Incoming Warhammer 40,000 Animated Series

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/17/an-animated-series-from-the-far-future-yeah-it-isgw-homepage-post-1/

So here's the rub. There's an independent CGI animator [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTaGjGmcHYD2fqukCIVfjvQ] out in Los Angeles who in his spare time created an episodic series based off the Defense of Helsreach 40k audio book, using the actual narration and voice actors to portray the characters(even hiring a few extra as GW is pretty stingy on female voice actors), and animated out the scenes. It became epic and everyone loved it. Hurrah!

Turns out Games Workshop, ever known for its zealous defense of its IP, loved it too. And instead of C&D the channel, they simply commissioned him, giving him licence to use the 40k IP, and brought on official writers to pen a series of I guess shorts surrounding a unit of Blood Angels doing their own thing.
Now for all the shit GW gets and rightly deserves, this is actually a really great way to support both the community, and for lack of a better term, Machinima, as a whole.
Do it, do it well, get Corporate attention and they realize its so good they should be paying for this.

Thoughts? Its just announced so there is little to go on, but the animation looks great and with GW backing, hopefully its better than the Ultramarines movie, which while better than it had any right to be, looked 10 years behind the times.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

 

[Trunkage]

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

I'm the opposite. Ultramarine are THE chapter with no character. But then the Spaxe Marines are THE race with little character. Give me anyone else. Even give me Tyranids. They have more character than the Space Marines.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

I'm the opposite. Ultramarine are THE chapter with no character. But then the Spaxe Marines are THE race with little character. Give me anyone else. Even give me Tyranids. They have more character than the Space Marines.

See I disagree with that. Space Marines are what makes 40k 40k. Without them 40k might as well be Star Wars or Star Trek. Just humans with lasers fighting Eldarish assholes, greenskin warlike monsters, and a hyper advanced civilization. Romulans, Klingons, Borg, or Eldar, Orks and Tau.

In a setting like 40k, with genetically engineered 10 foot tall werewolf space vikings with magic ice swords fighting legions of 100,000 million+ year old Egyptian cyborg zombies, concentrating on Bill and Steve as they fight evil Bill and evil Steve is just a waste of the premise. It'd be like making a Batman story about a janitor at Gotham U, who never sees Batman, meets him, or meets any criminals. Why bother? Why use this IP if the singular draw isn't being used?

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/17/an-animated-series-from-the-far-future-yeah-it-isgw-homepage-post-1/

So here's the rub. There's an independent CGI animator [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTaGjGmcHYD2fqukCIVfjvQ] out in Los Angeles who in his spare time created an episodic series based off the Defense of Helsreach 40k audio book, using the actual narration and voice actors to portray the characters(even hiring a few extra as GW is pretty stingy on female voice actors), and animated out the scenes. It became epic and everyone loved it. Hurrah!

Turns out Games Workshop, ever known for its zealous defense of its IP, loved it too. And instead of C&D the channel, they simply commissioned him, giving him licence to use the 40k IP, and brought on official writers to pen a series of I guess shorts surrounding a unit of Blood Angels doing their own thing.
Now for all the shit GW gets and rightly deserves, this is actually a really great way to support both the community, and for lack of a better term, Machinima, as a whole.
Do it, do it well, get Corporate attention and they realize its so good they should be paying for this.

Thoughts? Its just announced so there is little to go on, but the animation looks great and with GW backing, hopefully its better than the Ultramarines movie, which while better than it had any right to be, looked 10 years behind the times.

I'm no fan of 40k, but I'll certainly give credit where its due to Games Workshop for not being colossal dicks over this.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/17/an-animated-series-from-the-far-future-yeah-it-isgw-homepage-post-1/

So here's the rub. There's an independent CGI animator [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTaGjGmcHYD2fqukCIVfjvQ] out in Los Angeles who in his spare time created an episodic series based off the Defense of Helsreach 40k audio book, using the actual narration and voice actors to portray the characters(even hiring a few extra as GW is pretty stingy on female voice actors), and animated out the scenes. It became epic and everyone loved it. Hurrah!

Turns out Games Workshop, ever known for its zealous defense of its IP, loved it too. And instead of C&D the channel, they simply commissioned him, giving him licence to use the 40k IP, and brought on official writers to pen a series of I guess shorts surrounding a unit of Blood Angels doing their own thing.
Now for all the shit GW gets and rightly deserves, this is actually a really great way to support both the community, and for lack of a better term, Machinima, as a whole.
Do it, do it well, get Corporate attention and they realize its so good they should be paying for this.

Thoughts? Its just announced so there is little to go on, but the animation looks great and with GW backing, hopefully its better than the Ultramarines movie, which while better than it had any right to be, looked 10 years behind the times.

Have they acknowledged where exactly are we gonna see it?

Is it gonna be on Youtube for free? Or one Netflix? Or some obscure streaming website we have to subscribe to?

Or shockingly, on a TV channel?

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/17/an-animated-series-from-the-far-future-yeah-it-isgw-homepage-post-1/

So here's the rub. There's an independent CGI animator [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTaGjGmcHYD2fqukCIVfjvQ] out in Los Angeles who in his spare time created an episodic series based off the Defense of Helsreach 40k audio book, using the actual narration and voice actors to portray the characters(even hiring a few extra as GW is pretty stingy on female voice actors), and animated out the scenes. It became epic and everyone loved it. Hurrah!

Turns out Games Workshop, ever known for its zealous defense of its IP, loved it too. And instead of C&D the channel, they simply commissioned him, giving him licence to use the 40k IP, and brought on official writers to pen a series of I guess shorts surrounding a unit of Blood Angels doing their own thing.
Now for all the shit GW gets and rightly deserves, this is actually a really great way to support both the community, and for lack of a better term, Machinima, as a whole.
Do it, do it well, get Corporate attention and they realize its so good they should be paying for this.

Thoughts? Its just announced so there is little to go on, but the animation looks great and with GW backing, hopefully its better than the Ultramarines movie, which while better than it had any right to be, looked 10 years behind the times.

Have they acknowledged where exactly are we gonna see it?

Is it gonna be on Youtube for free? Or one Netflix? Or some obscure streaming website we have to subscribe to?

Or shockingly, on a TV channel?

It will probably be off the GW official Youtube channel. But I really hope it comes to Netflix, 'cause then people would actually watch it.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Eh, can't say I can drum up much enthusiasm for this. The only time I've seen space marine armour animated and not look off was the DoW2 trailer. That trailer featured lots of shadow, blurred images and shots of not very much. I get it's a teaser trailer but it doesn't fill me with confidence. Hopefully it will be a pleasant surprise.

Still, nice one GW. They have been improving a fair bit as a company in the last few years.

 

[09philj]

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

Never thought I'd see someone unironically jerk of the Ultramarines in 2018 but I guess the world is full of surprises.

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

I'm the opposite. Ultramarine are THE chapter with no character. But then the Spaxe Marines are THE race with little character. Give me anyone else. Even give me Tyranids. They have more character than the Space Marines.

Depends how they're written. Aaron Dembski-Bowden's book Helsreach is good at giving the Black Templars character. The character they get is being stupid, vainglorious assholes, but that fits them well. Even the Ultrasmurfs can be written well since they have to perform a constant tightrope walk between noble idealism and cynical pragmatism.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

Never thought I'd see someone unironically jerk of the Ultramarines in 2018 but I guess the world is full of surprises.

I prefer someone make a Fantasy series, particularly about Gotrek and Felix.

This 40k show is about a Space Marine chapter that ain't Ultramarines therefore it lost me already.

I'm the opposite. Ultramarine are THE chapter with no character. But then the Spaxe Marines are THE race with little character. Give me anyone else. Even give me Tyranids. They have more character than the Space Marines.

Depends how they're written. Aaron Dembski-Bowden's book Helsreach is good at giving the Black Templars character. The character they get is being stupid, vainglorious assholes, but that fits them well. Even the Ultrasmurfs can be written well since they have to perform a constant tightrope walk between noble idealism and cynical pragmatism.

Yeah lets just say I often side with the character/faction/etc. that is the most "traditional/vanilla". Basically I prefer the Ultramarines over other Space Marine Chapters the sameway I prefer being a Human Paladin in a Fantasy RPG or Supermna over Batman.

Ultramarines imo are the only Space Marine Chapter that matters. I mean thier Primarch is back to life and he's the only Primarch that isn't weird and out of the ordinary like the Space Wolves or the Iron Hands.

Ultries get a bad rap because fans of the lesser known or more unique Space Marine Chapter are just jelly their favorite faction are not front and center in the lore.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

SNIP

To be fair they're not jealous so much as just angry at the absurd praise Matt Ward heaped on them during his time. Shit like other chapters like the Space Wolves(who were the first Chapter created during the Rogue Trader era) and Black Templars and Dark Angels, are independent chapters with their own beliefs and tactics, all secretly wish they could rip out their geneseed and become Ultramarines. It was even stated in the Marine codex that every Marine across the Imperium secretly longs to be an Ultramarine.
And to hobbyist who are encouraged to make their own chapter with lore and characters, to be told by the head writer, who's personal army happens to be the Ultramarines, that your unique chapter aren't good enough and they all wish to be Ultramarines is just a spit in the face.

To use your RPG analogy, it'd be like if the official rules of DnD stated all Wizards and Rogues secretly wish they were Paladins, and everyone knows Paladins are the best at everything and everyone has hammer envy.

Its not the Ultramarines fault. They're a find chapter of boring if functional mooks, except Sicarus. He's the worst character ever. Its Matt Ward's fault for making his headcanon official canon.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Watched all the Helsreach available so far and Guardsman, and...meh?

The early, B+W hand-drawn looking stuff was really good, and the story of Helsreach (which he didn't write) was good, but when he got more resources he went for boring realism rather than nice stylised stuff. Meh.

Ultries get a bad rap because fans of the lesser known or more unique Space Marine Chapter are just jelly their favorite faction are not front and center in the lore.

I don't have a problem with UM, excepting that their thing was to follow the Codex strictly, and GW keeps trying to make them interesting by not following the Codex. Uriel Ventris gets his book series, he's a non-conformist that clashes with stupid UMs who insist on following stupid rules because they are stupid. UM, and only UM, got special nid hunter squads, and so on.

Make them a Codex chapter, don't care if people paint their codex chapter UM blue or some other colour.

 

[jademunky]

I can see why they're doing Space Marines since it means that they won't have to worry about as many facial animations but.......Space Marines are just not relatable. 500 marines could die, 0 could die and I would feel the exact same.

I hold out hope to one day get a Ciaphas Cain series but probably not in the near-future.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I can see why they're doing Space Marines since it means that they won't have to worry about as many facial animations but.......Space Marines are just not relatable. 500 marines could die, 0 could die and I would feel the exact same.

I hold out hope to one day get a Ciaphas Cain series but probably not in the near-future.

See I disagree. Ciaphas Cain is a bore. He's just Deadpool. He's every other sarcastic, eye-rolling borderline antagonist protagonist. Having read all his novels, they really should have stopped after the second. There really wasn't anything left for them to say.

Now yes, loads of Space Marines are generic heroes too, but they at least can fight the big bads of the 40k lore. Daemons, traitors, warbosses and avatars. Things that separate 40k from every other grimdark sci-fi IP

 

[jademunky]

I can see why they're doing Space Marines since it means that they won't have to worry about as many facial animations but.......Space Marines are just not relatable. 500 marines could die, 0 could die and I would feel the exact same.

I hold out hope to one day get a Ciaphas Cain series but probably not in the near-future.

See I disagree. Ciaphas Cain is a bore. He's just Deadpool. He's every other sarcastic, eye-rolling borderline antagonist protagonist. Having read all his novels, they really should have stopped after the second. There really wasn't anything left for them to say.

Now yes, loads of Space Marines are generic heroes too, but they at least can fight the big bads of the 40k lore. Daemons, traitors, warbosses and avatars. Things that separate 40k from every other grimdark sci-fi IP

I guess I stopped reading while I was ahead.

I think he would still be the best jumping-off-point for any series. That universe kinda needs a sense of levity to sustain any interest so unless they want to make the Orks the protagonists (which would be awesome) they need some snarky character like that to point out how fucked everything is.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I can see why they're doing Space Marines since it means that they won't have to worry about as many facial animations but.......Space Marines are just not relatable. 500 marines could die, 0 could die and I would feel the exact same.

I hold out hope to one day get a Ciaphas Cain series but probably not in the near-future.

See I disagree. Ciaphas Cain is a bore. He's just Deadpool. He's every other sarcastic, eye-rolling borderline antagonist protagonist. Having read all his novels, they really should have stopped after the second. There really wasn't anything left for them to say.

Now yes, loads of Space Marines are generic heroes too, but they at least can fight the big bads of the 40k lore. Daemons, traitors, warbosses and avatars. Things that separate 40k from every other grimdark sci-fi IP

I guess I stopped reading while I was ahead.

I think he would still be the best jumping-off-point for any series. That universe kinda needs a sense of levity to sustain any interest so unless they want to make the Orks the protagonists (which would be awesome) they need some snarky character like that to point out how fucked everything is.

Its not that it became...bad. Its just once you've snarked at a Space Marine captain, snarking at a Space Marine chaplain doesn't feel as unique, and eye-rolling at one Inquisitor is the same as eye-rolling at another. There's only so much irreverence you can apply before it becomes in-universe impossible. Cain can't walk up to a Chapter Master and piss on his shoes and just snark his way out of it, so he's kinda written into a corner.

I think Orks would be fun, but GW has gone to great lengths to make Marines more relatable and be more than Terminators in flesh. Individual marines can have senses of humor, restrained but still there sexuality, artists, comedic, sarcastic, etc...If done right there's great potential.

 

[jademunky]

Individual marines can have senses of humor, restrained but still there sexuality, artists, comedic, sarcastic, etc...If done right there's great potential.

There is, but only if everyone involved with the writing is totally on-board with what a space-marine is (what with the multiple hearts and the being an order of magnitude larger, i.e. 9 feet!). This just becomes hard to bring to life since people don't look like that.

 

[Hawki]

I'm the opposite. Ultramarine are THE chapter with no character. But then the Spaxe Marines are THE race with little character. Give me anyone else. Even give me Tyranids. They have more character than the Space Marines.

Yeah...no.

I hesitate to call the Space Marines as being in-depth, but of all the major factions, they tend to get more character than a lot of the others, even if that character boils down to "serve the emperor, aliens bad, Chaos bad, heresy bad, bolters good."

Still, nice one GW. They have been improving a fair bit as a company in the last few years.

Let me know when Fantasy is un-nuked, then we can talk.

I think Orks would be fun, but GW has gone to great lengths to make Marines more relatable and be more than Terminators in flesh. Individual marines can have senses of humor, restrained but still there sexuality, artists, comedic, sarcastic, etc...If done right there's great potential.

Sexuality?

I can buy the rest of that, but the idea of Space Marines humping...ugh. Thanks for the image you conjured up for me. 0_0

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

SNP

Not straight up sex, but Space Wolves have been known to see topless women and know they're sexy, Loken fell in love with a rembrancer(although he didn't know that's what he felt), there was a Grey Knight who knew the females of the Inquisitorial group he was with thought he had a big dick and took bets on who was the first to seduce him, etc...its less male pornstars rocking the world, and more anime characters completely oblivious to any action going on.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Let me know when Fantasy is un-nuked, then we can talk.

If it helps, I've been stuck on 3rd edition WHFB for quite some time now an haven't liked much of what they've done with 40k since about 1993.