If you love all things Space Marines GW just teased more on Angels of Death and their other animated shorts that are in the works for 2020 and beyond.
New updates are here from Warhammer Community on the animated Space Marine series titles Angels of Death. We had first we heard that project about a year ago, and now it appears other animated shorts that are on the way as well!
Angels of Death
Check out the original trailer from way back in 2018 on Warhammer TV
‘Angels of Death’, will follow the visceral exploits of a band of Blood Angels Space Marines as they face Mankind’s enemies, death and worse – the dreaded Black Rage. To ensure the story is suitably grimdark, we’ve called upon the talents of some of Black Library’s finest authors. Together, they’re forging an epic tale for the animators to realise.
As one of the most tragic Chapters to exist in 40k, it’s already exciting to hear how these Space Marines will be fighting a war on two fronts. one against the tyrannies of Mankind, and the other inside their minds as they fend off the Black Rage.
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Some of this you may have already seen. Some are early proofs of concept, or “what if?” material, the team has been playing around with. Others may be released as fully realised animated series. As to which of the animations falls into which camp, stay tuned over the coming months for updates.
While the focus is clearly Angels of Death, there is a bunch of tidbits of other potential shorts we may see more information about in the coming months. It does appear to undergone some serious re-design, it may have possibly been scrapped and restarted.
Written by the Warhammer Story Forge (more on those fine wordsmiths soon), Angels of Death is being animated in collaboration with Richard Boylan and Boman Modine. Some of you may remember Richard’s striking and atmospheric work from the fan-made animation of the Helsreach audiobook, and Richard and Boman collaborated on Guardsman. Alongside the Warhammer Story Forge, the team is creating something really special – an all-new Blood Angels story brought to visceral life. This is the 41st Millennium you always dreamed of seeing on screen.
Angels of Death is being animated in collaboration with Richard Boylan and Boman Modine. Some of you may remember Richard and Boman’s work from their Helsreach animation in 2018.
The first full trailer for Angels of Death will be with us in January – due to debut at the Las Vegas Open Warhammer Preview.
What do you think about a series showing the struggles of Blood Angels in the Grimdark universe? How many episodes would you like to see? Do you think named characters like Dante and Gabriel will be in it?
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