Robert E. Howard's Conan

[dopedpanda]

Hither come Conan , black haired , sullen eyed , sword in hand...

[LXEagle]

Nice! Not sure about the hair and the k in cimmeria. But it is a nice composition, great video and nice dramatic music.

[HUDJ0679790]

Now THAT'S Conan ! ! !

[sXeblues]

By Crom, I dig it... ;D -rave

[olympianeagle2010]

love it!

[Zaaxun]

cool Vid! cheers to all who have been touched by R.E. Howards magic. for anyone who loves howard and are not familiar with some of his other lesser known characters. i highly suggest his books of the pict kings Bran Mak Morn and Cormac mac Art. same mold as conan and great stories.

[HammerBirchgrove]

Great idea and effort, but it got hard to hear the voice in the end.

[busterread]

dude that sucked, Mako was better

[fallingstar6073]

Nice vid m8.The voice reminds me of the goblin king played by Tim Curry in Legend.

Love it :)..A true conan fan

[ioport]

Fuck this is bad. Terrible voice

[mainkilla]

"But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. "

Even though it was a shame you didn't have enough models to show a completely accurate depiction of Conan(I think he wore mail most of the time when he was armored) and his world, it was a good job!

[pumatraca]

Exelente!!

[Erikvaneden]

Great work. wats the name of that epic song?

[mainkilla]

Music is "Kull the Conquerer, Main Theme" by Joel Goldsmith.

Text from "The Phoenix on the Sword" by Robert E. Howard.

[5B0YAKASHA5]

Great vid man. Hail Conan! From zero, to Hero, from an adventurer to King!

[SavigeBlazer]

thank you son

[JoeyOhm]

Hm...very nice..I'd watch a series like that...but that arm tricep looked a little emaciated for Conan and his brow looks like my tech guy who's as soft as Conan's fresh mountain dropping,,what program? Keep up great work..

[Grave877]

Fantastic!!! :)))

[brylner]

Very Good!

[paragshah2112]

this was well done sir ... I hope you got a job from doing this kind of work.

[OwzyB]

''Know also, O prince, that in the selfsame days that the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior-woman out of majestic Hyrkania, Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry.''

-The Nemedian Chronicles

[mainkilla]

The Nemedian Chronicles that were not of Howard's making.

[OwzyB]

I swear cimmerian is said shimmerian not kimerrian.

[taranaich]

Both pronunciations are technically correct, just as "Massedonian" and "Makedonian" are both correct. It just depends on taste: I went with "K" because then there's nice alliteration with Conan.

[OwzyB]

Ok, never heared anyone say makedonian

[taranaich]

Macedonians do. Like "Cimmeria", the original pronunciation was with a hard K, but in English it was replaced with a soft c.

[babouras123]

@taranaich True enough, in Greek (as Dorian Greeks themselves, the Macedonians spoke Greek) it is "Μακεδονία" (Makedonia). :)

[varanid9]

"Makedonios". That's the original, ancient greek name for the region. "Macedonia" is the anglicized.

[mainkilla]

Greeks do.

[ENKOSHAHA]

wow this is how conan movie should start nice dude

[taranaich]

Something like this would great, though preferably with better effects!

[alexwbarth]

cool video too bad you read such an amazing work like a fag

[taranaich]

Some of the greatest actors in the field happen to be flamboyant homosexuals, so I'll take that as a compliment. :)

[OwzyB]

pwned

[evilmick66]

This was awesome. I think the acting in the narration was a little over the top, though. But everything else was almost perfect. I especially love your design for Hyperborea.

I would think that if there will ever be a Conan tv series, this would be a great opening to it.

[taranaich]

Thanks evilmick! Yeah, I get the "Brian Blessed" accusations a lot. What's scary is that this was the most understated take I made!

Interesting you should mention the TV series, since this was partly inspired by Ironhand's scripts for a Conan series, where the opening used the same quote from the Nemedian Chronicles. Mine's a tad different though.

[cwmyr]

This is great!

But one thing i have to critize:

Conan´s sword & armor, IMHO it looks too much like european renaissance weaponry.

I always imagined weaponry in conan as having a more archaic look...

[taranaich]

Thanks cwmyr! The armour isn't my creation, but it's similar to the look of Conan's armour described in "Black Colossus":

"At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet... Clad in the plate armor, vizor lifted and dark face shadowed by the black plumes that nodded above his helmet..."

I would like to go back and make my own armour without the Fleur de Lis, make it less strongly medieval.

[mainkilla]

I think Hyboria's armor would be a mixture of Classical and Renaissance( bronze breastplates with mail between them and a lot of plumes)

[choke8ice]

This was awesome, apart from mispronouncing the lands, and saying "Cimmeria" as "Kimmeria".

[taranaich]

Which lands did I mispronounce?

Both "Simmeria" and "Kimmeria" are acceptable pronunciations, according to the dictionary: ultimately it's a matter of taste, like "Massedonia" or "Makedonia".

I chose Kimmeria for a few reasons: it has the celtic hard-c, linking it to the Gaels; it is closer to the historical Kimmerioi; and to me it has a more barbaric timbre than soft-c Simmeria.

[mojothemigo]

WOW! thank you for sharing this, very good work

[greg1850]

Great work here!

[mstheroff]

Well done, Taranaich. Nice stuff!

[taranaich]

Thanks!

[kevd82]

Excellent work! My favorite scene is Conan watching the Tigress float away in flames.

[taranaich]

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with that, I think that's the emotion I'm most happy with (and the smoke)

[FNeeser]

I agree with you, kevd82! :)

Best,

Fernando (The REH Forum)

[alexantos]

Awsome, Man! Just awsome!

[taranaich]

Cheers. Cool name, by the way!

[ELSuperJake]

Wow, that's really awesome. I hope you got an extremely well deserved good grade on that.

[taranaich]

I did indeed, cheers!

[SpartanWarrior198]

Excellent! I love it!

~ Spartan198

(Yep, I'm EVERYWHERE!)

[taranaich]

Nice to see you Spartan, and thanks!

[Gravengrav]

Lol, don't get me wrong, but please redo that for the better, because it had SO MUCH potential, and I hope this was only a sketch or something. Good work though (might want to tone done that serious voice a bit ^^)

[Gravengrav]

Ok, I just read now that it was a "school project" you did some while ago :) NVM then, it was really good nonetheless.

[taranaich]

Yes, this was basically my first 3-d animated project, aside from a few five-second clips for the modules I did back in '05/06.

[PAINBRUSH]

hahaha, just watched it again & that 'gigantic melancholies -giant mirth' scene is great ! Cuts from Conan with a hottie on each arm ( both sporting gigantic 'melancholies' of their own ?) then when it says "gigantic mirth" it cuts to Conan clutching his hilt white-knuckled ! - gigantic mirth !! it made me laugh gigantically ! ( don't take that the wrong way , I'm saying it's the kitties-titties bro !!)

[taranaich]

I'm immensely pleased you liked the girls, I really felt it necessary to give Conan some fun to go with the melancholies. I would've made it a smidgen longer to allow the viewer to really savour said ladies, but at that point I didn't have enough time.

Cheers again!

[PAINBRUSH]

FIRST !! YAEAHHHhaahhehehe

Excellent job T. ! I thought the early one waaay back was prety good . It looks better now , if only I wasn't on a damn dial-up modem still it wouldn't be so choppy/stoppy/stuttery arrgh . I seriously envy you man . Send that out to those big fish as your bid for director of the new Conan flick !! I'll be first in line to cheer , & first in line to buy a ticket .

[taranaich]

Ha, I couldn't wish for a more bombastic "FIRST!" And thanks for the vote of confidence, too!