What happened with ASTARTES?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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More important question: What happened to the dwarfs?!
Old World is dead, GW is bringing out a prequel to it, Older World...Soon TM.
@@ChapterMasterValrak ™*
Does it come with terrain?
You like to dance close to the fire outlander..
Asking the real questions right here 😢
GW happened. Creativity is crushed by big companies.
Sadly I can see this
This feels very much like what happened. Oh he's a good animator, make him work on everything that's not a sequel to Astartes
@@dk292 You can't create passion projects like that with a harpy behind you telling you what to do. That's just now how humans work.
I doubt that's the case. Astartes (the original one) took an insane amount of time to make, and I doubt they added much crew behind the project. I assume it's still a tiny production team, so I assume this will take as long as the original one took to make. Which we don't exactly know how long it took... it was a massive project for the original guys who did the project.
@@myfaceismyshield5963It was only a guy, and no each part he did was released between each 5-6 months not years.
Fan Artists: "Hey GW. How about we produce quality animations that drive old and new fans to buy your products at no cost to you."
GW Marketing: "F You! CEASE AND DESIST!"
They are role plying grim dark little too literal
"CEASE AND DESIST!" At this point this is straigh-up lies. There was no massive C&S letters campaign by GW and after all those years, you can literally open UA-cam and see that old animations, recent ones and myriads of reuploads of paid WH+ shows are still here, with thousand and even millions of views (as example Astarters reupload has 18mill right now). It would understandable if there were large history of GW hunting down fancreators and their works, but the whole C&S is just myth spread by community.
Community loves to say this crap, it has literally never happened, one guy did quit and it was because of the community hounding him like a pack of mongoloids and not GW.
@@ruslanhoncharenko2179 Yup, pure hater bullshite.
Well, the things like Emperors TTS didn't close down over nothing, and Astartes was the only thing that's been getting to the level of actual big-budget Production, compared to TTS being more a silly fan-creation
Astartes got me into Warhammer 40K. As soon as GW changed the music and sound effects of Syama's original Astartes, I knew they weren't gonna let the man work. A damn shame.
The music and sounds were so perfect 😭
thats why as soon as I heard he'd been bought out by GW I downloaded the high quality version of the original Astartes.
If memory serves they changed them because he took them from a film OST. It had nothing to do with letting "the man work" it was just a legal issue.
Tbf though, he was using copyrighted soundtracks. I could clearly identify one piece directly from the movie "Dredd".
I guess GW's interception was at least partially legit.
He used star citizen music so there is no way that could stay.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
😂 such a Homer Simpson comment. Like "trying is the first step towards failure"
It is one of the lines from Dawn of war games @@discipleaj
@2wolf5 Oh ok, I played them years ago and forgotten about them mostly.
Not for him. He got a job!
@@2wolf5 Was 4th ed rulebook too
It was never a "partnership", GW essentially just absorbed him so he wouldn't make what they're putting out look bad.
Corporations would rather take a safe route than trailblaze 95% of the time. Seems Astartes was too bold.
They told him they'd hire him and allow him to continue his work and Instread he's just a cog in the machine now.
same thing they did to that Korean Guy - SODAZ , they hired him - made him delete all his videos the didnt give him any work - he publicly complained that thats what happened but a few days later he deleted that and came with a new narrative of - "I quit because the fans complained I will never do 40k again" - GW probably threatened him - GW sucks
@@Thabooka They didn't hired them actually. He was considering working with them after finally receiving an offer, but fans were so against that, calling him traitor etc, so he really quit mostly due to radical fans pressure.
@@ruslanhoncharenko2179Gate keeping can work. Need to gate keep harder.
@@docvaliant721 Gatekeeping to the point of bullying existing 40k creators out of hobby?? No, this is bullshit.
@@ruslanhoncharenko2179 Life ain’t fair -Mom
Can't believe Valrak got Astartes guy fired...
I hate you so much xD
@@ChapterMasterValrakwe know this is a drama farm
@@ChapterMasterValrakyou're a monster!
That sounds vaguely like HERESY.
@@ChapterMasterValrakanyways,oil up
It was going on to 2 years since I last talked about this, I think I have to accept that sadly this project is just no more, hopefully I am proved wrong.
They bought him out and hired him onto their team is what I herd and are not allowing him to make anything
all animation stuff on WH+ stopped. imagine if we got Astartes 2, angels of Death, Paria and the Tau one, that would have been great.
This is by far the best looking 40k animation in existence. It's a travesty.
Last anything I can find from the guy (Samya) was over a year ago in 2023 and him doing concept work for different personal projects (something called Yatra 45), and his linkedin etc list him as being 'Freelance', not GW employed. So my guess would be GW screwed him over.
@@superhumantrueman Games Workshop can prove me wrong 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve been monitoring the comment section and I’m pleased with the responses, you get negative stuff everywhere but mostly people are being good 👍🏻
I’m sorry you see this as bait/drama, if you follow my content then you know I mostly focus on the positives, making drama for clicks not my intention, I comment all time how much I dislike that, as I said in the video I saw that random clip show up on my feed and it got me pumped to make this video
I remember watching it for the first time, it is what got me into 40K. The Astartes video and the Helsreach video are incredible and better than anything Netflix, Disney and Amazon have put out.
thank you for reminding me of helsreach! i was watching it but it wasn't fully realeased so i told myself i'd come back to it later when it is finished. that time is now :)
You're generally right, but I'ma be real Amazon did an amazing job with invincible
@@ashtonshephard3852 and the boys!
GW bought him so he couldn’t make anything new
Couldnt let their hammer and bolter trash be overshadowed.
Probably killed it. One man made content, an entire company struggles to create
They're not even using his style of animation. I can understand using multiple styles of animation, but nothing has been produced to his caliber. To those saying he played a role in the Horus Heresy trailer, that is possible. But that trailer was not to his standards and looked more like a 2010 - 2015 game trailer. It wasn't bad; however I think Astartes would want a more polished video with better sounds and visuals.
There are unconfirmed rumors that Syama left GW on bad terms. And, again, rumors - he had such a bad experience working there that he does not want or to do anything with Warhammer anymore.
I thought, if anyone knew anything about that, that would Mr. Foilrak. But apparently not.
All his linkedin etc list him as being freelance, so that wouldn't surprise me.
Never meet your heroes
@@johnwhitehouse4546He didn't change his Linkedin status after being hired by GW, so nothing changed in that regard
I heard the same “I was told he left and wanted to do something different “
I'm still subscribed to him on Patreon and he's working on his own projects. Has been for a while. GW will have his signature on an NDA and stopped him doing any more 40k content. Sad
they scooped him up so he would stop making better stuff than them, but instead be stomped under their boot making trash they tell him too. they should have hired him and gave him free reign and a budget and some staff to make what he wanted with very little input by them. then send it to theaters to make 200 million $
they won't reupload it because you have to pay for warhammer+ to watch it now (aside from rips EVERYWHERE)
That sounds so familiar
*cough cough* Lord Inquisitor *cough cough* Erasmus Brosdeau
@@vcdaniels that was an impressive and ambitious project but... honestly, what astartes delivered was 5 times as good in terms of quality in every way. but yeah, too bad he had to stop also
...Somewhere, in the back of my soul, I think someone at GW got jealous that an unpaid fan doing a fan project, was leaps and bounds over their pet project... That Ultramarine 'movie'.
So it was brought in, and killed out of spite.
It's GW in general being butthurt because someone can produce a better quality animation than they themselves.
Probably didn't like that the marines are "first born" either as they are ending that line gradually.
'Trust me bro'
This is why they can take Warhammer+ and shove it. Instead of watching and learning from these awesome animators, they took them and put them in shackles. Chained to their sad mediocre product in hopes their greatness can run off on their official GW products.
@@DB8ed Spreader of lies.
@@regalgiant1597 corporate boot licker
Remember that S2 Teaser was NOT RELEASED but leaked.
The author could not post it himself because of GW attention and likely a cease and desist letter.
At the time someone leaked it off his Patreon but now its regular posted by one of his Animation team on twitter:
x.com/watchmeanimate/status/1802864417035411547
@@ChapterMasterValrakyo he got a team? I've heard nothing from him at all
The S2 teaser was played at the end of his last episode. It wasn't leaked.
@@hugofelix4719That's a different clip
@@hugofelix4719bruh
I think that the Astartes guy was actually an Alpha Legionary, who made an amazing fan project because he knew it would get taken down by GW to cause drama and make the community wonder where he went. This would help further Alpharius' plan somehow.
This is a lie
Hydra Dominatus!
Alpha legionnaire here, can't confirm
@@arcticghost1393 this is a lie
GW pulled a Disney, where they buy up the competition and then kill it so it's no longer competition.
and it was never competition in the first place 💀Astartes was probably the best thing that has happened to warhammer in a very long time
We’ve now had all of the shows they announced at launch (took 2021 to now!) except Astartes 2 and ‘High Lords’… my goodness is it poor that not only have we still not had everything they promised at launch like these shows (also remember ‘VIP Event Extras’?!) but there is ZERO new animation projects or new shows announced. It’s been so lacklustre it’s unreal.
Warhammer plus can only bring out one unique show every 2 1/2 years.
unique slideshow you mean.
Are any of them good? Nobody talks about them and the ones I have seen snippets of look like garbage.
@@volkskrieg8735 Pariah Nexus is the only good thing that come from W+
Still didn't come close to Astartes though.
@@JasonJoestar ill check it out. thanks for the info
He probably left the job and signed non disclosure agreement.
No sympathy, he was warned what they were like.
When GW hired the guy, there was a widespread understanding that the Astartes project is dead.
The youtube channel got wiped, but a while ago the same channel (I'm pretty sure it was the same channel) was rebranded and published a "pilot" episode with legally distinct "not space marines", it had all the hallmarks of the Astartes project, but I don't think any more has come out of it yet.
Link please ?
At this point - I am only watching Project Morningstar, Warheads, and Scorch to get that Astartes fix. Honestly that animation was the reason I picked up a brush and painting a space marine
astartes guy would of done so much more for warhammer on his own than being hired by them, how crazy is that. GW just literally let him have full creative control over a show and its golden its a home run, how can they be so stupid.
He’s working on the trailer for the Black Templar Ancient model
Valrak you should try and reach out to the guy who makes it and see if you can get an interview or anything with him.
It’s one thing for production to stop, but the guy also like disappeared (I know he was hired by gw or whatever)
Would be worth a shot
Probably has an NDA
@@nukem8128 “so any news on your new project Ass tart please?”
even with a NDA he can find out if he has any new projects in the work. even the fact he is working on something new will tell us how dead Astartes is.
Bro astartes was one of the greatest things I’ve ever watched. The fact that the biggest corporations can’t even compare to one guy with passion is insane
I can tell you 100% that the Astartes project was my first step in getting back into the hobby. It was a piece so amazing that it broke into the general 'media' and got across the concept of 40k so perfectly that all the old memories came back and I wanted to get back into it.
So, GW should make more of it! Or at least more as good as it was.
GW staff now worship Slaanesh!
This Animation came out at the right time, was created by fans for fans and brought in more people interested in 40k,The creator is locked away somewhere
It got to popular and GW DIDNT like it so they bought it out and BINNED IT
This. Can't let the captive audience raise their expectations.
the thing is GW are known for never crediting artists for there work so the guy that made ASTARTES "could have worked on their trailers" but we will never know this is one of many things about GW i add to my BOOK OF GRUDGES is for all the great art that is made for the trailers and codex books, box art, or whatever, when you try to find the artist who made it it is never as straightforward of just looking at the art to see who made it.
Before Astartes I was just into the occasional Luetin video and hearing my friends talk about the lore. I thought first born marines looked ridiculous and were disproportional especially with their legs. I never saw them properly on screen or in action and I didn’t know what primaris marines were.
After I saw Astartes, two things happened. First, my itch to see highly trained, highly skilled figures on screen working tactically and efficiently was scratched. It was like what John Wick did for action movies but for a fantasy genre. Second, I now had a mental image in my head for what space marines were. Lightning fast, tactical killing machines. It drew me right into the IP and now I own 3000 pts of marines and close to 1000 pts of Battle sisters. All because of this animation and what it brought to the universe.
If you read his posts on his patreon
He got the same treatment as Sodaz
He was NDAed.
He is now working on another project called V45.
Which he hasn't updated anything about it since the end of last year
As far I was aware, he'd been hired by GW and has basically helped work on their big 3D animation projects since. I remember people talking about him having worked on Pariah Nexus but I can't remember if that ever got confirmed. Certainly the animation for Pariah Nexus is the most like Astartes in the form of the fluidity of the space marine's movement & their ability to move at speed.
GW happened.
GW bought him. They hired him for the promise of being able to create and get paid for it; and they ensured that his projects wouldn’t get made. The government does the same thing with patents. They’ll buy your patent and then lock it in a vault.
He’s definitely been animating for GW, they just don’t credit their artists.
Didn't gw acquire the creator of the astartes project? Pretty sure he worked on the piriah nexus project last year.
and the Tau one.
no he didn‘t
An open mind is like a Fortress with it's gates un-barred and un-guarded.
Hes already quit gw because they had them just animating promotion material and hes under a none competition agreement for 3 years
Personally wouldn't be surprised if alot of content is ready to go but just holding off to see what Amazon wants to do. So it doesn't clash
I hope that’s the case, but it seems strange they haven’t spoken about it for years
The Astartes video is what brought me into Warhammer. Also the introduction of the Primaris marine models. I loved how proportionate they were compared to the older models
I hate to say it Valrak, but they smothered it in its crib. They stole away the creator to work on broader projects because they could not stand the fact that one guy (along with other independent creators) were outshining the Games Workshop marketing and outreach and doing better work than them by a country mile.
Warhammer+ is, frankly, a fallow field in comparison to the bumper harvest we once had in terms of WH 40k fan content.
This was the video that brought me back to the hobby after 23 years.
It is downloaded and I watch it in its original glory at least once a month.
Weird how the fan stuff that sticks with the fandom is the best stuff. Weird.
Imagine stifling creativity because a single person showed you up. They should have written him a blank cheque and told him to “Keep working.”
GW extrapolated the cost per second of doing full episodes at that quality, and thought "fffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuu how many miniatures is that?"
If they were smart they would’ve given him free reign and funding in return for a kick ass series they could use for warhammer plus. They aren’t smart.
I feel like Iron Within had almost Astartes vibes, I wonder if he had creative input on that
Astartes is 98.9 percent of the reason I ever got into the idea of Warhammer. I remember seeing it thinking hmm, this looks interesting..WOW! What sucks is I started at the top and nothing is really in the ballpark to astartes. It makes you want to watch it again, slow down scenes, think about what the heck you just watched. It really is one of the best action animations of all time.
Fans: What Happened to Syama Pederson?
GW: What Happened to the Custodes?
ASTARTES brought a huge amount of people to the IP, I for one know about 20 people that got into warhammer40k due to the sheer awesomeness of it, I had no idea what was happening, hell even after an ungodly amount of time consuming 40k lore, I still don't
YET ITS STILL THE SINGLE BEST 40K ANIMATION IVE SEEN
Im pretty sure he was working with sabreware on spacemarine movement in spacemarine 2
I missed that time where there was so many 40k fan animations.... and GW goes and kills it all.
I have a feeling that they took him in, and then immediately threw him in one of the Dark Cells under the Imperial Palace as punishment for showing them up by single handily doing a better animation than them.
Sounds like Syama Pedersen left the ASTARTES project in Jan 2020 then at some point worked for Blur. I would guess it was to help on Blur's W40K Secret Level project
As someone NEW to the Hobby.
Past 6 months…
GW business practice is perplexing.
1) Their communication on releasing new content / models is very poor and confusing. For example, I’m still confused as to whether Bretonnian Foot Knights have been actually released? Or it’s still a pre-order thing?
2) what’s with the whole limited production? Limited product lines? Stuff selling out, being impossible to get?
3) stuff that’s super popular and people wanting to spend money and buy - but they don’t reissue it? (E.g Space Hulk)
4) cancelling certain factions, parts of armies then making them redundant for those who bought them? (Stormcast Eternals recently)
Another point too is that with copyright issues, GW had to re-score the animation so the video on GW's website just isn't the same as the original due to the score having been edited.
What GW did to Syama Pedersen should be considered a crime against humanity. Putting him in golden handcuffs and robbing every one of us from diamond tier content.
The very definition of 'catch and kill', that's what happened.
I didn't think there was an expectation that the Astartes project was going to continue when the guy was hired by them. Astartes was his passion, hobby project. But now he is likely involved with whatever project(s) they have going on with WarhammerTV. Perhaps the question should be then what is WarhammerTV doing because I never hear about or from them, and they are all short form, which arguably isn't going to keep people invested long term.They need to make *shows*, not animated tiktok's basically.
Astartes was absolutely incredible. It was exactly how I imagined the world of 40k come to life. Watched it 100x times
Two scenarios I see most likely being the case:
1: The creator got put into a team that works on trailers/pariah nexus etc. And is now just a nameless faceless animator who hopefully gets a decent paycheck for his work.
2: GW "bought him out" under threat of taking legal action against his channel because he single-handedly absolutely clowned on anything GW had in the pipeline for years and years to come. I'd hate for this to be the case, but let's be honest, Astartes puts every single trailer and animated series on Warhammer TV to ABSOLUTE shame.
GW's Ego got hurt, so they crippled the project to never see the light of day.
Space Marines 2 devs used Astartes as a base to get the space marines "weight" correctly for the game. I believe Syama is no longer at GW and is currently Freelancing.
My guess is they forced him on board and instead of saying "You are amazing at what you do so just keep at it, if there is anything we can give you to make it faster or better let us know." they probably pushed him around between projects of their choosing or intervened in any project he was heading until he eventually just quit.
Oh and the reason they aren't reuploading it to youtube is because they want 100% of 40k animations on their platform to force as many people in the hobby to pay them a monthly fee.
They knowingly or not traded top shelf quality word of mouth advertising and a revitalizing of fans (paying consumers) already in for a blinded idea of exclusivity (despite being the town ip), an end to most any fan project ( If the Emperor had text to speech is on that list), and the burning down of any progress the fans were starting to build back up for their image. But hey they didn't have to worry about the fan animation outstripping anything they forced down the pipeline so I guess to them it's a win regardless of its actual effect.
just went through the comments and wow there are a LOT of gw boot lickers demanding that just because the mafia didn't actually ransack and burn down the fan projects that they are completely innocent and everyone who can fucking read the neon writing on the wall is a coping contrarian. great work guys im sure the big guy will love you for your blind loyalty
I’d forgotten that Astartes actually put a trailer out for season two. I was just waiting on him to drop something epic on the WH+
"Punch-Smash-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM"
I know you all just heard it.
I think we can all agree that the man behind Astartes loved the Hobby so much and knew the universe so well he could craft something that captured the pure essence of 40K with no spoken words, just noises and Images.
Only someone who loves a thing can do that.
it's a real shame GW did what they did they pissed all over everyone chips, including their own.
Astartes was what made 40k "click" with me. Then I learned about Primarchs and now I'm fully indoctrinated.
If I had three wishes, one of those would be "I wish the Astartes guy would pivot entirely to do a Turnip 28 animated series of the same quality" as a giant middle finger to GW.
Maybe he's working on space marine 2 animations
hahaha
If we ever see a astartes again it will be after whatever contract that guy was forced to sign expires
I'm a fan of games/IPs from a few different companies, and I'm always looking for signs of the kind of leadership that these companies employ. Good stuff can come out from under bad leadership, but bad leadership makes the entire process FAR harder and more likely to go wrong than it would otherwise be.
- Marvel under Feige: Largely solid. Good unifying vision with enough creative freedom for good individual projects. Competent leaders.
- LucasFilm under Kennedy: Definitely a victim of people being promoted beyond their competence. Just because someone's a brilliant film producer, that doesn't mean that they make a good film executive. Competent people who aren't competent leaders.
- Disney in general under Chapek: Every decision was obviously made by bean counters who didn't understand the creative industry AT ALL and were driven to impliment a conservative corporate agenda. Executive meddling is obviously rampant. Incompetent leaders.
- DC under WB (prior to Gunn): Leadership has been very disorganized, leading to both a lack of unified vision and an unwillingness to part from an obviously failing direction. A revolving door of incompetent leaders.
- D&D and M:tG under Hasbro: Utterly disastrous incompetence from a C-suite irrationally dedicated to repeating every mistake in the AAA video game industry and other tech-bro venture capitalism failures. Leaders so incompetent that it looks like they're intentionally sabotaging their own company.
- 40K under GW: Looks like absentee leadership. Whoever is in charge either delegates so much that there's no clear direction or purpose for people to work with or they just don't lead at all and just expect everyone under them to form a unified vision without any structure to do so. Who's leading this thing again?
What I see with GW doesn't look like there's an idiot behind the wheel like many of these other examples; it looks like there's NO ONE behind the wheel at all.
i believe he is working on a full length movie with a real studio under his directions. CGI movies take on average 6 years to be completed so i'm optimistic that within 2 years we 'll hear something about it.
In theory, we could get first cavils series and on the next year the syama movie.
Fingers crossed.
Last thing he had a hand in as far as I can tell was the ChoasGate Trailer and MAYBE the Heresy trailer
yeah, I recall reaction movies where people later apologized for saying Astrates and not Astartes, because they had no idea of this before and they were so blown away. This man earned GW more money than anyone cares to admit
It got taken off of UA-cam because GW bought it hook line and sinker from the creator. The original videos used a load of copyrighted audio material which had to get changed and did when it was reuploaded to War-Com. The power armour sounds were taken from Fallout 4's power armour sound, most of the music used was taken from the Dredd 3D soundtrack and had to be replaced.
there is also star citizen music and sound effects in there. if gw didnt buy it then this would have probably been ok but since they bought it they needed to make their own sounds our use open source sounds and music. games workshop should just let fan marketing do its thing and make enough minis for everyone to buy. would likely be more profitable than whatever warhammer+ is pulling in these days
Text to Speech and Astartes absolutely crushed anything GW made in quality and popularity, so naturally they had to crush those series in return.
GW didn't partner to the Astartes guy. They threatened him with legal action and forced him to sign a handcuff contract.
GW nicked Astartes with a poisoned blade and it had to be placed into a stasis field. Now we watch and wait until it can be awoken.
As a Grey Knights fan, I do have a special place in my heart for Syama after that absolutely spectacular cinematoc for Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters.
Me too man... Astartes Project got me back into Warhammer 40k after many years of being out of the hobby.
On a gamble, I just shot the official warhammer twitter account a message asking for any kind of update. I doubt I'll get a reply, or anything more than a "we can't tell, teehee!".
But if it's anything interesting I'll share my results.
Could always just en-mass just start asking, loudly, in public, they can't ignore us forever, especially if it's the only question they get asked over and over. I feel entitled to an answer about the goddamn status of the project since they took away so many other fan animators from that era.
Remember the Death of Hope! Remember Sodaz! And praise be to the God Animator Syama!
Syama Pedersen was milked so hard he became a blood donor, they went too far and put him in stasis to keep him alive. GW are sitting on a treasure trove of content, releasing it piece by piece whenever their stock drops
Imagine if mojang/microsoft spontaneously banned all Minecraft animations. Never a day goes by when GW finds a way to kick their community
No Astartes - No Cavill Amazon... Basically corporates kill the passion.
GW gave the creator golden handcuffs
They threw him in the sausage grinder and now he's in all the Tzaangors.
They are too busy rectoning lore and crushing creativity to be doing anything related to this project.
Astartes was a masterpiece. It showed to the world how Warhammer 40k has to look, has to be as a movie. And GW did what they love to do, they bought it and killed it to keep selling their mediocracy.
They don't want fan animations out there because they put them to shame with all the effort people put into them while GW can't get their shit together.
It’s because GW doesn’t have the patience or attention to detail to invest into Astartes. Most of the GW+ series and mini episodes are lackluster animation with oversaturated colors or some weird “artistic” flat design. GW doesn’t care about Astartes anywhere near as much as the origional maker did.
I started playing DnD in 1980 along with war gaming titles from Avalon Hill. I played first Warhammer and then 40K when a buddy in High School turned me on to them. I hadn't really been tuned into 40K since after college, but after seeing the Astartes videos on UA-cam, I felt that deep interest being rekindled. I have genuinely felt saddened to see such Love and Respect for 40K be stamped out by Games Workshop; But I've seen that Corp attitude from Hasbro /Wizards of the Coast for DnD.
The time between Astartes Part 1 and Astartes Part 5 was magical. It's rare to be so excited about something and yet still be so blown away time and time again when a new episode was released. There was a lot of other great fan animations also releasing at the same time. It's a shame GW decided to kill it, we could have seen so much great stuff come out of the community.
Fuck! I haven't thought about this in a long while, now the wound is open again :(
They crushed it
Because they can’t have someone make this and have them not squeeze them for every fucking cent.
You know this.
Totally agreed with you. This by far the most awaited Warhammer animated series , and they announced it years ago and then silence. I suspect the silence means at least that its not coming this year.
Games Workshop tell their managers that they're not allowed to advertise because it makes them look "mundane," so it's entirely consistent that they would hire the guy just to quash something that was functionally an advertisement for their product/universe. Astartes 2 is never going to happen, because GW doesn't want it to exist in the first place.
SODAZ was wise to refuse GW. Sadly they canned his work too
Because Amazon probably want it to be on their platform. I could see them releasing it on there tbh if it ever does.
The original Astartes probably took years for a relatively short production. A longer production even with increased resources will likely take years again.
Astartes got me back into Warhammer after years away. Friends have kept me going but GW keeps trying to turn me away again.
The fact talent of this caliber is being actively suppressed should not be forgotten. He and SODAZ are excellent visual story-tellers.