Right inside the Mark of Chaos!

[Grrrrrrr]

Good Lord.... :bounce:

[deepforest]

Really great and impressive!

[Coltzero]

Great stuff! Thanks for hunting down stories like this CGsociety crew!

[animalunae]

The animation and direction of this cinematic isn't 100% but there's some really cool blendshapes in there, very nice texturing and modeling, I really like these things, hope to work on cinematics one day... would be cool, thanks for the article btw!

[Simon]

Thanks so much paul. I've been waiting for this!

[AndyH]

Though im not keen on the subject matter, i love the lighting and materials on this. Superb, weighty animation on the big guy as he falls on the floor too.

[MrJames]

Loved it! Great stuff! :D

[tazy7]

I enjoyed it, animation and lighting all looked really good

and its done the job i want to play the game now .... if only to see more cinematics :D

Well done CGsociety again :buttrock:

[Neeno]

very well done.

[Wilson-3d]

WOW! Really nice all around. Very intense.

[Titan]

That cincematic is probably the best game cgi Ive ever seen....great work guys:)

[sandu22]

wow, looking so :D :scream: goood...very good job;:thumbsup:

[JensDenker]

love it! great work tho!

[sinolacra]

oh my god:sad: it is superp to watch but it is also too annoying that what will be the next? I mean that I, as a graphic desing student, am willing to creat realistic life like 3D CG animations but as I see in this movie there left so little to creat :scream:
gratz everybody who made this fantastic animation :applause:

[THUNDER-STUDIO]

DIGIC STUDIO is realllllly amzing! I love all their works ~~~~~


hope one day could join a team like digic~~~

[Srek]

Don't forget to stop by at Peter Fendriks CGPortfolio http://pupii.cgsociety.org/gallery/
I'm sure you will remember his artwork ;)

Cheers
Björn

[Ollarin]

This one is my most favorite cinematics since the WoW intro! :thumbsup:

[Miezis]

holly mother of...
incredible - first cinematic to rival with Warcraft ones! amazing!

[iPG]

excellent work!!

[poly-phobic]

amazing!

in the credits list i see only 2 animators?

there werent that many close up animations, but still only 2 guys did the entire character anims?

this is a great job all around. nothing was "half-assed"

[gu]

great article about a great and amazing cinematics work, very impressive!
congratulations for the hungarian crew!

gus

[iPG]

Wow excellent work!! i love it!

[Rebeccak]

Incredible cinematic, thanks Paul for the article! :)

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[Mirwen]

The animation is really, really well done. I don't really like world of Warhammer, but this is cool. So, the anim is ok, but the story is as stupid as it can only be. I don't mean only this anim I mean the whole game... And I don't think that it's going to be better in Mark of chaos. So, the anim is excelent, but it didn't convince me to play the game.

[bonus2003]

Well im not sure what your talking about. Warhammer has plenty of good story behind it. I fell in love with the table top game and then the story lines. I think the only reason it hasn't taken off is its lack of advertisment. as far as the trailer goes, i think its great gives you that woah i want to see more feeling.

[JoeBananas]

wow! great stuff - I wonder when we'll actually get a whole CG movie like that, rather than yet more talking animals.

Shame about the voice-over though, really terrible english accent

[Fox]

IMPRESSIVE, i must to say :)

[benclark]

WOW. Just wow:eek:

[ChewyPixels]

Magnificent work! :thumbsup:

I bet the Digic crew had a blast making this. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with next.

[archerx]

Wow thats just amazing! :buttrock:

[Lyman Zerga]

Realy impressive! Absolutely wonderfull!

[pimeto]

i saw that CG and all i can say is OMFGJCSS

[Monkeyfire]

Mindblowing stuff, very good!

[DaleMooney]

Wow really cant wait, i have recently been working on a mod for the Dawn of war: Winter Assault called the tau mod. So im looking forward to seeing this in action and am a big fan of warhammer 40K

[frameless]

wow a truley amazing trailer, didn't see that before.
Article is great, too. Thanks for that!:thumbsup:

[iliam]

Thanks so much
Great stuff :love:

[HellBoy]

Is it me or did the guy with the hammer in the beginning walked un-natural...? probably its me but wow, best cinamtic I watched in time

[warpy]

so again, on which date is the movie being released ?

[matty2x4]

I really liked it!
I have just one problem and it really bugs me when I watch it....
He has huge hands, they are a rather large % out of proportion. it seems like a bit of a strange thing to have over looked production wise (is it on purpose?), my eye just goes straight to them each time and distracts me from an otherwise great animation.
my 2 cents

[h2orat]

The best game cinematic I have seen this year, from the tempo, sound design, lighting, textures, animation, camera moves and final comp.

Only crits would be on the lip synch when the main paladin / hero says his line before they charge (I think it was "for the empire".) , it looked a bit off but that could of been the quicktime playback/compression, and if the trees were supposed to be smoldering , maybe a particle pass of ash and sparks gently difting off a few. Lastly a slight broken up reflection pass on the bad guys armor seemed to be missing.

Really solid work and thanks for sharing!

-Mark Valentine
dreamin3d.com

[lildragon]

Another nice article Paul, you know it would be great to have these in downloadable .pdfs ;)

CHeers,

~t

[BigSky]

I'm sure the 13 year old boys will love it, and perhaps even get a palatable fantasy primer on Iraq & the Middle East:
It has been a long and bloody year since the end of the Great War. While the emperor has claimed victory the peace that so many heroes gave their lives for has not settled on the land.

Talk about wringing the last drops out of a genre.

[3mm]

thanks for interview........:thumbsup:

the works of digic crew are really amazing.......
I really liked it!
I have just one problem and it really bugs me when I watch it....
He has huge hands, they are a rather large % out of proportion. it seems like a bit of a strange thing to have over looked production wise (is it on purpose?), my eye just goes straight to them each time and distracts me from an otherwise great animation.
my 2 cents

oh,yeah ,when i saw this cinematic for the first time i noticed this issue but after reading this article i feel better about that.....

"We had to change proportions and shape in order to avoid the “living dead” appearance that would take away the control of the audience’s feelings from us."

http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/community/digic/digic_interview.html

[strangelife]

Top shelf stuff.

[CIM]

Hmm...interesting.

[lehmi]

'seen the e3 animation and was really blown away.


Top notch stuff, wish some studio would make a full feature film with this sort of look!

[Stritar]

oh man..so many details!!! This is worth of oscar!

[ralphmanning]

Absolutely beautiful! Makes me want to play the game. :D

[Xillion]

more eye candy, more eye candy, I want moooooooreeeee!!! ^_^
(kudos to all the staff involved, superb job!)

[BobbEr]

top quality animation! The best that I ever saw.

[WDom]

wow... i'm speechless

[tobdog485]

wow... i'm speechless

exactly how I am

[atd]

WOW This is a beatifull cinematic, I have seen a couple of times and every time that I see I found new details. Incredible work !!!.

Only one this that look to me not so good, and is the final of the story. This final remenber me to a Warcraft in where a orc hit the grown with his hammer and run again is enemy BTW very similar in design to the big monster of the cinematic, mainly in the head. This is the only critic.

But for me is a very, very tecnical and artistical good work. Brilliant !!!

[macray411]

I love the animation since I first saw the E3-video on some game magazine. I even had it downloaded on my iPod to see it whenever I want to.

This is one of the best animations I ever saw! Keep on working like that and you'll be our superheros Digic Pictures.

[lildragon]

Oh Paul you have a double sentence in the second paragraph under "Workflow"


“This is the key to an efficient pipeline, which is important not only regarding the production time, but also the quality of results. This is the key to an efficient pipeline, which is important not only with regards to the production time, but also the quality of results;

Cheers

[arale2k]

Incredibly Astonishing .... can't say more .... I am thinking about the cost of production and time spent on motion capture ! better than FF to me

[aaron111]

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[noisewar]

Mouth looked a little strange when he's shouts, but overall an incredible trailer. Even had my wife sniffling a bit at the end! :thumbsup:

[freshdb]

Very cool!!! I love the armour on the beast that is about to kill the priest. The workflow discussed in the article sounds like it worked out real well, interesting stuff.

[Galo]

What, did he kill him,, whats with the black out... who turned of the light, i want more... more.... good stuff

[lixiaodong]

second to none!!

[_vine_]

I love all of the Warhammer shorts that Digic has created. Awesome stuff!

[theartspark]

All I can say is WOW, this looks damn good!! :O

[darkshine]

that moment when the big guy gets hit in the head...and falls...all the sounds stopping, the music...i've never seen a shot like that one...really impressive.
the best game cinematic i've ever seen,
kudos to the team!

[zenake]

this game looks amazing definately on my games to get list
I have warhammer 40,000 and this looks better.
Even thought the video looks way cooler thanthe game ever will be it still is sweet.

Zz.

[ysvry]

I see you lend a pic of your face for the box art.

[daveart]

Amazing. For me it captured a small slice of the Warhammer world and I believed every second of it. Amazing work. Congrats guys.

I am looking forward to the game but I wish GW would just bring out a simple conversion from the table top game. Im talking about having a points cost for your army....choosing the units you want, heros, etc.. then fighting with either an A.I. opponent or going online with it. Add in a customizable painting section like the one in 40k Dawn of War and you would have a winning game. Sure make a small campaign section if you like but give us the option of making the army we want and battling WITHOUT all the resource collection stuff. :(

All I want is a complete conversion from the tabletop game onto the PC...nothing more. Ahhh tis a dream.

Gone a bit off track but anyway....Awesome work on the cinematic!

[Spin99]

I really like the art specially the modelling, somehow their creatures make me think of Bay Raitt's work. Their new Goblins look absolutely incredible on the screenshots.
Nice animation on the trailer.

But generally speaking I think the whole Warhammer thing seems to have a somewhat "dark" and violent appeal. Nothing wrong with that, except that I much prefer Blizzard's humoured approach, it probably reaches a wider audience too.

I'd guess Warhammer has higher PG rating that WoW?

Any case truly spectacular :)

[secretasianman]

I'm sure the 13 year old boys will love it, and perhaps even get a palatable fantasy primer on Iraq & the Middle East:

Quote:
It has been a long and bloody year since the end of the Great War. While the emperor has claimed victory the peace that so many heroes gave their lives for has not settled on the land.

Talk about wringing the last drops out of a genre.

what and older people won't?

whats with the iraq and middle esast jib? not like there isn't alot of other games that has fallen in this type of mood.

this game if you know anything about it has been around for a long time.

the table top has been around alot longer than any of the pc games like warcraft.

the game is dark, very dark and bleak if you play it. all the stories behind it is very dark, very little to no humor here.

the big reason there isn't alot of coverage on the game itself is mainly b/c it is based mainly out of the uk. well that and that it is a table top game.

[bonus2003]

I agree this has nothing to do with iraq or any of the current wars going on right now. This is a fantasy game! Go look at ghost recon or something else like that(dont know if thats related to either war but at least its in the right genre) if your into that. As far as Warhammer goes this has been around since the late 70's maybe 80' 81. Both the futuristic versions and the fantasy one is set in a desperate universe. There is very little to be happy about where the human race is in either time/place, but thats the appeal of it. What is better than trying to over come overwhelming odds? Personally that was the draw for me was that the stories didn't have a happy ending and evil/dark forces almost always had the upper hand. The fact that you have to fight tooth and nail just to survive is fun for me. might not be for everyone and thats why it hasn't exploded, personally i just think it is their lack of advertisement.

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