Warning, biters ! - A Factorio Short

The factory must grow indeed, but right now you better run !
This short film was created as part of my training in the 3D designer formation at EMC Malakoff.
In the creation process I used : Blender 4.0, Golaem in Maya, Gaea, Plasticity, Embergen, After Effects, Substance Painter, Photoshop and Premiere.
The biters crowd simulation was done in Maya using the wonderful Golaem crow simulation addon.
Explosions and cannon blasts were simulated and rendered using Embergen.
I made heavy use of geometry nodes in this project, as an advanced scattering tool, in procedural animations and in advanced procedural materials generation.
Many of the ground materials came from the following websites
polyhaven.com
ambientcg.com
quixel.com/meg...
Additionel environmental models from Megascans
I'm not affiliated to Wube in any way and this video was created as an exercise in the context of my studies.
The non-environmental models are based on Factorio but were entirely recreated by myself
A majority of the sound effects used in this video directly come from Factorio game files
Song used in the video :
Brothers In Arms - Junkie XL

[@DoshDoshington]

Or as I like to call it, just another Tuesday

[@davisdf3064]

Most relaxing weekend in Factorio

[@WelshProgrammer]

**Rampant AI flashbacks**

[@Streetcleanergaming]

Flame turrets, my beloved

[@saldol9862]

M Bison after someone says he destroyed their village and way of life

[@VladIsLove22]

Tuesday innit ?

[@VelhaHH]

this has some "secreat war" from Love Death and Robots vibes

[@elonwhatever]

Tank looks and drives amazing. Camera movement is good and communicates the essential info in a clear and interesting manner. The artillery sequences (both the tablet and firing) look amazing. The biters look absolutely horrendous though. The shells flying and the explosions of the shells landing probably needs a second pass as well. The factory in the gloom of the background pollution and the lighting do sell that aspect really well.

[@klortikterra4423]

the warning isn't warning of biters... it's warning the biters about you.

[@ah0mamy]

I want 10hr video of just the arty endlessly firing, that shot had no right being that good. and the barrel glow \o/

[@Rommmm]

It gives me starcraft 1 vibes I love it !

[@oshawott4544]

I would have loved if it lingered on more of the wide shots. An extea second or two of the artillery firing, a little longer on the shelling and perhaps pulling the cameras back a bit, would have made this so much cooler to me. Even though it was a little hard to see, I loved the camera movement showing the edge of the cliff, it really communicated being trapped. Just allowing the spectacle a little more time to play out would have been a very impactful change, as the cut from the steel rain to the tank was a little jarring.

[@Xxmito06xX]

THAT is a very nice animation, with the camera angles and all also, please PLEASE make a background gif with the artillery firing, it would be SO COOL

[@bobslackey1456]

So what fuel are we burning in that tank? The answer could make this a whole lite scarier.

[@fsai_red]

Love artillery ❤ Only 2,5K wiews... We need mooooore hehe

[@Trupen]

Arterially shells should rain!

[@Prootgen]

Artillery shells ARE rain

[@amadeusjohansson]

@@Prootgenthe death Korps agree

[@ZealothPL]

meanwhile, usually: turn into a cliff, get stuck, missclick and arty yourself to death :D

[@ilemonz452]

Oh no they are all here

[@tendrastds3518]

artillery* :)

[@-Big_Big]

*throws one barrel of blue dynamite at the cliff* INSTANTLY FLAT TERRAIN

[@Clubette]

stares at fish five of them instantly appear in pocket

[@julianemery718]

That would be a funny animation. XD

[@ThePolish_Crusader]

OR: f@ck you "waterfills your house"

[@ethribin4188]

I imagined it more as "instant slope" But yes.

[@ZealothPL]

@@julianemery718 i think eating 50 fish would be funnier, tf2-spy-smoking-50-cigarettes-style

[@H9092-2]

You know you are approaching a decent amount of artillery when a full barrage turns night to day.

[@Sgtnolisten]

Nah, still need more

[@Superior-condor.]

Imagine something like that you see a hole regiment so a sneak attack and just get absolutely vaporized by artillery who do they tell there families?

[@H9092-2]

@@Sgtnolisten Well obviously. But it's a good start.

[@michaelbaker8284]

Or just one thermobaric warhead. I can't wait to play with full scale nukes.

[@omegaentertainment01]

​@@michaelbaker8284 True Nukes is a mod that exists, friend. ...have fun. :)

[@munchkin020]

BRO HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO LITTLE VIEWS, IT"S SO GOOD

[@Tyrunz]

Well I just put it out X) Send it to Trupen if you want it to be seen XD

[@ChimakaGames]

We are about to fix this. This for recommended rn to me at 5.4k views.

[@snork_games]

for the record, now up to 18K views when recommended

[@Sean_but_Not_Heard]

+9k in the last 12-14hrs. Get you some

[@Tyrunz]

Well, it's done ! :)

[@Birrihappyface]

I would’ve loved if at the last few seconds a little construction drone popped out and started repairing the tank, because we all know that happens the moment you slow down in a 99% HP tank.

[@sicksock435446]

The artillery firing was perfect

[@natemadill2390]

Absolutely stunning

[@silverseth7]

Only thing I'd want to change, is to give it a distance-delay and make it truly thunderous. You know how Fireworks sound and what I'm talking about.

[@PanRokador]

Before artillery: Warning, biters! After artillery: Warning biters!

[@boomergames8094]

Commas. So handy. With them, you can help your friend, Jack, off the horse.

[@unyieldingsarcasm2505]

the bit 11 seconds in where the camera swings and you just see the WALL of biters chasing *chefs kiss*

[@imofage3947]

Made all the better by the fact that that's not only possible, but likely to come up in the late game.

[@Madcat1331]

The factory skyline in that opening shot is just... *chef's kiss* 😩

[@OshidaBCF]

"JUST FIRE GOD FUCKING DAMN IT" "Okay"

[@sergodobro2569]

Artillery is not a weapon, it's a system!

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Or, to be more specific, a weapon system. ☝🤓

[@koppanyhorvath1875]

@@Felix-ve9hs or to be even more specific, a fun system 🗿

[@RedStar441]

From your friend's on Hoxxes: The only good bug is a dead bug.

[@Super-BallSharp]

ROCK AN STONE!

[@toothlessblue]

ROCK AND STONE! TO THE BONE!

[@alazygamer1032]

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

[@JeffCheesy]

THIS is super underrated! Also, ROCK AND STONE!

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Biters: "We habe backed you into a corner" Engineer: "Wrong, you are in range of *A̸͕̾R̸͉̍T̶͓̃Ȋ̸̝L̴̻̓L̷̙͂E̷̝̒R̶͕̈́Y̴̙̍* " Biters: *Bruh* 💀💀💀

[@TheLazyComet]

imagine the jump cut to exact same scene in factorio. that would be physical comedy

[@HDL_CinC_Dragon]

*How it feels* vs *What it looks like*

[@TS-jm7jm]

That's a whole lotta diplomatic conveyance delivered, truly a man of peace.

[@HDL_CinC_Dragon]

The peace talks work every time!

[@LukeAps]

Now that was freaking awesome. Wish you lingered on the actual artillery impacts more, but insane none the less.

[@sungvin]

Oh my god it’s a whole ass story, I like the “coordinates acquired” moment so much

[@forestergogo]

Отличная работа! Хорошая анимация, хоть кусаки и выглядят как стая леммингов, но все же есть часть эпичности. En- Good work!

[@widdly-scuds]

A short film of the "story" of Factorio done in this style would be so cool. I don't mean like a movie length but even just a 10-15 min short of the crash, basic starting setup and then end on the engineer discovering they aren't alone on the planet

[@Dementio223]

How it feels vs how it looks

[@Eantrin]

There’s a reason I call my tank the “genocide wagon”

[@asherwoodrow7471]

the genocide doesnt matter if its not human and in the name of industrialization, always remember that

[@luketorpedo]

If you think that's genocide wait until you get the spidertron, and a remote

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Extinction Vehicle

[@brianfhunter]

@@Felix-ve9hs - Few years back i made a Tank mod for factorio, its called Heavy Tank and the community maintained my mod alive for years... Every tank tech have a few lines about the character line of thinking developing the thank.... The last Upgrade is completely broken and the description only says "EXTINCTION TIME". 3 years since I uploaded the lastest version and i still wouldnt change a bit.

[@Felix-ve9hs]

@@brianfhunter I didn't know that ^^

[@natemadill2390]

The Factory provides, all hail the Factory, grow the Factory

[@molybdaen11]

The factory must grow.

[@natemadill2390]

@@molybdaen11 THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[@RolandVonRose]

The factory must grow. The factory must Survive!

[@Dell1337-j6t]

that barrage was FUCKIN AWESOME!

[@UncleRanger]

The Mad Max music made it even better

[@mattbatcraz]

"Swarm, I repeat *SWARM!* " -Mission Control, DRG

[@drkreuzer670]

Least chaotic day in endgame factorio

[@informal_flame2489]

amazing

[@Tyrunz]

Thx !

[@KingOfStopMotion]

Brother that ain't Factorio, that's an Ork Dakka powered tank

[@madcatmk213]

the power of the waagh is strong with this one

[@AtomicRobloxProductions]

*OI, DATZ NOT NEARLY ENUFF DAKKA YA PATHETIC UMIES, LET AN ORK SHOW YEH OW' TO PROPERLY BLOW SOME GIT AP!*

[@blitzpsycho1560]

This is absolutely *fantastic!* I love the little details that I actually got to catch after watching it a second time, like just barely being able to see the Artillery swivel to firing position and the barrels glowing red hot after firing, and all those coordinates slinging by the corner of the screen that I completely didn't realize were *all the artillery cannons getting their firing coordinates* and even just in the couple seconds it's on screen over 150 cannons are getting targeting lined up. And even though there's no voice or even any sound from the tank, that slow turn at the end as the main cannon of the tank goes back to a neutral position, I can tell the Engineer in there is counting their blessings that they managed to get within Artillery range before the swarm got to them first. It might only be a minute long, but this is a story all Factorio Engineers know well if they've beaten the game even once.

[@FDG323]

Literally everything besides the biters is just about as good as it can be, only other nitpick is the extremely fast deceleration and turning of the tank but an excellent animation other than that with some gorgeous models for everything. My suggestion for possibly improving upon this glorious piece would be to de-synchronize the crawling animation of the biters and make them slightly darker or less reflective. Like everyone else here hopes, keep it up. You have the spark that few people do.

[@MacaroniMancer]

0:16 lol floating biter corpse. Ragdoll ended with them in the air.

[@RandomGames-u1p]

Rock and Stone Surface Dwarf!

[@isufan89]

that shot of the artillery was really cool. gives me the matrix/machine city vibes

[@Cissonius]

this is so bad ass why the hell hasnt it cracked a mill views yet!?

[@zanarkandokami1903]

Holy Shit. I was looking for nilaus videos but found gold instead.

[@HenryGreenEngine3]

This is incredible... fantastic work

[@garath_]

Awesome! I weep that I am just now seeing this. Absolutely loved it!!

[@phantomascom]

This is great! The only technical critiques I have is that the biters seems weirdly low framerate and jerky compared to everything else, and the lighting for them is really jarring; it honestly kind of took me out of it a bit, but not enough to prevent the smile on my face when I saw all the artillery firing. :) On the artistic/directing side of things, I agree with what others have said that the tank is a bit too smooth. When watching real life tanks (the old kind, not the new computerized ones; the factorio tank is very ramshackle), you can very much tell that everything is being driven by very powerful motors that are nevertheless struggling to move that much weight. The Jerky movements and sudden stops of the biters would actually be better suited for the tank, especially the turret's rotations. Accompany those motions with the bassy rumble of an engine and some metal clunking sounds when the turret rotates into position during the close up shots and you could elevate the experience that much more. Finally, and this is less of a critique and more of a cool idea I had, the ending was a bit lackluster compared to the epicness of the artillery barrage. To help it end on a high note, I was thinking that you could finish it with a final shot of the tank driving back the way it came, unphased by the flaming biter corpses it is running through. The mental image of a tank nonchalantly rolling through 6-foot high flames was just too cool not to mention, especially how it would thematically serve to illustrate how this much mass death and destruction is just another day for the factorio engineer. Still, this is a display of some seriously impressive talent and skill! ...Along with a very good taste in games :)

[@cazkesulaw1472]

This rocks! It BUGS me you don't have more subs haha. Keep up the great work :)

[@Quicks1lvr]

The lines of artillery with lines of oil refinery smoke stacks right behind, perfection

[@zackzeed]

Ok how does this not have more views at this point! It's really well made and also *_Epic_*

[@harmlesstherobot7181]

While I may be cornered on this cliff… You are cornered with artillery.

[@therealdeal680]

Wow, supremely superb, I very much enjoyed the small detail of the coordinates for the artillery running on the screen (inside the tank?). It's small details like that, that really show the love put into art

[@henrycooper3431]

I think that's inside the tank given you could barely see a joystick and the entire screen shaking.

[@miskr3272]

This thing is criminally underrated.

[@GreenTeaBagOwO]

Я бы хотел, чтобы добавили разные боеприпасы не качеству (лучше качество - больше урон), а по разных головкам, условно тот же танк чтобы мог стрелять фугасами против пехоты жуков всяких Против крупных сооружений и техники - кумулятивы или каморные А против туреток - условно ЭМИ Ну или придумать что-то такое Аналогично с дробовиком, он же стреляет не только дробью

[@YoFryman]

Seeing all that artillery fire rain down damn near brought a tear to my eye.

[@MrTomyCJ]

This is awesome! Thank you for detailing how it was made. Did you model the artillery cannon and the tank, or are the models available somewhere?

[@Chris-jw8vm]

Humanity vs nature. Nature never stood a chance!

[@SediAgameRbaD]

Is the tank inspired from the L6/40 italian ww2 light tank?

[@Tyrunz]

That is a question you're gonna need to ask to the Factorio dev ! Cause my tank model is straight a reproduction of the 2D game asset they built

[@mistermegatop7238]

Очень хорошая работа, даже за трейлер игры канает.

[@Kekatronic]

the biters looked a little goofy but damn that artillery salvo

[@mayolnis3119]

A funny frog once said ( OIL )

[@molybdaen11]

This should be in the steam store page.

[@p0sel2613]

Dude forgot to bring cliff explosives

[@Gamessence97]

The biters were kind of janky... BUT HOLY F*CK, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY IS AMAZING!

[@RoadArchie]

The biters being fully lit works against the effort you put into the other scenes. It frankly makes it look unfinished which is really unfortunate considering theres more than a few great shots in this short video. Revision maybe?

[@Tyrunz]

You are 100% right, the lighting of the biter is one of the bigest problem I had, I had a tight deadline to put everything together and render it all, and I was hoping to use arnold GPU to render fast and then comp the biters on a Cycles render, but when doing my tests I realised that Arnold GPU is so fucking broken that the shadowcatcher is simply not working, so if I wanted to have everything rendered with enough time left to comp it, I had to start rendering very early, using CPU which is very slow on my single computer, so the lighting was very very far from finished, by rendering all the time I wasn't working I was able to render it all in time, I tried to do some actual lighting and re render but I wasn't able to get out a single shot in it's entierity before it was due, so yeah the biters are very poorly lit, and I don't wanna get back into it cause other projects are coming behind

[@RoadArchie]

@@Tyrunz Totally understandable. Youve done good work here. Excited to see what is next!

[@viralgecko]

Fantastic looks amazing, especially love the tank design/look you could do a whole series of historical tanks in that sort of style.

[@Yaldforsvar]

Factorio. My favorite rts game

[@pinguspringus8356]

This is has no reason to as good as it is

[@djgamma6003]

mans hit the algorithm big this time

[@void-creature]

What a day! What a lovely day!

[@raraisgone]

I saw your reddit post, this is amazing !!

[@slocum0151]

I LOVE the spam of coordinate pings on the tank screen!

[@pyrotf2198]

the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand. the factory must expand.

[@billgamer856]

This feels so accurate

[@basildaoust2821]

I have enough trouble just building the factory with also having to kill the bitters that seem to just magically appear eating my stuff :(

[@Turkishgameinvader]

Thats alot of bugs. Looks like chemicals dont work. HAAAANZ! GET ZE FLAMENWERFER!!!

[@nicrule4424]

Man, the quality of this is all over the place. The artillery, tank, interior shot, and explosions look amazing. The terrain looks fine. Be swarm of biters looks awful. Maybe a boid simulation could make it better? IDK.

[@WelshProgrammer]

Love the little details like the vibrating exhaust, really brings it to life.

[@ChiefDiplomat1]

Your animation is very pristine and breath taking!!!. Please make another for STALKER Anomaly Mod. Rock on

[@teoextreme]

This is amazing! The only thing that's sort of missing would be a slow-mo at 0:45 as well as a tiny bit louder explosion sounds. But overall I would rate this 9.5/10, it's excellent!

[@Mriya6]

Good use of the music from Mortal Engines, one of my favourite films, definitely worth watching if you're into Factorio

[@Jazkal-V420]

The protesters have been dealt with. For now.

[@emilesteenkamp]

Dude, So cool. Hope we get Movie

[@Turgineer]

The tank that escapes by desperately shooting at bugs looks cool after the artillery. "Who's the boss now?"

[@christianmacias7375]

Great vehicle model

[@JeffCheesy]

This engineer might not be a dwarf, but he definitely deserves ROCK AND STONE!

[@solovevkiril]

Me: finds oil. Also me: finds too much bugs around the oil fields. My tank: LOOKS LIKE BITERS ARE SUFFERING FROM LACK OF D E M O C R A C Y

[@arivaldhagel2394]

Waste of resources on artillery ammo just to kill biters. Do you know how MUCH do these cost? Yeah I know I know...

[@Arturina]

It's even more amazing when you realize that all this firepower was made by one engineer. In the game it feels ordinary. but when you see it in 3D it's a completely different feeling. Music, lighting, composition. Everything is perfectly chosen and only enhances this effect. This is art

[@gus.smedstad]

Pretty capture of how odd looking the Factorio tank is. Closest real world counterpart is the French Char B, if the Char B had dual cannons like some sort of upgunned Panzer I. It's very much an early 1930's design.

[@wheturangi]

A good first attempt. You need more randomness in the horde of critters, but give it a decent story and I could live with this level of CGI. The animation reminds of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles 1999

[@ДаниилЧистов-к6с]

this coords moment and destruction of biters with explosions from artillery (u should have made it longer!!!) were awesome

[@jockeril]

WOW ! a great - you should do more of those (or are you already ? going to check) already at 25,227 views, if we're counting 🙂

[@francescosaporiti1431]

If this Warhammer 40k, I'll Say there Is a lot of chance that Commissar Cain was inside the tank...while attempting to flee, he Always end up stiking some Tyranid nest

[@johnrose411]

Could I commission you to make an animation? I'd like to make contact though email or discord.

[@Tyrunz]

Well that depends on what you want, I'm a junior 3D artist, soon out of school and I will operate on the same budget as french freelance 3D artist, so if you are serious about that we can talk about it on my discord ( tyrunz ) But yeah if I think I have the right skills to realize your idea, and you have a matching budget, I could work for you

[@WarriorOO2]

This vehicle is the result of combining a Gattling Tank, a Lasher Tank and a Dragon Tank carelessly.

[@comandercarnis]

*Surviving Tallarn tanker is saved from pursuing tyranid horde by several krieger artillery battalions Circa M41, colorized* Warhammer jokes aside this animation is really cool and I hope to see more factorio animations.

[@RiffZifnab]

The artillery ripple firing just like they actually do was superb. Among all the other great things the sound design in Factorio is fantastic, and 2.0 only looks better.