The Lord Inquisitor - Seed of Ambition
A completely CGI fan film of Warhammer 40,000 by Erasmus Brosdau.
This movie is used to troll fans of Ultramarines:The Movie in terms of CGI quality, movie development budgets, and staff involvement. Now, lets hope the acting (good so far), characterization and story is also better (they probably will). Run time is somewhat shifting, currently appears to be about 15 minutes, with a 9 minute prologue to be released in 2016.
Enjoy it when it comes out (which is possibly conclusively not due for a 2017 release).
Plot
The plot so far concerns Lord Inquisitor Torquemada going to the planet of Occulta Majoris (someone was stupid enough to name a planet what roughly translates to "super magical" in 40k?), which has gone silent. Apparently, the imperial guard discovered a mysterious artifact of seemingly Xenos origin. The artifact in question slowly drove the planets inhabitants mad (uhhh........Dead Space ? Warhammer's been doing this sort of shit since before the creators of Dead Space left their father's balls. GB2/v/ They both pretty much stole it off Lovecraft, who in turn stole it from a bunch of other shit. Ancient magical artifacts as plot devices are as old as storytelling. Strikethroughs over stupid commentary sure are fun, aren't they?), which then revealed its true origin as an artifact of Chaos, as per 40K standards. As the artifact was being transported off world, it was intercepted by the Forces of Chaos and seemingly destroyed. Torquemada and his associates later discovered that the destruction of the ship and the artifact was a ruse. Torquemada journeys to Occulta Majoris, accompanied by Grey Knights, believing the artifact to still be on the planet.
THINGS THAT ROCK
- The film was approved by Games Workshop. Therefore allowing dear Mr. Brosdau to continue development.
- Awesome modeling
- Detail
- Close to canon
- GREY KNIGHTS (who will hopefully not be portrayed the way a certain dickface depicted them)
- Dreadnoughts.
- BLOODLETTERS
- KILLING!!
- One scene shows a ship exiting from the Warp with awesome effects. This is a plus from the Ultramarines movie since even in the final scene, the film didn't even bother showing the effect of their cruiser entering or exiting the Warp.
- Absurdly high quality when you consider the team is doing this entirely in their free time.
- Adam Harvey, who did the music for the Ultramarines Movie (Which is agreed to be one of the few things that was great about the film), will be composing The Lord Inquisitors music score.
- Finally, having a non-space marine as main character for once.
Hmmm...needs a bit more Cathedrals and Grimdark and we are all good to go. - Imperial Bucket Wheel Excavators! Anybody would pay to see a BWE go off against a Emperor-Class Battleship, like a T-rex against a Triceratops, Space-ship vs Land-ship. Furthermore like all things Imperium, there must be Cathedrals somewhere, no exceptions!
- The man's name is Erasmus fucking Brosdau, for fuck's sake.
- Believably futuristic (still needs more cathedrals)(There are! the prologue is out and it has gothic all over!)
- A female Death Cult Assassin with skull mask serving in the Inquisitors team (Cannot be seen with weapons but has a full body suit). Note: unlikely to be a full Official Imperial Assassin (eg Culexis or Callidus) as its capabilities will surpass many imperial agents under the inquisitors team.
- A veteran guardsmen serving in the Inquisitors team (Armed with a possible shotgun and carapace armour)
- First full scene with new characters interacting, along with excellent voice acting, varying accents and clear characterisation.
- Overwhelming positive response (via social media) for the new prologue.
- The prologue Easter eggs!
- Does Imperial Fists
- HOLY TERRA
THINGS THAT SUCK
A literal zero dollar budget, as GW refuses to finance the project, let alone invest in it.Obviously the makers are doing it using their own funds and time, so it does have some sort of cost, we should still give money to their Patreon and Kickstarter projects, money which IS TOTALLY NOT FOR THE AWESOME VIDEO, right?- Somewhat mediocre animations
- Fans can't donate money to the project, because Erasmus is forbidden from profiting off the Lord Inquisitor (but then again, you can still give him money for anything else).
- Only 40 minutes long.
- August prologue release and April 2017 full release
- Character lip-sync needs improving. The actors recorded the dialogue remotely (outside of Germany). Therefore the actors expressions/facial movements could not be mapped and synchronized with the animated models.