Quang Nguyen Trung GW is working on a movie though! Hopefully they’ll pick up both of them, I mean they hired the guy who did Helsreach. Only time will tell!
Mike You had me at "hold my baby" fuck that mad me laugh for a bit. the Blessings of Nurgle touched that mother and her baby.... so much more to come :D
It's absolutely beautiful, and the battle scars on them as well...The guy who clearly hasn't washed the last massacre off of his armour is terrifying, especially with those tiny, human sized bloody handprints...and the body horror is so masterfully done as well. and the way he has done the character design...Showing us their faces in such obscured ways that we can still see exactly who they are, without any fear of it possibly falling into the uncanny valley...It's top tier, S Class designing!
can we take a moment to appreciate that you took a moment to appreciate to take a moment to apprecitate that you took a omomoent to aprepciate thatt you took a momnent to appreciate?
Psychopaths don't believe that they've done anything wrong. A person that disfigured by the warp should have ended their lives long before. Now she is tainted, knows it, knows the threat she is to everyone around her, yet still believes she isn't the one cursed. Her love for the child outweighs her love for the Emperor, with whom she only calls out to in order to save the baby, knowing full well that the abomination should have been smothered and cleansed in fire when it was birthed. She would forsake the Emperor the moment she found someone or something that would give her hope to save the child.
@@brainplay8060 The Horrifying thing is that you are right. Death would be a gift and a loving mercy to such warp tainted beings. I weep for the mother and her child but they are corrupted and must be absolved through cleansing fire. Only through that will their tainted souls be granted the Emperors mercy.
@@brainplay8060 explain how you have diagnosed Psychopathy based on appearance alone? Also care to explain the hypocrisy in such diagnosis as you have said a psychopath does not veiw their wrongs as such yet this woman not only acknowledges that she is forsaken but if she is a psychopath she could not reach the conclusion she is forsaken as it would be acknowledgment that she is wrong. Furthermore in the whole how is the woman the psychopath you use as example when you have literal Wordbearers and World Eaters on this warship?
The most terrifying part for this was when one of the cultists looked out a window and into the warp. There are demons and warp entities crawling all over the hull of the ship. It's like they're in a submarine diving into the depths of an ocean inside hell.
Yeah that got me too, but it's also what sucked me in. That's exactly how lore describes the warp. Bad, BAD shit. And in this case there's a truce of sorts, imagine if this were a loyalist ship with no Gellar field, and no protection from the "gods" GW needs to step back from taming and humanizing it. The Immaterium is populated and ruled by malevolent, near-unknowable entities and their servants existing beyond any conception of natural law or order. _This_ is what it's like
@@jakeg3733 Even Chaos/Traitor ships use Gellar fields, and it's heavily implied that deeper into the Warp, there are beings even older and more powerful than the Chaos "Gods".
@@TheOrdomalleus666 Teleportation technology is very iffy stuff, never guaranteed to end up in the right place and that's assuming you're targeting a STABLE area. They tried teleporting onto a moving ship... I'd be surprised if it *didn't* end horribly.
"I'm no animator and I absolutely HATE doing it", and YET this is 1000x better than the film production studio made Ultramarines movie. This is amazing!
A testament to Mark's devotion, but also shows how far computers have come in the last decade or so that this level of work can now be achieved by one person in his bedroom!
@@choromancer7045 Animation is alright. From a professional standpoint its jittery and lacks refinement; obviously lots of mocap used. In my opinion the animation is the only thing worthy of serious critique.
Shame Astartes came out and blew this out the water. The tech is moving so fast that by time something is completed somebody else is doing it much better.
@@blakebrouwer3266 not with this one. Just like SODAZ this guy quit because "fans" said they didn't like this or that about the project and he, somewhat rightfully, said he didn't have to make anything for ungrateful fucks so he stopped
@@blakebrouwer3266 yeah, he had already dodged the bullet of GW's IP shenanigans but instead got hit with this "doesn't being good because it doesn't look like Astartes" I know the Astartes guy did an awesome thing but not everything is meant to be the same, apparently there were some that thought differently.
*1. corpses on the outside of the ship are stuck there due to astartes magboots, giving a glimpse of the previous boarding assault fight on the hull.* *2. marines in floors and walls are due to either a blind, rushed, or warp interferenced teleport assault attempt.* -both of these make it seems like the fight was a last ditch effort assault just so they could potentially get a few men on board to sabotage or to break out and warn the next planet where ever they exit the warp from. *3. blipping demons, old school bloodletter, and mutated mother/child are because there is no gellar field on while they're warp traveling (makes sense given they're wordbearers)* *4. dark mechanicus guy says there's an intruder messing around with the ship: either a surviving ultramarine or maybe that nightlord astartes perched over the pit (could be loyalist).* -more than likely the first since the guy in the cell asks the ultramarine if he's recovered after he finds out they're close to the next planet/about to exit warp, as if ready to spring their own plan. *5. torso ultramarine over pit is probably the captured captain from part 2 that welcomed wordbearers onto planet; now being forced to watch his captured brothers fight/die in the pit.* -he has his imperial laurel nailed to his head, probably in mockery , and the ultramarine in the pit is wearing his while fighting with two "Macragge" ultramarine signature axes *6. normal guy in cell is probably a captured ultramarine initiate based on his shoulder armor and dialogue with the world eater; "aspire to become one with the 13th legion".* - also says he doesn't need to be modified to go toe to toe with the world eater, referring to either the gene seed needed to become an astartes or the butchers nails. *7. same guy recognizes the ultramarine walking with the wordbearers and is in disbelief; astarte in next cell tells him its a wordbearer that's just wearing his armor; "a lie".* -at the end, you can see both the imprisoned astartes armor being worn by the wordbears and Nakal, as shells that they will "march onto the streets of neighboring worlds" MK1 Terminator and gal vorbak were a great touch as well. Phenomenal animation: liked and subscribed.
6. "Normal guy in the cell" just an auxiliary mortal soldier of Ultramar. Guilliman made an army for 500 worlds, and most of it was just mortal soldiers and tankers. Not only Astartes defend Ultramar.
@Imperial Judesmen138 while watching this for some reason the hairs on the back of the head started to tingle and i felt an urge of PURGING all the way damn.
The reason heretics are turning worlds to Chaos is that people living on Imperium worlds are poor, miserable and believe they have nothing to lose. They are wrong, of course, they will lose their bodies and souls, but they are not very imaginative...
I really love that you don't shy away from the more gruesome aspects of 40k. I feel like you're the only animator that could get the Dark Eldar down right
@CanadianDoomer and yet both Slaanesh and the Dark eldar are toned down in media. Which sucks cause I like dark things to balance put the factions like the Space Wolves and other more nobler factions
I like seeing the Mechanicus. I always wondered what they looked like besides videogames. Look metal as hell. I could never imagine completely modifying myself to be barely human. Guess living forever is a good perk though.
200% more what I picture the 40k setting looks like over what has generally been being put out these days. What an incredible fan project. I'd love to see more.
I watched this again 3 years later and I think the amount of effort that went into this should not be underscored. Someone was trying to share their vision of something. I appreciate it.
@@adrianpomarancza4348 Nah, a couple witches linked to the Astropath chairs will do the trick too. And since this is 30k, all the daemons know not to fuck with the traitor marines unless they want to get their ass whooped by their patron gods.
Dude as a 30k Word Bearer player, I watch these every chance i can get...they help motivate me to paint and enjoy the hobby. How you animated them, voiced them, is exactly how I imagined them when hearing/reading their lore. Regardless what anyone says, these are the most hardcore and badass videos I've watched. The perfect amount of grimdark....just wonderful...an artist is supposed to project their vision, the viewer is suppose to stand in awe of the creativity. I stand in awe of the art and dedication for these animations...I do wish you'd continue making them....but this is your creation. I wish GW would realise its thanks to the creative minds like yours that created free marketing for them instead of what they're doing now. Anyway, dude, you're the best. I'd be happy if you do a word bearers movie for just me lol. If i had unlimited money, i'd hire you to animate just for me Word bearer lore....sadly.....i'm a broke blue collar man...
They got a, relatively speaking, minor scolding. A finger wagging. A slap on the wrist. A bit of an ego nipple twister. What did they do? Turn to Chaos. They have the least amount of "good reason" to turn, yet they are the most awful of all the legions that turned to Chaos. I simply find it extremely difficult to ever sympathize with them as a legion. They have the weakest minded, willed and even physically speaking Primarch. Ultramarines did nothing wrong. If anything they didn't do a thorough enough job.
@@Catonzo Word Bearers are the most important legion in the Heresy, they were the first traitors, they (Lorgar, Erebus, Kor Phaeron etc.) started it all! And they really have some depth ..
Hello from the Warhammer fan from Russia. It is absolutely stunning. What I especially appreciate is the way you managed to show the Chaos, its true horrifying nature. The problem about books or "encyclopedia-type" videos is that none of them could give the real undestanding of all those hellish horrors that hide behind this word, "Chaos". You absolutely DID IT. All this hopeless atmosphere and whole material feed give an opportunity to feel like I am right there, on that ship, and that feeling creeps me out. Great job done on details, every single rust stain is alive and the darkness of that world is seen in every minute. I hope I made myself clear to understand, thank you so much! Hoping to see the complete story.
Все верно, атмосфера передана отлична и "Хаос", как таковой, вызывает закономерное отторжение у психически здорового человека. К фильму в общем нет претензий, кроме того, что все космодесы в нем и в трейлерах ворочали шлемами, тогда как известно, что в начале Ереси далеко не везде имелись доспехи Мк.4.
How can anyone hate this? Even I don't play 40k see this as an amazing work of art. Truly GRIM and DARK as the people of 40k like to say. Good luck to the rest of your endeavors. You 100% have talent!
@@Victor-mk5kg that baby and mother scene was vile and disguisting. I understand why the Imperium hate mutant so much! Although yeah it shouldn’t mean people hate 40k.
Astartes, Helsreach, Death of Hope... Animators in this community have stepped their game up so high that I honestly doubt GW can even catch up. Look at this, that mother scene and the ritual going about nearby her alone was more brutal and grimdark than half of this setting. Demons from warp flickering in and out, Hereteks roaming about, Marines that actually look as scary as they are supposed to be, good representation of the animosity people have against each other in the setting, and for once Chaos is actually the ultra fucked up universal terror it is rather than a Saturday night cartoon villain. Thank you, this 20 minute glimpse into the grimdark represents how it is supposed to be far better than it's creator does.
I loved the fact that chaos is not only depicted as the horror it actually is... But not fascinatingly either. Is THE chaos,the pure, anedultoreted evil that broke the spine of the Dream the Imperium was supposed to mean.
it would be great to platform his work on your channel, Luetin; your reach and overall quality of work, would go a long way in getting Mark some recognition for his work and give him some exposure. That's one side of it, the other being that I (and many others, I'm sure) would very much enjoy your reaction to it and having you dissect and analyze it.
@@tylerghersinich576 the sword is off, as is the lower body. it seems too clean to be a plaguebearer, too springy and fat to be a bloodletter, too angry and skull looking to be a pink horror, and too modest to be a daemon of slaanesh. it might be a bloodletter, but he do be lookin kinda thicc doe
How GW saw this and didnt immediately say "this guy, this guy has more heart and talent than the entire production department at Warhammer TV, hire him and give him what he needs to make a full production immediately" is beyond me.
6:15 You know that you've got the most dedicated, most nerdgasmic fan of old-school 40K when you see a Saturnine Tactical Dreadnought armour brought to life... My heart is racing, I'm close to tears. Thank you.
What so cool about it is his will as well. A normie would be utterly become insane, but he's hanging there all pissed off at the traitors. He'd still fight them if he could. Horrifically inspiring!
In a video filled with unbelievably talented voice actors, the one who does the “Guilliman lies” speech at the beginning is my favorite. The voice acting and soundscape is one of the best parts of this series
Thanks for a glimpse into a place that I hope never happens lol. Myself having a wiki-level amount of knowledge of warhammer, this really illustrates that absolute horror of life in it's universe. And that baby scene... ugh... Almost as heartbreaking as that scene in Mother! From the bottom of my heart, bravo and fuck that!
I have to comment again because I just found out that this series was cancelled. I understand how the weight of negativity and comparisons brought you so far down. I hope someday that you feel well enough to pick this back up because it is truly a work of art. I bet the comparisons to Astartes left a bitter taste in your mouth but I have to add just one more that I hope you read as a positive take. Astartes is a demonstration of ruthless efficiency- soldiers seeing their mission through to the end. Death of Hope is a snapshot of the soul-crushing reality that these people live in. Both are deep dives into lore and are obvious passion projects made with incredible amounts of love for the game(?) I love that the approaches are so different and it sets an astonishingly high bar for anything that follows. I haven't watched part 2 yet but I already know that I'm going to be entertained, scared, impressed, and then sad that there isn't a 3rd in the trilogy. Thanks for doing this
I find it funny that the whole twitchy monster thing comes from Jacob's Ladder, which was a major inspiration for Silent Hill 3. A lot of the visual shorthand in this film was nicked off other pop culture influences.
@Zoomer Waffen Cope my dude. You do realize the film isn't canon, right? I don't think it's bad for the film to take inspiration from other sources. Hell, there barely is even a canon in 40K anymore because it's been changed so much over the years. 40K started out as a giant meme fest of British cultural references. No, no, the Orks aren't soccer hooligans and the Arbites totally aren't Dredd knock-offs. You're taking the franchise way more seriously than it needs to be.
Dude. OK, I know you may not see this, but I have to congratulate you here. This is fucking incredible. This entire video oozes grimdark. The Warp and the Ruinstorm are fucked up beyond fucked up, as it should be. The scene with the mother, JESUS CHRIST! This absolutely encapsulates the horror of Chaos and the terror of the Heresy. The models are fantastically detailed, and while I have a personal complaint about the "Saturnine" Armor appearance, it's not a big enough complaint for me to really care. Each Space Marine is absolutely imposing, and their often still-living corpses are nightmare-inducing. This is an incredible fan film. It may only be the one, maybe two parts, but this is an awesome taste of the Horus Heresy.
"Brother! There's Ultramarines roaming freely on board." "Describe his armour, brother." "Uhh. Ultramarine mohawk with studs on right shoulder?" "Actually, brother, I think that's Brother Tal from our Legion." "What about the one with lightening marks on his chest?" "I think he's also one of ours?" "Make them wear name tapes. I almost tore his head off."
“In the grim darkness of the far future there is only the Death of Hope.” Mark, this is a truly stunning piece of art you have lovingly crafted here. Your tireless adherence to exquisite detail and in-universe authenticity is without peer and sets a new bar of animated story telling in the universe of the Horus Heresy and wider Warhammer 40,000. Never before have I seen these stories and art brought to life with such power and utterly uncompromising and brilliant clarity. Your Astartes and Mechanicum are how I imagine them in the minds of the Black Library authors and of course, the late great Alan Bligh. The depictions of the neverborn daemons are inspired and connect to the deepest, darkest lore of 40K and took me vividly back to the Realm of Chaos books Slaves to Darkness and Lost And The Damned. I offer my heartfelt appreciation and most admiring compliments to you and those who contributed towards the incredible creation the is “Death of Hope”. It is a grimdark masterpiece! A final personal note. I cannot find the words right now to express how completely overwhelmed and honoured I am to see you mention my humble content in your dedication. Imagination is perhaps the greatest of gifts to give and to see you say so is a moment I will always treasure and remember. Thank you Mark.
That was beautiful. And well deserved, the honour and respect that travelled in both directions between the two of you. You are both paragons of the Horus Heresy fan world, and as creators of original content yourselves, have both contributed immeasurably to my own personal enjoyment of it- and I’m also honoured to have corresponded with both of you, however briefly, through your channels. As high as the regard is in which I hold the both of you, I’m always blown away by how down to earth and accessible you guys are. It speaks to your character, mainly- that you’re both willing to share thoughts and ideas with those of us who are not as talented or knowledgeable as you guys, but love the grimdark, amazing world that Bligh and company have given to us to enjoy, with the same devotion and passion. This was an amazing piece of work, and something that I’ll watch countless times (as I did with the prologue) until part 2 premieres. I have been waiting for this for so long, but I have to say, that it was more than worth the wait. Just incredible, Mark. And I got such a great feeling when I saw that dedication at the end, and recognized the banner and models before even hearing Leaky’s voice- I just thought- how incredibly appropriate, and fitting. Anyway- thanks for all of the thousands of hours of work that obviously went into the production of what Leakycheese rightly named a “masterpiece.” This is a one of a kind - and will have a place of honour in the lore and works of the Heresy that we all know and love.
This is insane. One of the greatest Warhammer videos I've ever seen. How is it the Warhammer community has this much talent and dedication! It's truly inspiring! Thank you to everyone involved for your hard work !
2024 here again. This still is the top of the top showing how grim, how dark, this universe is. Other fan made pieces may be more incredibly polished, this is the real feel.
@@JiGCop her closeness to the chuld, and it to her, according to the author. Memories of being connected in the womb, perhaps? Either way the warp manifested those feelings.
Whats so amazing about this is how the creator has made marines into being actually really f**king scary. Even the ultramarines look scary. It really captures this sense in the books of transhuman dread. That these beings are so ascended beyond a normal human, that people are like insects. There is many comparisons I read between this and astartes. I like everyone else enjoy astartes, its very polished. But Death of Hope OOZES atmosphere, the world it creates is such an authentic representation of the grim wh world. Normally I dont like too much deviation from 'normal' space marine appearance. But the detail in DoH, its really awe inspiring. I love the art so much, but something worries me, surely only one touched by the warp could produce such dire majesty. Summon the Inquisition!
This is an excellent point. This does at least attempt to convey transhuman terror and an uncartoonish grim dark asthetic. Makes one realise how watered down the supposed grim dark is by comparison.
Most of the the canon media doesn’t quite grasp that lore-correct Space Marines are so heavily engineered that they’re barely human anymore. This guy gets it.
@@MrCSP24 best and weirdest part I find is that their rib cage is like a carapace instead of ribs and covers most of their torso (under the skin) as well as all their blood is slightly corrosive.
Been a long time fan of this project. When frends, family and coworkers ask if Im into horror, I tell them Im more into Grimdark and Cosmic Horror. Not the trifling, popular things they are exposed to. A few of them I have shown this animation as to non-verbally explain what I mean, and they all shudder at the knowledge as to why I think their interests in "horror" is mundane. My mind, and the minds of those who are fans of this universe we call Warhammer are on a whole other level than mainstream "horror". And I remind them of that fact every time they want to watch some Hollywood bs with me.
I don't think anyone has acknowledged the scene with the girl and her baby being the same girl and baby that ran past the ultra marines in death of hope trailer 2, this is what chaos did to her when they took her prisoner and that little continuance and detail is what really makes these videos so special mark.
The mother and baby was what really stuck with me. Man it really shows just how fucked up the warp is and you wonder the reason for what sick twisted reason they are keeping her on the ship mutating like that. Absolutely brilliant.
This! In the official clips, like the 10th edition or Horus Heresy trailers, the Marines look like overgrown toy soldiers. Here they look and feel gigantic, heavy, truly menacing and terrifying. Absolutely fantastic!
Mark, thank you for all the time and effort you've put towards this project over the years, you're a legend, mate, the community needs people like you who make this awesome content, thank you!
Chapter Master Valrak, the Emperor of Mankind personally *DEMANDS* you to make a comprehensive review on this short movie. It's best for you and your chapter to obey such a honorable request from our most glorious Master of Mankind. =][=The Emperor protects.=][=
"The titanic labor you're about to 'see' was 3D modeled,animated, written, directed, drawn, created by one MARK LOUIS SPARK" in any other video this would be seen as boastful egotistical and inappropriate. In this video it's an understatement. Well done and I can't wait for more!
usually ppl say that shit when they don't do 5% of what they claim they did; he did it all and then some so he has a right to boast as much as he fucking wants to!
Because nu-Warhammer under the current GW wants to make everything heroic and noblebright again, and that gives out a certain perception to newcomers. Also are the newcomers demanding for more brightness and hope.
To be fair there needs to be a rise before there can be a fall, that's tragedy 101. 40k wouldn't be tragic without the highs of the Dark Age of Technology, and basically everything that happened while the Emperor wasn't stuck on his throne. I can understand why narratively, they would want a rise again before another fall. It just needs to not be contrived
@Tharr Mortus Thousand Sonds is one of my favorite HH books at all, because despite been the ol'self-fulfilled-prophecy with the classic tragic twist. you can still relate to everything that happens, specially if you are a person who consider knowledge one of the most relevant and important traits. Without spoiling you how the novel ends, I would consider that "Thousand Sonds" won't be the moment that Magnus fall, rather I would say it´s just one more stepping stone. Nowadays I'm in Mark of Calth. This quarantine has helped me read at least 10 books in a few months. You won't regret it.
When I first watched Event Horizon, I thought: "I wish these fellows made a proper Warhammer film", until watched what you made. If you ask me, despite the old vs new debate, we live in an age where amazing talented people like you can finally gives us a vision of the grim darkness of the far future, and I'm thankful for that.
Yeah, when I say "for the fans of true grimdark" It's stating its for a specific target within the fanbase who've been for the most part neglected. Anyone can be a fan, and if you liked this then you are as much of a grim dark fan as the old! Im not saying every fan from back in the day liked this stuff, but there are a handful that did :) It's also nice to show new fans what we liekd and invite them into a different flavor. If I wanted to be a complete ass, i would have said for the true fans of warhammer, which as i said am fully aware its not every true warhammer fans flavor. Im glad u enjoyed!
@@marklouisspark do you have like a tip jar that isn't patreon for the simples of im on a budget on i heard patreon takes a cut so any chance you got a different jar ?
@@marklouisspark I discovered the Warhammer universe around the third edition. I managed to buy a few marines, but back then I couldn't dive into the hobby until recently, as an adult with spare time and money, but still I followed the lore, read the books, specially HH and the Eisenhorn collection. What you're doing here is simply brilliant, it's a vision of the Warp and what it means to every single living being of the galaxy that no one had the courage to realize before ( as audiovisual product). Every time I read the Uriel Ventris saga -into what we can call hell- I think "this is the grimdarkness that we deserve". I'm glad we have all the books to back us up, glorious miniature and the amazing work that the fans are producing, this includes you, the project Astartes and the project Hellsreach. Keep up with the amazing work!
Amazing job in every aspect. I loved the detail throughout, especially in the armors. Did a great job making the marines actually look, sound, and feel terrifying.
With "Death of Hope" and the "Astartes" videos, the bar has been set pretty high for GW's official CGI series. Your work here is beautiful, you managed to make the immaterium unnerving and I love the unique apparitions rather than just the cliche daemons.
Guys, there are other 40k animations that are nice, especially Astartes, but this one... Damn, here we find the madness of encapsulated heresy, the violence and horror of the warp spread throughout the material universe, in such an unhealthy way... it's perfect. Visually as well as in the atmosphere, it's exactly as I saw Horus' Heresy... Mark, you point out that the animations are perfectible, ok, but the amount of work you had to put in to get this result transpires..., the details of the environments, the armors, the characters, damn it's huge! Get some rest man, because you deserve it, you've just delivered the best visual representation of Horus' Heresy (and even 40k I dare say) we've ever seen. Thank you, and Bravo.
this is the peak of what every 40k serieres/movie has to strife for. Truly a masterpiece, in picture, immersion and so much more. I would sacrifice my entire sector for the emporer to get more of THIS. I bow before you Mark, you genius
Holy hell, man! This project is absolutely unbelievable! The atmosphere is just entirely perfect, 100% on point. Just exceptional work here, I'm blown away. That exo-armor! Those wierd daemons! The Dark Mech looking all bizarre! All of the layers & details on the Marine armor that are all still recognizable marks & models! The wild uniforms & gear on the baseline humans! The strange bone biomech Eldar! Just... Grim-dark perfection. Going to watch it five more times then start building some Dark Angel Legionnaires...
Two scenes that stuck on me, first the cultist /daemon glitching and teleporting when the Word Bearers passed by. It really captures that warp fuckery shenanigan's from what the lore said. Second, the woman and her dead baby. What really sells is that she's desperately screaming at her child calling it a bastard knowing her descent to madness. Quite bleak and hopeless for her, I mean that's what grimdark is right??
@@arismafiamafiaiskandar5145 That's exactly what stayed on my mind as well. Just the presence of the Daemons on the ship was... intimidating and then again not.
@@khorneberserker It reminds me, how the Word Bearers and world eaters are completely fine knowing that the warp can effect someone minds. I guess they got the blessing from the chaos gods right?? While the woman and her child are infected.
@@arismafiamafiaiskandar5145 That with the side note that the Word Bearers and World Eaters just gave in to their urges (Religeous zeal and bloodlust). They are Chaos as the Ultimate freedom. The woman didn't even realise she was mutating (which according to the Word Bearers, for whom Daemonhood is the greatest achievement, is a blessing). But her cries at the end show that she has begun her descent into madness.
This love for a universe I have so few outlets to experience it makes me sad. But for these 20 minutes I got to suspend it all and be immersed. Genuinely incredible work. Thank you for your effort and I'm sorry GW has made it so we don't get another episode. Maybe one day they will see you and this for what's it's worth and fund it. Good luck Mark, I will watch anything you create in future.
The atmosphere, the voices, the art style, the animation *EVERYTHING* is on point. Man-Emperor bless the Warhammer 40k fanbase, especially to you and your team, Mark.
@@MizantropMan I'm talking about how the warp and its brutality is portrayed here, not the actual animation or anything. But yeah Astartes has much better animation
Inglief Hronjrsson agree Mark has managed to capture the hopelessness and true horror of chaos in a way nothing has before Astartes is cool but this is an expression of emotion
I cant believe how ALL of this is made by ONE person. This looks like actual movie quality. Extremely well made. Normally I'm not a huge fan of warhammer overall or this time period but this is just amazing.
wow dude this was one of the coolest things ever. I felt like I could see the Emperors dream dying in front of me with how twisted the Traitor space marine's had become. And the Lovecraftian elements to how a Word Bearers ship is a totally messed up place where the warp bleeds through was done perfectly. This is so loyal to the Horus Heresy Books it is amazing, I always knew the Word Bearers were messed up and their ships were nasty but holy god-Emperor! this is what 30k/40k should be, grimdark to the core. This was awesome!!
This was amazing... I'm really speachless... the atmosphere, the ambient... I really dig your representation of chaos, space marines and the world. That's exactly what I'd expect from warhammer world.
I'm a newcomer to The Horus Heresy novels and I'm completely blown away by them. I absolutely love it. These videos capture the uncompromising nature of Grimdarkness perfectly . The imagery will enhance my imagination immensely, as I read. Thank you so much for your work from a fellow fan.
Brilliant but i was a little confused at first and had to watch it a couple of times before I realised that the figures walking about in Ultramarine armour are wearing stolen gear.
@@jasonbridges4395 No at the end, this is real Ultramarines that are prisoners. They wait something to happen, like the alarm at the end (Probably something that the Eldar dude did). The false ultramarines is walking with two other traitors at the beginning, when u see the word bearers Terminator. Anyway I can't wait to deliver the 500 hundreds, death to the traitors brothers !
@@Matthieu_L i was surprised to see eldar there, I didnt know they were active in HH However I believe that eldar was killed by the Possessed? It seems the prisoners Eldar included were being used for gladitorial entertainment
@@jasonbridges4395 The Cabal did active involded themselves into the Horus Heresy , to make sure Horus (Chaos) wins but the other Eldar attacked them , on order of Farseer Ulthran
Yeah, it's like video game cutscenes (like fallout 1&2 scared me back when I was 7-8 years old at the time) from the 90s in terms of actual disturbance and suspense, only with so much more detail and quality
This remains my absolute favourite representation of the 40k universe. It perfectly captures how I imagine it after first being introduced through the old Rogue Trader era stories and artwork.
Absolutely fucking brutal, the best warhammer 30k ive ever seen and hasnt been matched. This legend of cg should be head of games workshops filmic content. This is insane.
This is everything I've wanted to see in regards of how chaos should be depicted in 40k. Ultimately evil, scary, and fucked up. You've given me so much hope for 40k with this man!
This is exactly how I imagined Horus Heresy! I love it. You made my dream come true, to see HH coming to live in such a glorious animation in an amazing grimdark style and omg all those old school Warhammer callbacks. Thank you so much. I hope positive feedback will encourage you to continue this project. This is Horus Heresy this is Warhammer!!!
this is the first 30k fan video i see and i already loved this part . this is true to the horus heresy and i enjoyed seeing all the 30k factions in their origenal suits . i really hope there will be much more like this ! thank you
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*“HE MADE THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!”*
_- Games Workshop CEO addressing creative team_
It baffled me how this guy and Astartes didn't get to make an official 40k movie
Excellent use of reference 👍
"I'm sorry sir...I'm not Louis Spark." -Matt Ward.
Indeed
Quang Nguyen Trung GW is working on a movie though! Hopefully they’ll pick up both of them, I mean they hired the guy who did Helsreach. Only time will tell!
Event Horizon: "I am grim dark."
Hellraiser: "No, I am grim dark."
DoH: "Hold my baby..."
Oof
@@sk00b72 Event Horizon is just a warhammer film set in M2 ;)
@@Keldow Shhhhhhhhhhh....
Mike You had me at "hold my baby" fuck that mad me laugh for a bit. the Blessings of Nurgle touched that mother and her baby.... so much more to come :D
@@thashadowspawn Nah I think it's warp exposure who have done that.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the design of the armor? It is so detailed and ornate. Like, damn!
Love the fusion of Baroque and High Technology in 40k!
It's absolutely beautiful, and the battle scars on them as well...The guy who clearly hasn't washed the last massacre off of his armour is terrifying, especially with those tiny, human sized bloody handprints...and the body horror is so masterfully done as well. and the way he has done the character design...Showing us their faces in such obscured ways that we can still see exactly who they are, without any fear of it possibly falling into the uncanny valley...It's top tier, S Class designing!
can we take a moment to appreciate that you took a moment to appreciate to take a moment to apprecitate that you took a omomoent to aprepciate thatt you took a momnent to appreciate?
Can we just stop the generic "Can we take.. appreciate etc." comments? 🙏 Just appreciate it!
@@flonkplonk1649 Who shit in your cornflakes?
A year later and he’s basically the last animator standing
What about the Astartes one?
@@cc1093 I’m pretty sure Astartes was the first one to bite the dust.
@@ivancolonna7520 The guy who made the astartes animation actually is working for games workshop now. Hence his channel became silent.
@@westerwald3923 I wonder of how he is doing? Was the money worth it? I hope that he doesn’t regret it.
@@ivancolonna7520 It's not like there was any real choice. It was work with GW or stop using their IP
And this children is why joining Chaos is *never* warranted.
Why? Looks like the Word Bearers and World Eaters are having a lot of fun... :-P
Maybe because they are in Warp
Garbage. It is. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
TEACH THE CHILDREN TO WORSHIP THE EMPEROR! !!!!
@@Alopex1 Yeee- *explodes into Chaos Spawn*
The fact that woman is so disfigured and still believes in the emperor is astounding
Lunarl Mune true loyalty
she should be recognized as a Saint by the ministorum someday, too bad nobody will ever know she even existed
Psychopaths don't believe that they've done anything wrong. A person that disfigured by the warp should have ended their lives long before. Now she is tainted, knows it, knows the threat she is to everyone around her, yet still believes she isn't the one cursed. Her love for the child outweighs her love for the Emperor, with whom she only calls out to in order to save the baby, knowing full well that the abomination should have been smothered and cleansed in fire when it was birthed. She would forsake the Emperor the moment she found someone or something that would give her hope to save the child.
@@brainplay8060 The Horrifying thing is that you are right. Death would be a gift and a loving mercy to such warp tainted beings. I weep for the mother and her child but they are corrupted and must be absolved through cleansing fire. Only through that will their tainted souls be granted the Emperors mercy.
@@brainplay8060 explain how you have diagnosed Psychopathy based on appearance alone? Also care to explain the hypocrisy in such diagnosis as you have said a psychopath does not veiw their wrongs as such yet this woman not only acknowledges that she is forsaken but if she is a psychopath she could not reach the conclusion she is forsaken as it would be acknowledgment that she is wrong.
Furthermore in the whole how is the woman the psychopath you use as example when you have literal Wordbearers and World Eaters on this warship?
The most terrifying part for this was when one of the cultists looked out a window and into the warp. There are demons and warp entities crawling all over the hull of the ship. It's like they're in a submarine diving into the depths of an ocean inside hell.
What time?
And what are those little cubes with tentacles. Creepy.
@@terryjackson4531 warp entities
Yeah that got me too, but it's also what sucked me in. That's exactly how lore describes the warp. Bad, BAD shit. And in this case there's a truce of sorts, imagine if this were a loyalist ship with no Gellar field, and no protection from the "gods"
GW needs to step back from taming and humanizing it. The Immaterium is populated and ruled by malevolent, near-unknowable entities and their servants existing beyond any conception of natural law or order. _This_ is what it's like
@@jakeg3733 Even Chaos/Traitor ships use Gellar fields, and it's heavily implied that deeper into the Warp, there are beings even older and more powerful than the Chaos "Gods".
Seeing the bodies fused with the hull of the ship is so fuckin creepy, and I love it.
Teleport assault gone very, very wrong. Looks like an entire squad missed the zone.
@@TheOrdomalleus666 Teleportation technology is very iffy stuff, never guaranteed to end up in the right place and that's assuming you're targeting a STABLE area. They tried teleporting onto a moving ship... I'd be surprised if it *didn't* end horribly.
@@TheOrdomalleus666 Or possible the effects of the warp over time?
The mother and baby were worse. Thanks for the nightmares, man.
@EPHRAIM ABNER Ok
"I breathe. It will be enough."
It's literally "Tis' but a scratch" but ten times more badass
Loved recording that line. Was a blast
Paul
"I'm no animator and I absolutely HATE doing it", and YET this is 1000x better than the film production studio made Ultramarines movie. This is amazing!
A testament to Mark's devotion, but also shows how far computers have come in the last decade or so that this level of work can now be achieved by one person in his bedroom!
@@choromancer7045 Animation is alright. From a professional standpoint its jittery and lacks refinement; obviously lots of mocap used. In my opinion the animation is the only thing worthy of serious critique.
@@chosenrubric7308 I think some of it is jittery on purpose, like the demons
@@astuteanansi4935 Sure, but it also looks off in places it shouldn't. I could break down specific examples if you want me to.
Shame Astartes came out and blew this out the water. The tech is moving so fast that by time something is completed somebody else is doing it much better.
For this project to have been ALLOWED to be cancelled, is a goddamn crime.
When you say "canceled", are you refering to cancel culture or Games Workshop systematically destroying fan made content over IP rights?
@@AcidPhos69 the latter, GW, Sparks seems to have discontinued it in fear of losing it.
@@blakebrouwer3266 not with this one. Just like SODAZ this guy quit because "fans" said they didn't like this or that about the project and he, somewhat rightfully, said he didn't have to make anything for ungrateful fucks so he stopped
@@miguelortiz3836 it's just a fuckin' shame! His work is beautiful! What, fans whining over different aesthetics?
@@blakebrouwer3266 yeah, he had already dodged the bullet of GW's IP shenanigans but instead got hit with this "doesn't being good because it doesn't look like Astartes"
I know the Astartes guy did an awesome thing but not everything is meant to be the same, apparently there were some that thought differently.
*1. corpses on the outside of the ship are stuck there due to astartes magboots, giving a glimpse of the previous boarding assault fight on the hull.*
*2. marines in floors and walls are due to either a blind, rushed, or warp interferenced teleport assault attempt.*
-both of these make it seems like the fight was a last ditch effort assault just so they could potentially get a few men on board to sabotage or to break out and warn the next planet where ever they exit the warp from.
*3. blipping demons, old school bloodletter, and mutated mother/child are because there is no gellar field on while they're warp traveling (makes sense given they're wordbearers)*
*4. dark mechanicus guy says there's an intruder messing around with the ship: either a surviving ultramarine or maybe that nightlord astartes perched over the pit (could be loyalist).*
-more than likely the first since the guy in the cell asks the ultramarine if he's recovered after he finds out they're close to the next planet/about to exit warp, as if ready to spring their own plan.
*5. torso ultramarine over pit is probably the captured captain from part 2 that welcomed wordbearers onto planet; now being forced to watch his captured brothers fight/die in the pit.*
-he has his imperial laurel nailed to his head, probably in mockery , and the ultramarine in the pit is wearing his while fighting with two "Macragge" ultramarine signature axes
*6. normal guy in cell is probably a captured ultramarine initiate based on his shoulder armor and dialogue with the world eater; "aspire to become one with the 13th legion".*
- also says he doesn't need to be modified to go toe to toe with the world eater, referring to either the gene seed needed to become an astartes or the butchers nails.
*7. same guy recognizes the ultramarine walking with the wordbearers and is in disbelief; astarte in next cell tells him its a wordbearer that's just wearing his armor; "a lie".*
-at the end, you can see both the imprisoned astartes armor being worn by the wordbears and Nakal, as shells that they will "march onto the streets of neighboring worlds"
MK1 Terminator and gal vorbak were a great touch as well. Phenomenal animation: liked and subscribed.
Thanks for explaining bcuz I didn't understand what was going on. Now I have to watch it a 2nd time but this time with understanding.
6. "Normal guy in the cell" just an auxiliary mortal soldier of Ultramar. Guilliman made an army for 500 worlds, and most of it was just mortal soldiers and tankers. Not only Astartes defend Ultramar.
I wonder what chaos space marines look like under the armor.
1 minute later.
Take it back! Take it back!
His skin is just melting off with blood and pus everywhere
If you’re talking about the guys in the gladiator pit. The one with the lorals is a tortured Ultrasmurf.
Joe Appleby well even then they still should look like regular humans but chaos torture is a bitch.
Its probably to do with the fact that he's from the World Eaters, and always rushing in to melee range can be a bitch to do
@@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 chaos torture? You mean blessings.
Dear god I'm beginning to understand why Imperium has such a thorough purging policy.
@Imperial Judesmen138 while watching this for some reason the hairs on the back of the head started to tingle and i felt an urge of PURGING all the way damn.
The reason heretics are turning worlds to Chaos is that people living on Imperium worlds are poor, miserable and believe they have nothing to lose.
They are wrong, of course, they will lose their bodies and souls, but they are not very imaginative...
"Life in the 41st Millennium is hard." -Warhammer Adventure
@@CommissarDan what a fucking understatement, no wonder those books failed
The Imperium are the "bad guys" to people who've read only 2 minutes worth of WH40K lore.
After 3 minutes? "It all makes sense!"
And this is why you take care of Gellar Fields.
🌞🔁🌎
Pretty much.
Open your eyes and take in the majesty of the chaos gods...oh wait, I've gauged your eyes
I really love that you don't shy away from the more gruesome aspects of 40k. I feel like you're the only animator that could get the Dark Eldar down right
@CanadianDoomer and yet both Slaanesh and the Dark eldar are toned down in media. Which sucks cause I like dark things to balance put the factions like the Space Wolves and other more nobler factions
I think the dark eldar would be a step down in the gruesomeness.
@Eldor read the lore. The Hummoncalia are messed up af
@@Eldor-117 what ???! Or do you mean a step down into the abyss?
this isn't 40k, this is 30k, where it started.
"Have you recovered?"
"I breathe. It will be enough."
Doesn't get more Space Marine than this
Agreed. How to write dialogue for 8 foot tall killing machine.
*it was not enough*
Emperor protects!
Piotr Supiński thats also some spartan shit right there
@@danielstarczewski3827 Considering this is 30k. That is highly heretical.
The best depiction of Chaos in Warhammer Universe ever created.
I like seeing the Mechanicus. I always wondered what they looked like besides videogames. Look metal as hell. I could never imagine completely modifying myself to be barely human. Guess living forever is a good perk though.
Agreed 100%
Dan Abnett's Traitor General also paints a pretty good picture of what an absolute horror Chaos actually is.
200% more what I picture the 40k setting looks like over what has generally been being put out these days. What an incredible fan project. I'd love to see more.
This kind of detail for a full retelling of Gaunt's Ghosts- I'd die a happy man.
its set in 30K so the setting is a bit different than 40k era
But it’s not even set in the 41st millennium? It’s not 40K at all, nor should it reflect the imperium of 40k lol
I watched this again 3 years later and I think the amount of effort that went into this should not be underscored. Someone was trying to share their vision of something. I appreciate it.
Somebody should check Gellar fields, I don't think they're running properly.
i THINK THEY where destroyed and yeeted out the cargo bay doors
@@jasonmerton7007 Without gellar fields ship would be literally dissolved by warp. Traitor or not, you NEED gellar field.
@@adrianpomarancza4348 unless of course the chaos gods directly intervene for one reason or another cough deathguard cough
@@adrianpomarancza4348 Nah, a couple witches linked to the Astropath chairs will do the trick too.
And since this is 30k, all the daemons know not to fuck with the traitor marines unless they want to get their ass whooped by their patron gods.
Try turning them off and back on again.
T. Daemon.
Between this and Astartes. Life is good to be a warhammer fan.
What happend with Astartes, do you know? Will it continues?
yes it continues if you follow him on Twitter he is hard at work on part 5
@@benioniduthie6564 nice)))
Other franchises are crushing down one by one these days, but 40k seems to be on the rise.
@@RusskayaOikumena Part 5's just out now! It's leet!
If warhammer animators had 10% of this man’s dedication we would have entire series of warhammer shows to last the 40,000 years
Dude as a 30k Word Bearer player, I watch these every chance i can get...they help motivate me to paint and enjoy the hobby. How you animated them, voiced them, is exactly how I imagined them when hearing/reading their lore. Regardless what anyone says, these are the most hardcore and badass videos I've watched. The perfect amount of grimdark....just wonderful...an artist is supposed to project their vision, the viewer is suppose to stand in awe of the creativity. I stand in awe of the art and dedication for these animations...I do wish you'd continue making them....but this is your creation. I wish GW would realise its thanks to the creative minds like yours that created free marketing for them instead of what they're doing now. Anyway, dude, you're the best. I'd be happy if you do a word bearers movie for just me lol. If i had unlimited money, i'd hire you to animate just for me Word bearer lore....sadly.....i'm a broke blue collar man...
Nakal approves.
Funny, I watch this to remind me why I hate traitors and heretics
They got a, relatively speaking, minor scolding. A finger wagging. A slap on the wrist. A bit of an ego nipple twister. What did they do? Turn to Chaos. They have the least amount of "good reason" to turn, yet they are the most awful of all the legions that turned to Chaos. I simply find it extremely difficult to ever sympathize with them as a legion. They have the weakest minded, willed and even physically speaking Primarch.
Ultramarines did nothing wrong. If anything they didn't do a thorough enough job.
@@Catonzo Word Bearers are the most important legion in the Heresy, they were the first traitors, they (Lorgar, Erebus, Kor Phaeron etc.) started it all! And they really have some depth ..
This is what Warhammer supposed to look and feels. Horror and disturbing gothic space fantasy
*scifi
@@loscopihues2343 40k is Space Fantasy. Chaos Gods, Psyker, Religious and shiet
@@iloveanothermanswives4278 yeah what you said
Speaking of horror, why am I imagining this being the Lovecraftian version of Star Wars?
Jagen what about the Age of Sigmar?
Hello from the Warhammer fan from Russia. It is absolutely stunning. What I especially appreciate is the way you managed to show the Chaos, its true horrifying nature. The problem about books or "encyclopedia-type" videos is that none of them could give the real undestanding of all those hellish horrors that hide behind this word, "Chaos". You absolutely DID IT. All this hopeless atmosphere and whole material feed give an opportunity to feel like I am right there, on that ship, and that feeling creeps me out. Great job done on details, every single rust stain is alive and the darkness of that world is seen in every minute. I hope I made myself clear to understand, thank you so much! Hoping to see the complete story.
Все верно, атмосфера передана отлична и "Хаос", как таковой, вызывает закономерное отторжение у психически здорового человека. К фильму в общем нет претензий, кроме того, что все космодесы в нем и в трейлерах ворочали шлемами, тогда как известно, что в начале Ереси далеко не везде имелись доспехи Мк.4.
Greetings from the Spanish (Inquisition) community. Amazing job.
100% agreed with you. Same feelings. strange feelings. Amazing serie and I can't wait for the next episode
Прям все в точку!!!
well said
Love how the two humans walking with the group don't even need to be speaking English for us to understand the mood, gawd damn this is so good!
How can anyone hate this? Even I don't play 40k see this as an amazing work of art. Truly GRIM and DARK as the people of 40k like to say. Good luck to the rest of your endeavors. You 100% have talent!
Some of them just hate it cuz it was a grimdark... About the baby and mother scene
@@Victor-mk5kg that baby and mother scene was vile and disguisting. I understand why the Imperium hate mutant so much! Although yeah it shouldn’t mean people hate 40k.
Astartes, Helsreach, Death of Hope... Animators in this community have stepped their game up so high that I honestly doubt GW can even catch up.
Look at this, that mother scene and the ritual going about nearby her alone was more brutal and grimdark than half of this setting. Demons from warp flickering in and out, Hereteks roaming about, Marines that actually look as scary as they are supposed to be, good representation of the animosity people have against each other in the setting, and for once Chaos is actually the ultra fucked up universal terror it is rather than a Saturday night cartoon villain. Thank you, this 20 minute glimpse into the grimdark represents how it is supposed to be far better than it's creator does.
I think the guy who made Helsreach actually got picked up by GW so that's something.
@@AdeptKing Oh, I hope thats true. Shows they're not detached and I'd like to see what he comes up with on a good budget.
@@DefconLives Ah yes here it is. th-cam.com/video/aFiek1v2Ll4/w-d-xo.html
I loved the fact that chaos is not only depicted as the horror it actually is... But not fascinatingly either. Is THE chaos,the pure, anedultoreted evil that broke the spine of the Dream the Imperium was supposed to mean.
Lord Inquisitor is pretty good too.
The crying mother makes me realize the inquisition and its brutality may just be warrented in this universe.
@@pyerack and that saying something compared to their normal days
Chaos is really bad
They can go way overboard and aren’t always right but they do serve a vital purpose he showed that beautifully here
*Stares in I told you so*
The Imperium as a whole are the good guys. The Eldar and Tau can be ok too. And some Necrons are reasonable.
This guy caught the essence of WH40k to the point with this video
This is 30k.
People just don't get how dark and serious 40k really is, this guy gets it. Amazing.
Sir but this is the 30k
Same universe.@@119winters5
This isn’t even 40K tho bruh, the movie says “a hours heresy fan film”, it’s not 40K.
@@jackrusso4700 All of this is the 40K universe, easy on the autism.
Punts a Grot, picks up his fanciest hat and goes "AAARRR...*cough* i mean: WAAAGH!!!"
Fantastic stuff, cannot imagine the amount of work that went into such a production, but undoubtedly worth it
Oh wow i'm honored to have you in here man! :D I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@marklouisspark ah dont be silly, its an amazing piece of work. Look forward to the next whenever it comes along.
it would be great to platform his work on your channel, Luetin; your reach and overall quality of work, would go a long way in getting Mark some recognition for his work and give him some exposure. That's one side of it, the other being that I (and many others, I'm sure) would very much enjoy your reaction to it and having you dissect and analyze it.
Maybe he could animate in this style the Luetin Necropolis work you do? A lovely dark Daemon story with the Sisters of Battle?
@@marklouisspark Mark just a headsup, pinged you a message on Artstation
Sees the absolute savage barbarity of the World Eaters and their fighting pits brought to life in shockingly detailed fashion.
It's... beautiful... 😭😍
Khorne dog
Khorne dog
SentientVirus. exe there’s also a blood letter in the begin 5 minutes
@@tylerghersinich576 yo what, where. i didn't see it
SentientVirus. exe 4:10 to 4:15 make. I believe it looks like a bloodletter of khorne
@@tylerghersinich576 the sword is off, as is the lower body. it seems too clean to be a plaguebearer, too springy and fat to be a bloodletter, too angry and skull looking to be a pink horror, and too modest to be a daemon of slaanesh. it might be a bloodletter, but he do be lookin kinda thicc doe
How GW saw this and didnt immediately say "this guy, this guy has more heart and talent than the entire production department at Warhammer TV, hire him and give him what he needs to make a full production immediately" is beyond me.
Their cheap assholes, only worried about their profits. They honestly quit caring about us and the quality of the lore years ago. My thought, anyhow.
Good
If he was hired we woulnt be able to acess this and gw will murder the video
Like astartes
Didn't the animators of warhammer tv make do with what they could?
Man never have I thought that a day will come when I will feel anything for the Ultramarines... This is just brilliant
mourn what GW made him delete
6:15 You know that you've got the most dedicated, most nerdgasmic fan of old-school 40K when you see a Saturnine Tactical Dreadnought armour brought to life...
My heart is racing, I'm close to tears. Thank you.
still the best looking tactical dreadnought armor in my opinion
The marine pinned to the wall really sets the mood
BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE
What so cool about it is his will as well. A normie would be utterly become insane, but he's hanging there all pissed off at the traitors. He'd still fight them if he could. Horrifically inspiring!
@@therat3028 that's true, just imagine putting him in a dreadnaught and point it to the general direction of the traitors
@@le_druide3091 oh my god we need that edit
In a video filled with unbelievably talented voice actors, the one who does the “Guilliman lies” speech at the beginning is my favorite. The voice acting and soundscape is one of the best parts of this series
Thanks for a glimpse into a place that I hope never happens lol. Myself having a wiki-level amount of knowledge of warhammer, this really illustrates that absolute horror of life in it's universe. And that baby scene... ugh... Almost as heartbreaking as that scene in Mother!
From the bottom of my heart, bravo and fuck that!
I have to comment again because I just found out that this series was cancelled. I understand how the weight of negativity and comparisons brought you so far down. I hope someday that you feel well enough to pick this back up because it is truly a work of art. I bet the comparisons to Astartes left a bitter taste in your mouth but I have to add just one more that I hope you read as a positive take.
Astartes is a demonstration of ruthless efficiency- soldiers seeing their mission through to the end.
Death of Hope is a snapshot of the soul-crushing reality that these people live in.
Both are deep dives into lore and are obvious passion projects made with incredible amounts of love for the game(?) I love that the approaches are so different and it sets an astonishingly high bar for anything that follows.
I haven't watched part 2 yet but I already know that I'm going to be entertained, scared, impressed, and then sad that there isn't a 3rd in the trilogy. Thanks for doing this
@Zoomer Waffen I do!
that one ultramarine stuck in the floor after a failed teleportation: "shid"
Noticed that to! At least Guilliman finished one of his own off after the same happened in pursuit of kor Phaeron
Not to mention the others you can see in the wall right after that.
That’s such a bruh moment
The urge to purge,
BEGINS TO SURGE
My hand is cravin'
Some daemon misbehavin'
@@maxissixam6049 reference
@@true_Canadian419 you know where its from
@@maxissixam6049 yes
PURRRRRRRRGING WITH - MY KIN!!!
After a year and watching this 100x times I am still in absolute awe of what you created here
just read "know no fear" and hot damn this hits even harder. amazing, gruesome, heartbreaking damn traitors.
The dreadnought falling of the ship in to the planet 😢
"Hey Word Bearers, is the ship grimdark enough for you?"
"Needs about another 80 tons of Silent Hill"
Silent hill would be if the warp was feeling lethargic for a bit.
I find it funny that the whole twitchy monster thing comes from Jacob's Ladder, which was a major inspiration for Silent Hill 3.
A lot of the visual shorthand in this film was nicked off other pop culture influences.
and dead loyalists
@Zoomer Waffen
Cope my dude.
You do realize the film isn't canon, right? I don't think it's bad for the film to take inspiration from other sources.
Hell, there barely is even a canon in 40K anymore because it's been changed so much over the years.
40K started out as a giant meme fest of British cultural references.
No, no, the Orks aren't soccer hooligans and the Arbites totally aren't Dredd knock-offs. You're taking the franchise way more seriously than it needs to be.
@Zoomer Waffen
Stay mad. Imagine taking 40K so personally.
The Random misshapen ghostly figures were chilling.. You really seemed to capture the warp chaotic nature with them. Loved it
For most horror movies such occurrences would be the main terror of the movie but for Warhammer this is just Tuesday.
@@SnifyWisper
Daemons on chaos ships?
Thats just tuesday!
All this greatness from someone who says "I'm not a great animator.."
@@maxissixam6049 Enough with that heresy, proof of his greatness has been written.
@@maxissixam6049 Just like the Emperor says "I'm no god".
8:10 that Night Lord with that armor is just chef's kiss.
Dude. OK, I know you may not see this, but I have to congratulate you here.
This is fucking incredible. This entire video oozes grimdark. The Warp and the Ruinstorm are fucked up beyond fucked up, as it should be. The scene with the mother, JESUS CHRIST! This absolutely encapsulates the horror of Chaos and the terror of the Heresy. The models are fantastically detailed, and while I have a personal complaint about the "Saturnine" Armor appearance, it's not a big enough complaint for me to really care. Each Space Marine is absolutely imposing, and their often still-living corpses are nightmare-inducing.
This is an incredible fan film. It may only be the one, maybe two parts, but this is an awesome taste of the Horus Heresy.
You should watch the making of this where he shows some of the 2D art and layouts. It's something else and off the charts. He's a real genius.
"Brother! There's Ultramarines roaming freely on board."
"Describe his armour, brother."
"Uhh. Ultramarine mohawk with studs on right shoulder?"
"Actually, brother, I think that's Brother Tal from our Legion."
"What about the one with lightening marks on his chest?"
"I think he's also one of ours?"
"Make them wear name tapes. I almost tore his head off."
"Friendly fire is on, Brother"
@Jack Adams Word Bearers are wearing Ultramarine armour and going on raids on neighboring worlds.
“In the grim darkness of the far future there is only the Death of Hope.”
Mark, this is a truly stunning piece of art you have lovingly crafted here. Your tireless adherence to exquisite detail and in-universe authenticity is without peer and sets a new bar of animated story telling in the universe of the Horus Heresy and wider Warhammer 40,000. Never before have I seen these stories and art brought to life with such power and utterly uncompromising and brilliant clarity.
Your Astartes and Mechanicum are how I imagine them in the minds of the Black Library authors and of course, the late great Alan Bligh. The depictions of the neverborn daemons are inspired and connect to the deepest, darkest lore of 40K and took me vividly back to the Realm of Chaos books Slaves to Darkness and Lost And The Damned.
I offer my heartfelt appreciation and most admiring compliments to you and those who contributed towards the incredible creation the is “Death of Hope”. It is a grimdark masterpiece!
A final personal note. I cannot find the words right now to express how completely overwhelmed and honoured I am to see you mention my humble content in your dedication. Imagination is perhaps the greatest of gifts to give and to see you say so is a moment I will always treasure and remember.
Thank you Mark.
I love your channel man!
That was beautiful. And well deserved, the honour and respect that travelled in both directions between the two of you. You are both paragons of the Horus Heresy fan world, and as creators of original content yourselves, have both contributed immeasurably to my own personal enjoyment of it- and I’m also honoured to have corresponded with both of you, however briefly, through your channels. As high as the regard is in which I hold the both of you, I’m always blown away by how down to earth and accessible you guys are. It speaks to your character, mainly- that you’re both willing to share thoughts and ideas with those of us who are not as talented or knowledgeable as you guys, but love the grimdark, amazing world that Bligh and company have given to us to enjoy, with the same devotion and passion. This was an amazing piece of work, and something that I’ll watch countless times (as I did with the prologue) until part 2 premieres. I have been waiting for this for so long, but I have to say, that it was more than worth the wait. Just incredible, Mark. And I got such a great feeling when I saw that dedication at the end, and recognized the banner and models before even hearing Leaky’s voice- I just thought- how incredibly appropriate, and fitting. Anyway- thanks for all of the thousands of hours of work that obviously went into the production of what Leakycheese rightly named a “masterpiece.” This is a one of a kind - and will have a place of honour in the lore and works of the Heresy that we all know and love.
Björn Maxe Thank you Björn!
Mark Brigandi Thanks Mark, that's so kind of you to say.
Like you, I'll be watching the Death of Hope: Anarchy Reigns a great many times!
leakycheese You’re very welcome, my friend. (And how could one NOT watch it again and again? I just ended my 3rd viewing- for today at least😉)
This is insane. One of the greatest Warhammer videos I've ever seen. How is it the Warhammer community has this much talent and dedication! It's truly inspiring!
Thank you to everyone involved for your hard work !
2024 here again. This still is the top of the top showing how grim, how dark, this universe is.
Other fan made pieces may be more incredibly polished, this is the real feel.
*Malformed Woman Mourning her Dead Flesh-fused Child*
Chaos Marine: I love this Song!
I understand that she was burned not with weapons, but with a warp? She began to change, including her psycho-emotional state.
@@JiGCop Yea, i think these where the effects of the warp.
It's Gellarpox I believe 8t seems the baby didn't make it
@@JiGCop her closeness to the chuld, and it to her, according to the author. Memories of being connected in the womb, perhaps?
Either way the warp manifested those feelings.
Whats so amazing about this is how the creator has made marines into being actually really f**king scary. Even the ultramarines look scary. It really captures this sense in the books of transhuman dread. That these beings are so ascended beyond a normal human, that people are like insects.
There is many comparisons I read between this and astartes. I like everyone else enjoy astartes, its very polished. But Death of Hope OOZES atmosphere, the world it creates is such an authentic representation of the grim wh world.
Normally I dont like too much deviation from 'normal' space marine appearance. But the detail in DoH, its really awe inspiring. I love the art so much, but something worries me, surely only one touched by the warp could produce such dire majesty. Summon the Inquisition!
Ok I knew something was going on with the ultra marines look because I was having a hard time figuring out who and who weren’t chaos afflicted.
While I do enjoy the modern 40k armor designs for space marines, I personally prefer the Great Crusade/Horus Heresy era designs more.
This is an excellent point. This does at least attempt to convey transhuman terror and an uncartoonish grim dark asthetic. Makes one realise how watered down the supposed grim dark is by comparison.
Most of the the canon media doesn’t quite grasp that lore-correct Space Marines are so heavily engineered that they’re barely human anymore. This guy gets it.
@@MrCSP24 best and weirdest part I find is that their rib cage is like a carapace instead of ribs and covers most of their torso (under the skin) as well as all their blood is slightly corrosive.
Been a long time fan of this project. When frends, family and coworkers ask if Im into horror, I tell them Im more into Grimdark and Cosmic Horror. Not the trifling, popular things they are exposed to. A few of them I have shown this animation as to non-verbally explain what I mean, and they all shudder at the knowledge as to why I think their interests in "horror" is mundane. My mind, and the minds of those who are fans of this universe we call Warhammer are on a whole other level than mainstream "horror". And I remind them of that fact every time they want to watch some Hollywood bs with me.
I still come back to this video at least 2x a week. I love the attention to detail of EVERYTHING.
I don't think anyone has acknowledged the scene with the girl and her baby being the same girl and baby that ran past the ultra marines in death of hope trailer 2, this is what chaos did to her when they took her prisoner and that little continuance and detail is what really makes these videos so special mark.
Holy hell I thought I was just connecting dots that weren't there when that crossed my mind. That's great!
The mother and baby was what really stuck with me. Man it really shows just how fucked up the warp is and you wonder the reason for what sick twisted reason they are keeping her on the ship mutating like that. Absolutely brilliant.
I really love how you made the Space Marines look, and feel big. I'm looking forward for the second part.
This! In the official clips, like the 10th edition or Horus Heresy trailers, the Marines look like overgrown toy soldiers. Here they look and feel gigantic, heavy, truly menacing and terrifying. Absolutely fantastic!
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY 100% FANTASTIC! YOU DESERVE ALL THE PRAISE! Look forward to part 2!
Mark, thank you for all the time and effort you've put towards this project over the years, you're a legend, mate, the community needs people like you who make this awesome content, thank you!
Same can be said to you CMV
Valrak... Mark. That must be shared. Thats what this universe need.
Chapter Master Valrak AMAZING 😌
Chapter Master Valrak, the Emperor of Mankind personally *DEMANDS* you to make a comprehensive review on this short movie.
It's best for you and your chapter to obey such a honorable request from our most glorious Master of Mankind.
=][=The Emperor protects.=][=
Meanwhile Valarak continues to happily shill the current GW abominations. Hypocrite
Saturnine-pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armour.... no words....
Saul González wrong, there is one word “YES”
@@samcaruso8529 two words, 'F**K YES!!'
I can think of a few words: ''HOLY F*CKING GOD EMPEROR YES''
yes , I love how the their animation actually makes them feel heavy like a walking tank, I wish we could get new models of them
I saw Cataphractii, where were the Saturnine pattern? Am I just blind? (Maybe.)
The only 40K video ive ever seen that i would truly call Grimdark
How I imagined the universe from the books, horror, gritty and chaos. Thank you for the hard work bringing this to life.
"The titanic labor you're about to 'see' was 3D modeled,animated, written, directed, drawn, created by one MARK LOUIS SPARK" in any other video this would be seen as boastful egotistical and inappropriate. In this video it's an understatement. Well done and I can't wait for more!
usually ppl say that shit when they don't do 5% of what they claim they did; he did it all and then some so he has a right to boast as much as he fucking wants to!
For anyone thinking they forgot to activate their Gellar Fields, they didn't... They left it off.
And that is why they are dumb
@@true_Canadian419 that is why there are so fucking awesome and metal u mean
@@Houseoholiker blood Angels are better in my opinion
que Orks polishing their choppas
its kind of like 'dry-aging' a living human steak in the warp
This is how I imagined the madness of the warp. Amazing work
This animation quality is amazing, even better than some Marvel movies out there
I dont understand how people dont appreciate this, 30k was extremely dark
Because nu-Warhammer under the current GW wants to make everything heroic and noblebright again, and that gives out a certain perception to newcomers. Also are the newcomers demanding for more brightness and hope.
To be fair there needs to be a rise before there can be a fall, that's tragedy 101. 40k wouldn't be tragic without the highs of the Dark Age of Technology, and basically everything that happened while the Emperor wasn't stuck on his throne. I can understand why narratively, they would want a rise again before another fall. It just needs to not be contrived
This is unbelievable! So good! Cant wait for the next one
Because beside the gore-porn next to nothing actually happens in the 20 minutes rofl
@Tharr Mortus Thousand Sonds is one of my favorite HH books at all, because despite been the ol'self-fulfilled-prophecy with the classic tragic twist. you can still relate to everything that happens, specially if you are a person who consider knowledge one of the most relevant and important traits.
Without spoiling you how the novel ends, I would consider that "Thousand Sonds" won't be the moment that Magnus fall, rather I would say it´s just one more stepping stone.
Nowadays I'm in Mark of Calth. This quarantine has helped me read at least 10 books in a few months. You won't regret it.
When I first watched Event Horizon, I thought: "I wish these fellows made a proper Warhammer film", until watched what you made.
If you ask me, despite the old vs new debate, we live in an age where amazing talented people like you can finally gives us a vision of the grim darkness of the far future, and I'm thankful for that.
Yeah, when I say "for the fans of true grimdark" It's stating its for a specific target within the fanbase who've been for the most part neglected. Anyone can be a fan, and if you liked this then you are as much of a grim dark fan as the old! Im not saying every fan from back in the day liked this stuff, but there are a handful that did :) It's also nice to show new fans what we liekd and invite them into a different flavor. If I wanted to be a complete ass, i would have said for the true fans of warhammer, which as i said am fully aware its not every true warhammer fans flavor.
Im glad u enjoyed!
@@marklouisspark do you have like a tip jar that isn't patreon for the simples of im on a budget on i heard patreon takes a cut so any chance you got a different jar ?
Fellipe Martins - I agree completely with respect to the Event Horizon vibe. Positively brilliant work.
@@marklouisspark I discovered the Warhammer universe around the third edition. I managed to buy a few marines, but back then I couldn't dive into the hobby until recently, as an adult with spare time and money, but still I followed the lore, read the books, specially HH and the Eisenhorn collection. What you're doing here is simply brilliant, it's a vision of the Warp and what it means to every single living being of the galaxy that no one had the courage to realize before ( as audiovisual product). Every time I read the Uriel Ventris saga -into what we can call hell- I think "this is the grimdarkness that we deserve". I'm glad we have all the books to back us up, glorious miniature and the amazing work that the fans are producing, this includes you, the project Astartes and the project Hellsreach.
Keep up with the amazing work!
@@asmodeusmalificent503 First time watching Event Horizon I thought "so they used a warp drive without a gellar field"
I come back to this vid a couple of times a year, thank you for such masterpiece.
Amazing job in every aspect. I loved the detail throughout, especially in the armors. Did a great job making the marines actually look, sound, and feel terrifying.
With "Death of Hope" and the "Astartes" videos, the bar has been set pretty high for GW's official CGI series. Your work here is beautiful, you managed to make the immaterium unnerving and I love the unique apparitions rather than just the cliche daemons.
the warp confused and kinda scared the shit out of me
@@yobo1152 Good that was the point and then some ;)
@@yobo1152 The Warp being confusing is it's entire point
Guys, there are other 40k animations that are nice, especially Astartes, but this one... Damn, here we find the madness of encapsulated heresy, the violence and horror of the warp spread throughout the material universe, in such an unhealthy way... it's perfect. Visually as well as in the atmosphere, it's exactly as I saw Horus' Heresy...
Mark, you point out that the animations are perfectible, ok, but the amount of work you had to put in to get this result transpires..., the details of the environments, the armors, the characters, damn it's huge! Get some rest man, because you deserve it, you've just delivered the best visual representation of Horus' Heresy (and even 40k I dare say) we've ever seen.
Thank you, and Bravo.
i love the night lord creeping on everything
this is the peak of what every 40k serieres/movie has to strife for. Truly a masterpiece, in picture, immersion and so much more. I would sacrifice my entire sector for the emporer to get more of THIS. I bow before you Mark, you genius
This is a milestone in the Warhammer fan made movies.
Impressive work
Holy hell, man! This project is absolutely unbelievable! The atmosphere is just entirely perfect, 100% on point. Just exceptional work here, I'm blown away. That exo-armor! Those wierd daemons! The Dark Mech looking all bizarre! All of the layers & details on the Marine armor that are all still recognizable marks & models! The wild uniforms & gear on the baseline humans! The strange bone biomech Eldar! Just... Grim-dark perfection. Going to watch it five more times then start building some Dark Angel Legionnaires...
Two scenes that stuck on me, first the cultist /daemon glitching and teleporting when the Word Bearers passed by. It really captures that warp fuckery shenanigan's from what the lore said. Second, the woman and her dead baby. What really sells is that she's desperately screaming at her child calling it a bastard knowing her descent to madness. Quite bleak and hopeless for her, I mean that's what grimdark is right??
@@arismafiamafiaiskandar5145 That's exactly what stayed on my mind as well. Just the presence of the Daemons on the ship was... intimidating and then again not.
@@khorneberserker It reminds me, how the Word Bearers and world eaters are completely fine knowing that the warp can effect someone minds. I guess they got the blessing from the chaos gods right?? While the woman and her child are infected.
@@arismafiamafiaiskandar5145 That with the side note that the Word Bearers and World Eaters just gave in to their urges (Religeous zeal and bloodlust). They are Chaos as the Ultimate freedom. The woman didn't even realise she was mutating (which according to the Word Bearers, for whom Daemonhood is the greatest achievement, is a blessing). But her cries at the end show that she has begun her descent into madness.
@@khorneberserker Well put
This video was amazing. Truly terrifying how you portrayed chaos.
This love for a universe I have so few outlets to experience it makes me sad. But for these 20 minutes I got to suspend it all and be immersed. Genuinely incredible work. Thank you for your effort and I'm sorry GW has made it so we don't get another episode. Maybe one day they will see you and this for what's it's worth and fund it. Good luck Mark, I will watch anything you create in future.
The atmosphere, the voices, the art style, the animation *EVERYTHING* is on point. Man-Emperor bless the Warhammer 40k fanbase, especially to you and your team, Mark.
Blesssssings from All Father!!
Dat nick and anime on avatar so fun ))
This video is the only Warhammer video that does the Warp and the sheer brutality of the 30k-40k universe justice.
Well bloody done!
What about Astartes? That one also potrays 40k well and the animation is far more polished there.
@@MizantropMan I'm talking about how the warp and its brutality is portrayed here, not the actual animation or anything.
But yeah Astartes has much better animation
The Astartes honestly pale in comparison to the depth of narrative and details we see here.
Inglief Hronjrsson Detail? Absolutely not but Narratively? Yes
Inglief Hronjrsson agree
Mark has managed to capture the hopelessness and true horror of chaos in a way nothing has before
Astartes is cool but this is an expression of emotion
I cant believe how ALL of this is made by ONE person. This looks like actual movie quality. Extremely well made. Normally I'm not a huge fan of warhammer overall or this time period but this is just amazing.
"I breathe. It will be enough" You know he abt that ass kickin business😭😭😂😂
How much Grimdark do you want in your movie?
Mark: Yes!
wow dude this was one of the coolest things ever. I felt like I could see the Emperors dream dying in front of me with how twisted the Traitor space marine's had become. And the Lovecraftian elements to how a Word Bearers ship is a totally messed up place where the warp bleeds through was done perfectly. This is so loyal to the Horus Heresy Books it is amazing, I always knew the Word Bearers were messed up and their ships were nasty but holy god-Emperor! this is what 30k/40k should be, grimdark to the core. This was awesome!!
This was amazing... I'm really speachless... the atmosphere, the ambient... I really dig your representation of chaos, space marines and the world. That's exactly what I'd expect from warhammer world.
First time i saw this i was blown away. i still have come time to time to watch this. probably most epic short movie in YT!
Finally a depiction of Chaos that isn't embarrassing!
The warp seems like a fun place to hang out in. You get spontaneous mutations, random demons, immense torture, and stuff you can’t even imagine.
Thats what you would call a "happy place", if you feel down, just go there
Lovely stuff
Like a girlfriend?
@@lordspaghettiyetithe1st513 go to the third floor in slaanesh's tower and you'll find at least 3
In a second, you'll hear the word "heresy" and a bolter on your head
I'm a newcomer to The Horus Heresy novels and I'm completely blown away by them. I absolutely love it. These videos capture the uncompromising nature of Grimdarkness perfectly . The imagery will enhance my imagination immensely, as I read.
Thank you so much for your work from a fellow fan.
Absolutely stunning efect. Atmosphere of this -unforgettable
Brilliant but i was a little confused at first and had to watch it a couple of times before I realised that the figures walking about in Ultramarine armour are wearing stolen gear.
Ooohhh thats what it was, I didn't get that either till you daid it
So at the end when they go lets begin,
They werent ultramarines but word bearers wearing the stolen armour?
@@jasonbridges4395 No at the end, this is real Ultramarines that are prisoners. They wait something to happen, like the alarm at the end (Probably something that the Eldar dude did). The false ultramarines is walking with two other traitors at the beginning, when u see the word bearers Terminator.
Anyway I can't wait to deliver the 500 hundreds, death to the traitors brothers !
@@Matthieu_L i was surprised to see eldar there, I didnt know they were active in HH
However I believe that eldar was killed by the Possessed? It seems the prisoners Eldar included were being used for gladitorial entertainment
@@jasonbridges4395 The Cabal did active involded themselves into the Horus Heresy , to make sure Horus (Chaos) wins
but the other Eldar attacked them , on order of Farseer Ulthran
Damn, i didnt expect this to be actually disturbing but wow
i came here expecting some daemonculaba level shit , so it was fine
@@PerturaBased i dont think youtube would allow that
@@doorstopper674 title it "body improvement/ medical procedures" and claim it's about excess skin being removed; it should be ok then :)
@@doorstopper674 ikr , i don't even know how they let this
Yeah, it's like video game cutscenes (like fallout 1&2 scared me back when I was 7-8 years old at the time) from the 90s in terms of actual disturbance and suspense, only with so much more detail and quality
This remains my absolute favourite representation of the 40k universe. It perfectly captures how I imagine it after first being introduced through the old Rogue Trader era stories and artwork.
Absolutely fucking brutal, the best warhammer 30k ive ever seen and hasnt been matched. This legend of cg should be head of games workshops filmic content. This is insane.
I don't have any words that can describe the disturbing and uncomfortable scenes in this video.
But one thing's for certain, this is really well made.
There are moments if wonder, moments of disgust, and leaving you wondering if u should like what u watched but doubt if u should. That is Grim Dark :D
This is everything I've wanted to see in regards of how chaos should be depicted in 40k. Ultimately evil, scary, and fucked up. You've given me so much hope for 40k with this man!
This is exactly how I imagined Horus Heresy! I love it. You made my dream come true, to see HH coming to live in such a glorious animation in an amazing grimdark style and omg all those old school Warhammer callbacks. Thank you so much. I hope positive feedback will encourage you to continue this project. This is Horus Heresy this is Warhammer!!!
this is the first 30k fan video i see and i already loved this part . this is true to the horus heresy and i enjoyed seeing all the 30k factions in their origenal suits . i really hope there will be much more like this !
thank you