Warhammer 40k Dreadnought v2

[maulrat]

Wow, I first saw this vid nearly five years ago and no one has topped it yet. AdamHKatona's came close, but this one is still the most photorealistic Dreadnaught animation I have ever seen. Good Work Sir.

[InnocentEvil109]

i hope next time u get bored......wraithlords come to mind

[mrmotinjo]

Holy mother of awesomeness.

[Vargrinnblodh]

You and Warpgazer should collaborate on something. I'd watch the hell out of whatever came out of that.

[MuLLiNsFaKeS]

Damn that's awesome :)

[vwang2000]

GIMME NOW, ME WANT NOW, GIMME

[EveofBattle]

BEST ANIMATION I'VE SEEN YET!

Stupid humans, why can't we invent this stuff already (warhammer 40k stuff)

[colaantilla]

WHY you guys don't try to make a movie or something???

[graysonchalmers]

@colaantilla Who is this "you guys" you speak of? ;) It's just me on my own, and I work full time for a game studio. That doesn't leave too much time to make art at home. But if I ever win the lotto, I'll hire a team and make a 40k movie!  :)

[colaantilla]

@graysonchalmers oh I'm sorry I didn't know

[Crankchicken]

@graysonchalmers where are you working???? ,)

[GSChalmers]

@Crankchicken EA Montreal

[Crankchicken]

@GSChalmers HOLY CRAP then please tell your boss Origin was a fail

[Sauron926]

@graysonchalmers i think this means never :(

[Pinkster40K]

awesome and all, but it has a dark angels symbol, and its not green

[theshawkernator]

The new audio track is absolutely insane. A lot better with it.

[Puffball32]

PERFECT. But make the assault cannon dakka the same as the underslung storm bolter on the dreadnaught fist dakka.

It must be loud, it must be proud and it must have moar dakka.

[Soulless99]

QUAKE1 BOOMSTICK!!!!!!!!!

[RecroraxIsBack]

The Gattling Gun sounded more like a chopper! Anyone agree?

[HansCent]

i've seen this years ago and so far it is still the best dreadnought animation.

[Lorian667]

its still got the wrong colour ;), I think its a Dreadnought from the Dark Angels. But they are green :P

[Jshock75]

@Lorian667 Deathwing (1st company Dark Angels) paint all their armor bone white...

[GeneralMontague]

We, the Blood Ravens, accept your gift. Thank you for your kindness!

[memorex3248]

JADAM strike package inbound. TOT, 5 seconds.

Splash. Standby for BDA. Shit got fucked up, end mission.

[TheSonOfDumb]

I like how he fired a cannonball from a storm bolter.

[elgemin]

damage from the hit on the dread would be cooler than damage on the grass.

[Fgundam]

the space marine's dreadnought is kinda like the Dragoon from starcraft in which they plays the body of the soldier in a special mechanical armor (O_O)

[CheesyN1blet5]

Im sorry but if you dont get a job at relic for this im going to cry =[

[komaki119]

you clearly have a talent! keep up the great work!

[TheItsjack]

I can't wait till september and I start doing this type of stuff at uni, you just got me a revved up

[Phile700]

lol thats astormbolter, not a assault cannon :D anyway a great anymation

[Anriel2]

I don't think they make those sounds to be honest..

[DamnedUsernameThing]

Was the terrain from real life? The first explosion hit the grass and nothing happened

[graysonchalmers]

@DamnedUsernameThing Yeah, the background s just a photo so there's no interaction with whats going on but I'm thinking about making a new version with a fully render 3d background so I could burn the grass and leave a hole in the dirt.

[babypooon]

if you make another version definitely use the sound from the first one

[2ndCthulhu]

It shall belong to Chaos!

Except for the dampened sound of the assault cannon - That weak noise offends Slaanesh.

However, overall awesome animation!

[graysonchalmers]

@2ndCthulhu I have a cool surprise for everyone. My friend here at SOE did a new sound mix for this anim. I'd love to know what you guys think. It's the same animation but with new sound, you can check it out on my site, there is a link to the site in the video description above

[2ndCthulhu]

@graysonchalmers

It's clearly a step in the right direction - But it needs a wee bit more punch. Then, you should be all set :D

[SmallChildrenProduct]

When it got hit by the rocket, it should of yelled "Son of a bitch!"

[Mrcakeman34]

the banner is a nice touch

[CrisstheNightbringer]

like the noise from the original vid

[GreenThemed]

The storm bolter sounds awesome!

[CmdrFish]

Lol. This is what dreadnoughts do to my guard.

[HIGHMARSHELHELBRECHT]

worst army to pick but pretty cool



[TheFirraveusCarron]

the gattling gun sound it's to soft i. think a of botlter firing then a heavy botler then time that by 3 and thats how loud it should be. :)

[TheMetaGuard]

Holy shit man, by the Emperor that is amazing

[stylerboz]

its a flametrowher on the right hand not a cannon. ^^

[tristacomand]

@stylerboz its a storm bolter, kind of two bolter's attached to each other and fire simultaneously

[Justowner]

@stylerboz Actualy you can mount either.

[werepig]

that's brilliant. I salute you.

[Kizerlk07]

in its left arm the ranged weapon should be a flamethrower not a rocket launcher,well it was a good making.if you could make 2 dreadnought fighting that should be better

[lilpwn]

Explain to my the the US military hasn't bothered to make one of these?

[PanzerJager117]

@lilpwn Probably because they'd be swamped by fanboys in seconds and pulled to pieces for TT Titan parts.

[FengLong]

@lilpwn because theyd probably fall over as soon as they lifted one foot off the ground

[dkingmarco]

this dreadnought shoot 14 people ^^

[getalife805]

make one with a plasma cannon or a multi melta plz k thx

[MrAwsome514]

Funny thing about the dreadnought from warhammer 40k. It is the only instance I have ever seen of a space game having a land based vehicle being called a dreadnought. You usually find space ships in space games that bear the name dreadnought because the term dreadnought originally comes from an early naval ship class which was generally more hevily armored and carried more fire power than a standard battleship.

[57thdarkspear]

IT"S NOT ECO FRIENDLY!!...THE EMPEROR has issued a new law in wich he clearly states that all new Imperium made machines MUST BE ECO FRIENDLY!

[MrKoiking1]

@57thdarkspear CATO SICARIUS FRONTS THAT LAW ALONG WITH VULKAN HE'STAN! THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED ALSO HAVE CHANGED IT! POLITICS GAMES WORKSHOP STYKE!

[57thdarkspear]

@MrKoiking1 lol...nice comeback

[MrKoiking1]

@57thdarkspear thats serious hardcore stuff. you wont understand it if you only play the videogames. its anoying when people only think there video games. i dont know why, it just is. gandalf. random gandalf.

[Imppilz]

Finally a "realistic" bolter, good work!

[ChaosWyldrider]

I like the sound of the assault cannon better on the original version. great detail work on this one though. like the addition of the banner.

[rocketzombie237]

Why not have the gatling sound like a 20mm vulcan cannon? Wait. It would turn the Dreadnought around! But SERIOULY the noise it makes . . . priceless.

[maverickcorlas]

hey dude very nice thats how a dreadnouht should move. very nice work

[Dreadfield]

gatling sounds really nice, but it's to ligth to be from a dreadnought, I'f you know what i mean.

[frasermonster]

Wouldn't the explosion hitting the dreadnought at least cause a dent or burn mark?

[kensoh1997]

Brilliant! Good job on the animating the dreadnaught shall be a venerable :)

[lilmikers1024]

no need to fix it, its perfect!

[lilmikers1024]

love it!

[IIIMAVER1CK]

I farted at 0:10 seconds

[Tau88F]

'it is better to die for the emperor than live for yourself.'

[LoveNoteProjects]

thing with the dread nought design is that the legs are far too narrow to actually be decent legs. if it leans even lil to the side irl it would just fall over.

[HaggardChemist]

I'm assuming it's a Deathwing Dreadnought?

[BattleSaberj]

Nice but change gatling sound for the old sound

[19b00ts77]

Great work!

[theregular96]

my space angles are super awsome my 3 dreds are basicly unkillable.

[shrike993]

Because the huge gun and power fist are so subtle

[Patan77xD]

nice ;D

[trandomphatguy]

what was he fighting anyway?

[TemplarsStudio]

video is not fake. I saw this Dreadnought when I was walking the dog.

[TheDARIEN54321]

@TemplarsStudio I saw it to :) I was the one to launch the missle at 00:02.

[survick]

@TemplarsStudio hes telling the truth

[survick]

could u imagine this could be Dawn of war 3 :D

[TheMultilol999]

@TemplarsStudio

i hope your dog is ok O.o

[Ravenitrius]

Look dude. That's desert camouflage colors. Loook at its scheme then look at the background. Any other bright or dark colors would have totally given it away in combat.

[ghazef]

@Ravenitrius

true, but that's one of the defining points of space marine combat doctrine, they very deliberately DIDN'T use camouflage, their method of warfare was even more shock-and-awe based than the US military. Space marines don't hide, they smash you in the face.

[UberGeit3000]

sick



[Rulictar]

So how exactly did you make this?

[darknoobpk]

awesome!

[soulburn2k5]

i think for the gatling sound you should sample the A-10 tank buster its an awesome fear-inspiring sound, but your animation is really good

[KristianDk]

Awesome piece... and I disagree on the sound thing - I thing the gatling sounds best, and prolly more realistic in the v2.

[Ancalagon001]

Nice animation mate!

[bretlowski]

badass.

[RedemptionGod]

go eldar freakin ownz every other army

[AL52Dragon]

Has James Cameron called you for Avartar II yet?

[SilverMaiden]

I really love how you make it so living, almost like as if it were made for a movie! You are really good at this! I'd like to see a battle between two heroes och two soldiers from opposite sides that are the only survivals left. That would kick ass.

[Nilmur2]

Mainly this is just me being picky because i know a bit about dreadnoughts and there equipment. For example the weapon under the power claw did you intentionally make that fire 1 shot or did you not know about it technically being a rapid fire weapon.

[clickingpinging]

I though that Dreadnaughts have flamers underneath their fists...not cannons

[XChaosXMuppetX]

Hey i really want to get into this type of effect's, How can i get the softwere? ^^

[Just2Comment789]

i say the first gatling gun noise is more beast

[BarcelPL]

Nice - but on the banner you have Dark Angels logo and they use different colour pattern (dark green).

[Kirschthollar]

@BarcelPL its a deathwing dreadnought

[ApelAndy]

Oh! It would be fantastic if you did this for a wraith lord! The textures would look very smooth and the animation itself would look agile and you could do many cool things.

But, the orc killakan, (I think a new ork dreadnought was recently relaeased though), would have many cool natural animations such as spinning blades and possibly a small gretchin sitting on top, and would also look very realistic when textured, at least more than the wraith lord. Please do tell me if you will make one.

[ApelAndy]

I love the way he leans to the side when he fires his assault cannon.

[HasAnyoneSeenMyQuest]

Now that, is an awesome dreadnaught. The guys at Relic Entertainment are getting into a little itsy-bitsy discussion about their animating.

[AnotherAussie101]

please ignore my comment on the v1 coz this is prity cool can't wait for v3 or any other u plan on doing. dont supose u could do a wrath lord (?) or that ork walker mek thing coz u good at it.

[pnelad14]

Why not make a minigun sound? I think it would suit the storm canon(?) better

[xXkillachillaXx]

on the left shoulder he has the sign of GDI from command and conquer :D

[kurisu7885]

Ok, I hope it's ok to ask, but, could you animate a Defiler, please? ^^

[MrBaddabingboom]

how come its yellow but has dark angels chapter markings?

[DigiLusionist]

Love this anim!

[jarekkanarek]

great job man, U got some talent :]

[carlitoisfatcat]

needs more daka daka daka

[AquarianWarKitten]

you should make a titan next

[Xadak1195]

the gun on the right (to the viewer) is a storm bolter...not a cannon of any kind...sry but im kinda compulsive about stuff like that

[graysonchalmers]

@Xadak1195 I've gotten a lot of feedback on this, I'll definitely fix this in version 3  :)

[russianwolf1]

@graysonchalmers Maybe you could try a heavy flamer as a replacement for the storm bolter. The fire effects would be awesome.

[lyokoBSTN]

@graysonchalmers sounds like it'll be great then

you just gotta make sure it's rapid fire, but slow, like a heavy machine gun would be

[raptorbob1993]

@graysonchalmers You sir, are a genius of animation. Please make a movie.

[LurkLove]

@Xadak1195 yes the storm bolter is a short round burst, the assault cannon is like a gatling gun but more powerful and shoots armor piercing FMJ haha

[Nilmur2]

@LurkLove From my knowledge is that a Storm Bolter is a rapid fire weapon pretty much 2 Boltguns strapped together. But it isn't as fast as the Assualt Cannon but as fast as a Boltgun. With the ability to shoot long range and allowing you to charge into combat excluding walkers(including Dreadnoughts) if no one knew what it is an new to the game.

[LurkLove]

@Nilmur2 yea your right it is pretty much 2 bolters put together, and can be used by any marine equipped with terminator armour

[Nilmur2]

@LurkLove Agh just so you know it doesn't have to be a marine with terminator armor. You just have to be a high enough rank with power armor, Eg A Standard Tactical Marine Sergeant can be equipped with a storm bolter, Eg B Marneus Calgar Chapter Master of the ultramarines for people who don't know who he is. When he isn't in is armor of antilochus (Terminator armor with teleport homer) he has 2 boltguns equiped in his Power fists which act as a storm bolter AP 2 one for that fact (HAHA) LOL.

[LurkLove]

@Nilmur2 sorry i dont dedicate my life to this imaginary game, i actually have a life :)

[taliesinknol]

@LurkLove

A life... You mean the thing you waste arguing on You Tube with...

[LurkLove]

@taliesinknol LOL buddy your the one who replied to my comment stating all these facts you know.....get your shit straight, grow a pair, and go get some pussy

[taliesinknol]

@LurkLove

*Ahem* check the username, different person. I replied to your comment about having a life _after_ your ridiculously picky fact comment to Nilmur2.

[bbbmx1]

@Xadak1195 wrong. its counted as a close range weapon. its a "claw" or sumin. i looked it up in the codex. (im very compulsive 2)

[bbbmx1]

@Xadak1195 wait NO crap ignore that. sorry i wasnt looking right. i thought the blast came out of his hand coz i was tired and had salt in my eye "been surfing". its underneath. forget that last thing. and DONT spam me about how i was wrong.

[jamohanleva]

@Xadak1195

Well Storm bolters can be shot like that too. Bolters have both single shot and full-auto modes. And a Bolter is pretty much a cannon since the the recoil of the Astartes versions can break the arms of normal men.

[livingmylifeatmach2]

@Xadak1195 Actually, if you read any Black Library books, you'll see that Bolters are often fired on semi-automatic fire. Uriel does it on Pavonis in the first book of the Ultramarines Omnibus. Graham McNiell writes that it made a loud, sharp crack as the rocket motor on the back ignited.

Therefore, there is no reason to suggest that the Dread wasn't just firing off one accurate round. So he wasn't necessarily wrong, though agreed, it would have been "more" realistic if it fired a burst instead

[jadebullet]

@Xadak1195

Huh, I have seen them with assault cannons though. And it is a codex option.

[jadebullet]

@Xadak1195 >< forgive me, wrong gun. My bad.

[jellomanjello]

@Xadak1195 how do youknow storm bolters dont like that. After all they are beast guns. If they have explosive rounds they should sound like they're giving some kick

[VonBaronZ]

Well done, now have added mental imagery goodness when I play with my Dread :)

[samwarp8]

this awsome! what was shooting at him, was it a chaos predator or something?

[suni31200]

@samwarp8

If it was a Chaos Predator, he probably would not be standing.

Chaos Predator either has Las-Cannons or Auto Cannons, One sending a Partical beam of Blue, the other sending automatic low explosive shells, and it obviously had no side sponsors, there was no heavy bolter, autocannon or las-cannon fire.

Truth is, so many weapons in warhammer, it is so hard to tell.

Probably was some kind of shitty ork weapon, look at the firing angles, horrible aim.

[ShukakuSleeps]

What I wanna see is a deff dread. We's can dream can't we?

[graysonchalmers]

@ShukakuSleeps Which one would you pick if I were going to build another? Eldar? Ork?

[ShukakuSleeps]

@graysonchalmers Ork! Ork! Ork! lol. Personally I wouldn't think it's too far of a step in terms or the skeleton (considering the clunky motions) plus... I love orks

[TheCobaltSoda]

@graysonchalmers lol honestly i would love to see a lone space marine get shot and killed from an ork

[TheWarPlanet]

@graysonchalmers Ork.

[stalker104]

gatling sound was better in the old one

[graysonchalmers]

@stalker104 Yeah, I totally agree! When I mixed the audio for this version I couldn't find the original layered source audio from V1 I'll see what I can do to fix this when I got back for version 3 of this. :)

[Syklar90]

@graysonchalmers The first one sounds like the gau-8, the gattling gun for the A-10 warthog, in case that helps.

[JVThrillz]

@graysonchalmers if you can find an actual minigun sound wav. that'd just spice up this already-wicked animation. It's hard to obtain since it's not a very dynamic sound. I'll try to explain it in text....

It literally goes, "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!" ...

... So there LOL

[warhammer40bil]

itd be awesome if those were real. if they were, we'd win the war in iraq

[SirPhoebus]

we win anyway... duh!!!

[skarnir]

untill the taliban started to use russian power klaws. lol :-)

[Theonegamefreak]

Then they'd get some and war would be a lot worse.

[warhammer40bil]

our dreadnoughts would wipe them out first

[Theonegamefreak]

I'd rather no one wiped no one out.

[shadowcouncil911]

holy...thats so real

[Gunshotinyahead]

EXPLSOIn that hit looked a bit naff I perfer no.1

[ildamos]

Reskinned? Or you bumped up the ambient occlusion? Nice work! About the audio, the new chain gun effect sounds like it has less bass than the original. I like the old audio better. Maybe you can bump up the bass a bit? 5 stars anyway. Awesome work!

[archmagi14794]

Nice animation. I think a better sound effect to look into for the dreads main gun would be the gau-8 avenger cannon on the a-10 thunderbolt II.

[screwthenet]

tight

[Xp710]

Dreadnought or Tau Battlesuit....who would win?

[strombada]

@Xp710 Keep the Dreadnought at a distance and the Battlesuits have the advantage.

I don't think any battlesuit outside of Commander Farsight has enough melee firepower to even dent a Dreadnaught up close.

[electricbayonet2]

Depends. Would it be an XV8 or a Broadside? And then if it's just an XV8, what're its armament?

Regardless, anti-personnel weapons do squat to a Dread, unlike an XV8, seeing as the former is a walking tank while the latter is a larger-than-average suit of powered armor.

If the XV8's got anti-tank weaponry, it has a good chance of taking down the Dread just with shooting. You put them in close combat? Dread comes out on top, easy. An XV8 is piss-weak next to a Dread in close-quarters.

[LeoDaFreek]

dreadnaught.

[hydremajor]

Mmmmh...

I'd say its a tie

the dreadnought is slower but he can carry rather powerful weapons and tough armor on top of being a tough CQC opponent

Though the EXO-suit is faster even though it has less armor and less powerfull weapons and as for the XV8 they need a shitload of time to be ready to fire their weapons, thing that the dreadnought don't have to care for...

[5tonsledge]

it would have been way better if that dred was tainted by chaos

[Glyfenn]

Or if it had kept a Flamer instead of a Storm Bolter. Nothing like a Dread grabbing someone, crushing their spines, and toasting em with a Heavy Flamer, then tossing them aside like they're yesterdays dirty laundry.

[electricbayonet2]

Quite so. Unfortunately, your slipshod description doesn't even come remotely close to doing justice to the Dawn of War II cinematic you're describing.

[Glyfenn]

Can ANYONE justly describe the magnificence of a Dreadnought in close quarters? 'Tis a thing to be seen, not described, and viewed in all it's pants-shitting awesomeness.

[theguywhoannoysme]

@Glyfenn Nothing like seeing said Dreadnaught being torn apart by 'Grots'.

[jamohanleva]

@5tonsledge

HERETIC!

[121davo121]

i love how the rockets hit the dreadnought it looks so real :)

[Shimorent]

Wow that was smexy

[askight]

if only it killed some demons in that vid that whould rock

[BlueKyne]

Very well done! I'd love to see the same take but with the original Imperial dreadnought! Maybe an Ork Stompa or an Eldar Wraithlord.....

[805PORKCHOP]

this one explains the random explosins in the first one

[NutchisOO]

Dark angels FTW

[GodlessMartyr666]

this looks like some sort of stolen / bootlegged copy of the frostbite engine used for battlefield bad company / battlefield 1943 / bad company 2

[cripsmafia]

why the fuck dont they put the emperor in a deadnought lol that would be soo badass a giant golden dreadnought fucking shit up omg that would be so hot

[colony343]

@cripsmafia

the light that all psykers anchor to when ever they invoke their powers

the beacon that all navigators take directions off when traversing the warp

the great power that stops any warp manifestation in our solar system

thats the emperor on the golden throne.

[carnivoriousleaf]

Thumbs up!

[valcan321]

Much better gattling sounds :)