If you love bringing the worlds of Warhammer to life, GW just teased more animated shorts on the way and the heroes that will star in them.
In case you forgot before we dig into the new news, Games Workshop previewed more of the Blood Angels animation at the 2020 LVO preview .
Angels of Death in 2018
First announced in the latter half of 2018, Angels of Death gave the spotlight to some Blood Angels going through a harrowing journey.
‘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.
GW Brings Fans into Collaboration
On top of that, they brought in the maker of the fan-made film, Helsreach, which left an incredible mark on the community.
Speaking of which, some of you might be familiar with the Helsreach fan film, based on the Black Library novel of the same name. If you thought that was cool, you were right! We enjoyed it so much that we knew we had to team up with the very same team to deliver Angels of Death.
Our first teaser trailer came in 2018 from Warhammer TV along with the initial announcement, showing a decent bit of work had already been done.
Warhammer Open 2019 Announcement-Films to Come
For 2019, Warhammer TV also gave us a good mix of all their film projects. From Warhammer Adventures to Angels of Death, there were new snippets of the 40k short film that you could watch. These are all in addition to the announcement trailer.
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.
The first full trailer for Angels of Death will be with us in January – due to debut at the Las Vegas Open Warhammer Preview.
GW is Right on Time: Latest AoD Trailer Announced At LVO
In the video, you hear a twisted voice say: The false angels are resilient. But they shall be broken! with what looks to be a GSC Magus walking into the frame.
There’s also a Terminator with one arm taking on about two-hundred Genestealers. We’ll have to see if he can spike his dice rolls.
With GW also announcing that more would be on the way soon, the heat is really beginning to turn up for Angels of Death.
When we showed you the trailer for Angels of Death recently (and our awesome media reel last year!), there were hints that it wasn’t the only animated project in the works… Well, hold on to your flak jackets, today we bring you exciting news about another series in the pipeline – an animated Warhammer 40,000 anthology! Today, we can show you some tiny (but oh-so-cool) teasers from the development of one of the episodes.
Animated Heroes Revealed
Along with this completed scene, we also got a look at some different characters’ concept arts.
With the first concept art, we can clearly see the Inquisition and members of it will be the focal point of this series!
We also get some sketches of two other charcters who seem to have more focus on fighting.
Another piece of art shows a member of the assassinorum. This Callidus is a shapeshifter so next time we see her she may look different…
The last piece of concept art is of an Eldar Ranger. Is it an ally? Is it an enemy? We just don’t know enough about the storyline yet to say for sure!
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About Andrew Schrank: Over the past 15 years, Andrew has played all the games, including tabletop and video games, and immersed himself in the associated lore. Andrew joined the Spikey Bits team in 2018 and covers the Warhammer hobby and tournament scene, along with the latest in tabletop miniatures, each week.
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