VRAKS - Chapter 1

VRAKS - Chapter 1

The video on Vimeo: (will be available in a few days)

Music and sound design by @LegioSymphonica

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Huge thanks to Golaem and Xsens for their help and support on the project!

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[LegioSymphonica]

Exactly one year later since the first teaser. By the Emperor I cannot wait for the people to see what we've been working on for one year :P

[Janovich]

Amazing work. Got huge Dune vibes from it. Thank you!

[majorkill]

Well done lads, nailed the smoothness and quality. Gonna be the next big thing for warhammer fan animations

[OrigionalGuts]

Love the tiny details for example when all the guardsmen aren’t the same height or all don’t line up perfectly. The tiny things that I noticed really gave it a sense of realism.

[ExternalDialogue]

I love the abselute sense of scale here. Really gets across how bleak Krieg is, an entire world thats just an endless miyasma of depots, barracks, landing pads, airfields, bunkers, artillery ranging fields, training grounds.
There is no life here, just millions of humans robbed of a life before they even got a chance to live it.

[tobiasj.]

Astartes really set the bar for 40k animations. But this... the grandiose scale, the cold military might, and building tension of the music...

This does the Death Korps justice
Bravo

[bluedog]

2:46 has one of my favorite details. That one Kriegsman guiding the vehicles forward. Something that is actually done in real life as well which is why it’s a detail I really like

[Ddarth_sidious]

"We had 2 Basilisk regiments, 75 Manticore battalions, 5 Griffin batteries, half an Earthquake battalion, and a whole galaxy of light weapons of all varieties and colors, Medusa, as well as Krieg guards, Dark Angels, Grey Knights and 2 dozen titans. Not that we needed all of that for the siege of Vraks, but once you began to gather forces of loyalists to march on the heretics, the tendency is to push it as far as you can... The only thing that really worried me was the Leman Russ tanks. There is nothing more helpless, irresponsible and depraved than head-on tank attacks on well-prepared enemy defenses and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon." – Lord Commander Raoul Duke from the report "Fear and Loathing in the Scarus Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus" 830.M41.

[tylerunderwood]

"In life, war. In death, peace. In life, shame. In death, atonement."

Final line of the litany of sacrifice, recited by Krieg korpsmen when entering battle

[liljohnnotbigjohn]

The most dreaded thing for an infantryman: Standing in parade. Also, this really kicked ass. Great job to the creators!

[Pred.]

Holy shit, was not expecting this level of quality and scale, fucking stellar.

[williambaldwin]

We finally get to see Krieg in its military industrial and religious glory. It reflects the krieg culture so well. The buildings being drab and efficient but still having all the religious iconography spread around for being one of the most religiously devoted planets in the imperium. In life war, In death peace. In life shame, In death atonement.

[tjsrisawat]

The opening of the warp sound is absolutely spot on

[sgtrpcommand]

4:00 I see the scout force is ready.

Jokes aside, another astounding animation capturing in 5 minutes what GW seems incapable of doing across series.

Edit: Just a guess here, but it seems like we're seeing 48 divisions when we get to that wide-angle shot. Assuming each division is made of 4-6 regiments (by average count) and each regiment constitutes approx 3-5 thousand guardsmen (from count, not any lore). So, by that, we're seeing something along the lines of 1.4 million Guardsmen waiting for transport.

[ladikthrawn]

3:06 I just noticed that not all of them are the same height. Just a small detail, but it not only means that it's lore accurate, I think, but it also shows the dedication of the animator.

Big props to you, can't wait to see more.

[npswm]

"The Emperor Protects"

This seriously reminds me of the ending of Attack of the Clones. Its amazing.

[mitchellpolinop]

You did not disappoint at all! You can get a sense of what's to come. My only complaint is that there isn't a 23 season show of this lol absolutely love it. Better than anything Warhammer can produce

[geneawisea]

Well done! Praying for the rest, we lost “The Inquistor” and “Death of Hope”, losing your Series would be a crashing blow for High Quality Fan Films. Thank You for what you’ve done, it’s incredible

[thecypher]

The Emperor spoke, Krieg answered, and Chaos trembled.



10/10 absolutely amazing work!

[theoceansandbox]

I’m going to be honest. My perception of Krieg was that of a nuked out husk of surface. I did not expect this. The scale. That marching. I feel like an ant, insignificant, disposable.





I love it