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[@zroutube]

Syama Pedersen's Astartes animation stands head and shoulders above any Games Workshop official content because of how no-nonsense and practical everything is. There is no generic voice-over or a rousing speech that everyone's heard a thousand times already. No one is stopping to pose for the trailer, the action is fast, effective, brutal and sound from the tactical viewpoint, both from the Astartes and the rebels. Pedersen's work manages to convey with every detail that the Space Marines are superbly trained superhuman soldiers, indoctrinated to fight and kill with zero hestitation. That's exactly what they are doing, and it is all that they are doing. If you compare this with the Ultramarines vs Tyranids from GW's video, it almost seems like everyone there knows they are on camera - both the Marines and the Xenos waste time staring each other down, posing with their weapons, roaring, flexing, and generally not employing the best tactical options. Given that they are supposed to be professional soldiers with hundreds of years of experience on one side, and mindless swarm of insectoid killer aliens on the other side, things like this stand out and shatter the suspension of disbelief. On the contrary, Syama Pedersen's portrayal is gritty, down-to-earth, captivating with its consistence and adherence to military realism.

[@seasonallyaffected9306]

The scene that captures this comment is at 245 when the heavy weapons team kicks up. Everything is there. And to put on point about the marines being brutal, two shots and the point of view is incredible

[@AdamG-ng6gl]

You articulate my own impression perfectly. The shots where the marine takes heavy fire from a lascannon, recognizes the threat, and drops a smoke grenade in the same movement as he takes cover to switch to his plasma weapon... just beautiful. The bit at the end where the same marine just instantly completes the neck stab he never had any intention of failing to execute the moment the psyker's shield fell is the same. Fast, efficient, deliberate, with every spent bit of effort moving towards their objective is how I expect Astartes to operate. Scene direction like this is SO much more exciting and satisfying than any amount of cartoonish posturing.

[@zroutube]

@@AdamG-ng6gl Thanks mate. Just one small point to add: Note that when the lascannon starts firing, the Marine immediately returns fire with the bolter. He fires three shots and two of them hit the lascannon emplacement, but don't penetrate the shield. Only then he drops the smoke grenade, takes cover and switches to the plasma gun. The action is so fast and superhumanly efficient that it took me several rewatches to get these details.

[@kintamas4425]

I’d like to imagine how good the Star Wars Sequel trilogy could have been if there were regiments with even a portion of the mechanical menace Astartes had (maybe the Knights of Ren that turned out to be jokes in the end).

[@PvtParts14]

I love this comment.

[@mynamestopher]

I hope the Amazon show is half as good as this animation. I don't think Henry can live through another dream project being ruined by things out of his control.

[@darthsterilethewise5547]

@@YellowHerb sad but true

[@LethalByChoice]

@@YellowHerb That just comes with live-action tho, it doesn't mean it can't be good, 40k needs more character focused stories imho.

[@nebeskisrb7765]

@@YellowHerb The Raid and Dredd 2012 showed you can make damn good films with pure action.

[@botmaster5]

henry cavill is named as the executive producer, so he will have the last say in whatever is done. and we already know he is a fan of sticking to the source material

[@blingbling2841]

Amazon has failed Tolkien fans like never before, so of course one would be apprehensive about what they'd do with this.

[@Fred-maurice]

Best Warhammer animation ever made, by single guy before Gw buy it.

[@edgars112221]

You said blackmail incorrectly!

[@miscnchipnelson8101]

and from a kiwi too (new zealander) cant wait to see what he does with their financial backing. Screw all these people that say otherwise. GW see a talent when they do. Look at all the authors they have writing the lore, Dan abnett, mike lee etc they werent born from GW's butt hole. This is the prelude to a proper 40k series. At least I hope so anyway. The emperor protects brother.

[@Wintershot]

@@miscnchipnelson8101 Games Workshop are tyrants and money-grubbers, and their only decent writer is Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Dan Abnett and Graham McNeill used to be good but their stuff has become very prosaic.

[@peste2574]

@@miscnchipnelson8101 We await what they'll do.

[@Dreamzkape]

@@miscnchipnelson8101, I think he did that official Primaris Intercessor video similar to Iron-Man suiting up for the first time in the MCU. Said Primaris video was most probably also inspired by the Raptor video on KZbin, which was awesome. And... Still waiting on Astartes II, which I'm betting he's expanding upon since starting with GW.

[@theboyb83]

Imagine being able to make a fan made film in your back bedroom that is so much better than anything turned out by a multinational, multimillion pound company. Madness.

[@The_10th_Man]

Passion and corporate are not 2 words that can generally be used together

[@bloodyspartan300]

Par for the course in todays shiite storm clown world.

[@CosmicSphincter]

I can only assume that GW has a problem with some absolutely terrible leadership, just some “number go up” ghouls or some old nerds who refuse to admit that their vision of their universe is weaker than what the fans of it can produce. They are sitting on a goldmine but all they care about is selling more nuggets. Incredibly short sighted stupidity or overinflated ego, one of the two, or maybe both.

Goatse, now more than ever.

[@Herbile7]

@@CosmicSphincter As the company has said "We are a model company. Not a game company" AKA they ONLY care about selling models. All other things are supposed to funnel in to that market.

[@anarchohelenism]

As many have pointed out, what makes this film great is not just the masterful visual storytelling and animation--it's that for perhaps the first time ever, the Space Marines are taken *seriously* . Every single piece of media that Games Workshop has released from movies to games has the Space Marines shouting battle cries about "glory, honor, for the emperor, yadda yadda", when realistically, war is much too grim to ever be as campy as that. When I was a kid, I dreamed of a film where the Space Marines got treated like ACUTAL marines, and not the glory-obsessed sycophants we see them portrayed as all the time. This is the closest we've ever got to that, I feel.

[@tunasandwich8049]

It's literally in the lore that they are super duper rare to the point that the majority of the universe don't even believe that Astartes exist And them being so rare should tell that they are basically the special forces of the special forces I mean they're literally demi Gods That's why I find GW astartes so lame because they act so cartoonish

[@casbienbarr]

they literally are glory obsessed sycophantic, fanatical warroir priests, where have you been

[@MisterEvvvSymphoenix]

*Agreed!* I don't know this franchise too well, but their cold, swift efficiency makes perfect sense, and it's so impactful. They don't stop. They don't waste movements. They don't flinch. When that marine was trying to get close to those telepaths, he didn't even pause to process the fact that he was being telekinetically crushed. The *_whole_* time they had him subdued, he was completely focused on finishing the knife attack. The moment he was freed, he didn't stop to pull himself together, or drop a one-liner. He just instantly finished the fatal blow he was already in the middle of executing. Now that's rare, tactical and realistic (well, for a superhuman space marine).

[@MisterEvvvSymphoenix]

My mistake. He _does_ pause just a little, but he's so quick to finish the attack that blink and you'd miss it.

[@ElysianFlame]

well for the blood ravens i akways regarded "glory-obsessed" as fitting :D 100% with you though!

[@flirider]

Idk how a video with no dialog still is able to convey so much emotion. Everything the space marines do feels impactful and heavy. I love it, I hope there is a lot more stuff in the show without a ton of dialog

[@DavidSelf3]

This video is literally of master piece work of art. How could it possibly be any better? Make a movie, print money!!

[@AMorphicTool]

Unfortunately the artist was hired by GW to work on their own animations. Knowing GW lately, all they'd do is butcher it into oblivion. Sometimes the best we can do, is let it die.

[@TheAnimaAnimal]

Another Space Marine exclusive sausage fest like most of their media? Yeah, would be cool but not necessary.

[@TWLpontus]

It is better in its original audio and music not this GW version.

[@DavidSelf3]

@@TWLpontus Where is the original?? Can you paste a link please? And thank you!

[@CosmicSphincter]

All they can see is plastic sales, they don’t seem to understand how cool their universe could be and how much appeal it can have by simply expanding on different elements of it - or their past attempts lack the special sauce that their fans can access but they can’t, so the number go up ghouls won’t even try. The incredibly dumb part is that the popularity of astartes shows that it’s already there, they don’t have to do research, this animation got millions of views and made people notice 40k who would have never cared had they seen the Hasbro ass shit GW puts out. They are morons, plain and simple.

[@Elthenar]

The thing that really made this great is how efficient the Marines are. They are on a clock, they never stop moving forward, not for anything. Same thing when the psyker got taken, the second that psyker lost control, he got smoked in a fine display of overkill.

[@johnyguitar258]

that psyker could fuck them all up that was def not an overkill

[@Elthenar]

@@johnyguitar258 I am pretty sure that marine punched his head off. The bolter rounds were just insurance.

[@makemeajmod]

@@johnyguitar258 rule #2 double tapp

[@EdwardVGrimm]

Like Johny said, possessed Psykers are nothing to take lightly for how much damage they can do, so rather than letting him fall to the ruinous powers and become an issue, they dispatched him right away in the most "merciful" way.

[@Skijvn]

I saw this discussion somewhere else already. One guy made an argument: The Marine was not overkilling, but he was on spot. According to the Tabletop Rules, a Chaos Demon takes on average 4 hits to kill. That Marine was Ammo efficient

[@SpaceMod2]

I always thought the small pillars in the final scene were really small or very close to the marine. But actually they're much further away and you can see the other marines being teleported in just before it cuts to end.

[@MikeJones-lf4bl]

where i didnt see any teleports

[@michaelhackenschmidt6243]

Underated comment, never noticed it after watching it several times. Thank you!

[@eVaSpArTaN714]

​@Mike Jones put .25 playback speed at 12:20 and at 12:21 the flashes on the top can be seen if you can't with normal speed

[@KarusMBII]

@@MikeJones-lf4bl The small pillars on the ground ;)

[@theghost4132]

damn i didn't even notice that.. you have a sharp eye

[@kieranschafer5180]

Somebody give this creator a team of animators and unlimited resources. A full length movie would be stunning.

[@ganker24]

Well GW basically loved his work that they offered to sue the shit outta him or work for them, lol

[@jeffyboi6969]

animators are great, but what made this astounding was the modeling done and texture work. maybe I'm biased since Im a 3d modeler but the graphics were astounding.

[@Sasserexe]

This deserves way more recognition, it's absolutely astonishing.

[@CalSniffsMilo]

the creator got the highest amount of recognition one could ask for, he literally got hired by Games Workshop (company who produces Warhammer) because of these animations, and that's why the original videos aren't on his KZbin anymore, they got moved to the Warhammer Community website

[@chrisfox1847]

@@CalSniffsMilo not sure if you know update but here it is: For those wondering what happened, Games Workshop (GW) introduced new intellectual property rules this year that completely forbid any fan-made animations or basically any community productions that use GW content. They basically told all of their most hardcore fans to delete everything they had passionately worked on for years for nothing other than the love of the hobby, purely out of a misplaced sense of greed. Astartes didn't upgrade. It was buried.

[@jonber9411]

@@CalSniffsMilo What does he do for them? Art director or something?

[@CalSniffsMilo]

@@jonber9411 not sure we weren't filled in on the details, all we know is that he works for them now.

[@Zauzzie]

@@CalSniffsMilo Ahh yes the highest recognition, when a company sues you and forces you to work for them for what you created.

[@newarchillabog9403]

Why cant Hollywood figure this out!? Everything feels graceful and heavy! This is so beautiful ❤️ the grim dark

[@NtoTheM]

Always felt a little bad for that psyker. He was doing everything right, listening in on the entities and warning the marines about their countermove and that little, tiny distraction was enough for the alien mind to slip in and break his mind.

[@Logan-qi4nx]

Truly a grim and dark end. One could call it…grimdark 🤓

[@martinroner5688]

That's the risk they take, in exchange for their powers. And they know it.

[@Panchoroje]

@@martinroner5688 For The Emperor.

[@andyknightwarden9746]

Took me a second to understand what happened to the guy with the heavy rifle that ambushed the Astartes at 2:48 _"A being that large and covered in that much metal should not be able to move that fast." ~Unknown_ 3:30 Astarte gets fired on by automatic plasma turret. 3:33 Astarte fires two shots from his bolter, which bounce off the turret; he hears it, and reacts. 3:36 Astarte uses flashbang smoke grenade (?) to obscure gunner's sight. 3:41 Astarte recalls gunner position, aims plasma pistol, and fires. 3:43 No more turret.

[@timothyeachus7242]

Small correction, that’s a multi laser, the same thing usually found on a chimera turret or sentinel walker

[@giampaolomannucci8281]

the marine shot those few shots to hit the target and track it, sure they can see thru smoke but it allowed the single plasma shot to be so precise

[@jaromor8808]

I would love to see this with the original audio/music ♥

[@JUMOWAx]

what was changed?

[@Fred-maurice]

@@JUMOWAx games workshop changed the final music and re-edited some scene with new sound.

[@Aegrim]

@@JUMOWAx yes and not for the better

[@chrisjones367]

The ORIGINAL creator of this is a man named RICHARD BOYLAN. He has a channel. He created this by himself years ago. Warhammer has since picked him up and haven't heard a peep about some type of finish to this incredible set of shorts. Fingers crossed.

[@Aegrim]

@@chrisjones367 even on his patreon?

[@ursaber]

aw man, i mean, excellent upscale, but this is the terrible re-sounded version in the warhammer plus website rather than the original creator's soundtrack which was far superior

[@DrRobust]

also oversaturated and contrasted so weird.

[@adolfovillanueva3040]

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[@adolfovillanueva3040]

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[@Razzying]

This guy really paid attention to every detail, i love that he made the bolter rounds ping off as the psyker sent a shockwave to the marine.

[@yertnert2624]

Still amazes me all these years later how this was fan made

[@kitharrison8799]

This really is the best Warhammer flick ever produced. I started on the plastic crack in the early 90s and by the end of the decade it still hadn't caught on with normies. That one fan could produce a short film of such quality is incredible, no wonder they signed him up.

[@tyr8338]

This is a masterpiecie. sometimes a diffrence between an talent and just competent is huge and this is one example.

[@Slu54]

Even after sm2 out, this is still best depiction, this is canon

[@facler]

The "artifacts" showing on the armored glove at 10:54 is a pretty cool byproduct of AI upscaling.

[@ImmersiveDragon]

2:08 funniest scene. best way to motivate your army.

[@Luuuuuuuuuuuuds]

I didn't understand a thing but i loved it! Great work.

[@ryandacunha3040]

Everytime I show this to someone and they ask what the Orb is i simply respond with one word, and the word is HERESY!

[@Nico141]

This is the best 40k content I’ve ever seen. Rewatch it at least once a month.

[@DagobertDogburglar]

Extremely disappointing that GW bought out the guy that made this and have absolutely nothing to show for it years later on warhammer+

[@Zeppathy]

Hopefully that's because they are collecting creators for an actually good movie/show for a change.

[@iamSmiley1]

SO COOOLLLLL gosh. we have been starving for this content. I would watch full seasons of just this with no voice acting.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

I come back and watch this every few months, it's still the best Warhammer movie ever made!

[@dfailsthemost]

I've watched this a number of times, and I still notice new things. The darkness confused me the first couple of times, but I actually appreciate it because I have moments of realization from rewatching.

[@DaMazzaf97]

4:20 i love seeing the marine sprint at the psykers. If that was just one of the humans, they'd be shitting themselves seeing that charge at them

[@kpsmorera]

Imagine a 6ft tall Juggernaut in full armor, weighting at least 600 pounds, hauling at full speed right at you, with such agility that would defy laws of physics since something so big and heavy shouldn't move that fast... Yeah, that would definetly terrify any non-Xeno. Amazing job

[@juble7086]

@@kpsmorera 6ft tall? I'm 6ft tall. I think marines are like 8ft or something.

[@McDougz]

Can we talk about the one marine that was waltzing in Robocop style

[@evilbred974]

@@kpsmorera 7 to 8 feet out of armor, probably closer to 10 in armor.

[@Zeppathy]

​@@juble7086 It varies. Just like with normal humans. Even short marines tend to make normal humans look child sized though.

[@YhwachSolosCryAbtIt]

This upscale is so fkn good, I can't put it into words

[@GLjordan]

Damn man. You think with incredible cinematics like this, a movie could happen in the future? Or is there maybe too much lore to condense into a movie? Idk I just can't help bit think that under the right mind, there is sooo much potential!

[@Acemanveryspecial]

The guy who made these was hired by Games Workshop to make more. It's been a long time since we've heard anything, lets hope that means they're working on something with a longer format, a story and voiced characters.

[@TannuWannu]

theyll pair him with 'creative directors' (diversity hires). dead in the water.

[@aiku5091]

i thinka movie can definetly be made out of this but it's a lot of work it would cost manpower time and money

[@othellorucker8107]

Henry cavill

[@moonasha]

well you got your answer... and it's being produced by someone who actually cares about the source material so we hopefully won't have a repeat of the witcher.

[@DeLaGallagher]

I'm still sad Games Workshop shut down fan art, imagine how many more Patreons there would been and I would have loved to have seen Astartes film project 2 or anything Syama Pedersen would have dreamed up.

[@thesheerwoodcrow5465]

That moment when you make a fan project so damn good, it’s canonized

[@calebbowling4137]

also the detail on knife guys loadout is much appreciated, ammo count for stowed bolter rifle, bolter pistol more heavily detailed, and then the knife draw was smooth af

[@sootcoot8712]

Most of us know this is just a upscale, but i kinda wish they had added credits for the original animator in the description.

[@hosackies]

Man, every shot can be screen captured and made into a poster. Awesome.

[@SethOmegaful]

I want more. You better make good use of this talent, GW.

[@evagineer9165]

Yes

[@KingCuba]

Hate to be real here, but they won’t. GW has a long and storied history of fucking shit up. =[

[@BloodFireDeath_]

They won't. They just wanted it for themselves and chain the guy who made it. Their mission was successful.

[@FreightTrain54]

Give me 2 hours of this a week please

[@harryhoudini714]

this is why I despise current copyright rules. Look what creative talents are out there, just see what they can do if they are allowed to and compare to that the "official products" who are so restricted by "people in suits" reading from flowcharts and lawbooks to make sure they milk every nanny and kindergarten child. They say the laws are to make sure the creators are "rewarded for their work" but the truth is that they want exclusive milking rights of the cow for a select group which often not even involves the original creators anymore. This is why we cant have good things!

[@nickfifteen]

The issue for me is trying to determine where the lines should be drawn between the two ends of this debate: "an artist should have exclusive rights to profit from their own work" and "an artist's work belongs to the world to enjoy". As an artist I've experienced both aspects of this and I feel both are valid points... but I've also struggled with figuring out when and where one is more valid than the other. It sucks that GW put the clamps on new Astartes works when fans have kept 40K going after all these years. But at the same time, it is their property, and the fact that they're a large company doesn't change that. Frankly, suppose their size does change the circumstances: if I had a great artistic idea and I managed to grow it into a multi-million dollar company, at what point did my art go from "I should be rewarded for my artwork" to "the art belongs to everyone"? Was it the moment I made money on it, or simply as soon as I put it out there into the world? This isn't about defending GW's actions and more about a discussion about this concept of artistic ownership, maybe even tapping into "death of the author" (albeit focused more on ultimate ownership over ultimate meaning). It sucks that a large corporation can have that kind of power over an artistic property that we all love, but the powerful using their money to control art is a tale as old as time... consider that a lot of famous Renaissance paintings were commissioned art pieces paid for and owned by the rich and powerful of their time: does it continue to be owned by the family (assuming it was passed down through the generations) or do they now belong to the world?

[@happychappy492]

@@nickfifteen Unfortunately it does belong to the people with the copyright ,that's the law but the company should of had more foresight than to just shut them off and let the fans see more . They should be more open as it is free advertising for them and that is where they should of been looking at it.

[@orang1921]

wow this is sick dude imagine a future where full-dive immersive VR type technology exists and you can go into the world of warhammer 40k (as whatever you want, of course) and see stuff like this. that'd be so flip-zipping sick, dude.

[@orang1921]

agreed

[@kron1379]

The Amazon show could be what we wanted Halo to be, if it’s anything like this it will be awesome

[@ahmeddesai5027]

I don't know much about War Hammer except some YT videos on lore that I watch occasionally but what I do know is that you've set the standard so high that no videogame trailer or multi-million dollar Amazon project can possibly come close to this

[@dannymackay1953]

This is an amazing remaster! Looks crispy.

[@christmasham4312]

This was my introduction to 40k been a massive fan since

[@draiden889]

thank you for rebalancing the audio. great work.

[@MajinLiveTV]

I love it because we get a real glimpse of Space Marine strategy and tactics. And just the brutal efficiency of it all. My favorite are the shots in space where the Astartes are approaching the rebel vessel. You can see the back of a fighter (a Thunderbolt?) flying in formation at first and then it peels off to start a diversion. As we get close to the rebel ship the same fighter fires missiles at it and you can see it fly by at very high speed from left to right. The rebel ship's top turret fires at it but misses (you can see the tracers in the distance and the tiny speck of the fighter). With the fighter wizzing by the turret gets distracted for just a second, but long enough for the boarding vessel to use its last decoy on the missiles and close the distance. Likely they would of never made it if that fighter didn't buzz the rebel ship.

[@chloewebb5526]

The way they can trudge forward with such sure force the very millisecond they are able to after an attack, as if never losing momentum... It gives me goosebumps. Fucking scary they are. He seemed to be latched like a beast with teeth locked onto it's prey, sapping it's strength and will, waiting for that split second of weakness. It was so fucking brutal! Space Marine 2 needs to hurry up and come out god dammit, I already beat Boltgun and Space Marine a few times just waiting lol. My only gripe with the first that hopefully is fixed with the sequel is the ability to wear a fucking helmet, and hear that space marine voice. At least Boltgun got that right, in superb fashion lol

[@mikehudgins8545]

This is the best job resume I have ever seen

[@doh0702]

This guy got me into 40k. Now I got 3 40k armies 2 AoS armies and a closet of shame. All because one dude decided to make a 5 part video

[@bsmartr806]

I love how much can be told without using words, wish Hollywood had more of this and less exposition.

[@Velshard]

My impression of this is that the Retributors are essentially Astartes distilled down to their purest form and are as close as we will get to the very first and original Astartes. LOVE IT.

[@TheTrajanValoris]

This SERIOUSLY needs to be a playable chapter in 40k GW please!!!!

[@Iamdroopy]

They are the Retributors. It's an Imperial Fist founding. You can find some good lore videos about them on KZbin.

[@CMTechnica]

They’re an imperial fist successor, just find some rules that match em

[@deon91]

I think this really highlights just how Fucking RELENTLESS the Astartes are, they don't stop, until they're Dead! Period. Like the Ultra marines say: "Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail."

[@muldoon67]

As a live action series of movies, this could easily rival some of the other great franchises.

[@grant4735]

I don’t know a gd thing about Warhammer, but this is rad. Nice work.

[@enki6399]

C'est scandaleux que les vidéos originaux d'Astartes ont été retirés, du cou la qualité sonore et visuelle n'est plus là même sur les autres chaînes comme celles ci qui l'on repost, et je ne comprends pas comment ce génie qui a fait ces chef-d'œuvres a vendu son cul à gameworshop.... Quels gâchis monumentale.

[@captainchacha15]

ah mais nan, je ne saivais pas! donc on est pas pret de voir de futures videos de sa part...

[@enki6399]

@@captainchacha15 Malheureusement non , c'est fort peu probable, a moins que les têtes pensante de GW on la bonne idée d'exploiter le potentiel de ce type en l'aidant par tout les moyens .... ce serait rentable pour eux , ils pourraient faire des Jeux vidéo, des films , série d'animation 3D. Mais au vu de comment ces Boomer British font de la merde avec une licence à gros potentiel, c'est mort. Vivement qu'ils crèvent ou partent pour se faire remplacer par de jeunes fan qui écoute la commu bourrés de bonne idées, et seront quoi faire pour exploiter Warhammer.

[@captainchacha15]

Je suis dégoûté, car là on avait vraiment moyen d’avoir enfin un vrai film de qualité sur wh40k…

[@marcscannell4138]

Have mercy! You can’t wish them dead my friend, a step too far I say

[@calebbowling4137]

the plasma pistol is by far my favorite scene

[@evilminion8825]

This is the bar set for that Amazon short series thats set to release in a few months. If it's not as epic as this, then the disappointment will be unfathomable.

[@momom6197]

You know, I think I like this version better. The audio is much poorer on the first half, but the visual quality is stunning. I'm surprised this doesn't have more views.

[@manhunter433]

The Retributers, a successor chapter to the Imperial Fists. The original fanmade animation was so well recieved that GW made them officially canon.

[@T-Jester]

Looking awesome! Ever thought about the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II - Retribution trailer? That could be a really cool one to do :D

[@alrafa1598]

3:13 the bravest guy, facing 5 space marine with a pan. He deserves a monument 😅

[@internetuser320]

That’s a melta bomb I think

[@MAPLEDRAGONS9876]

damn the changed audio is horrid by gamesworkshop. great upscale tho

[@JMastura]

I felt sick once I realized they fucked with the audio... It ruins it bruh.

[@KarusMBII]

Huh? Gamesworkshop changed the audio? Where did you hear that? I thought the uploader himself did those edits. No?

[@KarusMBII]

@@JMastura +1, totally unnecessary imo

[@centrallyintelligentagency]

@@KarusMBII No. GW bought the thing and has made it their “own.” Listen to an original version of Astartes and you’ll notice a *ton* is different, audio-wise. The soundtrack had actual choral/chant things going on, and sounds were much more beefy. The only thing this version improved was resolution.

[@RealSLK]

Absolutely incredible. Unbelievable. I need a full length movie

[@Leb3s]

Upscale is fantastic. Can you please upscale a version with the original soundtrack that syama pedersen took from judge dredd 3d ?

[@DistantThunder89]

I cannot even begin to think of how much work went into this. And by ONE PERSON??!! I don’t know if I can believe that. He had to have had some help?!

[@EdwardVGrimm]

In his original post, the guy that did this thanks a few people who helped him get aspects of the lore right and guided him to get the design to be as accurate as possible, but the creator did all of it by himself, VFX, art direction, animation, sound design, everything. I mean total f*cking legend.

[@nichokineraffelt6691]

I have no clue about what i just saw. But this had me locked in!

[@TheSineater863]

Gives me chills every time😅

[@morganmcgary921]

I've watched this video soooo many times. Can we please just write this guy blank checks to make more until he's dead?

[@xenosmoke8915]

Too bad GW killed him. I remember how excited he was when they contacted him directly about collaborations. Now he’ll never make anything again.

[@Skrimpish]

My feeling as well, they hired him to silence his ability.

[@TheShadow7771]

Wait, what happened

[@dadanabdilah9457]

@@TheShadow7771 this video was made bay a guy named sayama penderson if I remember correctly, and GW contact him to work under GW but they killed him or better word silence his talent.

[@A1l7e1x7]

Legendary shit right there. Best example of 40k... Accuratly vague, even Astartes die, unpredictable chaos and that hopeless grimdark feel. So Epic!

[@NoInfoAvail]

11:40 So I've always wondered, right there is that some other Warp Entity killing the Xenos that is / was the orb? I forget their name, but I know the orbs are a species that the Astartes thought they wiped out a while ago. That scene where its floating and has the Astartes tethered to it. I feel like the reason it didn't want to break it's seal is because it knew how bright its soul would appear in the warp to demons.

[@oscarozzieozborne5783]

I think that might have been the inquisitor psyker giving one last "fuck you!" Negore dying.

[@Zeppathy]

Yea. It's implied that the orbs are blue smoke and the inquisitor is the black smoke.

[@zabdas83]

This style, format, look & feel is what needs to be translated into the Big screen. 90mins of this is going to be epic... You listening Henry???

[@arckedo9772]

2:02 999 aura right there

[@thafightgame5383]

I need a 10 hour movie about what’s going on ! Is it a fan made cutscenes about a game? So dope

[@McDougz]

I would sit through a 10 hour movie

[@Zeppathy]

It was a fan made project. Unspecified marines and aliens. The creator was hired by Games Workshop.

[@redsol3629]

The way the story creates intrigue is masterful.

[@b0u1derd4sh9]

This is crazy shit! Breathtaking project... I would definetly watch in theaters!

[@bongodrumzz]

A beautiful piece of work, well done Syama, onwards and upwards

[@jksemtex]

i like how the guy that made it is like, i got hired by GW to make art. never heard from again (just kidding its awful)

[@LordButters]

Yeah, it makes no sense why they would sue the guy. I mean look at all the other tubers that use Warhammer property to make money and grow their channels. Must feel really scary as a big company being threatened by homegrown animation that's better that yours

[@InDadequate]

I think they hired him jus tto prevent him from outdoing them, he's literally paid to not do fan art now basically getting a salary to not be an artist. sad and shameful, but when he is old and grey we will get to see all his side projects im sure

[@Z3ROMyth]

I finished watching Weshammer and Bricky's Warhammer 40k lore videos, which were fucking great and now I'm watching this and enjoying it 💯.

[@justindavis2711]

Why did you have to change the colors? If its not broken, dont fix it. These are too oversaturated

[@richwaight]

This is so amazing!

[@yourmamaisphat]

Thank you Upscale! This looked amazing at 4k!

[@KabbaStoffel]

The coolest damn animation on the planet. Exactly captures what bad asses space marines are and the sheer terror of the unknown. I don't know much about the lore of Warhammer but damn does this inspire me to get into it.

[@EdwardVGrimm]

Get into it. I'm not a hardcore fan, but the lore is incredibly rich and expansive. 😊

[@Johnpork911]

Icl that intro reminded me of the early 2000s, such nostalgia

[@johnskinner2329]

Nothing Hollywood puts out can even touch this

[@kalinwalker420]

What are the orbs saying before and after the psyker says recall them immediately? 9:32

[@stmartin17773]

Who is here? I have failed brother We have all failed the Astartes deny our touch You must return break your seal We will never survive (xx) take the others?

[@JB-tc7np]

SO F-ING AWESOME! Seen it about a million times over and over now...

[@sas2300]

This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

[@DaStupidGoose]

THIS VIDEO is literally what got me interested in Warhammer

[@TheJudoka888]

Soooo good

[@chastion3689]

I believe astartes is the single best piece of media ever produced.

[@Kncperseus]

Astartes - the absolute utter opposites of Stormtroopers.

[@samuraisergeant8592]

5:16 is filmed like an anime scene fr 😂

[@billybongos957]

I was aware of 40k growing up, but never got too into it beyond a few video games. THIS however, got me into 40k for real. The flair, style, and eye for detail on display here is hard to find in modern sci-fi in general, let alone among Warhammer media.

[@haggus71]

I just realized this is a place left over from the dark age of technology; and that big gold man was one of the men of gold from the war.

[@jimh16]

the ending scene is very reminiscent of Zdzislaw Beksinski's artwork.

[@KevinSmith-em7zk]

who the hell created the original?

[@sauzeeee]

it's from Syama Pedersen.

[@EdwardVGrimm]

One guy. The animation, cinematography, sound design, and art direction. All of it. A total f*cking legend.