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@@K4inan Well, you're not wrong! In 40k, the presence of warp energy creates a drop in temperature and a sudden hoarfrost. That ice lets us know that the touch of the warp is present in that chamber. 40k - a universe where hell is literally frozen over.
Something else that commendable: the constraint in cinematography. Because its all digital, the virtual camera can be place anywhere, to capture all kinds of fantastical angles, flythroughs and flyovers., which would be impossible in real life. The GOD that did Astartes chose restraint. He used angles , motions and even virtual lenses and focus pulls that mimic real life ones.So as you watch, the whole thing speaks in a visual language thats firmly placed in reality, that are familiar like shots you've seen before. This helps the brain make the leap from reality to fantasy, that much easier.
You might not believe it's just one person, but it is. He's from New Zealand. I believe he's looking into enlisting some help to get the next series out a little more quickly this time around!
The reaction to the Psyker being corrupted (or possessed or whatever is lore-accurate) is my favorite thing ever. "This is not normal" PUNCH! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! "Problem solved" Peak brutal efficiency right there.
Something to note that what they did to the inquisitor (the guy in the red robes) was actually a mercy killing not only for the inquisitor itself, but the whole ship. Posession is a very dangerous thing in the W.H.40k universe and a possessed psyker is the last thing you want.
@@jefflee4527 which won't kill most possessed humans sadly... the books do a good job of describing the level of destruction required to kill a possessed person without the use of a psycher...
Discoveries of me and my friends; 1. There is a second Dead orb inside the same chamber as the Inquisitorial guy is in, cables hanging dead from it. Right side. 2. glass sound on the floor when they enter 02. Ice frost, probly due to warp energy bleedout. 3. the skulls and spines around the giant gold guy. Its the same as the 2 psykers they faced outside 02. 4. the orbs are remnant warp weaponry left by the Yu'vath empire from the 39th Millennium. (Check out 'Rouge Trader') 5. Yu'vath was found during the Angevin Crusade in the Calyx Expanse M39.322, they are a warp corrupted xeno empire. Everything they is make constructed of a crystalline or ceramic material that resembles natural or fossilised bone. There is word around tho that they aint Yu'Vath by the creator but i've yet to see any proof of that claim. 6. the patterns on the orbs is the same as the masks of the psykers from ep4. 7. the 'sticks' they shove into the orbs is made by the Inqusition. 8. the orb inside the inqusitorial vessel is communicating with the orb on the ship the Astartes are on. there are 2 active orbs. the Inquisitorial agent notice this. 9. Red top diagram mesurement of something increase alot when it goes active. 10. 'Who is here?' 'I failed brother' 'We have all failed' 'The Astartes defy our touch' 'You must return' 'Break your seal' 'Thats impossible, we'll never survive that' 'You must. Take the others.' 11. Inqusitorial agent; 'RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY!' 12. Orb; At Last!. (Cables then spark and line goes into the agent). Starts speaking xeno i suspect. 13. Orange backlight, most likely lava, the guys standing around is the same as the 2 they faced in ep4. 14. Back on heretic ship, Sgt. turns his head to the side, most likely getting the recall order. 15. Tentacle creature looks like Asura from indian mythology. The female head on top, symbol looks very similar to thats on the small green screen at 0.22 in the original video. 16. Symbols on the orb appears on the sgt hard when its getting aborbed. 17. Asura looking dude glows blue and Tentacles. You can see 'black' things 'swimning around in there? before one comes from below to eat/attack the blue guy. it breaks and the marines shatter. 18. Blue tentacle looks like it goes into the marines, you can faintly see blue light in the sgt abdomen when he reappears. 19. Red eyelens is dead, armour or helmet has lost power. 20. Strange patterns appear in the marines spit and bile. some say its blood, i say its part of the creature. 21. Giant Skeleton on thrones and such might be Yu'Vath verisons of Titans, or its dead kings/emperors. or the original Yu'vath was that large. 22. You can see the other astartes appear on the other pillars around the area in their own 'teleportish' flashes, you see 3 of them clearly, 1st is to the right side outside panel, you bearly see it. 23. The giant skeletons on the thrones, from the back of their skulls go our spine looking things that looks like what they guys in ep4 had. 24. 1st marine after video, creators chapter, 'Retributors'. 2nd marine is 'Angel Sanguine'. 3rd marine is 'Void Dragons', fanmade chapter by patrons. 4th marine is 'Deaths Hand', fanmade chapter by patrons. 25. The weaponry that attack the hands of death marine is an Eldar shuriken carbine of some sort. 26. Thats a predator tank with anti infantry cannon. Thats all. Feel free to add any findings.
This is just a wild guess but I have a hunch the black clound in the warp is a result of the Astartes ship, realizing it's insertion team is lost decided to turn its big guns on the rebel ship and reduce it to ashes. The warp core breach would have an effect in the Immaterium as well.
@@Darwinist could also be the psycher. He was releasing the same kind of dark smoke when he went into the orb (3:55). Other dark things can be seen moving around at 6:14. One above the marine to the top left and one bottom right. Timestamp for original video
Yep Space Marines can mag lock any part of their armor to hold equipment or to lock themselves to a metal surface (like if they need to go outside a ship in a vacuum) so slapping his bolter to his leg is correct.
The space marine running is almost like how its described in some books. The space marines use their leg and power armor to jump horizontally when they want to go very fast. Basically plant a foot compress and use the power armors leg enchantment to move incredibly fast, though less control of movement because they are leaving the ground for intervals instead of always having one foot planted.
@@BrianKouhi Guess so, although you can't really see the animation. Ya know the reason why they do this is because their physiology is very different from humans. They have so much more muscle that it's insane. In addition, their armour shifts their center of gravity as well as their huge pauldrons making it harder for them to run like how a normal human would. So they instead use the movement described by the OP They can keep this up for days without rest
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve seen it described as “adopting a powerful loping gate”, or leaping stride. Economy of movement often seems to come up too, which these animations capture nigh on perfectly
Few more details. You can see other space marines getting warped onto other pillars in the last seconds of the cinematic. Also when you get the pov moment and detail of the orb sucking in his hand, you can see runes spreading over his armor. As for the voices, there are a few, though, quite muffled by design - Orb 1 (with the Inquisitor): "Who's there?" Orb 2: "I have failed, brother." Orb 1: "We have all failed." Orb 2: "Astartes deny our touch." Orb 1: "We must return. Break your shield." Orb 2: "Impossible. We'll never survive." Orb 1: "You must take them." And when Orb 1 breaks the connection, the Inquisitor says to the Veteran Space Marine with a cape: “Recall them immediately!"
He's not an inquistor, but yeah. Most likely the psyker thought the daemon in the orb would do gene stealing, and or use them in some kind of ritual. Each of which could spell death for their entire fleet.
Yup, done by a single animator, Syama Pedersen. You can find interviews with him. He is a 3d generalist that worked on various games. He even has a page on art station. He definitely has some skills.
8:42 and the flashes of light were the other members teleporting. Really shows how huge the statues are. (at the small pillars at the bottom of the screen.)
You could totally change the mood and feel of this series by letting the viewer in on the vox comms and you wouldn't need to change a single frame of animation. I like this approach better, it shows how absolutely terrifyingly, silently efficient the Astartes are when doing these kinds of operations. They can even be quite stealthy despite their huge bulk.
They do. The psyker tells the Marine to recall the squad. He says ' recall them, immediately'. Its muffled because they have commication devices inside their helmets.
@@MikeTheGamer77 Given that we dont hear anyone else talk, he must be screaming at the top of his lungs for the sound to be heard at all. That Inquisitor was a damn hero, he must have realized that breaking his concentration was putting himself at risk.
It seems like the videos are shot as if we are standing with them. That's why when we hear the psyker talk to the marine it is so muffled. You can hear the marines talking to the group at the second sphere a split second before it grabs them. From the interview, Syama said he rather have no dialog than bad dialogue so he went with visually telling the story. A good compromise all in all.
One of my favorite little details is at the close up of the Inquisitor's hand when it's twitching and he drops his censor (6:33), you can see the Corvus Marine start going for his bolter in the back, out of focus.
no words because the armor is sealed. They're speaking and listening to their radios throughout all the parts. You can notice it by little gestures and movements of hands and head
I like how that guy's punch is so strong that not only it destroy the head, also causing the body to slam down on the ground so fast that you can see the hand catching up to the body as it fall.
@Zerebrat Eightyseven Implants plus their suit. half a century to train, 23 artificial organs, and the best part is that they recruit anyone who on their own is already a super badass as a normal human.
to repeat a famous comment Hollywood big cgi company: sir we cant make superman's mouth look realistic producer: THIS GUY DID THIS FILM IN A CAVE... With A BOX OF SCRAPS
@@Fyuken Even with a normal group of pros in Hollywood, this is an extremely difficult feat to get this level of detail in CGI. A man doing this himself, no matter the property, is just astonishing.
definitely kick ass. Syama got some skills and if you are on his patreon he breaks down shots so you can see how he composites and animates the stuff. It also seems like he got a motion capture suit which he uses for reference. Probably one of the many tricks to how he is able to get such quality.
Jason McAlpin Yeah what was impressive for me is that he captured the clinical precision of the space marines so well in their tactics and movements. They move like they are in heavy armour but with frightening speed.
Did you notice that when the strike team enteref the vault it was extremely cold? The floor had visible ice patches that the leader crushed with his foot and when it cut to their backs, the exhaust vents were pooling Steam.
You can hear the Inquisitor, right after he listens in to their conversation. Yell out of his muffled helmet to "Get them out of their' as the Orbs were speaking of 'Taking them' and 'They deny our touch.' The same one who said it was 'Impossible' to escape was the one who got its head smashed in when it attempted the possession on the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor let his guard down for a split second to warn the other Space Marines to warn them, which let the being into his mind.
I also agree this is pretty amazing animation. When I was in high school back in the late 80s I remember seeing them lead figurines & game boards in my local comic book store and they always fascinated me. I've watched all four Astartes since their release and was excited to see number 5 pop up on my tube account out of the blue a couple days ago. I'm familiar with Warhammer but I'm not familiar with the story. After watching this my interest has peaked & I want too start from the beginning if there is one. My local Barnes and Nobles has hundreds of Warhammer books but I'm clueless to which one to pick up first. Can any body out there give me a suggestion on which book I should pick up first? I'm not gonna start and play the role playing game I prefer to read storyline instead.
Harvey Casey one thing about the Black Library (GWs Company that maintains a stable of authors for Warhammer lore), and really the whole universe is that it is very sandboxy in a way. It would be very hard and very expensive to read ever single 40k book out there. I’ll recommend a couple series, depending on your interests: The Eisenhorn series: This was where I started. It’s very small scale, following a man hunting heretics, and it is a very interesting series, that puts 40k in a smaller scale than you usually see it. I never read the 4th book, which is a prequel and collection of short stories. The War of the Beast: like many of the novels, the war of the beast takes place before “present day” it follows an Astartes of the Imperial Fists and is a very fun read with 6-8 books IIRC. It’s a bit larger scale for sure, and may be enjoyed more if you have a bit more context for the setting. Dark Imperium: it’s a good book, though a lot of what is happening in the books is better appreciated by someone with foreknowledge, it isn’t a bad place to start. Lastly, I’d definitely look into the Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra series of books. These are two huge series of books by many different authors in the Black Library stable. The first handful of books are worth a read, as Garviel Loken is a fan favorite character created in the first few books. These books start at the end of the Great Crusade leading up to the Horus Heresy series. Good luck!
The esinhorn series is a good place to start as is Gaunt's Ghost they're both by Dan Abnett. He also wrote a novel about an Original Space Marine Chapter called the Brothers of the Snake. You also might like the Caiphius Cain Books I know that's the first Warhammer 40k series I started with. Just be aware 40k is a rabbit hole once you go in it's very hard to get out. If you're looking for a good lore channel I'd recommend Archwarhammer I don't agree with all of his politics but when it comes to lore the guy does a very good job hitting the key notes in both 40k and old school Warhammer fantasy. I mean he he did a 50 video series on the Siege of Vraks which was a planetary seige that lasted five years and cost billions of lives. Yeah in case you couldn't tell 40k has no chill.
i'm kinda in the same boat as you :P i really want to get into the warhammer 40k stories, especially after watching the last episode of astartes! after looking around a little i found that a lot of people recommend that it's best to start with the books Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames, in that order. those 3 books supposedly give you a good overview of the warhammer 40k universe (although they are set in warhammer 30k). hope that helps
If you want to start at the very very beginning, you want Horus Rising. But if you just want to dip your finger, so to speak into the universe, theres a couple places you can start. Eisenhorn series, Gaunt's ghosts, (personally my all time favorite series in the wh40k books.) Dark imperium. And if you want a really good book that will leave you a shell of yourself after you're done with it, Galaxy In Flames. Torgadden, Tarvitz, Loken, my bois. My bestest bois.
Others suggest various books and such as "starting points" for understanding 40k, but much better advice for you would be to look up 40k for beginners vids on youtube for various things. Beginners understanding of the timeline, the factions, key figures, major timeline events like the horus heresy, etc. You need to get a basic understanding of all of those kinds of things first before you can even begin to have the thought of jumping into any of the books or stories so you can actually have an understanding and grasp of what's going on and how things are in 40k. 40k has the unique trait of it being the absolutely most ridiculously huge loreset of any kind of fantasy setting that's ever been made. Things like star wars or lord of the rings and such look like pathetic children's books in comparison. Once you have a beginners understanding of all of that, then you can look into books based around a timeline event, or perhaps a faction, or chapter of space marines or whatever that interests you and then you can dive in from there. In 40k, because it is so ridiculously huge as a lore set, you should only focus on the things that interest you or that you think or cool, that's where you will get enjoyment out of the 40k universe.
You should also see Healsreach from Richard Boylan, it's a 13 episode animation of a 40k book made also by only one person. If you liked Astartes then you will love it (it also deserves more love)
@@BrianKouhi There's also a new 40k animation called "Death of hope" by Mark Louis Spark, he made all his models from scratch with IMMENSE detail, the trailers for his project are also amazing.
@@tychohero just watched it. Quite dark. But very well done. There was a few times though where I struggled to make out who was what, and what was exactly happening. Funnily. In a comment from Mark in the comment section he says he hates animating lol
You are absolutely correct about the runner's gun. Astartes have "mag-locks' on their armor to which they can attach not just their guns, but also their helmets (when removed). I'm super glad you caught that, otherwise I would have missed another touch of lore-wizardry.
That my friend is a possession, something that if allowed to happen could cost them all of their lives and would take hundreds of shots from a bolter (yes the same one that was ripping humans in half from a single shot) just to kill it if not more
being an animator must be a great asset to read body language I think! never thought about head first or body first. same principle with the marine running away to relay the orders. great vid!
Oh man are you kidding me? There are enough lore breakdowns and analysis of these videos but this is more interesting to me. You're right, part five may not be the best part to showcase purely animation chops? I wouldn't know, you called yourself a dumbass for choosing this one to analyze, well...rectify that lol. You must know that everyone is praising the shit out of the animation but most people like me don't really understand how difficult it is. I'll bet those people praising it would love to see you do an analysis of the other parts so that they could get a better appreciation for the skill required. I know I would absolutely LOVE an animation breakdown of the other parts, the only question in my mind would be whether to make more then one video analyzing the separate parts or just one more analyzing the parts 1-4. Would you consider that? Loved this video, good job, I'm intrigued! Edit: Just thought I should clarify that I'm a layman...idk, it just bugged me when I came back to rewatch this great video and I remembered my comment xD Your breakdowns are as good as I remembered though! Congrats again, great job.
@@BrianKouhi If would accept a bit of constructive criticism from a lay person, perhaps you can break it up into areas you want to highlight. Movement, textures, feeling of presence and weight, framing, set design... then pull examples from across the series to make your point. That way, if you "ramble," you can keep it on topic each time. maybe get 5 or 6 videos out of it?
He had a MoCap suit for a lot of this which definitely helped with making sure the animations were human and natural. Plus he wanted to keep the speed and agility of space marines, despite them bearing 10 ish feet tall and Clad in 1 tonne armour to convey how much they're superhuman augmented enhanced murder machines.
@@BrianKouhi One fun note that might be missed in one of the earlier parts. When the grunt gets knife killed, dude was holding what looks like an anti-tank mine or some other large explosive, he was going kamikaze. HUGE balls on any mere mortal who runs TOWARDS one of those motherfuckers. Brilliant of the creator to think that up for what is an easily overlooked detail. The series begs to be re-watched because he seems to have strands of little lore and a reason for every little thing.
"guy is a hard ass, he got his armed ripped off and he is fine with it" Son i got news for ya, spacemarines are the baddasss of badass, they have two hearts, can spit acid, and can get nutrition FROM ROCKS. losing a hand, is like a tuesday to them, most of them have been fighting a war for THOUSANDS of years.
That's kind of inaccurate. For one the eating Rocks thing is utterly new to me, and veterans of a thousand years are very rare on the loyalist side. Dante is over a thousand of years old and he is basically the oldest living loyalist besides Bjorn, who spent most of the last ten millennia in stasis and is still going senile. Most of the Chaos Space Marines don't show their age because for them it hasn't been that long due to warp time fuckery or because of mutation. Also, if you're gonna bring up metal shit about Astartes biology how could you forget the fact that they can eat brains to gain the dead person's knowledge.
@@maxb9767 The preomnor, and betcher's gland can allow marines to eat virtually anything, including rocks. I can't remember the exact mention of eating rocks, but i do know the preomnor allows consumption of inorganic matter..so rocks. beyond that, average age for a space marine seems to be around 3 or 400 years judging by the service studs, thousand just had a nice ring to it, and since it's 1/10 of 10,000 years of war after the horus heresy, it sounds nice.
If you want to know what's happening: We are shown an orb aboard the ship our strike team left. It is bound and an inquisitor is hooked up to it, probably trying to interrogate it. Or keep it in check. We are shown the second orb aboard the ship they boarded. It is very angry. But they push through its defenses and stab some thingies into it. Back on the loyalist ship, the inquisitor bears witness a conversation between the two orbs. Something about all of them failing and the need to return. The inquisitor wakes from the trance and you can hear him say something inside of his helmet (He’s telling the Astartes Captain to recall the Strike Team). One of the marines immediatelly runs to the bridge to warn the team. The Orb uses this singular slip in the inquisitor’s mental defenses and gets into his head. He is dispatched with efficiency. The team gets the warning, but it is too late. The orb sucks them in. You can see a tentacle thing holding the entire team. Then it explodes. I’m pretty sure the loyalist ship destroyed the rebel one. And the Orb with it. With the tentacle thing gone, the marines are teleported to what I’m pretty certain is a Necrontyr world. Yes, we can see only the “main character” but if you pay attention, near the end there are flashes on top of the other pillars as the rest of his team ports in. So… From the imagery, the tentacle dragon thing they can see for a split second instead of t he orb, and the Necrontyr world… I’m quite certain those orbs are C’tan shards. God-like aliens that existed long before humanity peaked.
@@genida951 You know how W40k goes... Even canon contradicts canon. The Necrontyr/C'tan thing fits perfectly, apart of that brief stint in the warp. That's like the one diviation he took from it.
About the attack that destroyed that being in the warp. I like to think that it wasn't a demon or navy destroying the vessel aboard which the orb was at. It wouldn't make much sense 1) Demon: If the being was in the warp already for so long, why would demons get interested in it only in that particular moment? Souls of Astartes could be a reason but then they would take a different angle at attacking the xeno. 2) Navy destroying the ship: The loyalists weren't able to know if the Kill Team got out or not, they wouldn't sacrifice lives of five marines so foolishly. I like to think that it was a librarian of the chapter. We know that the chapter has tight connection to the Inquisition, it's fully possible that they have some powerful psykers of their own in their ranks. And considering the captain of the 1st company was aboard that vessel, I think it's possible that they also had a librarian on standby. I believe it could be a swift attack from the librarian in hopes of saving his brothers, or at least their souls.
@@galis4383 The team had cameras. Of course the command ship knew if they made it out or not. If a thing like that vacuums up your kill team, your inquisitor gets vaporized... They didn't want to risk it. I'm going off story-telling basics, not off the lore. And while Astartes has some glaring problems, it manages to get the basics right. You don't tell a story through intervetion from unmentioned or unseen characters.
Thanks boss for your breakdown. As an animator myself people don't realize all the little details into animation. Just the character movements in itself is a long and tedious task. Then you have lighting, texturing, cinematography with the different camera angles, sound and story telling. This gentleman is truly gifted with nailing all of these aspects. He definitely needs to be supported to the fullest.
@@BrianKouhi You will learn a lot more of 40k lore, and figure out just how dark "grimdark" can really get. it is set long before the timeline of Astartes.
Death of Hope shows what not to do. The animators clearly went past their skill level. They should have put more into better movement than detailed models.
surprised you didnt mention how when the beaked helmet space marine put 4 rounds into the now VERY dead inquisitor, the marine who punched hims cape billowed with the force of the explosive rounds
@@Speedy2619 a techpriest would have the mechanicus cog symbol, the I is for the inquisition, even techpriests working for the inquisition would keep the mechanicus cog most openly, but wear some small inquisition icon too. also, mechanicus tend to have stuff called mechadendrites, which are basically mechanical limbs coming out of their backs, kinda like what doc octopus had from the toby maguire spiderman
It's a one person who makes it all. Soundscape, animation, modelling, lighting, interrios, concept art etc. That's just mind boggling. That last frame is a piece of art.
My favourite moment as a watcher, is the unbelievably well made animations of the Inquisitorial agent's hands. I can't believe not more people talk about it. They tell more than a 1000 words, watch them closely, and the difference from normal and when shit hits the fan. In case you're lazy: They go from "soft" praying/concentration pose, to, when breaking focus because he has to tell the Astartes to recall them, to knuckle hard and shaking. So he's either concentrating REALLY hard or sh*tting his pants for what's to come next...
In regards to 'two ways of turning': my judo instructor once told me that 'control the (aggressors) head and the body will follow'. I think it looks as natural as it does, because this event of the explosion 'controls' ancautios the head movement as you stated out by the surprise element and the body follows seamlessly. Very nice dissection.
Ladies and Gentlemen go show Astartes some love for his amazing work!!! Links in description! Also I think I finally fixed the lighting. Stay safe, and don't your your partners cut your hair!
Just beside how awesome of a job this guy did making all these episodes the guy was EXTREMELY accurate when it comes to the WH40K lore! We are talking over 30 yrs of lore and every detail was pretty much PERFECT!!!! Even the tiniest of details weren't overlooked!
also take a look at how the cape moves from the pressure wave from the bolter fire. if you've ever been around a gun when it goes off you know that firing guns cause a localized high pressure wave from the expanding gasses and the sonic boom from the supersonic projectiles. a .75 bolter going off will feel like you're standing in front of the giant woofers at a rock concert, and it causes the cape to billow a bit.
Bingo! The huge muzzle brake/flash suppressor would also direct even more pressure horizontally. With the power of modern 12 gauge magnum shotgun shells(equivalent to a .72 caliber), even standing behind and to the side of the muzzle, you can feel the pressure wave! Recognizing the raw power of a Bolter, and beautifully displaying the minutiae of the blasts in the flutter of the cloth, is above and beyond my prior expectations! I want to walk up to this animator, shake their hand, and politely ask them for more! Astounding work!
absolutely one guy doing this, i think it took him 2 years just for this episode. games workshop picked him up recently to work for them and GW did some changes to this video series
I dont know why, and maybe someone can explain it to me, but the scene at 6:58 left an impression on me, the weird symbol appearing infront of the marine, then seemingly speeding into the nothingness, replaced by shadowy arms and then the sphere pulling them in, that single scene is so impressive to me but i dont k now why It just looks so fantastic
FYI, Astartes are INCREDIBLY resilient. In this, he only lost one arm but in the actual lore, he could probably lose all of his limbs and one of his hearts and still survive. Their blood clots almost instantly due to some genetic fuckery as well. literal super soldiers.
evne if you somehow lethally injure onr they alos possess a specialized organ and the training require to put themselves in suspended animation until they cna be treated or truly die(and this is rare since crippled marines often end up inside a DreadNought).
Amazing all this stuff you and others caught, you're dead right about that turn the astartes made it looked awesome this video was so well made its layers deep and as such that theres endless speculation and debate, over many details, something to talk about with friends online or battle brothers and sisters out there stuck at home during this time. Its something we needed maybe more than we realize
PLEASE break down the other episodes. Astartes has me concidering going into animation, but I'm a complete noob. you're breakdown is really well executed and easy to understand, extreemly helpfull!
Thanks Joshua, I actually might do that. and If you're interested in Animation, it's a worth while career I promise you. Also I do teach some basics on my channel, good place to start :)
I just noticed you can see the reflection of the Space Marine(I think he’s a Captain, but I’m not certain) in the Inquisitor’s faceplate just before the Inquisitor is killed.
A nice detail that you may have missed is: When the two white space marines noticed that something was wrong, the one in the back putted his hand on his bolter (gun). You may have missed it because he is about blurred in the background when the camera is positioned in front of the possessed one. It is quite great, he even thought about that!
They do talk, but they have a communication device in their helmets, thus you can't hear them from the outside. But you can hear the inquisitor shout in his helmet I think, when he warns the Astartes.
This was cool hearing an animators perspective, but I was kind of hoping for an analysis of the face deleting punch and the follow up mag dump just because thats one of my favorite scenes from this episode
If you could I'd recommend Helsreach. its really good. Its a bit sluggish at first but it gets masterful at the end. so much so GW hired the dude who made it to make a official series
I absolutely love these mini movies. what I would love to see is chaos marines/factions with this level of detail/polish. particularly death guard. to see the lumbering corrupted masses of the death guard plague marines, blightlord terminators, etc would be amazing.
space marines are awesome! also hes not phased by missing an arm because the suit/his biological upgrades mean he wont be in pain and it will already be healing, as much as it can anyway.
Nice video! I'd love to see your thoughts/analysis to parts 1-4. I love the Astartes series, but being a pleb as far as animation goes, I just go on how it looks/feels. From other animators I hear how well it's done on a different level(capturing movement, setting up scenes, etc.), as opposed to someone who just love 40k stuff. For instance, the shot of the sphere hovering and being able to see the space marines walking towards it - I never noticed all the details you pointed out.
This is better than movie quality. Hollywood might know how to make good CGI but hardly they will know how to use or even create tension without a single word.
To my understanding of the lore the sphere is the technology every ship has to have to be able to travel faster than speed of light, but that is also like traveling in another dimension. That "monkguy" on their ship I think is the ships navigator so they can find their way in the "void", he is somehow overseeing the sphere and helping the void find it's course travleing through this "void". So the sphere on the "enemy ship" influences the navigator/psyker and posesses him through the other dimension. The white commander kills him instantly so the possesed navigator/psyker doesn't open a gateway to their ship to terminate the possbility to be attacked/overwhelmed through a "gateway". Possessed Psykers are a big danger in this universe.
3D Animation Hub Your welcome! I’m not 100% sure the terminology is right though not being and a WH40k devotee. And the sphere could still be something else than a reactor-core/gateway-reactor. But I’m sure people will correct me if I’m wrong :)
Just found your channel. Great job on the video. Next time can you talk about the effects that go into some of the scenes? I was looking forward to some analysis on the black mist rising off of the inquisitor as well as the lighting during the orb conversation. Great work overall though.
well if you want to make 3D movies, DO NOT go to a Graphic Design school. That's a whole other thing entirely and will be a waste of money and time for you. Your best bet would be to take Online Workshops. Cheaper and more up to date & more focused on what's important.
They do communicate, they have personal vox radios.. You can tell from that scene in the main ship where the one with the cape made a hand signal? He said to tell the 5 space marines to retreat, and in the other scene after the execution you could see that the leader turned his head to listen in on the radio after being rudely interrupted
11:00 I know that there are a few programs that automate the basic parent-child constraints system making it far less labor intensive and just easier to do. Further you can spend more time fine tuning the constraint over just getting it done in the first place. I keep thinking Maya and Houdini have this.
12:50 this is one of my favorite animations although you've missed the beginning of it, the movement of the sergeant is so realistic, like none of that uncanny valley bs.
There is some dialogue in this! But its muffled by their helmets. When the guy kneeling on the floor comes out of the trance/vision/thing, he looks up and is talking to the guy in white to his right.
Nicely analysed, love the framing appreciation at the start! Constraints are great but have you ever done the one frame hide/reveal to the object being passed?
Thank you, unfortunately That's not a practical way to go about it. It has the potential to mess up other parts of the production like rendering & motion blur. It also kinda screws you over If you have to re adjust the hand.
So if ur wondering what's happening there's speculation on if it's chaos God or C'tan or even Yvantha but I'm thinking it's just kind of unaligned Warp entity's As the orbs communicate between saying they failed and they need to return and the Inquisitor Marines or the grey knights gaurding the Inquisitor Psyker take him to be possessed, as if you read on other possessions they become EXTREMELY powerful as they try to kill off the host because he's dead already.
@@erikvonelm4010 Anyone can make a chapter, that's a big part of Warhammer40k. If you want to be able to play it you'll have to draw up a lot of backstory but you can create any chapter you want, with some restrictions, of course, you will never be able to make a female space marine chapter for instance.
The sphere being contained in the Strike Cruiser has melta charges attached to it, to destroy it in case of emergency (melta bombs are basically anti-armor) The Inquisitor communing with it is a psyker, a powerful psychic user who is viewed as a tool but treated with great caution, as they are vulnerable to possession by other psychic entities if they aren't strong enough to resist. Possession can mean that evil and violent warp entities (called daemons) can enter our realm and cause great havoc. This is why the Captain and 1st Company veteran (the dudes with the white helmets, cloak wearer is the Captain) dispatched him so ruthlessly and efficiently. Kill him while he's still a human and not a resilient warp beast. They take no chances when it comes to psykers. The reason you don't hear words being exchanged is because the Space Marines are all communicating on inter-suit vox channels. Their armor is environment sealed, this means no sound escapes either unless they turn on their external vox speakers. They're communicating with more than just hand gestures, we just can't hear it. This is why you can tell that something is very wrong because you can hear the Inquisitor's muffled yell "RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY" after he hears the orbs converse, even though his helmet is still on. When the Inquisitor overhears the conversation between the orbs, they say: Orb 1: Who's there? Orb 2: I have failed, brother. We have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return. Break your seal. Orb 1: Impossible! We'll never survive! Orb 2: You must! Take them! Additionally, Space Marines have enhanced genetics that allow them to shrug off pain that would paralyze normal humans, their blood clots almost instantly (that was the stuff he was coughing out at the end, and it clotted in 2 seconds), and their armor is equipped with automatic drug dispensers that will flood their system with painkillers after suffering a wound like having your hand blown off. They are engineered to be superhuman warriors that are incredibly hardy and difficult to stop.
I honestly didn't know about transferring constraints and I went through an animation program. Is that something you can just key like anything else? The way I learned it, an object that transfers to different characters can be duplicated and made invisible accordingly, but the way you describe it makes it way more efficient on a system.
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It's pronounced az-tar-teez just for future reference lol😂
Try to react to to THAT:
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What makes it crazier was his channel got hacked and almost lost everything. Love the breakdown.
Thanks Nicholas, and yeah I heard about that... Would have been really sad
What? Whose?
@@vrnvorona astartes channel.
Damn someone got hella jealous cuz they suck gay penises and can't do what this man does
@@masterdovahkiin4646 one: don't be a homophobic prick. Two: it was by a hacker group that has done this before.
I like it when they shot the psyker and the Astartes cape gets pushed upward from the explosive Bolts
The level of detail in this cinematic is insane. He did everything to perfection
@@BrianKouhi Also when they first enter the room, you can see ice crunching under their feet and the vents on their suits steaming in the cold air.
@@nick012000 oh... thats ice... i thought it was something scifi related roflmao
@@K4inan Well, you're not wrong! In 40k, the presence of warp energy creates a drop in temperature and a sudden hoarfrost. That ice lets us know that the touch of the warp is present in that chamber.
40k - a universe where hell is literally frozen over.
@@BrianKouhi when he is getting sucked in by the orb you can see small runes appearing on his glove
Something else that commendable: the constraint in cinematography. Because its all digital, the virtual camera can be place anywhere, to capture all kinds of fantastical angles, flythroughs and flyovers., which would be impossible in real life. The GOD that did Astartes chose restraint. He used angles , motions and even virtual lenses and focus pulls that mimic real life ones.So as you watch, the whole thing speaks in a visual language thats firmly placed in reality, that are familiar like shots you've seen before. This helps the brain make the leap from reality to fantasy, that much easier.
I just notoces that now.
That's what makes it, its very cinematic and immerses you much more. Clearly they have a very good understanding of film making.
You might not believe it's just one person, but it is. He's from New Zealand. I believe he's looking into enlisting some help to get the next series out a little more quickly this time around!
oh shit he's local
Yeah that's insane...
Oh shit he's local
New Zealand? Fuck that's cool. No clue a fellow Kiwi was behind this
@@BrianKouhi Video of you eating your boot, when? Maybe even as an animation. =P
The reaction to the Psyker being corrupted (or possessed or whatever is lore-accurate) is my favorite thing ever.
"This is not normal"
PUNCH!
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
"Problem solved"
Peak brutal efficiency right there.
Warhammer Exorcism. Either kill him now or let him transform into a daemon that eats bolter shots for breakfast.
when the warp is involved, you don't take any chances.
I'd say the bolter gun is unnecessary
@@audimalvin5763 The bolter was entirely necessary.
@@audimalvin5763 You know nothing John Snow. Read up!
Something to note that what they did to the inquisitor (the guy in the red robes) was actually a mercy killing not only for the inquisitor itself, but the whole ship. Posession is a very dangerous thing in the W.H.40k universe and a possessed psyker is the last thing you want.
If a remember correctly, they can tank those bolter rounds if the possession was completed.
@@souleater1239 I'm pretty sure that's true but I'm talking planet destruction or a demonic invasion kind of levels of do not want
Indeed, it was a most decisive and correct action.
His head got obliterated by the first punch
@@jefflee4527 which won't kill most possessed humans sadly... the books do a good job of describing the level of destruction required to kill a possessed person without the use of a psycher...
My favourite detail is in the blood coagulation since in the lore, their blood coagulates quickly to stop bleeding from open wounds.
Discoveries of me and my friends;
1. There is a second Dead orb inside the same chamber as the Inquisitorial guy is in, cables hanging dead from it. Right side.
2. glass sound on the floor when they enter 02. Ice frost, probly due to warp energy bleedout.
3. the skulls and spines around the giant gold guy. Its the same as the 2 psykers they faced outside 02.
4. the orbs are remnant warp weaponry left by the Yu'vath empire from the 39th Millennium. (Check out 'Rouge Trader')
5. Yu'vath was found during the Angevin Crusade in the Calyx Expanse M39.322, they are a warp corrupted xeno empire. Everything they is make constructed of a crystalline or ceramic material that resembles natural or fossilised bone. There is word around tho that they aint Yu'Vath by the creator but i've yet to see any proof of that claim.
6. the patterns on the orbs is the same as the masks of the psykers from ep4.
7. the 'sticks' they shove into the orbs is made by the Inqusition.
8. the orb inside the inqusitorial vessel is communicating with the orb on the ship the Astartes are on. there are 2 active orbs. the Inquisitorial agent notice this.
9. Red top diagram mesurement of something increase alot when it goes active.
10. 'Who is here?' 'I failed brother' 'We have all failed' 'The Astartes defy our touch' 'You must return' 'Break your seal' 'Thats impossible, we'll never survive that' 'You must. Take the others.'
11. Inqusitorial agent; 'RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY!'
12. Orb; At Last!. (Cables then spark and line goes into the agent). Starts speaking xeno i suspect.
13. Orange backlight, most likely lava, the guys standing around is the same as the 2 they faced in ep4.
14. Back on heretic ship, Sgt. turns his head to the side, most likely getting the recall order.
15. Tentacle creature looks like Asura from indian mythology. The female head on top, symbol looks very similar to thats on the small green screen at 0.22 in the original video.
16. Symbols on the orb appears on the sgt hard when its getting aborbed.
17. Asura looking dude glows blue and Tentacles. You can see 'black' things 'swimning around in there? before one comes from below to eat/attack the blue guy. it breaks and the marines shatter.
18. Blue tentacle looks like it goes into the marines, you can faintly see blue light in the sgt abdomen when he reappears.
19. Red eyelens is dead, armour or helmet has lost power.
20. Strange patterns appear in the marines spit and bile. some say its blood, i say its part of the creature.
21. Giant Skeleton on thrones and such might be Yu'Vath verisons of Titans, or its dead kings/emperors. or the original Yu'vath was that large.
22. You can see the other astartes appear on the other pillars around the area in their own 'teleportish' flashes, you see 3 of them clearly, 1st is to the right side outside panel, you bearly see it.
23. The giant skeletons on the thrones, from the back of their skulls go our spine looking things that looks like what they guys in ep4 had.
24. 1st marine after video, creators chapter, 'Retributors'. 2nd marine is 'Angel Sanguine'. 3rd marine is 'Void Dragons', fanmade chapter by patrons. 4th marine is 'Deaths Hand', fanmade chapter by patrons.
25. The weaponry that attack the hands of death marine is an Eldar shuriken carbine of some sort.
26. Thats a predator tank with anti infantry cannon.
Thats all. Feel free to add any findings.
20 It is blood, Astartes blood clots when it touches air to prevent bleeding.
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This is just a wild guess but I have a hunch the black clound in the warp is a result of the Astartes ship, realizing it's insertion team is lost decided to turn its big guns on the rebel ship and reduce it to ashes. The warp core breach would have an effect in the Immaterium as well.
@@Darwinist could also be the psycher. He was releasing the same kind of dark smoke when he went into the orb (3:55). Other dark things can be seen moving around at 6:14. One above the marine to the top left and one bottom right. Timestamp for original video
@@davidegaribaldi1503 2:25 for a clearer shot of it
Yep Space Marines can mag lock any part of their armor to hold equipment or to lock themselves to a metal surface (like if they need to go outside a ship in a vacuum) so slapping his bolter to his leg is correct.
The space marine running is almost like how its described in some books. The space marines use their leg and power armor to jump horizontally when they want to go very fast. Basically plant a foot compress and use the power armors leg enchantment to move incredibly fast, though less control of movement because they are leaving the ground for intervals instead of always having one foot planted.
For some reason the space marines didn't do that when they were running towards the psykers in part 4
He probably got the feedback and changed it up for this episode.
@@BrianKouhi Guess so, although you can't really see the animation.
Ya know the reason why they do this is because their physiology is very different from humans. They have so much more muscle that it's insane. In addition, their armour shifts their center of gravity as well as their huge pauldrons making it harder for them to run like how a normal human would. So they instead use the movement described by the OP
They can keep this up for days without rest
running more like gazelles as i recall it being described years and years ago.
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve seen it described as “adopting a powerful loping gate”, or leaping stride. Economy of movement often seems to come up too, which these animations capture nigh on perfectly
Few more details. You can see other space marines getting warped onto other pillars in the last seconds of the cinematic. Also when you get the pov moment and detail of the orb sucking in his hand, you can see runes spreading over his armor.
As for the voices, there are a few, though, quite muffled by design -
Orb 1 (with the Inquisitor): "Who's there?"
Orb 2: "I have failed, brother."
Orb 1: "We have all failed."
Orb 2: "Astartes deny our touch."
Orb 1: "We must return. Break your shield."
Orb 2: "Impossible. We'll never survive."
Orb 1: "You must take them."
And when Orb 1 breaks the connection, the Inquisitor says to the Veteran Space Marine with a cape:
“Recall them immediately!"
It's "break you seal", not "break your shield".
He's not an inquistor, but yeah. Most likely the psyker thought the daemon in the orb would do gene stealing, and or use them in some kind of ritual. Each of which could spell death for their entire fleet.
Yup, done by a single animator, Syama Pedersen. You can find interviews with him. He is a 3d generalist that worked on various games. He even has a page on art station. He definitely has some skills.
8:42 and the flashes of light were the other members teleporting. Really shows how huge the statues are.
(at the small pillars at the bottom of the screen.)
ahh shit i just noticed. damn
Woah nice catch m8
Jacob Moffatt on the other pillars at the bottom
The marines do likely talk actually. We just don't get to hear it since they got radios inside their helmets.
He hasn't got the actors yet to voice the characters.
You could totally change the mood and feel of this series by letting the viewer in on the vox comms and you wouldn't need to change a single frame of animation.
I like this approach better, it shows how absolutely terrifyingly, silently efficient the Astartes are when doing these kinds of operations. They can even be quite stealthy despite their huge bulk.
They do. The psyker tells the Marine to recall the squad. He says ' recall them, immediately'. Its muffled because they have commication devices inside their helmets.
@@MikeTheGamer77 Given that we dont hear anyone else talk, he must be screaming at the top of his lungs for the sound to be heard at all.
That Inquisitor was a damn hero, he must have realized that breaking his concentration was putting himself at risk.
It seems like the videos are shot as if we are standing with them. That's why when we hear the psyker talk to the marine it is so muffled. You can hear the marines talking to the group at the second sphere a split second before it grabs them. From the interview, Syama said he rather have no dialog than bad dialogue so he went with visually telling the story. A good compromise all in all.
One of my favorite little details is at the close up of the Inquisitor's hand when it's twitching and he drops his censor (6:33), you can see the Corvus Marine start going for his bolter in the back, out of focus.
Ooh yeah totally! Of all the videos I've watched and the comments I've read about Astartes I've never seen anyone notice this, great job!
Camino377 the Corvus is back there like “ah shit, another psyker I gotta pulp with my bolter”
no words because the armor is sealed. They're speaking and listening to their radios throughout all the parts. You can notice it by little gestures and movements of hands and head
That inquisitor looked real. It looked like a moving person with fabric
I like how that guy's punch is so strong that not only it destroy the head, also causing the body to slam down on the ground so fast that you can see the hand catching up to the body as it fall.
EricPaz space marines don’t fuck around
@Zerebrat Eightyseven Implants plus their suit. half a century to train, 23 artificial organs, and the best part is that they recruit anyone who on their own is already a super badass as a normal human.
to repeat a famous comment
Hollywood big cgi company: sir we cant make superman's mouth look realistic
producer: THIS GUY DID THIS FILM IN A CAVE... With A BOX OF SCRAPS
Yeah, if the guy behind Astartes is by himself, he's got to be some kind of Savant.
Well he did do it alone from what I’ve heard
Yeah he did it alone, truly a hardworking genius
@@Fyuken
Even with a normal group of pros in Hollywood, this is an extremely difficult feat to get this level of detail in CGI. A man doing this himself, no matter the property, is just astonishing.
definitely kick ass. Syama got some skills and if you are on his patreon he breaks down shots so you can see how he composites and animates the stuff. It also seems like he got a motion capture suit which he uses for reference. Probably one of the many tricks to how he is able to get such quality.
Jason McAlpin Yeah what was impressive for me is that he captured the clinical precision of the space marines so well in their tactics and movements. They move like they are in heavy armour but with frightening speed.
Did you notice that when the strike team enteref the vault it was extremely cold? The floor had visible ice patches that the leader crushed with his foot and when it cut to their backs, the exhaust vents were pooling Steam.
Blue team John, Fred, Linda, Kelly the warp bleed caused a temperature drop
You can hear the Inquisitor, right after he listens in to their conversation. Yell out of his muffled helmet to "Get them out of their' as the Orbs were speaking of 'Taking them' and 'They deny our touch.' The same one who said it was 'Impossible' to escape was the one who got its head smashed in when it attempted the possession on the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor let his guard down for a split second to warn the other Space Marines to warn them, which let the being into his mind.
6:42 yeah, we don’t really do possessions here, we’re gonna have to let you go for heresy
I also agree this is pretty amazing animation. When I was in high school back in the late 80s I remember seeing them lead figurines & game boards in my local comic book store and they always fascinated me. I've watched all four Astartes since their release and was excited to see number 5 pop up on my tube account out of the blue a couple days ago. I'm familiar with Warhammer but I'm not familiar with the story. After watching this my interest has peaked & I want too start from the beginning if there is one. My local Barnes and Nobles has hundreds of Warhammer books but I'm clueless to which one to pick up first. Can any body out there give me a suggestion on which book I should pick up first? I'm not gonna start and play the role playing game I prefer to read storyline instead.
Harvey Casey one thing about the Black Library (GWs Company that maintains a stable of authors for Warhammer lore), and really the whole universe is that it is very sandboxy in a way. It would be very hard and very expensive to read ever single 40k book out there.
I’ll recommend a couple series, depending on your interests:
The Eisenhorn series: This was where I started. It’s very small scale, following a man hunting heretics, and it is a very interesting series, that puts 40k in a smaller scale than you usually see it. I never read the 4th book, which is a prequel and collection of short stories.
The War of the Beast: like many of the novels, the war of the beast takes place before “present day” it follows an Astartes of the Imperial Fists and is a very fun read with 6-8 books IIRC. It’s a bit larger scale for sure, and may be enjoyed more if you have a bit more context for the setting.
Dark Imperium: it’s a good book, though a lot of what is happening in the books is better appreciated by someone with foreknowledge, it isn’t a bad place to start.
Lastly, I’d definitely look into the Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra series of books. These are two huge series of books by many different authors in the Black Library stable. The first handful of books are worth a read, as Garviel Loken is a fan favorite character created in the first few books. These books start at the end of the Great Crusade leading up to the Horus Heresy series.
Good luck!
The esinhorn series is a good place to start as is Gaunt's Ghost they're both by Dan Abnett. He also wrote a novel about an Original Space Marine Chapter called the Brothers of the Snake. You also might like the Caiphius Cain Books I know that's the first Warhammer 40k series I started with. Just be aware 40k is a rabbit hole once you go in it's very hard to get out. If you're looking for a good lore channel I'd recommend Archwarhammer I don't agree with all of his politics but when it comes to lore the guy does a very good job hitting the key notes in both 40k and old school Warhammer fantasy. I mean he he did a 50 video series on the Siege of Vraks which was a planetary seige that lasted five years and cost billions of lives. Yeah in case you couldn't tell 40k has no chill.
i'm kinda in the same boat as you :P i really want to get into the warhammer 40k stories, especially after watching the last episode of astartes! after looking around a little i found that a lot of people recommend that it's best to start with the books Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames, in that order. those 3 books supposedly give you a good overview of the warhammer 40k universe (although they are set in warhammer 30k). hope that helps
If you want to start at the very very beginning, you want Horus Rising. But if you just want to dip your finger, so to speak into the universe, theres a couple places you can start. Eisenhorn series, Gaunt's ghosts, (personally my all time favorite series in the wh40k books.) Dark imperium. And if you want a really good book that will leave you a shell of yourself after you're done with it, Galaxy In Flames. Torgadden, Tarvitz, Loken, my bois. My bestest bois.
Others suggest various books and such as "starting points" for understanding 40k, but much better advice for you would be to look up 40k for beginners vids on youtube for various things. Beginners understanding of the timeline, the factions, key figures, major timeline events like the horus heresy, etc. You need to get a basic understanding of all of those kinds of things first before you can even begin to have the thought of jumping into any of the books or stories so you can actually have an understanding and grasp of what's going on and how things are in 40k. 40k has the unique trait of it being the absolutely most ridiculously huge loreset of any kind of fantasy setting that's ever been made. Things like star wars or lord of the rings and such look like pathetic children's books in comparison. Once you have a beginners understanding of all of that, then you can look into books based around a timeline event, or perhaps a faction, or chapter of space marines or whatever that interests you and then you can dive in from there. In 40k, because it is so ridiculously huge as a lore set, you should only focus on the things that interest you or that you think or cool, that's where you will get enjoyment out of the 40k universe.
You should also see Healsreach from Richard Boylan, it's a 13 episode animation of a 40k book made also by only one person. If you liked Astartes then you will love it (it also deserves more love)
Hellsreach is nothing short of fantastic. Cant recommend it enough
Oo I'll check it out
@@BrianKouhi There's also a new 40k animation called "Death of hope" by Mark Louis Spark, he made all his models from scratch with IMMENSE detail, the trailers for his project are also amazing.
@@tychohero just watched it. Quite dark. But very well done. There was a few times though where I struggled to make out who was what, and what was exactly happening.
Funnily. In a comment from Mark in the comment section he says he hates animating lol
3D Animation Hub Helsreach is more dialogue and story focused rather than on the actions
I also like the way the Cape flies back whenever the bolter is fired.
13:54 I also notice his guns also got magneted into his leg
You are absolutely correct about the runner's gun. Astartes have "mag-locks' on their armor to which they can attach not just their guns, but also their helmets (when removed). I'm super glad you caught that, otherwise I would have missed another touch of lore-wizardry.
That my friend is a possession, something that if allowed to happen could cost them all of their lives and would take hundreds of shots from a bolter (yes the same one that was ripping humans in half from a single shot) just to kill it if not more
being an animator must be a great asset to read body language I think! never thought about head first or body first. same principle with the marine running away to relay the orders. great vid!
Thank you! :)
Oh man are you kidding me? There are enough lore breakdowns and analysis of these videos but this is more interesting to me. You're right, part five may not be the best part to showcase purely animation chops? I wouldn't know, you called yourself a dumbass for choosing this one to analyze, well...rectify that lol. You must know that everyone is praising the shit out of the animation but most people like me don't really understand how difficult it is. I'll bet those people praising it would love to see you do an analysis of the other parts so that they could get a better appreciation for the skill required. I know I would absolutely LOVE an animation breakdown of the other parts, the only question in my mind would be whether to make more then one video analyzing the separate parts or just one more analyzing the parts 1-4. Would you consider that? Loved this video, good job, I'm intrigued!
Edit: Just thought I should clarify that I'm a layman...idk, it just bugged me when I came back to rewatch this great video and I remembered my comment xD Your breakdowns are as good as I remembered though! Congrats again, great job.
Wow Edgar thank you for the kind words. I might actually consider doing analysis on the other parts, would love to rewatch them again.
@@BrianKouhi If would accept a bit of constructive criticism from a lay person, perhaps you can break it up into areas you want to highlight. Movement, textures, feeling of presence and weight, framing, set design... then pull examples from across the series to make your point. That way, if you "ramble," you can keep it on topic each time. maybe get 5 or 6 videos out of it?
@@edwardsummey8843 that's actually a pretty good idea, thanks Edward
He had a MoCap suit for a lot of this which definitely helped with making sure the animations were human and natural. Plus he wanted to keep the speed and agility of space marines, despite them bearing 10 ish feet tall and Clad in 1 tonne armour to convey how much they're superhuman augmented enhanced murder machines.
Ah motion capture would definitely help. Amazing nonetheless though
If you find the time I'd personally love to hear about the other 4 parts.
Will do! Gotten a lot of requests
@@BrianKouhi One fun note that might be missed in one of the earlier parts. When the grunt gets knife killed, dude was holding what looks like an anti-tank mine or some other large explosive, he was going kamikaze. HUGE balls on any mere mortal who runs TOWARDS one of those motherfuckers. Brilliant of the creator to think that up for what is an easily overlooked detail. The series begs to be re-watched because he seems to have strands of little lore and a reason for every little thing.
"guy is a hard ass, he got his armed ripped off and he is fine with it" Son i got news for ya, spacemarines are the baddasss of badass, they have two hearts, can spit acid, and can get nutrition FROM ROCKS. losing a hand, is like a tuesday to them, most of them have been fighting a war for THOUSANDS of years.
That's kind of inaccurate. For one the eating Rocks thing is utterly new to me, and veterans of a thousand years are very rare on the loyalist side. Dante is over a thousand of years old and he is basically the oldest living loyalist besides Bjorn, who spent most of the last ten millennia in stasis and is still going senile. Most of the Chaos Space Marines don't show their age because for them it hasn't been that long due to warp time fuckery or because of mutation.
Also, if you're gonna bring up metal shit about Astartes biology how could you forget the fact that they can eat brains to gain the dead person's knowledge.
@@maxb9767 The preomnor, and betcher's gland can allow marines to eat virtually anything, including rocks. I can't remember the exact mention of eating rocks, but i do know the preomnor allows consumption of inorganic matter..so rocks.
beyond that, average age for a space marine seems to be around 3 or 400 years judging by the service studs, thousand just had a nice ring to it, and since it's 1/10 of 10,000 years of war after the horus heresy, it sounds nice.
If you want to know what's happening:
We are shown an orb aboard the ship our strike team left. It is bound and an inquisitor is hooked up to it, probably trying to interrogate it. Or keep it in check.
We are shown the second orb aboard the ship they boarded. It is very angry. But they push through its defenses and stab some thingies into it.
Back on the loyalist ship, the inquisitor bears witness a conversation between the two orbs.
Something about all of them failing and the need to return.
The inquisitor wakes from the trance and you can hear him say something inside of his helmet (He’s telling the Astartes Captain to recall the Strike Team).
One of the marines immediatelly runs to the bridge to warn the team.
The Orb uses this singular slip in the inquisitor’s mental defenses and gets into his head.
He is dispatched with efficiency.
The team gets the warning, but it is too late. The orb sucks them in.
You can see a tentacle thing holding the entire team. Then it explodes.
I’m pretty sure the loyalist ship destroyed the rebel one. And the Orb with it.
With the tentacle thing gone, the marines are teleported to what I’m pretty certain is a Necrontyr world. Yes, we can see only the “main character” but if you pay attention, near the end there are flashes on top of the other pillars as the rest of his team ports in.
So… From the imagery, the tentacle dragon thing they can see for a split second instead of t he orb, and the Necrontyr world…
I’m quite certain those orbs are C’tan shards. God-like aliens that existed long before humanity peaked.
Just pinned your comment, Thanks!
I think the Astartes creator has confirmed that the spheres are his own made-up xenos. No confirmation on the Yu'Vath, Necrontyr or C'tan.
@@genida951 You know how W40k goes... Even canon contradicts canon.
The Necrontyr/C'tan thing fits perfectly, apart of that brief stint in the warp. That's like the one diviation he took from it.
About the attack that destroyed that being in the warp.
I like to think that it wasn't a demon or navy destroying the vessel aboard which the orb was at. It wouldn't make much sense
1) Demon: If the being was in the warp already for so long, why would demons get interested in it only in that particular moment? Souls of Astartes could be a reason but then they would take a different angle at attacking the xeno.
2) Navy destroying the ship: The loyalists weren't able to know if the Kill Team got out or not, they wouldn't sacrifice lives of five marines so foolishly.
I like to think that it was a librarian of the chapter. We know that the chapter has tight connection to the Inquisition, it's fully possible that they have some powerful psykers of their own in their ranks. And considering the captain of the 1st company was aboard that vessel, I think it's possible that they also had a librarian on standby. I believe it could be a swift attack from the librarian in hopes of saving his brothers, or at least their souls.
@@galis4383 The team had cameras. Of course the command ship knew if they made it out or not.
If a thing like that vacuums up your kill team, your inquisitor gets vaporized... They didn't want to risk it.
I'm going off story-telling basics, not off the lore. And while Astartes has some glaring problems, it manages to get the basics right.
You don't tell a story through intervetion from unmentioned or unseen characters.
Thanks boss for your breakdown. As an animator myself people don't realize all the little details into animation. Just the character movements in itself is a long and tedious task. Then you have lighting, texturing, cinematography with the different camera angles, sound and story telling. This gentleman is truly gifted with nailing all of these aspects. He definitely needs to be supported to the fullest.
Agreed!
In the same vein of Warhammer, you should check out Death of Hope Part 1.
I'll check it out!
Seconded
@@BrianKouhi You will learn a lot more of 40k lore, and figure out just how dark "grimdark" can really get. it is set long before the timeline of Astartes.
Death of Hope shows what not to do. The animators clearly went past their skill level. They should have put more into better movement than detailed models.
Helsreach is another good one.
6:20 The inquisitor says "Recall them immediately," and not 5 seconds later Brian says "now words". I guess it was _really_ muffled.
surprised you didnt mention how when the beaked helmet space marine put 4 rounds into the now VERY dead inquisitor, the marine who punched hims cape billowed with the force of the explosive rounds
I thougt this was a tech priest that connected himself.
@@Speedy2619 a techpriest would have the mechanicus cog symbol, the I is for the inquisition, even techpriests working for the inquisition would keep the mechanicus cog most openly, but wear some small inquisition icon too.
also, mechanicus tend to have stuff called mechadendrites, which are basically mechanical limbs coming out of their backs, kinda like what doc octopus had from the toby maguire spiderman
they said the more you know about something the more you can enjoy someone that good at the subject. He seems having a blast with this.
It's a one person who makes it all. Soundscape, animation, modelling, lighting, interrios, concept art etc. That's just mind boggling. That last frame is a
piece of art.
My favourite moment as a watcher, is the unbelievably well made animations of the Inquisitorial agent's hands.
I can't believe not more people talk about it. They tell more than a 1000 words, watch them closely, and the difference from normal and when shit hits the fan.
In case you're lazy: They go from "soft" praying/concentration pose, to, when breaking focus because he has to tell the Astartes to recall them, to knuckle hard and shaking. So he's either concentrating REALLY hard or sh*tting his pants for what's to come next...
In regards to 'two ways of turning': my judo instructor once told me that 'control the (aggressors) head and the body will follow'. I think it looks as natural as it does, because this event of the explosion 'controls' ancautios the head movement as you stated out by the surprise element and the body follows seamlessly.
Very nice dissection.
Ladies and Gentlemen go show Astartes some love for his amazing work!!! Links in description! Also I think I finally fixed the lighting. Stay safe, and don't your your partners cut your hair!
Just beside how awesome of a job this guy did making all these episodes the guy was EXTREMELY accurate when it comes to the WH40K lore! We are talking over 30 yrs of lore and every detail was pretty much PERFECT!!!! Even the tiniest of details weren't overlooked!
also take a look at how the cape moves from the pressure wave from the bolter fire. if you've ever been around a gun when it goes off you know that firing guns cause a localized high pressure wave from the expanding gasses and the sonic boom from the supersonic projectiles. a .75 bolter going off will feel like you're standing in front of the giant woofers at a rock concert, and it causes the cape to billow a bit.
Bingo! The huge muzzle brake/flash suppressor would also direct even more pressure horizontally.
With the power of modern 12 gauge magnum shotgun shells(equivalent to a .72 caliber), even standing behind and to the side of the muzzle, you can feel the pressure wave!
Recognizing the raw power of a Bolter, and beautifully displaying the minutiae of the blasts in the flutter of the cloth, is above and beyond my prior expectations! I want to walk up to this animator, shake their hand, and politely ask them for more! Astounding work!
My favourite part of this video is that kill on the psyker. It is SO smooth with zero hesitation
You see that a bit in this, like when the astartes lands after being in the warp, that quick snap reflex.
absolutely one guy doing this, i think it took him 2 years just for this episode. games workshop picked him up recently to work for them and GW did some changes to this video series
I dont know why, and maybe someone can explain it to me, but the scene at 6:58 left an impression on me, the weird symbol appearing infront of the marine, then seemingly speeding into the nothingness, replaced by shadowy arms and then the sphere pulling them in, that single scene is so impressive to me
but i dont k now why
It just looks so fantastic
Not just the animation, the attention to lore detail is unprecedent.
FYI, Astartes are INCREDIBLY resilient.
In this, he only lost one arm but in the actual lore, he could probably lose all of his limbs and one of his hearts and still survive. Their blood clots almost instantly due to some genetic fuckery as well. literal super soldiers.
evne if you somehow lethally injure onr they alos possess a specialized organ and the training require to put themselves in suspended animation until they cna be treated or truly die(and this is rare since crippled marines often end up inside a DreadNought).
Amazing all this stuff you and others caught, you're dead right about that turn the astartes made it looked awesome this video was so well made its layers deep and as such that theres endless speculation and debate, over many details, something to talk about with friends online or battle brothers and sisters out there stuck at home during this time. Its something we needed maybe more than we realize
PLEASE break down the other episodes. Astartes has me concidering going into animation, but I'm a complete noob. you're breakdown is really well executed and easy to understand, extreemly helpfull!
Thanks Joshua, I actually might do that. and If you're interested in Animation, it's a worth while career I promise you. Also I do teach some basics on my channel, good place to start :)
I just noticed you can see the reflection of the Space Marine(I think he’s a Captain, but I’m not certain) in the Inquisitor’s faceplate just before the Inquisitor is killed.
A nice detail that you may have missed is:
When the two white space marines noticed that something was wrong, the one in the back putted his hand on his bolter (gun).
You may have missed it because he is about blurred in the background when the camera is positioned in front of the possessed one.
It is quite great, he even thought about that!
How to defeat Space Marines:
Use giant magnets
Which isn't what is happening. Ceramite and Plasteel are not magnetic. They are being pulled in by psychic energy from the warp.
@@Whiskey11Gaming I know, it was a joke.
Good god, the more you rewatch the more you notice. Animating GOD indeed.
The astartes are talking just on their chapters personal vox channel. It'll sound like a subtle clicking
They do talk, but they have a communication device in their helmets, thus you can't hear them from the outside. But you can hear the inquisitor shout in his helmet I think, when he warns the Astartes.
That sphere is fear itself
That's what a flat earther would say.
The textures on the armour are so perfect because they are imperfect.
HE MISPRONOUNCED THE GOD EMPERORS HOLY SERVANT'S TITLE! GET HIM!
Yes lord inquisition that man right there on the vox film
This was cool hearing an animators perspective, but I was kind of hoping for an analysis of the face deleting punch and the follow up mag dump just because thats one of my favorite scenes from this episode
If you could I'd recommend Helsreach. its really good. Its a bit sluggish at first but it gets masterful at the end. so much so GW hired the dude who made it to make a official series
I absolutely love these mini movies. what I would love to see is chaos marines/factions with this level of detail/polish. particularly death guard. to see the lumbering corrupted masses of the death guard plague marines, blightlord terminators, etc would be amazing.
It is also body language and gestures.
When you mastered this, little dialogue is needed.
The amount of prayer seals lining the corridor to the sphere shows that the Inquisition isn't taking these entities lightly.
Awww, I wanted to see your commentary on the execution. There was a ton of attention to detail in that (like the cape billowing from the gun fire.)
space marines are awesome! also hes not phased by missing an arm because the suit/his biological upgrades mean he wont be in pain and it will already be healing, as much as it can anyway.
So you confirmed what we already knew the man is a genius .
If you listen closely, you can hear mufled voices from several of the characters. They are speaking through their helmet comms.
From what I've heard is that the astartes can speak to each other in their helmets and thats why we don't hear them talk
Nice video! I'd love to see your thoughts/analysis to parts 1-4. I love the Astartes series, but being a pleb as far as animation goes, I just go on how it looks/feels. From other animators I hear how well it's done on a different level(capturing movement, setting up scenes, etc.), as opposed to someone who just love 40k stuff. For instance, the shot of the sphere hovering and being able to see the space marines walking towards it - I never noticed all the details you pointed out.
The lighting, cinematography, and Animation in this series is top level, that's why I found it hard to believe one person mastered it all!
Sphere feels like a living satalite transmitting chaos
This is better than movie quality. Hollywood might know how to make good CGI but hardly they will know how to use or even create tension without a single word.
Yes! ONE person, using 3dsMax and NO plugins for the animation part.
Literally, a one man army.
To my understanding of the lore the sphere is the technology every ship has to have to be able to travel faster than speed of light, but that is also like traveling in another dimension. That "monkguy" on their ship I think is the ships navigator so they can find their way in the "void", he is somehow overseeing the sphere and helping the void find it's course travleing through this "void". So the sphere on the "enemy ship" influences the navigator/psyker and posesses him through the other dimension. The white commander kills him instantly so the possesed navigator/psyker doesn't open a gateway to their ship to terminate the possbility to be attacked/overwhelmed through a "gateway". Possessed Psykers are a big danger in this universe.
That was very insightful thanks Acekorv
3D Animation Hub Your welcome! I’m not 100% sure the terminology is right though not being and a WH40k devotee. And the sphere could still be something else than a reactor-core/gateway-reactor. But I’m sure people will correct me if I’m wrong :)
Just found your channel. Great job on the video. Next time can you talk about the effects that go into some of the scenes? I was looking forward to some analysis on the black mist rising off of the inquisitor as well as the lighting during the orb conversation. Great work overall though.
It's insanely good ..and this guy needs to be picked up by a major studio ..because he's the bomb..💥💀
It’s pretty cool that he’s exploring different chapters we probably never heard of
They're fan-created chapters. The one in this series is his creation - the Retributors. They're an Imperial Fist successor chapter.
Such attention to detai! This series makes me want to go to graphic design uni and pursue my old dream of making 3D movies.
well if you want to make 3D movies, DO NOT go to a Graphic Design school. That's a whole other thing entirely and will be a waste of money and time for you. Your best bet would be to take Online Workshops. Cheaper and more up to date & more focused on what's important.
the psycher actually yells to the marine “get them out of there”
They do communicate, they have personal vox radios.. You can tell from that scene in the main ship where the one with the cape made a hand signal? He said to tell the 5 space marines to retreat, and in the other scene after the execution you could see that the leader turned his head to listen in on the radio after being rudely interrupted
This series made me search for 40k lore on youtube (I hav some 40k and some ... non 40k figures) but I never knew anything about the lore before.
Medievil sci-fi at it's best.
11:00 I know that there are a few programs that automate the basic parent-child constraints system making it far less labor intensive and just easier to do. Further you can spend more time fine tuning the constraint over just getting it done in the first place. I keep thinking Maya and Houdini have this.
12:50 this is one of my favorite animations although you've missed the beginning of it, the movement of the sergeant is so realistic, like none of that uncanny valley bs.
There is some dialogue in this! But its muffled by their helmets. When the guy kneeling on the floor comes out of the trance/vision/thing, he looks up and is talking to the guy in white to his right.
Maybe pick either episode 3 or 4 for another analysis video if you want more animation
Nicely analysed, love the framing appreciation at the start! Constraints are great but have you ever done the one frame hide/reveal to the object being passed?
Thank you, unfortunately That's not a practical way to go about it. It has the potential to mess up other parts of the production like rendering & motion blur. It also kinda screws you over If you have to re adjust the hand.
@@BrianKouhi I'm just being an old 3D hack. Constraints are a magical thing.
Killer channel- love the nitty gritty analysis
That was an awesome breakdown man got a new subscriber out it lol
Thanks Jormungunder
So if ur wondering what's happening there's speculation on if it's chaos God or C'tan or even Yvantha but I'm thinking it's just kind of unaligned Warp entity's
As the orbs communicate between saying they failed and they need to return and the Inquisitor Marines or the grey knights gaurding the Inquisitor Psyker take him to be possessed, as if you read on other possessions they become EXTREMELY powerful as they try to kill off the host because he's dead already.
Astrates said that the spheres weren't based off of any fluff and were his own original creation.
@@antonackermann9620 hey even that he did make the retributor chapter himself so
@@erikvonelm4010 Anyone can make a chapter, that's a big part of Warhammer40k. If you want to be able to play it you'll have to draw up a lot of backstory but you can create any chapter you want, with some restrictions, of course, you will never be able to make a female space marine chapter for instance.
at 6:38 the psyker is chanting in high gothic to attempt to stave off the daemon attempting to possess him. He failed.
The " ok ok" part was the best.
"Why do they stab the poor sphere?"
Warp F*ckery
Duude, the cape moving for the boltor shockwaves... I came so hard on this.
The sphere being contained in the Strike Cruiser has melta charges attached to it, to destroy it in case of emergency (melta bombs are basically anti-armor)
The Inquisitor communing with it is a psyker, a powerful psychic user who is viewed as a tool but treated with great caution, as they are vulnerable to possession by other psychic entities if they aren't strong enough to resist. Possession can mean that evil and violent warp entities (called daemons) can enter our realm and cause great havoc. This is why the Captain and 1st Company veteran (the dudes with the white helmets, cloak wearer is the Captain) dispatched him so ruthlessly and efficiently. Kill him while he's still a human and not a resilient warp beast. They take no chances when it comes to psykers.
The reason you don't hear words being exchanged is because the Space Marines are all communicating on inter-suit vox channels. Their armor is environment sealed, this means no sound escapes either unless they turn on their external vox speakers. They're communicating with more than just hand gestures, we just can't hear it. This is why you can tell that something is very wrong because you can hear the Inquisitor's muffled yell "RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY" after he hears the orbs converse, even though his helmet is still on.
When the Inquisitor overhears the conversation between the orbs, they say:
Orb 1: Who's there?
Orb 2: I have failed, brother. We have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return. Break your seal.
Orb 1: Impossible! We'll never survive!
Orb 2: You must! Take them!
Additionally, Space Marines have enhanced genetics that allow them to shrug off pain that would paralyze normal humans, their blood clots almost instantly (that was the stuff he was coughing out at the end, and it clotted in 2 seconds), and their armor is equipped with automatic drug dispensers that will flood their system with painkillers after suffering a wound like having your hand blown off. They are engineered to be superhuman warriors that are incredibly hardy and difficult to stop.
there was a whole ass conversation while my guy saying "no words"
I honestly didn't know about transferring constraints and I went through an animation program. Is that something you can just key like anything else? The way I learned it, an object that transfers to different characters can be duplicated and made invisible accordingly, but the way you describe it makes it way more efficient on a system.
Yup, totally keyable. I got a 3 video series dedicated to constraints on the channel if your interested. I go through all of the methods