Ultramarines The Movie, Trailer Up
August 23, 2010 by warzan
Yup the trailer is up for Ultramarines The Movie
Worth checking out this time, although the trailer is short and gets off to a slow start there is at least some glimmers of coolness.
Yes its looking like a Dawn of War intro 🙂 - not quite as sharp though.
You can also view it here.
So what do you guys think? I suppose my take on this is its still too early to tell, but I have mixed feelings about this. I see real signs these days that the 40k universe is about to come alive - and we could well see a big budget outing coming from a large studio - my hunch is that this cgi movie is a proof of concept for one of two things:
1) Proove to the studios that the universe can be worked with and is ready for the big budget treatment.
2) See if the existing fan base would buy any old crap that's thrown at them and it turn into an adhoc product like the Audio Books.
You know there is also the possibility that GW just don't have any real clue how its going to pan out and are trying it because the intros do so well on Youtube.
“Death will find you soon enough” – is that the voice acting or just something the work experience kid threw in for a laugh?
Otherwise it looks fairly good. Oddly the visuals look to be eclipsed by the in-game footage from Space Marine already, but I suspect we’re not going to be watching this for the graphics.
a Very Nice voice cast for this, im not to impressed with the animation was hoping for more DoWII intro standard but still its a animated 40k film 🙂
Just me or did that look like ass… Lousy animation work and horrid shading/lightning effects.. too bad, could have been awsome 🙁
I second that. I would have wanted something along the lines of the assassins creed lineage movie, a mix of CG and real actors, the effects of that (if produced right) is just superb.
They should consult with Blizzard and ask how the movies in Starcraft 2 were made.
yea u forcnt that is how the hole thing will be but im going to wach it any way .
does any one know if it is going to therts or is it going to dvd first . oh and if it is going to thertes do you thing it will show in the u.s. .
Looks bad in my opinion, seen way more better looking cgi as shot films. Still, I will see it for the action.
I think that it looks pretty bad and I will most likely pass on this.
When the cutscene animation of Dawn of War I looks better than your 2010 fully computer animated film, you know you have failed on some level.
I’m still looking forward to Space Marine the Game, just not Ultramarines the Movie anymore.
The animation is so poor, it looks like LEGO 40k.
The studio that is on board with this film is the same studio that did the BIONICLE movies. So yes, it is Lego 40K.
I remember when the film was first announced, it was stated that Codex Pictures would be the studio producing it, with Codex’s main citations on their list of credits being Bionicle films. Needless to say, I looked up some Bionicle movie clips on YouTube and was pessimistic about how good the end quality of Ultramarines could be. The Bionicle movies look really bad. The quality of this trailer is such a let down when compared to the cinematics for Dawn of War; maybe THQ and Relic should have tapped into the movie industry?
Sadly I have to agree, I was really looking forward to this movie but the animation looks like they took a LEGO Bionicle movie and threw some space marine skins on it.
I do see dalekseth’s point, it appears they are going for a Clone Wars style of animation but I just don’t see how that cartoon fits with “the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millenium”
Its a pretty big letdown but who knows, I have been wrong before and the story and characters could well make up for the (poor?) choice in art style.
Hmmm, looks interesting and seems to be very similair to Star wars Clone wars, in terms of animation style, going for a stylized approach rather than a more realistic one.
Damn, if this really is all, then…….. damn :-\
I mean, DOW2 looks a lot better then this. The helmets are completly off, lights and shading are terrible….. I thought they would go allot further with this one. I hope it will improve, or that this could somehow be a fake trailer.
hmm…. disappointed at the quality of the character and effects quite frankly. As someone with experience in 3d cad, i know it can be a hell of a lot of complex work to make things look great, but surely they could have either gone a few steps further with this, or even just a few steps LESS and gone for a more comic book/cartoon style. Either would probably be better than this… =/
This look’s like an epic fail. I wanna cy 🙁
well..apart from the voice acting that was terrible.
If that is the final standard what a flop it will be.
I concur with the majority here, i’m quite shocked at the quality of resolution/rendering.
As opposed to the DOW2 intro which was superb in my books.
I’ve obviously been mistaken in my thinking that this was at least going to be on Parr if not superior to the DOW2 intro.
Mmm worrying :-I
Never mind DoW2, Down had had better graphics
what the hell was that, the cgi is worse than the scenes from final liberation. And the dialogue is pretty naff, I’m really hoping this movie vastly improves
It looks awful, which is a shame because the voice acting sounds excellent.
Wow! my first comment in BoW and its about my reaction to the epic fail of this trailer which I waited ages to see. There are 2 things which I deem important in a good CGI movie. First being good CGI, I hate to say but the trailers for DOW 1 and 2 look much better as well as the gameplay for the upcoming Space Marine game. Second is that it needs a good story like those from the Black Library, sadly this trailer shows nothing at all about any kind of story. Shouldn’t trailers are meant to give viewers… Read more »
Agree with you completely!
Not impressed, actually the Space marine game looks to have far superior graphics and its a game.
Looks like the graphics from Diablo 2 and judging by that It probably won’t be released worldwide in cinemas, or even cinemas at all, straight to DVD, which is fine with me. It should be a good movie regardless hopefully.
This movie was intended for DVD releas from the start.
I’m hoping this is a beta trailer designed to drum up talk on the internet coz if this is the final product… hey at least there was blood, right? Woulda been so pissed if the marines went down and love hearts and rainbows were spilling out of them to make the GW product more cuddly for the youngsters. :p
…I always felt that as long as Abnett was writing this + good voice cast it would be ok…..I’m not entirely sure anymore….
even despite the “lackluster” animation….the movie’s director seems to focus of very weird narrow angles and stuff. The whole time I was wondering “why the hell am I watching this?”
….nothing looks terribly interesting….there’s no attempt to show off the unique 40 environment…just liver spotted old men…and smurfs getting shot….and some big hard-on looking rock falling over…great way to get people’s attention…
I personaly think that they could off done a beter job of the animation and lighting of the space marines and i hope this isint the finished prodject because i think that the intro for dawn of war 2 is ten times beter than the animation for this trailer.
Looks clunky doesn’t it. Shame 🙁
I am so disapointed. The cgi look like somthing you would find in a game from the 90’s. I just hope that ‘aoiora’ is right, and this is just a cheap teaser.
If this is the final quality of the movie, then I am going to be royaly pst.
I totaly agree
This trailer is awful, it looks like a animatic to me (a pre-rendered sequence only used for timing purposes)
When this was first announced I had high hopes, but when the production company was announced I was a little sceptical. I work in London in the film and TV industry and I have never heard of them at all. I could be wrong but I think GW chose the wrong company to make this film its way out of their league.
A company like http://www.digicpictures.com/ would have been perfect
Yeah that would have been a good company for the Job especially considering the Warhammer work they have done.
I’ll second that.
Those are the guys that did the Warhammer Mark of Chaos cinematic? That scene looked amazing. I agree with you 100%.
they would have been perfect. their animation is fantastic, and they have experiance with warhammer. Why didn’t they do it?
Because high quality CGI cost too much ?
Oh dear, I do hope they have further rendering to do..
Shouldn’t that be rending or am I getting confused?
You’re getting confused 🙂 This is not genestealer.