The Lord Inquisitor - Prologue

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Hey 40k Fans,

I'm guessing many of you didn't know this was dropping today, so I thought I'd post it for all to see.


Its a not-for-profit independent fully animated 40k movie, with the nodding-of-the-head backing from GW. One guy is animating the whole damn thing and he's been working for years now. And its damn fucking impressive.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Fuck the Inquisition, never trust the Inquisition:


Anyway, me likey the more "realistic" CGI for animated movie as oppossed to all the samey looking Pixar looking CGI that's domniated animation, nice to see a CGI animated movie that looks like this:

 

[baddude1337]

Looking very promising, it seems after all these years it's finally close to completion.

The lip syncing seems a bit off, but I can forgive that considering how amazing it looks for a fan film.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Joking aside it was beatiful, totally getting what is the best in WH40K, the shot of the servitors manually carrying a podium, completely naked, really illustrated the horror of that universe. In general it was always interesting to me how was the regular life in the imperium.

I had assumed those were penitents sentenced to perpetual servitude, because that's an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor, and they're not the nicest of people.

 

[kurokotetsu]

THat was a fun little short. THe Inquisitor is a complete bastard, as he should, the SPace Amrines and Dreadnaughts where excelently animate. They ned a bit mor punch to the actions, as they felt a bit "soft". The blows didn' carry strength, and teh shots where more empathized bu the voice work than teh animation, but the look of he world is spot on and the cahracters seem to be done perfectly. And I like the Assasin, although I don't know if she is form teh Callidus Temple or the Eversor Temple just form the looks. COmplete psycho characters. It looks really good.

 

[kurokotetsu]

THat was a fun little short. THe Inquisitor is a complete bastard, as he should, the SPace Amrines and Dreadnaughts where excelently animate. They ned a bit mor punch to the actions, as they felt a bit "soft". The blows didn' carry strength, and teh shots where more empathized bu the voice work than teh animation, but the look of he world is spot on and the cahracters seem to be done perfectly. And I like the Assasin, although I don't know if she is form teh Callidus Temple or the Eversor Temple just form the looks. COmplete psycho characters. It looks really good.

Actually I felt like their walking along the sound of the drums was great and gave a feel how heavy they are.

It was weird that the inquisitor used an autolock (if I remember the terms correctly) and not the usual inquisition toys.

THe walking is fine and the parade is great. But the hits and torture felt underwhelming to me. And the gun indeed felt a bit underwhelming. I know it is more of a Comissars weapon but a Bolt Gun grusemoe spectacle would've benn better. That felt more like a lazgun, and awesome for Ciaphas Cain HEOR OF THE IMPERIUM!I would expect an Ordo Hereticus would like the grussome expectale of blowing almost the leg off a heretic.

 

[Queen Michael]

To quote my mother when I asked her what went on between God and the virgin Mary:

"Aaaaaaaaaaah holy fuck!"

That looked fricking awesome! I'd pay actual money to watch that!

 

[Zhukov]

I was impressed right up until the fucking dialogue happened.

Yeesh.

 

[Comic Sans]

I was impressed right up until the fucking dialogue happened.

Yeesh.

Yeeeeeah. That was my reaction too. The voice acting and dialogue were really cringe worthy. Combined with the off lip syncing and it really took me out of it. The visuals were awesome but that was about it. I wouldn't watch the entire thing except to skip around to action scenes because I don't think I could take much more of that Inquisitor.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Really nice backgrounds and I was impressed with the quality of the main characters' models and animation. At some points there were things that looked a bit flat or the animations were a bit off, but it was the sound effects and voice acting that let it down.

 

[Frankster]

I've been skeptical about this whole "there's this super amazing 40k fan film in the works that is gonna be the bestest thing ever" thing for years now, especially when people were using this to ***** about the ultramarines film, which for all its faults, was at least released in a timely fashion.

Then i watched it and was like *jaw dropping and hitting the floor followed by linking this to any of my friends with an interest in 40k*.

I can stomach the lip syncing being off and other things, the visuals more then made up for any such niggles and the sound design for the parade was amazing (the THUD THUD of the space marines marching and the even bigger THUD THUD of the dreadnoughts <3). I'd pay good money for this if it were some official product.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

Well, at least I didn't get my hopes up for this one.

True, it's not the insult that Ultramarines was...how COULD it be...but this is still not the 40k film we deserve.

 

[MatParker116]

Well, at least I didn't get my hopes up for this one.

True, it's not the insult that Ultramarines was...how COULD it be...but this is still not the 40k film we deserve.

The thickness of the source material and the cost involved are the main reasons no hollywood studio wants to do it, hell even a HBO show is impossible because of the sheer scale. Something like Eisenhorn would probably cost upwards of a billion dollars because of the huge amount of VFX involved.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Well, at least I didn't get my hopes up for this one.

True, it's not the insult that Ultramarines was...how COULD it be...but this is still not the 40k film we deserve.

The thickness of the source material and the cost involved are the main reasons no hollywood studio wants to do it, hell even a HBO show is impossible because of the sheer scale. Something like Eisenhorn would probably cost upwards of a billion dollars because of the huge amount of VFX involved.

Well also because it'd be amazingly dark and depressing. Remember the happiest 40k stories end with the hero dying a horrible death after he killed the big bad. Most however end with the protagonist being tortured to death and a billion people being eaten alive.

A full on 40k show would be like Game of Thrones, but without the hope, romance, love and joy. I mean fuck, the nicest Space Marine chapter, the Salamanders, specialize in setting people on fire and ritually branding each other with red hot pokers because they enjoy the pain.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I haven't read a lot of WH40K but I don't think it, especially as hope is a pretty major theme and is usually present, things can get worse but can also get better and all those qualities are present in Gaunt's Ghosts. The galaxy in WH40K is brutal but not hopeless.

I would argue there isn't a lot of hope in 40k. Or at least not in the way you and I would interpret it. There's no real personal hope of survival. No one really thinks tomorrow is going to be better. Its more a vengeful, hateful hope that yeah, we all died terribly, but we killed more of the enemy than they killed of us. Or a 'We will all die, but the Imperium will continue on in blind disregard' hope. I mean one of the stories, the Stromark Massacre, ends with 12 billion people dying because of the Flesh Tearers, and the Imperium writes it off as a minor inconvenience.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

Not gonna lie, the lack of a budget and large team REALLY shows. Up close, everything looks like a video game with pretty poor animation. And not just the lip synching. Character movements seemed sort of jerky and unrefined. Also add another to the 'dialogue was shitty pile'. That said, it is impressive how much they have managed to do with so little, but I'm not gonna watch it.