@TheRocketdrive I interpreted it as his armour would have breached if he'd continued to take fire at that rate while moving down that corridor... he could tank a good few seconds of it but by the time he reached the end it would have melted through. That was a multilas I think and their damage accumulates, his armour would have heated to extremes even it can't cope with. Same with the heavy rifle and rocket launcher you see used and the guy running with what I assume is a Melta-bomb... all these weapons are designed for breaching Power Armour level targets. Astates are extremely durable but their armour does have a breaking point, you can see later on he's taken damage to it and that was from the multilas
This is great!
Shame GW just decided it's illegal to ever do any sort of fan-made Warhammer Animation (or other fan content) ever again.
They even went after peoples' Patreons.
Ah GW really just is amazing at being horrible.
I really hope it's some kind of kneejerk reaction and they change that over time. but I doubt it
Who is GW?
@@TheRecklessBravery Games Workshop (GW) are the owners of the intellectual property. They own the rights to these Space Marines and all the rest of the universe.
@@JustLookinkAround are they the ones that decide which lore is canon or not?
@@ffhdyedq Basically, yes.
4:55 The scene where the Astartes pushes through Psyker powers, fueled by pure strength and hatred and rage, shit is so intense. This is such an incredibly well made animation. It's phenomenal.
I love that in a half second of confusion he came within an inch of killing that psyker instantly
Hatred and rage are for the Khorne worshippers. The (Non-Chaos) Space Marines just have immense willpower and mental discipline coming from their brutal training.
@@jinpachibobochan3532 Agreed. I would argue they were pretty calm in this moment.
@@jinpachibobochan3532 nah regular marines feel righteous fury. how do you think marines fall to khorne? even if enhanced, marines are humans, and thus feel emotions just as others do.
just...also they're really fucked up psychologically lol and conditioned
@@brightestlight9462 Righteous fury isn't rage and hatred, though. Any emotion has different kinds of types, some positive, some negative. Even love can be twisted into something not so positive.
If you let rage and hatred lead your sword, then you will eventually start to behave like a violent savage - but if you allow your fury to only give your strength, but wield the sword with mental discipline and skill, then you will fight like a master of your body, mind, and soul. Stuff like that.
The former is most likely to become entrapped by chaos. The latter not so.
Well, that doesn't mean you will have your mind corrupted by rage and hatred after just a small amount, but I'm speaking here of those that revel in these emotions, using them as mental fuel for their strikes. Killing something out of rage and hatred corrupts.
But it is tough to theorize all that stuff anyways regarding Space Marines. Not only do they live in a time of 'There is only war,' but they aren't exactly normal humans. How and why a space marine becomes corrupted by chaos, manipulated into thinking that becoming a follower of Nurgle is a good idea, I have no idea.
Nurgle followers sound like crocodile drug junkies.
The best depiction of how fast and incredible space marines are in battle. Not john woo stuff. Just realism, skill and efficiency. An amazing video. Other Warhammer 40k should try to imitate this incredible clip. Just bang on.
The attention to detail is just unreal. At 10:30 you can see the space marine's cloak billow in the pressure waves caused by the bolter's firing. It's incredible.
Wow never noticed that. Smooth as butter too, the animation is so good! Nice catch.
If you watch closely at 1:37, you can see the smoke being blown in different directions from each individual weapon. It's blink and you'll miss it level of detail.
also at 10:55 when they touch the orb the engravings or markings on the orb begin to transfer onto their armor like its being etched onto them.
@@harleyeames17 I dont see the markings, maybe you're confusing it with the marks from the lasgun shots they took? The little circles, which is still amazing attention to detail and lets us track our main character
@@harleyeames17 holy shit nice catch, never noticed! You can see it on his hand if you zoom in
I love how this video accurately portrays how terrifying and unforgiving the warhammer universe is.
RIP the potential future work of this artist. It is unbelievable that after this short film that demonstrated how amazing WH40K could have been on film that we will never see any more. :(
Edit: this turned out NOT TO BE CORRECT, I confused this artist with another
GW will tame his work down to take aim at hook the children. I mean they need fresh meat for the meat grinder that is 40K......even though they will substitute meat for cotton candy and disappoint its fan base like clockwork.
@@killdozer__oto6979 He won't be a part of it, though. His creative vision is the reason this stuff is so unique and good. GW has already tried to make 3D animations, this guy made it WORK.
GW hired him though……what I was saying was how GW is soo good at ruining a good thing…..I thought that is what you meant by “RIP the potential work of this artist…..” because I thought you were referring to how GW will dictate what he accomplished on the future.
@@killdozer__oto6979 It came out this week that he declined their offer- details are unclear why at this point.
@@medugal source?
i don't know anything about this game or the story but this video hold my breathe for 13 minutes. Such a masterpiece!
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it s just this video....The rest is pure garbage....There s nothing else...
The fact that GW had the fucking audacity to alter the SOUND DESIGN, one of the best things about the Astartes series, does not bode well.
And it’s now at 720p because that’s what their streaming service can handle
@@astrofpv3631 bro are you serious lol, how do they keep fumbling so hard
Part of the problem was the use of copyrighted sound/music in the original. Specifically, the Dredd (2012) soundtrack is featured. It fit so well because Dredd's composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, also did the soundtrack to Dawn of War 3. But rather than working to get the permission to use the original sound design, they instead did a rush job to the shit sound on their site.
The fact that GW have anything to do with it at all doomed it.
Terrible move on the part of Syama Pedersen to have anything to do with that shit company, sure hope the money was worth it in the short term. Because it wont do a thing for his career, or bring him any fulfilment in life.
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR yep it is terrible, I am glad that he's financially stable now since he's being paid way more than before but now I won't expect anything better to come out from his work not with GW taking control on whatever they do
I know it is a very minor thing, But I love the complete silence of the Astartes, You don't her them bark out orders over Vox, just silence, that makes them far more intimidating in my opinion.
If they don't have their helmet "speakers" on, they could scream inside and you wouldn't hear a thing
I feel like super-enhanced warriors with decades, if not centuries, of rigorous training and combat experience under their belts wouldn't need to say much in a typical boarding action like this. They've done it hundreds of times and know exactly what to do and how to do it as each situation arises. They only speak when something needs to be said.
Space Marines screaming all the time seems pretty dumb. Very silent and extremely precise in their movements works much better and makes the most sense.
yeah they communicate with each other and their voices are hampered down, so imagine how loud the inquisitor was chanting for us to hear it
@@bluedrew2919 I'm pretty sure he had to scream at the top of his lungs. I think it's the way his voice
Likely more an artistic choice on the part of the filmmaker. They're speaking as needed during the operation, over the vox, we just can't hear it. For example, the captain is obviously speaking at 9:59 but we don't hear it. We, the audience, is seeing them the way those doomed heretics are: silent, merciless, and unstoppable. The ones that were stuck to the sphere may have had some words...
People had best start downloading this while they still can. This is all that remains of the original versions now that GW has taken down the TH-cam originals and replaced it with a lower resolution version on their website that ruins the mood with idiotic audio and music changes. I don't imagine GW will let reuploads like this stick around long.
Can you please link their website sir?
@@genrrizeecuvsfatti4747 Someone did but it seems to be getting deleted automatically. TH-cam doesn't like links sometimes.
@@EcthelonEvendil i found it. Thnx btw.
I'd say to download it, but this guy converted it to 60fps which messes with the original quality. It should be 24fps.
AHHHH I CAN'T find the download button fast enough
It is INSANE how only his work can hold up this all these years later