GENESIS - PART ONE: DAWN | OVERWATCH ANIME SHORT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2023
- In a bid to own the future, Omnica Corp scientists are left to wonder if they have solved a problem or created The Omnic Crisis.
All three parts of GENESIS, an Overwatch Anime Short are NOW LIVE!
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GENESIS Part Two: Innocence • GENESIS - PART TWO: IN...
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If only the animation team could be allowed to make a whole show like this
baby steps, i hope thats what this is
they like to do their crawl walk run or whatever
@@ziontabrizi2949 I could only hope
I mean, if Edgerunners made people forget the launch of Cyberpunk, and Arcane made people ignore the LoL community, then an Overwatch show might be enough to make people forget about the Overwatch game.
I believe its just Blizzard restricting them. The OW Dev team try so much to help the community efore, but everything is managed by Blizzard for it.
Also i believe these 5 min episodes is there format for years.. and ig blizzard didnt want to change it... Even tho I would listen to a 5 episode series of this if its like 20min to 1h long really.
Facts
I think its safe to say that the art team is the real MVP among the wreckage that Blizzard became. They carry this company so hard its amazing.
Their art team seriously is top tier. It is always exciting to see a release from them even when it isn't from a game I'm playing.
@@BourneSerenity Agreed, the animated shorts before the WoW expansions, the cinematic trailers, etc. they are high quality! (even if the game itself is not in a lot of cases ^^;)
See, the truth is, Blizzard died as soon as Activision acquired King gaming (candy crush). Activision made Blizzard Sindragosa. A dead puppet. Activision is merely using up the complete original body of conceptual writing and art left behind by original employees because it's their property. It's kinda like they took the whole file and is standing infront of you telling you Dumbledore dies at the end. Overwatch died when Jeff left. That was the red flag, artistic differences.
@@Powmoro Yes, its quite a commonly accepted idea that Blizz died when Activision bought them. The change was subtle at first but got more and more aggressive as the old guard left the sinking ship. One of the big tipping points were when Mark Morheim left since he was quite a big obstacle for Acti to totally own the studio. Sad to see this as I've grew up on their games since Warcraft 1.
We can continue overwatch story without a battlepass
Great job to the animation team
Nice
Nice
Hi
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Wow perfect
Echo: “Dr. Liao was NOT fond of you.”
Moira: “Was she any fonder of you?”
Echo: “Of course! I was her life’s work!”
Moira: “It seemed to me she was far more taken with your predecessor…”
ok
I came straight to the comments just to find the people who thought of I'm absolutely blown away and fully convinced we get to meet Echo's predecessor. But when?
@@ImmaGayPumpkin litterally in this short, this is aurora not echo
@@theworld8215 no really? Bro it doesn't even look like Echo so obviously it's not did you read either of the comments here?????
@@theworld8215 dont be sassy
Always remember, people *want* to LOVE Overwatch. Fans love the characters, the lore, the positive spirit. Zero Hour made so many of us cry, Genji appearing makes the hair on my neck standup if I watch it now. Blizzard, you just have to meet us half way. This became a multi billion dollar franchise for a reason. Don't waste or exploit that love. It's passionate not unconditional.
Where have you been for the past 3 or 4 years? You're too late on the mark.
BARS
Very true. Overwatch used to be one of my favorite games for a while because of what you just said, but Blizzard has practically just been neglecting the playerbase ever since Overwatch 2
They exploited it a long time ago.
It is too late
The animation team is what’s keeping this game alive literally 😅😂
@@user-jl7xj5iz9k and much of that, i would not be surprised, is outsourced :
Most definitely it is
Man the animation is stiff and cheap, they're saving a lot of money or rushing projects so people keep supporting their game, it's ridiculous
Meanwhile the animation team is kept alive by $0.10 instant ramen and sleeps in their work place because they can't afford food or rent with how much money the higher-ups are pocketing...
Say it, we know that by "animation" you mean R34
So good! Imagine what this company could do if they just committed to something.
diablo 4
@@redflame300heard about it for like a week on released havent heard of it since
@@playboyagent7586 lol
man... my love for the characters and the story will always be there, it's was so beautiful and yet it was so wasted
Why wasted?
I wouldn't say wasted, it still has a chance, but... yeah. Story's good.
Lore! This is exactly what we want. The animation team has never disappointed and they continue to never disappoint.
There's always been a lore. The comic books are canon.
Exactly what you* might want. I want a better game than what I'm paying for.
i would like more lore - that anime Short wasn't it thou, the only thing we learnt is that there was a random woman who made a super cool robot? And that's it, this could be said in 10 seconds, i didn't really need 5 minutes of background characters random talk, i hope at least the rest of episodes are gonna be about this new character and her importance in current story, and not another 50 random wallpaper backgrounds ☹
@@iron7791 that woman is the some woman who created echo and that was the first version of echo the next one is echo themselves
This is not animated by Blizzard in-house, it's directed by a Blizzard Cinematics Director but animated by an external studio. The CGI shorts Blizzard releases are made in-house by them.
The series we asked for ever since the Doomfist trailer… It’s finally here… 😭
Yess haha
TJATS WHAT IM SAYING
and dey say
honestly a series we asked for ever since the game released
I mean not really its gonna be a mini series 6 episodes i think
Can't wait to get pay-walled to watch more of this.
This is awesome. I have so many issues with where Overwatch is right now but leaning into animation (one of the strongest elements of the brand) is a strong way to breath life back into the IP. I would love to see a longer form piece of animated content like a full series in the vein of Arcane. This just proves how awesome it can be if given the resources to actually do it.
Please please please let this eventually lead to a full-fledged series, I'm begging you
after they canceled pve? don't think so
Maybe, if you’ll pay $15 for each episode 😂
Blizzard is full of empty promises.
In stanley's voice: Money.
Negativity aside, they might be working on an Overwatch/WOW series already, the same way Riot was working on Arcane ever since 2014, without anyone ever finding out
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real
The animation team deserved better
they should be getting paid like 200k a year fr
Overwatch 2 is amazing
Bad for you, game is really good for me.
Looks like the animation team didn’t spend all of their budget on McCree’s Apple Pie
Wow, this 5 minute animation has totally redeemed Blizz and the OW team for all the bullshit they've pulled. Everything is fixed now! /s
Literally the trailer lmao
This could have been an email
If they would expand their team and divide it into different groups. They should make a tv show or Netflix show about the overwatch characters. That would be soooo nice❤
Nice of Blizzard to show us a glimpse into our own real life future
“Overwatch + Star Trek” is the type of future that Humanity should strive to achieve 😊
A mini series?!
We are finally getting Visual Media about Overwatch lore outside of novels and comics!
The world of Overwatch is easily my favourite thing about it, so I cannot wait to see this mini-series help flesh it out!
me too! i'm so hyped, even if it's a 3 part mini series, overwatch lore is my FAVOURITE in the entire game and world around it
runtime is 5:13 minutes 💀
visual media? Aren't there lots of cool cinematics?
@@afmetz At least it’s something.
I’ve seen filmmakers do a lot with 15 minutes to tell a story.
we may have lost the game but the lore is still pretty good
Hopefully in the next two parts we’ll get more fleshed out backstories for Zenyatta, Ramattra, and Reaper
Why Reaper? His lore is pretty accessible already through google searches.
@@TypicalCynic_ i think they commented that because he was shown in the trailer
i need zen lore
Reaper has a very fleshed out backstory
I hope we learn more about Aurora and how she reached sentience
Usually any animated short I go into I'll start picking apart the animation quality and production, but for this one I got roped into the story, and then almost immediately the short ended. Great start so far; I might have to wait until all shorts are released and watch them in one go though.
My favorite part was when they said "overwatch on site, taking heavy fire", and then they shot down all hope for a good game
Take note how this is the first video without satirical comments Blizzard. We need this! Put LOADS of story in the game and stop these random events please!
Lol, who said it's without?
@@CalciumChief the comments are very clearly overwhelmingly positive.
Sure there may be a few negative comments if you look hard enough but you're just being pedantic with your comment.
I'm am not a fps player, but I love the characters and have been waiting for some type of series for a while. I've read all the comics, watched all the shorts,and I believe something like this, but meatier, could save the franchise.
these comments are so overdone, its just the samejoke repeated a million times
@@IEatAnts644 Now we're talking. I would sell my soul for some Rat & Hog sillyness. I really want to know more about both of their pasts
Hope animation team is paid well, spectacular work
dont forget the VAs (VOice actors) in this too! they did an amazing job as well
I promise you. They didn't. lol
I swear Blizzards animations are always amazing. This was great
God, Overwatch has so much potential, I'm glad at least the animation team can see that.
TH-cam Premiere schedule for GENESIS, an Overwatch mini-series
Part One: Dawn
🗓️ July 6 | Runtime 5:13 Mins
Part Two: Innocence
🗓️ July 13 | Runtime 6:34 Mins
Part Three: Rebirth
🗓️ July 20 | Runtime 6:58 Mins
Thats way too short runtime wtf...
@@Luna-ii4mx i mean they did say it was a mini series
@@Luna-ii4mx It's an animated short so yea, Blizzard doesn't care enough to spend the resources giving us an actual full animated series, like Arcane/Edgrunners.
@@LSUCG43 a mini series have 12 chapters of 24 minutes, this is a microscopic series
@@verguco6051 dawg wdym that’s a whole anime season ☠️
It’s cool seeing the r-7000 unit being used (0:07) I guess they aren’t built with “hair” so just goes to show how much tweaking and upgrades ramattra did to himself, hope we get to see the origins in this! (Edit: this was in the trailer, look at the genesis trailer and you’ll see it)
And i hope there is at least some remaining units like ramattra
I mean, that could ve possible since ublike the bastion units, we dont know how may r-7000 are there still left in the world
We know how many FUNCTIONAL bastions there are. However most of em are dead but Could be brought back with a bit of repair...however unlike bastion they would be violent
@@Idle_death_gamble considering the amount of force used against them, most of them need more than a little bit of repairs. I bet quite a bit are beyond saving.
Isn’t there a hair shop for omnics in downtown busan? I swear I remember seeing an omnic with a type of hair like ramattra😭
@@frank8917we can assume there isn't many left because the parts to maintain them are rare. The Ramattra novella says so.
No campaign, five player lobbies instead of six, broken promises, but the animation trailers? This is all they have left. While the game burns, the animation team is paid handsomely. At least, I hope with these. You have one job. Keep the animations coming. Lore baby.
it's about friggin time they made a semi movie/series out of the lore. we all had to read it in the overwatch wiki
The anime style is nice. But with Pixar level cinematics blizzard is capable of making I really wanted a full movie. Either way, I am excited to get more lore and look forward to the rest of this series.
Unfortunately that type of animation is significantly harder to make and more expensive
@@crystallxix1493 blizzard can probably afford it
@@SweetKandi ehhh I wouldn’t be so sure, at least not with such high quality. Even billion dollar studios dedicated solely to making that have to resort to lesser quality for the majority of the movie. It’s also why Shows usually don’t use such animation and it’s reserved for 2 hour movies
Just one of those full-fledged cinematics costs millions to make. I doubt with how short the series will be that they even spent 2 or even 1 million. A full-length cinematic-style movie would be way over their budget
@@crystallxix1493 yeah good point. maybe they could do a miniseries like arcane
Blizzard's cinematic and film production team is always 10/10 for me. Please keep it going. One day I hope for an Overwatch movie series
@@mrjayboo4842 stop talking about the game.
to fumble it... they will make a live action overwatch movie >>... we all know how that ends....
Since you know how great Blizzard can be and has been with previous overwatch shorts, I’m shocked you think THIS is good. This is outsourced cheap anime, not Pixar-esque magic they had before.
@@Kat-qb1uj Who cares if it's outsourced, live service games this type of thing all the time, it's good because it gives fans more lore content. I'm pretty sure Blizzard gave them concept art/wrote this script because this isn't some throwaway side story it's a pivotal part to the backstory of the overwatch world.
Also Sojourn's cinematic short is coming out in in a few days, it's going to be in the standard ow 'Pixar-esque' style.
@@lilwintery6434 I don’t care if it’s outsourced, It’s disappointing when it done poorly as a money save. Good to hear about Sojourns
This felt more like a trailer than a episode one
“Somebody should have put a stop to it. it wasn’t science it was arrogance.” Best line
So glad the universe of Overwatch is being expanded. The lore and characters is what made me a fan in the first place.
THIS is what we’ve been waiting for. Overwatch actually has good lore, but for so long they’ve seemed like they were afraid to commit to anything. I hope this does well cause then we could get much more. P.s. The battle shop still doodoo tho
Well, we'll never know it now!
the shop is honestly getting better even moira getting some love
Whats good about the lore if you could be more specific? Because right now its like a cheap crossover between I, Robot and the plot of The Terminatot
Wait...I thought the lore was on Rule 34
It's been about 7ish years but we finally getting the much awaited lore 😭😭
the shorts are always so good, if only the game was too.
The music is so good. I love it. Echo is probably a key plot element considering she was created in Mina's image. And both bastion and echo has some hidden data inside their unbreakable firewall as per Sombra
Edit: sorry for confusing some of you, The one in this video is not echo. It's Aurora. She was the first sentient omnic and she transcended(idk where) so that all omnics can be sentient. My comment was just about where all this will probably lead and Mina creating Echo will fit into this Aurora plotline
Is this echo? I thought it was aurora?
@@echoesact3713This is Echo. We still know absolutely nothing about aurora
@@kelbingus2251No, it is Aurora. We see here going to Shambali in the trailer and Aurora was made BEFORE the crisis. Echo was made after/towards the end of the crisis. This is going to give us more lore on Aurora.
If you're going to correct people, be right.
@@Immortal_Inkwell It's probably going to show both since this Mini Series is supposed to be a lead in to "Invasion."
@@Immortal_Inkwell no need to be jackass either but here we are
Yall really changed the title from animated to anime short the moment this went live. Trying way too hard dawg, im crying 😂
I hope this series does well and leads to something bigger long term. Great job to the animation team!
I hope we keep getting more of these. They are so well done.
This honestly reminds me of The Animatrix especially the Second Renaissance.
Can't wait to see more after this Introduction.
I was just gonna say! One of my favorite things to watch was the whole Animatrix. It pretty much showed the same premise. Man was it gruesome at times (Robot squishing that mech pilots face and the nuking of the UN after they signed the charter, lol)
Yeah, I was thinking Second Renaissance as well. In fact, I feel like they kinda cribbed off it a little.
I have waited years for something like this. I love the overwatch lore and comics, this gives me so much hope
OMG SAMEEE
Don't hope. This is to distract from their failure and lies about delivering a single player mode.
@@bthsr7113 Your point is literally "But the game is bad",yes,it is,this is a mini series,not the game
@@Mahd018 One of the biggest reasons overwatch 2 is still alive is because people love the characters and desperately want more story. It's like Marvel but it never getting to avengers.
@@flamingcroww Exactly,the game sucks.Youre proving my point.
You know, this franchise might redeem itself if it had a full-fledged animated series on par with Arcane.
Love the documentary narrative style. Can't wait to see the rest.
Even though it's not a full tv adaptation like fans have wanted, this actually looks pretty good. Nice to be excited about overwatch content for a change...
praying that if this does well, they make a full on show
Or maybe even a video game
@@maxwaldor5132 Hopefully one without In-game purchases and lots of love put into it!
I've been saying it since day 1 OW, but the cinematics carry the the game. They need a full blown movie not just a show
@@ubacow7109 a show is better than a movie because they are able to do a fully fleshed-out story without runtime limitations and ofc it being longer is a W for the fans. A show like arcane would bring so many new players to the game that previously had no interest in playing it.
Great start! Love the animation style and of course the story. OW veteran since day 1 right here baby 🎉😊❤
I love it! Can't wait to see what's next! We love to see more lore about the Overwatch world!! Animation team always doing a crazy beautiful job!! Keep up the good work!
This is where the co-op budget went.
God, Blizzard as a company is such a mess, but I HAVE to commend the writers and art teams for putting so much amazing work into this! So excited!
This isn't made by the art team it's an outsourced studio.
You just repeated the top comment get your own ideas
@@tylers649 get original mfs when I say something someone has been said before
(they don't realize that "being original" is difficult when there are only so many ways to word a thought)
@@tylers649 stolen comment
You have to be kidding?
I like the part where the cyberpunk anime has more animations in the first 10 seconds than this whole video.
Very lovely! Can't wait for part 2!
This was everything I wanted I’m so excited for more. Blizzard we would love a full series 🥺
🙏 I hope the outsource for a full series. Or better you build a bigger animation side of blizzard to make this possible
An exceptional and amazing example of how to build a world that people resonate and care about within a video game. It’s such a shame Blizzard/Activision chose greed and a quick cash grab, instead of creating the best possible version of this game.
They could have taken this IP to amazing heights if they properly developed it instead of making a quick cash grab. They could be opening up a real life Blizzard World at this point if they had handled it correctly.
Everything was peaceful, until the fire natio -- I mean Omnics attack
The animation team is what’s keeping this game alive literally
yo what is this an overwatch anime??!?!
A 5 minute anime xD
@@GrzegorzMikos5 min anime > actual story mode /s
Go doom...
@@szilveszterforgo8776 At least it will be longer than PvE mission.
@GrzegorzMikos imagine if it cost a $1 for each episode 😂
Really great animation and art style. Can't wait for episode 2 and 3.
I am sure there are MANY easter eggs spread throughout these episodes as well.
the episode was gone before i was done blinking, so no easter eggs ig
@@santasett3093yea seriously. It's just an animated interview of someone we don't even know
this is good animation to you? static talking heads and tweening? this is barely animation at all.
@@OwleroOh okay! Let's see you do something better then, since you're such a good animator!
@@Owlero You just ignored all the other scenes and just focused on the interview ones huh I see...
Creator, your eyes are leaking. LET ME REPLACE THEM
Blizzard was loved for YEARS, the real keyword here "was."
if the animation looks like the doomfist cinematic it will be really sick
Which unfortunately... clearly isn't the case 😕
Still a great step in the right direction for the story of this universe.
Great intro. These should be made a full seasons series.
I love that even from high up you can immediately tell which member of Overwatch was on the ground.
I have a (not so) mild obsession with the lore, so it's nice to see Blizzard focus on where it's charm lies; The complex world they built and the characters within it . Even after a few months break from the game, I was still super hyped for this because I'm invested in the story of the world.
As somebody who is obsessed with the lore, I’d assumed you’ve seen the other animation videos they put out years ago. Do you not think this one was DRASTICALLY worse than those? The animation is so cheap and lazy here.
Love them or hate them right now, this is definitely a step in the right direction and huge W for the overwatch community
nope... thats waste of development resources
@forthegod are you high? That's a completely different team dawg
You really think the balancing team works on animated media? Stupid
@@forthegod yea man the people making the 3d videogame are also the ones making this 2d animation
How is this a W for the community? Cool we got some new lore, the game is still a dumpster fire though
The animation team has done it again. They did a great job.
Blizzard predicted ChatGPT
we really have been waiting for a intro cinimatic 💀
Wow… after all these years… i, robot is getting a prequel!
bro this is better than I thought I need a full show of this
All the money they scammed from us to rebuy OW was put in to this animation 💀 because this is the only good thing so far
Content like this is the only thing that will keep Overwatch alive. Hopefully we won’t just be left with a 15 min miniseries for the foreseeable future. They’ve gotta pump these out consistently.
yessir
crazy how 7 years later the overwatch lore is still on "part one" and "genesis"
bro they just started why would they be on part 2, and i think it’s called genesis because it’s going to be about how the omnics become sentient
@@lilwintery6434 they're saying it's crazy that Blizz took so long to make a project like this. Overwatch has deserved the Arcane treatment from day one, yet the game has died twice by now and we're only getting a mini series. As fans we'll take what we can get though, this looks cool.
That was amazing. At least somewhere I could experience the Overwatch lore finally.
the problem with robotic AI in real life will be energy, material, and maintenance
Okay, you know what? I love the lore of this game! This is awesome!
BEING AN OVERWATCH FAN FOR 7 YEARS PAID OF UNEXPECTEDLY
Paid off, *for once*
@@bigaj6901 for just 5 mins 😔
Okay, this is actually really good👏🏾
Ah, yes, the best part of Overwatch: The stuff that isn't actually the game
This was honestly dope! Im glad we got to see more of echos creator too! They need more lore stuff!!
If I remember correctly in one of moira and echos interaction she does say that liao was more interested in her predecessor and I think that’s what we are seeing right now
Another excellent animation. C'mon guys, just become a movie company already. xD
These videos never fail to disappoint! Keep it up
Why split a 15 minute "series" into 3 parts
Overwatch never failed to surprise us
😂😂😂
I may never play a blizzard game for as long as I live, but I will loyally follow the overwatch lore. this is some good stuff.
Despite what people are saying here, generic storyline, not great animation, they don't credit the studio. Blizzard doesn't have a internal animation studio for western animation. They have one for CGI, but this isn't a normal Blizzard cinematic. Looked around and tried to find the credits, but couldn't find it. Not sure who they licensed out to.
Neat, see you all again in 4 years.
I hope this series becomes massively successful; maybe that will push them to make a full Netflix series or something.
hahahahaha you wish
15min of bad animation will become successful, yeah for sore
@@th3s3a Most people aren't too concerned over the animation quality of an animated show, what they really care about are other factors such as the premise and writing. Invincible is a good example of this; the animation was mediocre, but no one really complained because the show was good, and it went on to be successful.
A complete anime series please!!! Explaining all the lore of the game like this is brilliant and beutiful, animacion is a really underated way to represent this kind of story
No matter how stale OW is as a game or how crappy Blizzard is as a company, the animation team ALWAYS makes sure to cook with the Short films
Oh wow, striking image with the new omnic wiping away Mina's tear!!!
Uh okay I guess…. Basically a trailer for the actual thing
we need a full length series!!!
I NEED MORE IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG