More important question: What happened to the dwarfs?!

@ChapterMasterValrak

11 күн бұрын

Old World is dead, GW is bringing out a prequel to it, Older World...Soon TM.

@LordCrate-du8zm

11 күн бұрын

@@ChapterMasterValrak ™*

@stormlord7119

10 күн бұрын

Does it come with terrain?

@hazbiniznow89

10 күн бұрын

You like to dance close to the fire outlander..

@The_Captain40k

10 күн бұрын

Asking the real questions right here 😢

GW happened. Creativity is crushed by big companies.

@ChapterMasterValrak

11 күн бұрын

Sadly I can see this

@dk292

11 күн бұрын

This feels very much like what happened. Oh he's a good animator, make him work on everything that's not a sequel to Astartes

@inquisitorMence

11 күн бұрын

@@dk292 You can't create passion projects like that with a harpy behind you telling you what to do. That's just now how humans work.

@myfaceismyshield5963

11 күн бұрын

I doubt that's the case. Astartes (the original one) took an insane amount of time to make, and I doubt they added much crew behind the project. I assume it's still a tiny production team, so I assume this will take as long as the original one took to make. Which we don't exactly know how long it took... it was a massive project for the original guys who did the project.

@boywithcrackers3871

11 күн бұрын

​@@myfaceismyshield5963It was only a guy, and no each part he did was released between each 5-6 months not years.

Can't believe Valrak got Astartes guy fired...

@ChapterMasterValrak

11 күн бұрын

I hate you so much xD

@Prophetofthe8thLegion

10 күн бұрын

@@ChapterMasterValrakwe know this is a drama farm

@popburnsy3207

10 күн бұрын

​@@ChapterMasterValrakyou're a monster!

@Menhtrol

10 күн бұрын

That sounds vaguely like HERESY.

Fan Artists: "Hey GW. How about we produce quality animations that drive old and new fans to buy your products at no cost to you." GW Marketing: "F You! CEASE AND DESIST!"

@TheDragonfriday

11 күн бұрын

They are role plying grim dark little too literal

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

11 күн бұрын

"CEASE AND DESIST!" At this point this is straigh-up lies. There was no massive C&S letters campaign by GW and after all those years, you can literally open KZread and see that old animations, recent ones and myriads of reuploads of paid WH+ shows are still here, with thousand and even millions of views (as example Astarters reupload has 18mill right now). It would understandable if there were large history of GW hunting down fancreators and their works, but the whole C&S is just myth spread by community.

@regalgiant1597

10 күн бұрын

Community loves to say this crap, it has literally never happened, one guy did quit and it was because of the community hounding him like a pack of mongoloids and not GW.

@regalgiant1597

10 күн бұрын

@@ruslanhoncharenko2179 Yup, pure hater bullshite.

@SergeyWaytov

6 күн бұрын

Well, the things like Emperors TTS didn't close down over nothing, and Astartes was the only thing that's been getting to the level of actual big-budget Production, compared to TTS being more a silly fan-creation

From what I heard, they hired him and he actively works on their trailers. Not confirmed, but I heard he had a big hand in the Horus Heresy and Leviathan trailers

@scrubsrc4084

11 күн бұрын

They did and he already quit from what I've heard

@chimeraelite

11 күн бұрын

Good. Dude was probably making good enough money before they hired him and he's gotta feel so stifled having to run cool ideas past corporate or whatever ​@@scrubsrc4084

@RaixsOreh

11 күн бұрын

​@@scrubsrc4084do you have a source for that or did you just make that up?

@Morgulvale_

11 күн бұрын

@@RaixsOrehsource: his dad works at Nintendo

@scrubsrc4084

11 күн бұрын

@@RaixsOreh peeps who work at for gw

It was going on to 2 years since I last talked about this, I think I have to accept that sadly this project is just no more, hopefully I am proved wrong.

@abyssal-labs

11 күн бұрын

They bought him out and hired him onto their team is what I herd and are not allowing him to make anything

@classiccraftdestined.7596

11 күн бұрын

all animation stuff on WH+ stopped. imagine if we got Astartes 2, angels of Death, Paria and the Tau one, that would have been great.

@RSBurgener

10 күн бұрын

This is by far the best looking 40k animation in existence. It's a travesty.

@johnwhitehouse4546

10 күн бұрын

Last anything I can find from the guy (Samya) was over a year ago in 2023 and him doing concept work for different personal projects (something called Yatra 45), and his linkedin etc list him as being 'Freelance', not GW employed. So my guess would be GW screwed him over.

@ChapterMasterValrak

10 күн бұрын

@@superhumantrueman Games Workshop can prove me wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’ve been monitoring the comment section and I’m pleased with the responses, you get negative stuff everywhere but mostly people are being good 👍🏻 I’m sorry you see this as bait/drama, if you follow my content then you know I mostly focus on the positives, making drama for clicks not my intention, I comment all time how much I dislike that, as I said in the video I saw that random clip show up on my feed and it got me pumped to make this video

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

@discipleaj

10 күн бұрын

😂 such a Homer Simpson comment. Like "trying is the first step towards failure"

@2wolf5

9 күн бұрын

It is one of the lines from Dawn of war games ​@@discipleaj

@discipleaj

9 күн бұрын

@2wolf5 Oh ok, I played them years ago and forgotten about them mostly.

@trying3841

2 күн бұрын

Not for him. He got a job!

@deth2jdubz

Күн бұрын

@@2wolf5 Was 4th ed rulebook too

Astartes got me into Warhammer 40K. As soon as GW changed the music and sound effects of Syama's original Astartes, I knew they weren't gonna let the man work. A damn shame.

@thomasswingler174

10 күн бұрын

The music and sounds were so perfect 😭

@titytitmk2738

10 күн бұрын

thats why as soon as I heard he'd been bought out by GW I downloaded the high quality version of the original Astartes.

@Verity98765

10 күн бұрын

If memory serves they changed them because he took them from a film OST. It had nothing to do with letting "the man work" it was just a legal issue.

@TheRedSign

4 күн бұрын

Tbf though, he was using copyrighted soundtracks. I could clearly identify one piece directly from the movie "Dredd". I guess GW's interception was at least partially legit.

I think that the Astartes guy was actually an Alpha Legionary, who made an amazing fan project because he knew it would get taken down by GW to cause drama and make the community wonder where he went. This would help further Alpharius' plan somehow.

@AltoStratusX1

8 күн бұрын

This is a lie

@newtpondskipper

6 күн бұрын

Hydra Dominatus!

@arcticghost1393

4 күн бұрын

Alpha legionnaire here, can't confirm

@LordCrate-du8zm

4 күн бұрын

@@arcticghost1393 this is a lie

Corporations would rather take a safe route than trailblaze 95% of the time. Seems Astartes was too bold. They told him they'd hire him and allow him to continue his work and Instread he's just a cog in the machine now.

@Thabooka

10 күн бұрын

same thing they did to that Korean Guy - SODAZ , they hired him - made him delete all his videos the didnt give him any work - he publicly complained that thats what happened but a few days later he deleted that and came with a new narrative of - "I quit because the fans complained I will never do 40k again" - GW probably threatened him - GW sucks

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

10 күн бұрын

@@Thabooka They didn't hired them actually. He was considering working with them after finally receiving an offer, but fans were so against that, calling him traitor etc, so he really quit mostly due to radical fans pressure.

@docvaliant721

10 күн бұрын

@@ruslanhoncharenko2179Gate keeping can work. Need to gate keep harder.

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

10 күн бұрын

@@docvaliant721 Gatekeeping to the point of bullying existing 40k creators out of hobby?? No, this is bullshit.

@docvaliant721

10 күн бұрын

@@ruslanhoncharenko2179 Life ain’t fair -Mom

There are unconfirmed rumors that Syama left GW on bad terms. And, again, rumors - he had such a bad experience working there that he does not want or to do anything with Warhammer anymore. I thought, if anyone knew anything about that, that would Mr. Foilrak. But apparently not.

@johnwhitehouse4546

10 күн бұрын

All his linkedin etc list him as being freelance, so that wouldn't surprise me.

@nukem8128

10 күн бұрын

Never meet your heroes

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

10 күн бұрын

​@@johnwhitehouse4546He didn't change his Linkedin status after being hired by GW, so nothing changed in that regard

@Nonyahbid

4 күн бұрын

I heard the same “I was told he left and wanted to do something different “

@BombSponge

3 күн бұрын

I'm still subscribed to him on Patreon and he's working on his own projects. Has been for a while. GW will have his signature on an NDA and stopped him doing any more 40k content. Sad

Its really easy. GW decided they know whats best for everyone. They took control and rather than let the man finish something important to the community they killed it so he could work on other things for them. Because GW knows best

@piercegalactic

Күн бұрын

But the fans must approve because they keep coming back

Syama pedersen himself confirmed to Janovich that Astartes was indeed a one man project, and that he didn't work with a small team (though he said he'd love to have a team). Dome creators helped by making certain 3d assets (such as the predator turret) and he also used some already existing 3d assets like cables, but that's about it.

I remember watching it for the first time, it is what got me into 40K. The Astartes video and the Helsreach video are incredible and better than anything Netflix, Disney and Amazon have put out.

@megahemphead

10 күн бұрын

thank you for reminding me of helsreach! i was watching it but it wasn't fully realeased so i told myself i'd come back to it later when it is finished. that time is now :)

@ashtonshephard3852

10 күн бұрын

You're generally right, but I'ma be real Amazon did an amazing job with invincible

@megahemphead

10 күн бұрын

@@ashtonshephard3852 and the boys!

He probably left the job and signed non disclosure agreement.

@reddragon4482

Күн бұрын

No sympathy, he was warned what they were like.

GW bought him so he couldn’t make anything new

...Somewhere, in the back of my soul, I think someone at GW got jealous that an unpaid fan doing a fan project, was leaps and bounds over their pet project... That Ultramarine 'movie'. So it was brought in, and killed out of spite.

@DJCallidus

10 күн бұрын

It's GW in general being butthurt because someone can produce a better quality animation than they themselves. Probably didn't like that the marines are "first born" either as they are ending that line gradually.

@regalgiant1597

10 күн бұрын

'Trust me bro'

@DB8ed

10 күн бұрын

This is why they can take Warhammer+ and shove it. Instead of watching and learning from these awesome animators, they took them and put them in shackles. Chained to their sad mediocre product in hopes their greatness can run off on their official GW products.

@regalgiant1597

9 күн бұрын

@@DB8ed Spreader of lies.

@DB8ed

9 күн бұрын

@@regalgiant1597 corporate boot licker

They're not even using his style of animation. I can understand using multiple styles of animation, but nothing has been produced to his caliber. To those saying he played a role in the Horus Heresy trailer, that is possible. But that trailer was not to his standards and looked more like a 2010 - 2015 game trailer. It wasn't bad; however I think Astartes would want a more polished video with better sounds and visuals.

Remember that S2 Teaser was NOT RELEASED but leaked. The author could not post it himself because of GW attention and likely a cease and desist letter.

@ChapterMasterValrak

11 күн бұрын

At the time someone leaked it off his Patreon but now its regular posted by one of his Animation team on twitter: x.com/watchmeanimate/status/1802864417035411547

@loreman2803

10 күн бұрын

​@@ChapterMasterValrakyo he got a team? I've heard nothing from him at all

@hugofelix4719

10 күн бұрын

The S2 teaser was played at the end of his last episode. It wasn't leaked.

@ironduke5058

10 күн бұрын

​@@hugofelix4719That's a different clip

@Tookieslam

4 күн бұрын

@@hugofelix4719bruh

We’ve now had all of the shows they announced at launch (took 2021 to now!) except Astartes 2 and ‘High Lords’… my goodness is it poor that not only have we still not had everything they promised at launch like these shows (also remember ‘VIP Event Extras’?!) but there is ZERO new animation projects or new shows announced. It’s been so lacklustre it’s unreal.

Probably killed it. One man made content, an entire company struggles to create

GW : " What could have happened to this one guy that outclassed us ....I really wonder. "

@regalgiant1597

10 күн бұрын

'Trust me bro'

Warhammer plus can only bring out one unique show every 2 1/2 years.

@michaelcoward1902

4 күн бұрын

unique slideshow you mean.

@volkskrieg8735

2 күн бұрын

Are any of them good? Nobody talks about them and the ones I have seen snippets of look like garbage.

@JayJoestarr

Күн бұрын

@@volkskrieg8735 Pariah Nexus is the only good thing that come from W+ Still didn't come close to Astartes though.

@volkskrieg8735

19 сағат бұрын

@@JayJoestarr ill check it out. thanks for the info

they scooped him up so he would stop making better stuff than them, but instead be stomped under their boot making trash they tell him too. they should have hired him and gave him free reign and a budget and some staff to make what he wanted with very little input by them. then send it to theaters to make 200 million $

@HotelCharliHill

10 күн бұрын

they won't reupload it because you have to pay for warhammer+ to watch it now (aside from rips EVERYWHERE)

@vcdaniels

3 күн бұрын

That sounds so familiar *cough cough* Lord Inquisitor *cough cough* Erasmus Brosdeau

@HotelCharliHill

3 күн бұрын

@@vcdaniels that was an impressive and ambitious project but... honestly, what astartes delivered was 5 times as good in terms of quality in every way. but yeah, too bad he had to stop also

Valrak you should try and reach out to the guy who makes it and see if you can get an interview or anything with him. It’s one thing for production to stop, but the guy also like disappeared (I know he was hired by gw or whatever) Would be worth a shot

@nukem8128

10 күн бұрын

Probably has an NDA

@drefranks691

10 күн бұрын

@@nukem8128 “so any news on your new project Ass tart please?”

He’s working on the trailer for the Black Templar Ancient model

At this point - I am only watching Project Morningstar, Warheads, and Scorch to get that Astartes fix. Honestly that animation was the reason I picked up a brush and painting a space marine

Weren't all rhe independent creators given cease and disist warnings?

@ChapterMasterValrak

11 күн бұрын

Basically from my understands they were given a choice, join them or stop. Which I still to this day absolutely hate.

@I_am_Spartacus

11 күн бұрын

Nope.

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

11 күн бұрын

No, this isn't the case. Since there are new animations for 40k on KZread, they aren't deleted. And most importantly, tons of reuploads with shitton of views, GW isn't striking them either. Community kinda overreacted back then, but it turned out to be nothing burger.

@BronzeRivet

11 күн бұрын

@@ChapterMasterValrak AStartes was. And then they hired him.

@garitaevz

11 күн бұрын

You cant make profit off making content related to GW. In the same vein TTS was never forced to stop but when you have a production crew to pay you only have one choice. GW hasn't gone full Nintendo but I think calling it a nothing burger is disingenious. When you know there's a legal sword of damocles that can drop on you regardless of profit or not, people don't want that headache. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I belive death of hope never had a patreon or the sorts and he still ended up shafting that project because of the legal changes EDIT: The studio that made the exodite made remarks about GW dragging them through the mud during the process on discord. The whole thing is shut down but you might find pinned comments on the mourningstar discord. If the "join us" option that artists is given is shit than I'd rather have never been given an option to begin with

the thing is GW are known for never crediting artists for there work so the guy that made ASTARTES "could have worked on their trailers" but we will never know this is one of many things about GW i add to my BOOK OF GRUDGES is for all the great art that is made for the trailers and codex books, box art, or whatever, when you try to find the artist who made it it is never as straightforward of just looking at the art to see who made it.

I can tell you 100% that the Astartes project was my first step in getting back into the hobby. It was a piece so amazing that it broke into the general 'media' and got across the concept of 40k so perfectly that all the old memories came back and I wanted to get back into it. So, GW should make more of it! Or at least more as good as it was.

astartes guy would of done so much more for warhammer on his own than being hired by them, how crazy is that. GW just literally let him have full creative control over a show and its golden its a home run, how can they be so stupid.

it showed what one man with dedication can do, it showed that GW with all its resources has other priorities, and so it had to be put down

GW pulled a Disney, where they buy up the competition and then kill it so it's no longer competition.

@db9635

8 күн бұрын

and it was never competition in the first place 💀Astartes was probably the best thing that has happened to warhammer in a very long time

This was the video that brought me back to the hobby after 23 years. It is downloaded and I watch it in its original glory at least once a month. Weird how the fan stuff that sticks with the fandom is the best stuff. Weird.

It got taken off of KZread because GW bought it hook line and sinker from the creator. The original videos used a load of copyrighted audio material which had to get changed and did when it was reuploaded to War-Com. The power armour sounds were taken from Fallout 4's power armour sound, most of the music used was taken from the Dredd 3D soundtrack and had to be replaced.

Another point too is that with copyright issues, GW had to re-score the animation so the video on GW's website just isn't the same as the original due to the score having been edited.

Before Astartes I was just into the occasional Luetin video and hearing my friends talk about the lore. I thought first born marines looked ridiculous and were disproportional especially with their legs. I never saw them properly on screen or in action and I didn’t know what primaris marines were. After I saw Astartes, two things happened. First, my itch to see highly trained, highly skilled figures on screen working tactically and efficiently was scratched. It was like what John Wick did for action movies but for a fantasy genre. Second, I now had a mental image in my head for what space marines were. Lightning fast, tactical killing machines. It drew me right into the IP and now I own 3000 pts of marines and close to 1000 pts of Battle sisters. All because of this animation and what it brought to the universe.

Someone finds a cure to cancer: government makes sure they dissappear. Someone makes a 40k animation that is incredible: GW makes them disappear

@GreenSage307

10 күн бұрын

pretty much

I feel like Iron Within had almost Astartes vibes, I wonder if he had creative input on that

An open mind is like a Fortress with it's gates un-barred and un-guarded.

When the space marines boarded the rebel ship is the first war hammer content I saw and since then I've been A warhammer addict.

The time between Astartes Part 1 and Astartes Part 5 was magical. It's rare to be so excited about something and yet still be so blown away time and time again when a new episode was released. There was a lot of other great fan animations also releasing at the same time. It's a shame GW decided to kill it, we could have seen so much great stuff come out of the community. Fuck! I haven't thought about this in a long while, now the wound is open again :(

It got to popular and GW DIDNT like it so they bought it out and BINNED IT

@inquisitorMence

11 күн бұрын

This. Can't let the captive audience raise their expectations.

I missed that time where there was so many 40k fan animations.... and GW goes and kills it all.

ASTARTES brought a huge amount of people to the IP, I for one know about 20 people that got into warhammer40k due to the sheer awesomeness of it, I had no idea what was happening, hell even after an ungodly amount of time consuming 40k lore, I still don't YET ITS STILL THE SINGLE BEST 40K ANIMATION IVE SEEN

Maybe he's working on space marine 2 animations

@reddragon4482

Күн бұрын

hahaha

2 things brought me into warhammer: Bricky’s “Every Faction Explained”, and Astartes

Astartes got me back into Warhammer after years away. Friends have kept me going but GW keeps trying to turn me away again. The fact talent of this caliber is being actively suppressed should not be forgotten. He and SODAZ are excellent visual story-tellers.

It was never a "partnership", GW essentially just absorbed him so he wouldn't make what they're putting out look bad.

Im pretty sure he was working with sabreware on spacemarine movement in spacemarine 2

My money is that the author didn't want to sign over any rights to the show and GW didn't want to fund a show that they don't own out right. So its frozen in time until the author gets fired by GW once the TV series fails and moves to Netflix, Prime, etc.

Ah, that glorious and short lived era. When Astartes led the way to a host of amazing 40k fan animations. Unfortunately, that era ended years ago. Brought to an end by "IP protection ". My 40k fandom was at its height during that time. And has never truly recovered, from the way it ended.

Totally agreed with you. This by far the most awaited Warhammer animated series , and they announced it years ago and then silence. I suspect the silence means at least that its not coming this year.

I still think the cinematic from the opening cut scene of dawn of War one still holds up today and would great to see more cinematic like that

Apparently is was stored in a locker with vortex grenades, which was hit by an warp portal edge field from a teleport, which cascaded into a detonation of said grenades, and has vanished into myriad null void singularities...

Thank you, Valrak! I've been asking this question for the past two years and I still cannot fathom why. Why would they deny us the glory of Astartes 2?

GW bought him. They hired him for the promise of being able to create and get paid for it; and they ensured that his projects wouldn’t get made. The government does the same thing with patents. They’ll buy your patent and then lock it in a vault. He’s definitely been animating for GW, they just don’t credit their artists.

I didn't think there was an expectation that the Astartes project was going to continue when the guy was hired by them. Astartes was his passion, hobby project. But now he is likely involved with whatever project(s) they have going on with WarhammerTV. Perhaps the question should be then what is WarhammerTV doing because I never hear about or from them, and they are all short form, which arguably isn't going to keep people invested long term.They need to make *shows*, not animated tiktok's basically.

I have a feeling that they took him in, and then immediately threw him in one of the Dark Cells under the Imperial Palace as punishment for showing them up by single handily doing a better animation than them.

Astartes is 98.9 percent of the reason I ever got into the idea of Warhammer. I remember seeing it thinking hmm, this looks interesting..WOW! What sucks is I started at the top and nothing is really in the ballpark to astartes. It makes you want to watch it again, slow down scenes, think about what the heck you just watched. It really is one of the best action animations of all time.

As a Grey Knights fan, I do have a special place in my heart for Syama after that absolutely spectacular cinematoc for Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters.

Me too man... Astartes Project got me back into Warhammer 40k after many years of being out of the hobby. On a gamble, I just shot the official warhammer twitter account a message asking for any kind of update. I doubt I'll get a reply, or anything more than a "we can't tell, teehee!". But if it's anything interesting I'll share my results. Could always just en-mass just start asking, loudly, in public, they can't ignore us forever, especially if it's the only question they get asked over and over. I feel entitled to an answer about the goddamn status of the project since they took away so many other fan animators from that era. Remember the Death of Hope! Remember Sodaz! And praise be to the God Animator Syama!

Sometimes, I wish we lived in a timeline, where the GW we know, was the opposite of what they are, instead of trying to aggressively control everything, they simply allowed community driven work to flourish. They destroyed so much goodwill when then all but blackmailed all these animators, and then they took from us our TTS satire as well just by the mere threat of it a cease and desist order being sent. If they had just not tried to be a generic mainstream company and actually listened to those of us who have spent literally decades helping them build their franchise and product...we'd be in an amazing place right now. And sadly, that alternative timeline is just not where we are. Hate this.

Apparently he made a patreon post some time ago mentioning that he had left but deleted the post because it may have been in breach of his contract or NDA. The only trailer he had a hand in making so far was the Chaos Gate Demon Hunters teaser trailer and if you watch it you can tell it's his work. Astartes is probably dead in the wind and it would make sense if GW doesn't want people knowing Syama has left because a lot of people subscribed to Warhammer plus purely for Astartes 2.

It’s truly insane that it’s already been over 2 years ago.

The very definition of 'catch and kill', that's what happened.

I started playing DnD in 1980 along with war gaming titles from Avalon Hill. I played first Warhammer and then 40K when a buddy in High School turned me on to them. I hadn't really been tuned into 40K since after college, but after seeing the Astartes videos on KZread, I felt that deep interest being rekindled. I have genuinely felt saddened to see such Love and Respect for 40K be stamped out by Games Workshop; But I've seen that Corp attitude from Hasbro /Wizards of the Coast for DnD.

I've been a fan of this universe since 2003, the amount people who came up to me and said this fan made project got them interested in the universe, is astounding. How as a corporation you don't see the vision in this( assuming nothing is cooking behind the scenes) is crazy to me. Another creator made a video criticizing them for how they treat fans saying they were jealous of the level of attention fan made projects makes, who knows

@Verity98765

10 күн бұрын

They are reportedly making an entire TV series with Amazon as well as a series of animations in the style of "Love,Death & Robots" so they clearly do get it.

My take is this: why would GW want to make a sequel to something that they didn't create? I reckon that GW employed him and then shit canned Astartes 2 and then got him working on their own stuff in hopes that he would bring the same quality into their officially licensed animation.

They knowingly or not traded top shelf quality word of mouth advertising and a revitalizing of fans (paying consumers) already in for a blinded idea of exclusivity (despite being the town ip), an end to most any fan project ( If the Emperor had text to speech is on that list), and the burning down of any progress the fans were starting to build back up for their image. But hey they didn't have to worry about the fan animation outstripping anything they forced down the pipeline so I guess to them it's a win regardless of its actual effect.

@mistermidenight

9 күн бұрын

just went through the comments and wow there are a LOT of gw boot lickers demanding that just because the mafia didn't actually ransack and burn down the fan projects that they are completely innocent and everyone who can fucking read the neon writing on the wall is a coping contrarian. great work guys im sure the big guy will love you for your blind loyalty

"Punch-Smash-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM" I know you all just heard it. I think we can all agree that the man behind Astartes loved the Hobby so much and knew the universe so well he could craft something that captured the pure essence of 40K with no spoken words, just noises and Images. Only someone who loves a thing can do that. it's a real shame GW did what they did they pissed all over everyone chips, including their own.

I thought that GW actually approached him with an offer (must be one of the few times, they ACTIVELY approached someone instead of those people approaching them). He had/has a patreon, I was subbed to it, but he never posted anything 40K related, or part of the GW IP. Trouble is all of this happened during the GW fan animator copyrite war. You've hit the nail on the head, GW couldn't have scored a bigger own goal by going after the animators, because there was so much online and ALL of it bringing in new fans and FREE advertising effectively. It's why I stopped miniature sculpting anything that was part of GWs IP, I could be copyrite struck just for posting photos of sculpts I did.

As someone NEW to the Hobby. Past 6 months… GW business practice is perplexing. 1) Their communication on releasing new content / models is very poor and confusing. For example, I’m still confused as to whether Bretonnian Foot Knights have been actually released? Or it’s still a pre-order thing? 2) what’s with the whole limited production? Limited product lines? Stuff selling out, being impossible to get? 3) stuff that’s super popular and people wanting to spend money and buy - but they don’t reissue it? (E.g Space Hulk) 4) cancelling certain factions, parts of armies then making them redundant for those who bought them? (Stormcast Eternals recently)

Honestly, I think putting all their animations on prime, take a cut from there, and dropping their own site would be the least stupid move at this point (assuming they won't backtrack and let fans do their thing). It will put the content out to more people (which was one of the great benefits of fan content) who are or may become interested, and they can at least try to put the whole fiasco behind them

By the Emperor's hairy Balls , those chapter banners on your wall are the coolest things ever. Where did you get them made?

I remember leaving a comment some time early last year saying the same thing and you said it was on Warhammer+ and going to be coming Still waiting.

The 4 reasons I have more Warhammer games on Steam than any other franchise. 1: Astartes, 2: Geoff "iNcontrol" Robinson, RIP; 3: Legend of Total War, 4: TTS. Life hasn't given me the opportunity to start an army yet. But I do plan to do one some day.

My guess is they forced him on board and instead of saying "You are amazing at what you do so just keep at it, if there is anything we can give you to make it faster or better let us know." they probably pushed him around between projects of their choosing or intervened in any project he was heading until he eventually just quit. Oh and the reason they aren't reuploading it to youtube is because they want 100% of 40k animations on their platform to force as many people in the hobby to pay them a monthly fee.

Astartes is on the app , but it's the same story they released back then , didn't take teaser but changed the music just a little. Other than that , silence. Personally , they should just write up a permission slip , with them taking a percentage which would be their content , then let the guys get paid . All the guys who was making 40k animations should get back to it , that percentage could go to GWs animations like , Hammer and Bolter , Blacktalon, angels of death , might end up getting more subs that way . But it's just an opinion . Alfabusa's tts parody of 40k is amazing , I remember I watched the first episode he ever posted of tts and to this day I still watch it , and his new stuff . I cant fight over the KZread animations or the official content because I love both . I think they could work something out and bring good fortune to both parties and truly it's what I will hope . Love ya guys keep creating and don't be afraid of hot water. How about haggle ? GW I'm think of actually getting an agent just to audition for your future television projects I love 40k that much and the KZread animators .

Conspiracy Theory time: I do belive that all the fan creators of Wh40k stuff that actualy had talent where hired by GW in a form to silence them, since just giving them an copyright shit to them, like TTS was like suicide cuz they where belovedby many, imagine if they gave that same treatment to Helsreach and Astartes. So I think the gave them a job under the lie "yea, sure work for us, you will do what ever you want, sure". To then make a couple of dumb series that realy like a bootleg version of their stuff, a couple of good ones and thats it.

If they didn't bring in anyone else to help out the project then I'm not surprised that either one of these outcomes occurred: 1) He is still working on the project all alone and GW want full length episodes, thus the time issue 2) GW canned it because he was the only guy and didn't like the lack of progress

yeah, I recall reaction movies where people later apologized for saying Astrates and not Astartes, because they had no idea of this before and they were so blown away. This man earned GW more money than anyone cares to admit

I hate to say it Valrak, but they smothered it in its crib. They stole away the creator to work on broader projects because they could not stand the fact that one guy (along with other independent creators) were outshining the Games Workshop marketing and outreach and doing better work than them by a country mile. Warhammer+ is, frankly, a fallow field in comparison to the bumper harvest we once had in terms of WH 40k fan content.

I was thinking that we could have had 2 more seasons by now. I think he's probably working on stuff for the future of animations by GW

Astartes was absolutely incredible. It was exactly how I imagined the world of 40k come to life. Watched it 100x times

It would be a case he likely didn't read alot of fine print in his contract. GW could just stretch the project out to the point of non existence if Val is kept busy on other work he is contractually obliged to work on. So the project exists, whats the point if its never finished

It would be cool if he made a animated Space Marine army painter. Games Workshop really should make a new army painter.

I'm thinking/hoping that Henry Cavil will provide a voice in Total Warhammer 3, voicing the upcoming Legendary Lord or Hero for the High Elves. I say it's that faction because they have the units that look the most like Custodes.

If my dude animates the horus heresy and thats why its taken so long, im gonns be sooooooo happy

When i saw the teaser where Space Marines are smashing orks skulls and that one poor marine gets smashed by the Boys... got me hyped for a Waaagh animation. Seems we're no longer getting an Astartes Waaagh

I believe he has moved onto his own IP project called Digital Bones. Not sure if it's on KZread. It looks great though!

There are a few thoughts floating around in mind, like firstly I imagine Astartes is taking a very long time to animate, especially if he's doing other GW animations, combined with the fact that GW kinda fumbled with Warhammer + like they don't exactly promote the content that well, and that's the positive outlook, otherwise it's quite possible the project has been shelved for the time being and may not ever happen

Astartes is in a deeper hole than the Disney vault.

Just assumed that most projects were canceled after the Amazon deal, doubt they’d let gw run a separate animation studio after acquiring the rights to film projects for the franchise.

We need to know

SODAZ also caved to GW.

@ChapterMasterValrak

9 күн бұрын

We lost Sodaz because toxic people, using words caved is quite shitty, guy just wanted to make cool animations.

@user-pp6db2ee1g

2 күн бұрын

​​@@ChapterMasterValrakGW didn't hire him and he couldn't monetize Warhammer animations and ask for patreon donations. You think that gretchin just melted from toxicity? That's only an excuse.

It’s one of the greatest animations period. Beats ANYTHING GW has done by a crazy margin

Space marine 2 reveal trailer felt like his work

I think that GW bought out the creator's work under threat of lawsuit, just so they didn't have to compete with him. Nothing they have ever produced either before or after Astartes was released has been as good as Astartes itself. I heard the creator of Astartes works for GW now producing stuff for Warhammer+, but based on the poor quality of the shows on there I have my doubts.

@ruslanhoncharenko2179

10 күн бұрын

Pariah Nexus was hardly a poor job and not inferior to Astartes.

More more important question: What happened to the Black Templar Ancient?!