Star Wars AT-AT Walkers in Unreal Engine - Fighting Animation

[@drunksquirrel2051]

As an 80s baby growing up With Empire Strikes Back, I just cried a little from happiness

[@chrisparsons2791]

Me 2 🤗

[@TheSingularitarian]

But we've already seen this. We saw it in 1980, back when this imagery was both completely original and difficult to achieve.

[@Silencer333]

i was born in the late 90s and my favorite sw movie will always be ESB

[@Fastbreak5000]

Same

[@JamesNixon-b7p]

Same, except I hate this. I hate everything about it.

[@jmw2832]

The scene from Empire where they show the At At's coming toward them through the long range binocs still gives me chills.

[@lonniesides9302]

Well, it's cold on Hoth😅

[@Saberdrool23]

Now THAT's what I wanted to see! When I saw the migration video, I was like, "Wow he made these look great, but I wish he'd animate these babies in some kind of battle sequence." Wish granted!

[@michaelhuynh4953]

Well, they’re all firing at SOMETHING…

[@LunarTikOfficial]

*Play it on 0.75% speed to see the real magic! This is animated too fast! Something the creator needs to learn, mass vs speed!*

[@PugnaciousProductions]

@@LunarTikOfficialthey can go 50 miles per hour

[@ge2719]

@@PugnaciousProductions like hell they can go 50mph. who ever wrote that in a book or a wiki page is a liar or extremely low iq. a walker going 50mph is 24 meters per second. meaning each foot moving would need to be a stride of 24 meters and for all 4 feet to move in a single second. the AT AT itself is only 20 meters long. that means for it to go 50mph it's stride would realistically be a max of about 1/3 its length and thats being generous, so all the feet would have to move 3 times every second. thats 12 steps a second so a step every 0.083 seconds, moving 8 meters each step. that means the feet would have to be moving each step has to start, accelerate, slow down, and then stop, to move 8 meters in 0.083 seconds using suvat calculations the feet would have to accelerate from stopped to 192.77m/s then decelerate back to 0 in 0.083 seconds. for reference 192.77m/s thats 431 miles per hour. That claim is 100% nonsense. even if there was some sci fi mumbo jumbo that made it mechanically possible it would be functionally ridiculous and look absolutely absurd.

[@doughazzard2532]

​@@michaelhuynh4953 prairie dogs???😂😂😂😂

[@Tenshihan-Quinn]

The ambient lighting that lights up the front face plate is beautiful as it fires!

[@derrickstorm6976]

You mean, a reflection?

[@PFCAhammed]

​@@derrickstorm6976it's not really a reflection if it's not a mirrored surface

[@CP-pt1ot]

Need to be more intense and have a muzzle flash. Like lightning that burns the air.

[@DanaPohlson]

It's definitely a cool bit of science fiction. Not a very good practical weapon platform. What if there's a sudden ambush from behind with a heavy anti armor weapon? Seems like it'd be really hard to turn around fast enough to shoot back

[@chatterycasque9594]

The amount of firepower those main guns can output is INSANE. Rebels and ESB shows each heavy cannon can fire twice a second, which is probably about 3x more firepower than an AT-TE’s mass driver at full output. The repeating medium cannons are hella sick as well

[@KMAK88]

They're fictional

[@chatterycasque9594]

@@KMAK88 True, but I enjoy stuff like this

[@confusionzero3546]

@@KMAK88 so what

[@paintrane1179]

​@KMAK88 Yeah, we know they're fictional. Jesus dude, let people have fun. Thank God we had you here to tell us that this is fake!

[@skullrevenant9573]

​@@KMAK88like your father figure

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

Jesus that actually makes the AT-AT's look scary.

[@marjanp]

It's not scary, it's big and very slow, like a turtle but without shell. It doesn't make military sense even in fantasy setting.

[@BLACKVVAR]

​​@@marjanpPretty sure it had shielding, that's why the T-47s weren't able to harm them. So it had a shell. It was slow, but it was also a kind of cargo troop carrier. I think if your trying to apply too much real world logic to this, your missing the point.

[@shade8816]

​@BLACKVVAR No shielding. It just had really thick armor that it could shrug off anything that wasn't anti-warship. Its why they wern't all that fast, and usually have AT-ST cover. They are impractical in a strict military weapon sense, but the psychological impact these buggers make more than make up for it

[@LadyJadeThe2nd]

​@@shade8816 not only that multi use and can enter water without being damage, hover tanks had less armour so AT-AT's were just better They only struggled against ion weaponry and anti air

[@shade8816]

@LadyJadeThe2nd So I will say that I really enjoy mechs. Gundam, Robotech, Battletech, Armored Core... mechs are awesome. HOWEVER! The AT-AT is incredibly slow and very limited in its field of fire. Yes, they can handle a number of environments, but so can Juggernauts. Juggernauts also have similar weapons and troops capacity, but far greater speed at somewhat less durability. At hoth, a squad of Juggernauts would have broken through the defensive line significantly faster. Also, the rebels were super dumb when fighting the AT-ATs. The speeders should have easily outmanuvered the walkers and tripped all of them well before they got close to the shield generator. If the rebels had used X-wings with proton torpedos or y-wings with plasma bombs, the AT-ATs, without support, would have been slaughtered as well. The time it took the AT -AT walkers to get to Echo Base, many transports had already escaped. Any anti-warship weapon can seriously damage them. They are useful against rebels who have limited resources, but against a peer enemy, they are liabilities that will get troopers killed. Heck, a snow speeder crashing into an AT-AT head can cripple the entire machine. It would be akin if a modified civilian truck ran into an Abrams tank without being packed with explosives and still somehow managed to cripple it. The AT-AT does have its uses, but they have a number of glaring weaknesses compared to other combat vehicles. They really only stand out against targets who can't fight back, akin to trying to fight tanks with service rifles. Now not to say I don't like mechs. The Mad Cat dor example is well armed, well armored, capable fighting from multiple angles, and can quickly close in on a target for a mech of its size.

[@JoshDavis-h8j]

A minor ground tremor/camera shake as they're approaching would knock this into the next level... totally awesome...

[@Taffthat]

No! No more camera shaking!!

[@viceroy7792]

the very hot gun muzzles were an EXCELLENT touch. What might be nice next time, would be to see an AT-AT pilot moving around in the window. GREAT work here! V

[@Tomfoolery1972]

Getting force choked 😂😂😂

[@mayorofblugsnax]

I absolutely love how you overexposed the sky. its exactly what a real camera would do. great work!

[@KMAK88]

But it's all fictional, where would you take a real camera to see this?

[@paintrane1179]

​@@KMAK88Are you slow?

[@mayorofblugsnax]

@@KMAK88 bro?

[@mrb2349]

@@paintrane1179 he has other comments here. He is a certified moron.

[@YnossZaperator]

@@KMAK88 Did you bother to read carefully the comment?

[@tyroneross2433]

The best Walker scene since ESB!!! FANTABULOUS!!!! Star Wars Goosebumps, affirmative!!!

[@astropioneer3296]

Those AT-AT's are going HARD! Next up: show them attacking a major metropolitan area.

[@Abygoneage]

Now all we need is a New Star Wars RTS with this level of visual fidelity.

[@Vulpine407]

Now you're talking. I'd pay for a good Star Wars RTS. But only if they can keep Disney execs out of the production loop.

[@pedrokantor3997]

Just play Empire At War with mods.

[@DARTHMARC0720]

The Star Wars we get: Disney The Star Wars we want: THIS!

[@hmrdev-billnye8166]

We literally have this in current Star Wars

[@angryvaultguy]

Sure we do ​@@hmrdev-billnye8166

[@harzzachseniorgamer5516]

You want an entire movie of just AT-ATs walking and firing?

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

@@harzzachseniorgamer5516 It would be preferable to the current Every-chosen-one-is-more-chosen-than-the-last-chosen-one garbage, yes.

[@harzzachseniorgamer5516]

@@cartoonraccoon2078 Not that the last movies were good, but the Disney bashing as of late is getting more and more hysterical. Example this right here :)

[@bunion8579]

One of the things that got me hooked when I first watched The Empire Strikes Back was the sound of the hydraulics and mechanical movement of the AT-AT's feet and legs as Luke was scrambling around under one after being shot down. Pure magic.

[@Wraithbored]

Love the detail in the cannon barrels cooling down after firing at the end there

[@SteVen-v6u4k]

The films never show enough of these

[@DelaV3]

…or them being used properly at all!

[@garygresham1115]

I'm imagining a "Wilhelm Scream" at 0:45. Great work! Unreal is an amazing set of tools.

[@5Demona5]

It does fit perfectly!

[@nunyanunya4147]

what i like about Star Wars is the attention to detail... i mean the Empire is still using technology from 150 years ago. that's just like all the times America used WW1 tanks and black powder guns from the civil war!

[@devastater97]

0:35 Nice Elite AT-AT design. This whole thing is just so badass.

[@Autopsy6]

The Zen of watching beautifully rendered AT-ATs blasting the landscape!

[@BoilersRock]

This looks great! In 1980, it took multiple professionals working in a multi-million dollar studio to showcase those lumbering beasts on the big screen. And here now, one professional can pull it off in the (presumably) comfort of their own place for (again, presumably) a fraction of the cost. We sure have come a long way.

[@rippingmyheartwassoeasy]

I couldnt agree more. I respect and have a reverence for what phil tippet and jon berg did in 1979 (the original animators) but the what you can do with UE and soon with the integration of generative AI for human characters inside UE in my opinion is superior to the old ways. I do appreciate the nostalgia of stop motion but the amount of time vs payoff just doesnt make sense when we have this technology.

[@cameronlee1684]

Must have been a target-rich environment. Those guns fired non-stop!

[@BxRob927]

Was probably Jakku(spelling?)

[@rubenmahrla9800]

It's just an Imperial propaganda vid

[@doughazzard2532]

Zombies

[@gcstudios9091]

That's beautiful! The only improvements I can think of are making the AT-ATs dirtier, but that's a designer choice (If they're fresh off the assembly line for example). The walking is also faster than the movies, but honestly, I prefer this speed. You sir, have true talent and skill!

[@5Demona5]

This walking speed makes em scarier!!

[@BoopSnoot]

I liked the part where they went "stomp stomp!" and "pshew pshew, pshew pshew!"

[@kn3448]

That's a winning comment if ever there was one. I also do your username to my fur babies whenever the opportunity presents itself and often get annoyed looks in return.

[@Litzen2k]

Ohh my. This is by far most fantastic shot on AT-AT's done by someone not working for a studio!

[@aerospacenews]

Jeremy @knonfil these excellent sequences deserve a much bigger audience. From the locomotion and weapons movement to the lighting, sound design and emissive materials (loved the glow fading in the guns at the end), it really is fantastic. Great job!

[@LunarTikOfficial]

*Play it on 0.75% speed to see the real magic! This is animated too fast! Something the creator needs to learn, mass vs speed!*

[@Darth234Ravenous]

They even have that stop motion movement from empire. That's pretty cool.

[@TheGrrson]

Dang. This looks great. It's got that overexposed sky and dirt on the lens, too. Very nice!

[@mihajlo961x]

Gorgeous animation! I absolutely love the homage to "maximum firepower" blast at 0:02

[@completelymachinima]

These are brilliant - loved how one of them squished the camera!

[@LunarTikOfficial]

*Play it on 0.75% speed to see the real magic! This is animated too fast! Something the creator needs to learn, mass vs speed!*

[@johnboren]

You perfectly matched the camera angles and the motion of the walkers. If they'd been walking in snow, I would have sworn I was watching footage from the original. Most impressive, and I'm not making any cute reference there. This is excellent work!

[@doubleitp]

You were, this is just super imposed over the Hoth scene.

[@atomic_wait]

My main critique is that their animations look too fast and snappy, makes them look small rather than huge. Walking animation needs more weight, needs to be slowed down by like 75%.

[@isapezfilms]

Absolutely sick, I love to see these awesome shorts, and hopefully a short film come out soon enough 🤞

[@brucehart6334]

Great job Jeremy! That has a beautiful cinematic quality

[@han1075]

WOW! This seriously looks amazing! I don't know if it's how you framed your shots or the fact that the Walkers are firing almost non-stop at the beginning that really grabs your attention and doesn't let go. I immediately felt like I was watching a movie. This is better than anything Di$ney has put out lately. Great work!

[@Dan-ku9mt]

ABSOLUTELY PHENOMINAL work!!!! I imagine the walk cycle was sped a bit to cover more ground for story-telling purposes? Truly MIND-BLOWING! 🤯👏

[@frontallobotomy3481]

awesome work. when the t foot came down is a great transition to another scene. amazing what UR can do

[@abelstypewriters]

Okay - There's been a lot of great things happening in the world of mainstream animation lately. Especially the blending of CG and live action styles - be it mimicking lower frame rates (12 FPS, or using Key frames and doing movements on 1s, 2s, or 3s). KUDOS and PROPS to the animation of these. It does a really does a nice stop-motion style interpretation of the AT-Ts. It's kinetic, full of character, and I fricking love it. I don't know what sort of pipeline is used - but it's awesome.

[@danieldehart3320]

Special effects back then and decades later, both are very much appreciated! ❤ Well done!!

[@olivesandgrapesareok9324]

The sound design of the background and foreground with what’s happening is just phenomenal.

[@samtaylor7762]

So well-done, Jeremy. I'm impressed how you included dust on the lens, too. UE was a good move, for sure. Good luck and keep up the great work.

[@dhabu9017]

This is amazing work; well done :) One nitpick: I feel like the leg animation is a bit too fast; while the mechanisms are undoubtedly very powerful, I think given their sheer weight it should move a little slower. That said, this is an incredible production and I hope it serves you and/or garners some interest from game/video studios :)

[@bilplaymo6121]

Certainly the Best war machine of Empire, as many Fans of them..... thanks for sharing : )

[@MarlonSanchez123]

Bob Iger should hire you Immediately, you are what we need to make Star Wars great again!

[@seanv3180]

Fan animation has reached such an incredible level. The attention to detail is unbelievable - awesome work!

[@emperorcharl9492]

Rapid fire AT-AT is beyond peak. Love this shit. So well animated.

[@steveneisen6705]

Better than any of the "new" star wars stuff.... can watch it on loop all day long! Well done!

[@christophlade7796]

On one Side, a Star Wars Fan who knows how to show one of the most Iconic War Mashines from the Galaxy far far away. Including Camera Angles that show how big and scary this Steel Monsters are. And then, on the stupid Side of the Force, Rian Banthapoodoo Johnson and is unwalking Walkers that are only for Decoration. AT AT for ever.

[@onionscotch7820]

Finally i saw the minor blasters in action !!! Wish see more action like that in future movies or series ! Good Job !!

[@TheSavageRepairman]

I actually got little chills watching this. Please make more.

[@1slandB0y77]

Excellent animation! Now that's what I'm talking about! Great to see the walkers moving quicker, more in keeping with how they should move. Looks a little odd after being so used to them clomping around so slowly for so long, but a much better representation of their more likely speed. Also, loved the sustained fire of the machine in the middle, and the glowing laser barrels at the end. Nice! The only thing I would've added is one of them taking a mortal hit from a heavy calibre weapon or an X-Wing (which they subsequently shoot down).

[@tanyasalas2763]

Wow... Simply Beautiful....

[@IanCthrwd]

Nice to see those side blasters engaged…short rapid firings..nice touch!

[@Frame-313]

🥲 Thank you. For a minute you brought back the real Star Wars.

[@SchmokinJoe]

Great work! Yours are the only 'classic Star Wars FX recreated with modern tech" that are any good.

[@Soundwave142]

This is good work. I really appreciated the two guns on the sides of the head being “machine guns” rather than small caliber cannons as they are most often portrayed.

[@Alaska610ish]

I don’t know who you are, but that was awesome!! We dreamed about this in the 70’s and 80’s. Thanks

[@LiamDilley]

A proper star wars game where battles were kicking off looking like this is SOOOOO needed.

[@jomiles3605]

I appreciate the clear inspiration from movie scenes and original empire cover art

[@Mirvra]

Feels like both the main chin cannons and the cheek rapid-fire cannons were cycling through their animation a bit too fast...

[@quetzalthegamer]

0:34 I love this bit where the one in the middle fires, and the one on the left of the screen looks at it like "really, dude?"

[@doughazzard2532]

Scarey as shit. If I was being told to hold the line, and these terror weapons are coming upon me. I would crap my pants 😂😂😂😂

[@Elliot-q4m]

Keep up the good work! Maybe next time it can be a proper battle sequence with enemy vehicles

[@kymmoore853]

It’s incredible what can be done now, with very little time, compared to what would be achieved then with weeks and weeks of animation.

[@Elemental_Entity]

Aside from them, moving a tad too fast, which is a quick slow down in the playback, this is damn near perfect!

[@mellis966]

JEREMY STRIKES BACK! ... Simply Delightful!

[@GrumpySoth]

That was amazing man - truly fantastic

[@MrTotalAhole]

What I like about this, is it has that stop-motion look to it. 'Feels' Star Wars.

[@joey75220]

....so......damn......COOL!!! Excellent job! Thank you for this! I want MORE!!!

[@anderskaring5742]

I love seeing the barrels cool down. A tactical head canon that I've got is that if they were to overheat, the crew had to pull the barrels out internally and put new ones in, like a machine gun IRL.

[@EugVR6]

That was better than all 3 new star wars movie

[@Bayan1905]

Wow, this looks better than anything Disney has put out in any of their shows and movies.

[@stormykeep9213]

I was waiting for some T-47's to go speeding by them! Very nicely done!

[@アニメと映画漫画好き]

この連射性能と速力それに首の旋回速度、本当の脅威。 これがウォーカーの本当の実力。追加で上部に収納式のミサイルランチャー、側部にも収納式のキャノンと改良したら無敵。

[@nicholasrolo886]

"Troop Transport" my ass, these things are so much more terrifying than in ESB

[@Bugcatcher57]

Really cool how you managed to capture the surprising speed of them

[@vincentbruner-gregory2836]

bad ass dude.....love the gun barrels heat sink glow ,,,,,,great detail

[@Commander23c]

Beautiful work, I think this is the best representative of AT-AT's at full firepower output!

[@BADBRYZ]

0:59 Badass touch bro!!!! Awesome!

[@spooney100]

I could watch this for hours. Amazing job.

[@danbaddeley3885]

Brilliant, really gets the feel of Empire Strikes Back

[@Soldier4USA2005]

OUTSTANDING!!!! Other than adding a bit of wear and tear along the edges showing the raw metal underneath, a few old rust spots from a leak, etc and they would be perfect. When something looks perfect, it doesn't seem real. Even brand new and perfectly applied paint has some imperfections. However ... I have zero comments about the animations. Felt real and clunky, just like the OT ones.

[@РоманКуличенко-е1в]

Молния , Электрическое Поле , если Пробьёт - Уничтожит Гиперзвук [ Ракету ] . Привет !!!

[@Agui007]

Stop motion gave a wonderful creepy movement to AT-AT's.

[@72shmoe]

That shot of the ground looking up the AT-AT's leg at :43 is impressive.

[@MrNickpeck36]

This clip is better than anything Disney has done with Star Wars! Amazing, got time to do a full movie 😂

[@deathsnake6956]

The smoke of the guns at min 1:00 most impressiv!

[@mobius0691]

Why couldn’t we get things like this with the sequel trilogy….. gawd! This is amazing.

[@frissonic]

This is specifically why I built a new gaming rig last summer... and I'm suspicious that I'm already going to need to upgrade the processor and video card before playing anything rendered in UE5. This is just sick and amazing.

[@mikepatton8691]

This 1 minute clip is better than anything Lucasfilm has put out in years.

[@PhilipMReeder]

0:34 *Why does the AT-AT on the left have a red illuminated viewport, where the others do not? Just curious. AWESOME JOB!*

[@Captianmex1C0]

In the mobile game there were "Elite AT-ATs" with glowing Windows I'm guessing this is that model

[@anthonychihuahua]

Awaiting Richard Attenborough's narration describing the life of the AT-AT Walker.

[@83j049733rfe4]

In the lore of when the empire finally lost the galaxy (Endor didn't count), the new republic created by the rebellion outlawed these horrible things. They, along with star destroyers, represented tyranny, hate, power all too much for them to use, nor suffer their use by anyone else. This video kind of captures their omnipotence pretty well... Makes it understandable that as many of them left were destroyed.

[@ReallyDoh]

THAT was Beautiful..! Thanks, made my Day.!!!

[@ethana.9812]

My GOD... thank you for this ❤ Long live.....

[@Slowgroovin]

Nice animation. Always cool to see them in action. One tip: have them use their smaller side blasters also, like on Hoth in TESB.

[@robanderson473]

I've never been a fan of Star Wars but I do like the hardware and the ATATs are no exception.

[@cashoyboy]

i love the atmospherics and lens dirt

[@notthesamecc1927]

great job at showing how powerful these things could be. I am sure that in Empire part of the artistic choice was based on technological limits as far as the AT At movements went. the slower speed is ominous in the movie (just rewatched on the weekend) but this speed shows that they are indeed a big threat and not sitting, clumsy ducks.

[@Phaota]

Absolutely perfect. Now if you could replicate the Hoth battle with Snowspeeders, that would be amazing.

[@thoreaurug2142]

Very cool. I thought they moved a little too quickly and tried watching it again at .75 That being said I love the ground pov when they blot out the sun. Awesome.