After blowing the entire budget on the costumes they only had enough money left for a Styrofoam pillar and by god, they were going to make sure everyone saw that pillar. LOL, the thing is in every shot.
The fact that this was made in 1996 makes it really amazing. I was born in 1989 and I remember the quality of movies released during the 90s. Power rangers was among the popular live-action sci-fi shows.
The acting in the main part was actually decent, and the Terminator suits in the short Genestealer clip looked appropriate. No comment regarding the Orks. 😂
so according to the wiki: "In 1996, for the 25th Anniversary Games Day, Games Workshop released (for limited sale) a short movie entitled Inquisitor. This movie was created using clips and footage that had been created as a pitch to Games Workshop for a movie deal. There were also trailers for two other films, Hive Infestation and Blood for the Blood God. Hive Infestation pitted Space Wolf Terminators against a Genestealer cult infestation of a Hive world. Blood for the Blood God portrayed Orks and Dark Angel Space Marines fighting along with an Inquisitor"
As an additional some of the props, costumes and aesthetics were used in the game Warhammer 40k Epic: Final Liberation, Gavin Naylor who also played the Chaos Lord here also had a part in it as the voice of Warboss Skroll and the Ork leaderz, e.g. in the intro "OKAY HUMIE, LETS SEE WHEREZ YOU'SE WAS GOIN'"
I remember this, or similar live action short films, being reported in White Dwarf back in the day - of course back in 1996 it would have taken about 5 years to download a video like this over the internet, so all we saw of it were film stills.
That's some pretty amazing math, considering that GW started in 1975. 25 years in the space of 21 years, that's some warp-space time compression if ever there were such a thing.
My only complaint is the glaring lack of size difference between baseline human and Astartes. Other than that, it's a fun bit of vidfile to enjoy on my data slate... *Praise be to HE that sits the Golden Throne,* Brothers!
@@PsyckoSamaIts really not that difficult, the legs just need a bit of a platform in them, say 10 or 12 inches, get a 6ft guy in there and boom, noticable height difference in the marine.
@@mikehawkisb1gIt's more than just height. You'd need a lot of girth and size. There's a reason I said "on a classic doctor who budget with practical effects in 1995". Those are three important factors that apply: Classic Dr Who Budget, practical effects, and 1995. In 2023 we can do it because of 3d printing and advances in CG. You can 3d print the parts of a suit and build yourself something like modern SM cosplay suits or you can CG it in using modern computers, but we didn't have those tools in 1995. In '95 the various parts of the suit would have had to be hand-crafted and fitted with the increases in costs to match... while using CG would have looked terrible and required the use of either an Amega farm with Lightwave or time on a full Silicon Graphics workstation... and probably still would have looked like ass. These days, easy, then? Not so easy.
No complaints here, this is probably what a 'realistic' marine would look like. There are limits to human biology that can't be overcome by augmentation. Tall basketball players, for example, have a lot of strain on their joints
This was only the beginning, brothers. Soon, we will all see a true live-action Warhammer 40k show/movie. Praise be the Emperor and his holy vessel, Henry Cavill!
@@hunterbidenparmesanimports5633 I've was playing Warhammer tabletop in the nineties and collected the Warhammer monthly comics. You probably heard about it a week ago. Lol pathetic
This is really cool. It has a 1980's Dr Who kind of charm to it. I really wish that Games Workshop had continued to produce more of these 40K films back in the 90's.
Some kids here really underestimate the effort it took in 1996 to make footage, SFX and not to mention props like this. Back then, I definitely would have loved to watch stuff like this.
Hot take: I want to see a full feature in this style, tho moreso those two "trailers." Just 90s B-movie goodness with scenes clearly shot on a soundstage with a fog machine or an abandoned chemical plant, with wet puppets; physical costumes and janky background effects out the wazoo. Like, I could see Astron-6 making something like this if GW gave them the license and the budget...
Bro I got to see Gwar with green jello at uncle sams in Washington state. Very intimate show, lots of green jizz and blood. Green jello had a guy in a Spider-Man suit doing flips N shit, we started a mosh pit and destroyed the felt on a pool table.
i was pleasantly surprised by the level of production in this. I really would have enjoyed this in the 90's. though I'm glad i got to experience this now
I actually like teleportation effects at 18:45, and how bolters sound, and how the Warp... warpes things at 23:02. I understand that this is very old-fashioned but in my mind I imagine wh40k just like this, not like pew-pew-lasers and flashy bangs.
15:10 Captain Darius made a, I think, serious command error, in that a single marine is a very vulnerable marine. He should have kept his men in pairs.
The end with the nyd’s and the orc’s I swear looked like a Gwar show. Don’t know if any of you have ever been to a Gwar concert or even watched a video but it looks just like that. Except the blood(red water) is getting sprayed on the crowd the whole time and it’s awesome
maybe its just me seeing things like how you can see things in the clouds, but around the 13 minute mark when they're crossing the stone bridge, the camera being below them looking up at the bridge and the cliff face. It kinda looks like the stone bridge is like... two arms with the hands clasping together in the middle, and there's a worn down torso/head in the rocky cliff. very cool if that was indeed intentional.
I knew this wasn’t a dream!!! It’s real!!! I’m actually very impressed with this. Grateful to see how far Warhammer 40k has come. All the games (tabletop/video games), books, and a show on the way.
considering the time this was made and the limited resources they had to create it, this is very good. the only real negative point is the size of the space marines: they are just normal human size. but again, due to the time this was made, difficult to create realistic space marine, as they are described in the storys. thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Fun fact: the reason this film was filmed mostly in black and white is because GW only gave permission to use paint from the official store, safe to say no one is that rich
having watched most of the disappointing warhammer+ content, i can clearly say, this is how its done, Even for a short film, its a good solid story, suspense, characterdev., dialogues, well done, just imagine they d been given a bigger budget
Considering the age, its actually pretty good, some of the masks were a bit funny, but over all pretty enjoyable! Funny Ive been a fan since the mid 1990's and never saw this.
I didn't know this existed before this afternoon... many jokes were made. If anyone's curious line of the day went to the flgs owner with "ENUCIATE DAMN YOU!" whenever the khorne berzerker was speaking. All in all not that bad very of its time though.
There's a camp brilliance to this that the die hard CG fan films miss. They lean too far into the grimness and miss how ridiculous it all is aand should be
@AdolfHitler-wo1my You're exactly why the fandom sucks. Remove the silliness and it's too poe-faced you can't have that much posturing latin, cathedral ships, Orks and big mighty uscled super chad men without the silly. Without the silly it's just stupid
Wow… Not bad at all. I was expecting to laugh most the time. But this was solid for the time. At 8:30 I thought for sure it was going to be an old school knee slapper.. But he looked pretty decent actually.
Thanks for your kind comments!-Yours - Captain Darius in this video!!
Your service to the imperium puts a smile on my face captain
Thank you for your loyal service to The Emperor!
Thanks for sharing! It is especially cool that you were ostensibly the star of this gem.
Mate this is great, a real hidden gem, the only bad thing is you didn't do a whole film.
how did it feel being in that armor!? it must have been awesome :D
Gonna tell my sons that this is Astartes
Dont
do it
H....o.....l......y...F*Ck that is funny and now there is milk on my shirt
Don't do that!
After blowing the entire budget on the costumes they only had enough money left for a Styrofoam pillar and by god, they were going to make sure everyone saw that pillar. LOL, the thing is in every shot.
I will admit. It's a pretty iconic pillar
Ya know. Back in 1996, this would have SLAPPED.
remember it does
It is an everslapper.
It did not lol
"how dark you want your movie to be?"
"grimdark."
Praise the machine spirit for showing me this after all those years
The fact that this was made in 1996 makes it really amazing.
I was born in 1989 and I remember the quality of movies released during the 90s. Power rangers was among the popular live-action sci-fi shows.
The acting in the main part was actually decent, and the Terminator suits in the short Genestealer clip looked appropriate. No comment regarding the Orks. 😂
5:58 a space marine wouldn’t talk to an inquisitor like that without repercussions though
so according to the wiki:
"In 1996, for the 25th Anniversary Games Day, Games Workshop released (for limited sale) a short movie entitled Inquisitor. This movie was created using clips and footage that had been created as a pitch to Games Workshop for a movie deal. There were also trailers for two other films, Hive Infestation and Blood for the Blood God. Hive Infestation pitted Space Wolf Terminators against a Genestealer cult infestation of a Hive world. Blood for the Blood God portrayed Orks and Dark Angel Space Marines fighting along with an Inquisitor"
As an additional some of the props, costumes and aesthetics were used in the game Warhammer 40k Epic: Final Liberation, Gavin Naylor who also played the Chaos Lord here also had a part in it as the voice of Warboss Skroll and the Ork leaderz, e.g. in the intro "OKAY HUMIE, LETS SEE WHEREZ YOU'SE WAS GOIN'"
I remember this, or similar live action short films, being reported in White Dwarf back in the day - of course back in 1996 it would have taken about 5 years to download a video like this over the internet, so all we saw of it were film stills.
wait, so did some people show this to GW as a pitch, then GW went GW and said “tHiS iS oUr InTeLeCtUaL pRoPeRtY, wE cAn Do WhAtEvEr We wAnT wItH iT.”
That's some pretty amazing math, considering that GW started in 1975. 25 years in the space of 21 years, that's some warp-space time compression if ever there were such a thing.
Dude the Genestealer and Tyranid Warrior faces look amazing!
This is actually very well done. I did expect any second to hear that grinding noise and the Blue Police box to suddenly materialize....
I was half expecting them to force Lister to marry that chaos dude 😂
My only complaint is the glaring lack of size difference between baseline human and Astartes. Other than that, it's a fun bit of vidfile to enjoy on my data slate...
*Praise be to HE that sits the Golden Throne,* Brothers!
Lets see you do better on a classic Doctor Who budget with practical effects in 1995.
@@PsyckoSamaIts really not that difficult, the legs just need a bit of a platform in them, say 10 or 12 inches, get a 6ft guy in there and boom, noticable height difference in the marine.
@@mikehawkisb1gIt's more than just height. You'd need a lot of girth and size. There's a reason I said "on a classic doctor who budget with practical effects in 1995".
Those are three important factors that apply: Classic Dr Who Budget, practical effects, and 1995.
In 2023 we can do it because of 3d printing and advances in CG. You can 3d print the parts of a suit and build yourself something like modern SM cosplay suits or you can CG it in using modern computers, but we didn't have those tools in 1995.
In '95 the various parts of the suit would have had to be hand-crafted and fitted with the increases in costs to match... while using CG would have looked terrible and required the use of either an Amega farm with Lightwave or time on a full Silicon Graphics workstation... and probably still would have looked like ass.
These days, easy, then? Not so easy.
@@PsyckoSama
Shut
up
nerd
"umm akshually!" 🤓
No complaints here, this is probably what a 'realistic' marine would look like. There are limits to human biology that can't be overcome by augmentation. Tall basketball players, for example, have a lot of strain on their joints
I’m actually way more impressed by this than I was expecting
This was only the beginning, brothers. Soon, we will all see a true live-action Warhammer 40k show/movie. Praise be the Emperor and his holy vessel, Henry Cavill!
I pray that never actually happens and is forgotten, there shouldn't be a live action 40k and it absolutely should not become mainstream.
@@Shotokan1001heretic !! You will burn for this with the xenos scum !!
@@hunterbidenparmesanimports5633 I've was playing Warhammer tabletop in the nineties and collected the Warhammer monthly comics. You probably heard about it a week ago. Lol pathetic
you waha40k fanboys should get a life, and and spread your gay fantasies about pumped-up men in armor.
"live-action Warhammer 40k show/movie"- yeah becouse Witcher show was so cool and popular ( sarcasm )
This is really cool. It has a 1980's Dr Who kind of charm to it. I really wish that Games Workshop had continued to produce more of these 40K films back in the 90's.
When visiting Games Workshop HQ in the early 2000s they had this playing on screen (without sound) in Bugman's Bar.
Some kids here really underestimate the effort it took in 1996 to make footage, SFX and not to mention props like this. Back then, I definitely would have loved to watch stuff like this.
This is leagues ahead of Warhammer+ content despite being nearly 30 years old
It was a bit rough around the edges but I genuinely enjoyed that.
Hot take: I want to see a full feature in this style, tho moreso those two "trailers." Just 90s B-movie goodness with scenes clearly shot on a soundstage with a fog machine or an abandoned chemical plant, with wet puppets; physical costumes and janky background effects out the wazoo. Like, I could see Astron-6 making something like this if GW gave them the license and the budget...
An astron 6 40k movie would be insane
The production quality of the costumes is insane for a 30 minute promo tape
This has so much GWAR energy.
Was going to say the same thing. They were inspired by 40k and played it a bunch.
@@armygwarguy Have they said that in interviews?
Bro I got to see Gwar with green jello at uncle sams in Washington state. Very intimate show, lots of green jizz and blood. Green jello had a guy in a Spider-Man suit doing flips N shit, we started a mosh pit and destroyed the felt on a pool table.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the irony of them using digital renderings and NOT A MINIATURE MODEL for that opening shot.
The special effects are very Red Dwarf. I love it 🙂
They also had an episode called "Inquisitor."
wish i'd seen this on release. For the budget back then tasty.
i was pleasantly surprised by the level of production in this. I really would have enjoyed this in the 90's. though I'm glad i got to experience this now
I actually like teleportation effects at 18:45, and how bolters sound, and how the Warp... warpes things at 23:02. I understand that this is very old-fashioned but in my mind I imagine wh40k just like this, not like pew-pew-lasers and flashy bangs.
15:10 Captain Darius made a, I think, serious command error, in that a single marine is a very vulnerable marine. He should have kept his men in pairs.
Rimmer finally got that promotion to captain I see.
It’s Captain Ace Rimmer, and don’t forget it!! 🤣
For 1996 this is good. Didn't expect to see such thing.
those orks were pretty well made IMHO
Oh my God! We need more movies like this!!!
I love Warhammer 40k! ⚔️
This is amazing. Thank you for preserving this piece of Warhammer history on youtube.
The end with the nyd’s and the orc’s I swear looked like a Gwar show. Don’t know if any of you have ever been to a Gwar concert or even watched a video but it looks just like that. Except the blood(red water) is getting sprayed on the crowd the whole time and it’s awesome
maybe its just me seeing things like how you can see things in the clouds, but around the 13 minute mark when they're crossing the stone bridge, the camera being below them looking up at the bridge and the cliff face. It kinda looks like the stone bridge is like... two arms with the hands clasping together in the middle, and there's a worn down torso/head in the rocky cliff. very cool if that was indeed intentional.
Getting their money's worth out of that gargoyle
That was pretty epic. I liked the music and costume especially.
As a retired plumber ... I don't think those space marines were tall enough.
How, in all my time searching 40k into TH-cam, am I just now seeing this?? Wtf?
I knew this wasn’t a dream!!! It’s real!!!
I’m actually very impressed with this. Grateful to see how far Warhammer 40k has come. All the games (tabletop/video games), books, and a show on the way.
Not gonna lie, I kept expecting the boys from the Dwarf to show up.
I want this on bluray.
Words escape me, this is just incredible!
We already have 40k movies at home:
I love this. Despite the low budget aspect. It still stayed true to WH40k.
considering the time this was made and the limited resources they had to create it, this is very good. the only real negative point is the size of the space marines: they are just normal human size. but again, due to the time this was made, difficult to create realistic space marine, as they are described in the storys.
thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Yo...this is incredible This is better then most things Game Workshop has put out in the 2000s. Wow.
Better then things GW has put out on warhammer+
This melted my face and blew my mind. I didn't know there was a games workshop 40k live action short film
"regiments of space marines"
Heresy.
Blood for the blood God.
skulls for the skull throne!
Said Dumbledore calmly
@@loowick4074 classic
Sheet looks almost as good as the sheet in 2023!
This is honestly awesome, even for today
Loved it - unusual though to see Khornate marines using magic to teleport around though.
Fun fact: the reason this film was filmed mostly in black and white is because GW only gave permission to use paint from the official store, safe to say no one is that rich
1996 - pretty well done tbh. If GW did a real Hollywood level movie it could have a good chance of a success.
Wow. I had no idea. Praise the Omnisiah and the blessed algorithm, for bringing me this nineties masterpiece.
29:27 I can't help but laugh at how happy that Ork must be to be shooting around with a real space mehreen dakka
It got some of that Lynch's Dune feel to the aesthetics.
THIS WAS MADE 8 YEARS AGO??? Insane. Instant subscription
No, it was uploaded 8 years ago, but it was made 28 years ago
Really well done! It's so cold and i gave me chills.
2023 .....et notre foi est toujours intacte !! Pour l'empereur !!!
Seen this in golden Daemon 96 and it blew my mind!
Woah! Definetly have to watch this when i get home!!!
Stanley Kubrick: “Who knows Ian. Maybe this is my next movie”
This is so delightfully 1996
For the algorithm!
WarHammer wasn’t even 10 years old when this dropped
This is the way 40K shows should look.
having watched most of the disappointing warhammer+ content, i can clearly say, this is how its done,
Even for a short film, its a good solid story, suspense, characterdev., dialogues, well done,
just imagine they d been given a bigger budget
Even though this is 90's, it looks like an AI movie imagining 40k with an 80's aesthetic.
Considering the age, its actually pretty good, some of the masks were a bit funny, but over all pretty enjoyable! Funny Ive been a fan since the mid 1990's and never saw this.
This is awesome. These characters are cool.
The orcs from the final trailer look like they could be in one of Gwar lineups.
The Astropath is fucking awesome
pure kino, absolute SOUL
a solid 8/10.
Would of been a full 10/10 in colour
Bits of this were re-used in the cutscenes for Final Liberation.
I didn't know this existed before this afternoon... many jokes were made. If anyone's curious line of the day went to the flgs owner with "ENUCIATE DAMN YOU!" whenever the khorne berzerker was speaking. All in all not that bad very of its time though.
enuciate lmao
I gotta make captions for this- very very very cool
I wonder how many skulls and gallons of blood khorne got in return for those wallhacks.
They should have put this on Warhammer+
They shoulda put this between aqua teen hunger force and metalocalypse.
as Tom Baker once
eloquently said.
It is the 41st millennium
and there is only war...
We now have a company of likes and more
I miss 1996
this is pure gold, where can one find more ?
Watch Astartes Full version all 5 parts. The best Warhammer video there is.
I would like to see more
Blood for the blood god 🩸🪓16:12
The CSM said calmly
There's a camp brilliance to this that the die hard CG fan films miss. They lean too far into the grimness and miss how ridiculous it all is aand should be
@AdolfHitler-wo1my You're exactly why the fandom sucks. Remove the silliness and it's too poe-faced you can't have that much posturing latin, cathedral ships, Orks and big mighty uscled super chad men without the silly. Without the silly it's just stupid
use 144p for best experence
Is it offocial short? For what purpose was it made? Are there more official shorts? Are there subtitles for it?
...SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's old, poor quality, Marines are a tad short, but I feel the Emperor's spirit.
Only one question why is the space marine at the start looking up to the admiral, Astartes are meant to be much taller than normal man
Classic video! Like!
OMG, hilarious stuff.
This is looking quite good for the time but the captin wouldnt of spoken to an inquisitor like that.
Ha ha deadly.. I could watch hours of this.
So cool
Sooo can someone please tell me what that giant demon looking head was that was closer to the very end was that khorne or one of his demons
That would be a Juggernaught of Khorne.
Looks like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Wow… Not bad at all.
I was expecting to laugh most the time. But this was solid for the time.
At 8:30 I thought for sure it was going to be an old school knee slapper.. But he looked pretty decent actually.