W40K as Anime

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-11-14 05:06am

I've got to say, it could be done as an anime and I dislike a lot (but not all) anime. A lot of conventions of the popular anime wouldn't work and would be dropped, but as Spanky said, its a genre broader than most of the drek that gets peddled on North American tv.

The long speeches and the shouting the name of every attack would obviously go.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-11-14 05:15am

No, I did not say it's a genre, because it's not. I said that it was a medium that too many people apply reasoning to as if it were a merely a genre.

Animation is a medium, just like live-action motion film or television, music, or text are mediums.

Ou des · Post by **Ou des** » 2005-11-14 06:52am

Anyone ever see the old Lord of the Rings cartoon movie, the one by Ralph Bakshi? I think that kind of style might work well with 40k.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-11-14 06:56am

Bakshi? Are you serious? Despite how much I love it, have you actually seen Wizards or some of his other stuff like the second Fritz the Cat movie? Bakshi can get extremely lazy and cartoonish at times.

Plus I don't think he's really done anything since the 1980s.

Ou des · Post by **Ou des** » 2005-11-14 07:15am

Never seen them. And I didn't say he should direct it, just that the artistic style might fit.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-11-14 07:23am

I am talking about Bakshi's artistic style: more often than not it was just plain lazy.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-11-14 10:32am

Todd McFaralene's Spawn. Now THAT's animation with a dark and gritty feel.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-11-14 12:15pm

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Todd McFaralene's Spawn. Now THAT's animation with a dark and gritty feel.

Yesyesyes. That style would certainly suit 40k to a tee.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2005-11-14 04:05pm

Rogue 9 wrote: Hence the quotes. Fine, let's put it this way: No catgirls or tentacle monsters. Eventually some studio exec would seize upon Chaos mutation as an excuse to do that and you know it.

Why? It's already been done in a short story. It may have been Eisenhorn or one of the anthologies, but it involved one of the plot characters getting busted in on while he was spending some quality time with a feline mutant.

I think it can be done, I just don't want to see something happen like the Lensmen anime.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-11-14 04:08pm

Tasoth wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote: Hence the quotes. Fine, let's put it this way: No catgirls or tentacle monsters. Eventually some studio exec would seize upon Chaos mutation as an excuse to do that and you know it.
Why? It's already been done in a short story. It may have been Eisenhorn or one of the anthologies, but it involved one of the plot characters getting busted in on while he was spending some quality time with a feline mutant.

Short story. Forgot the exact title, but I think it may have been on Necromunda. Guy who ratted out his partner took the riches and spent 'em on whores; partner showed up after getting patched up to get his own back.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-11-14 04:09pm

It's this simple. People want a basic idea of what type of animation used for 40K in keeping with it's angsty style?

Yes:

No:

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-11-14 05:27pm

hmmm those guys could pass as Steel Legion troops.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-11-14 06:10pm

I'm going to ignore Ghost Rider's post because it makes mine (which I have been planning since 7:30 am) kind of moot.

Space Marines and Warhammer 40K combat would work just fine as an animation. I mean if a guy with Flash can do this just picture what a real animation studio could do.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-11-14 06:13pm

Adrian Laguna wrote: Space Marines and Warhammer 40K combat would work just fine as an animation. I mean if a guy with Flash can do this just picture what a real animation studio could do.

Hopefully a bit better since the budget will be expanded from Doritos and Ginger Ale to actual money. Although the Cardboard Box O' Space Marine was hillarious.

Anyone ever sen the funnier 40k Flash with the two Ultramarines bitching about The Emperor? The end is priceless.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-11-14 06:16pm

You know, when polite people talk about stuff that is potentially funny and/or entertaining, they provide links to it.

BTW - Ghost Rider, where is that picture of the cool masked dudes from?

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-11-14 06:18pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:You know, when polite people talk about stuff that is potentially funny and/or entertaining, they provide links to it.

BTW - Ghost Rider, where is that picture of the cool masked dudes from?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/237049

Found it. They were actually Blood Angels, I think. Although there is an Ultramarine.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-11-14 06:19pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:You know, when polite people talk about stuff that is potentially funny and/or entertaining, they provide links to it.

BTW - Ghost Rider, where is that picture of the cool masked dudes from?

Jin Roh. Actually a pretty decent anime, and I enjoyed it's level of brutality and rather dismal setting.

Strangely thought how they looked like primitive Space Marine, epsecially fully decked out.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2005-11-15 03:08pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bakshi? Are you serious? Despite how much I love it, have you actually seen Wizards or some of his other stuff like the second Fritz the Cat movie? Bakshi can get extremely lazy and cartoonish at times.

Plus I don't think he's really done anything since the 1980s.

He did 'Cool World', a movie with Kim Basinger as a Doodle (Toon) who wants to enter the Noid (human) world, in the early 1990s. It's understandable if you can't remember the movie, it was pretty crappy, with it's 15 minutes of fame being wasted putting Holly (Kim Basinger's character) on top of the Hollywood sign to advertise the movie.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2005-11-15 07:01pm

It might be better to have the chicks from the second picture in the movie.

Has anyone ever seen the models from GW. Practically everyone of them is male. One or two females. (and not really even good looking men either, they're all bald and look like Holocaust survivors mostly)

Seriously, unless we intend for this to be one of them, what's the Japanese word...oh i forget, but unless its gonna be one of them "Boy's Love" things (the anime people know what i'm talking about) then we'll need some actual anime chicks, realism be damned.

Otherwise it'll be a total sausage factory.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-11-15 07:18pm

Sidewinder wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bakshi? Are you serious? Despite how much I love it, have you actually seen Wizards or some of his other stuff like the second Fritz the Cat movie? Bakshi can get extremely lazy and cartoonish at times.

Plus I don't think he's really done anything since the 1980s.
He did 'Cool World', a movie with Kim Basinger as a Doodle (Toon) who wants to enter the Noid (human) world, in the early 1990s. It's understandable if you can't remember the movie, it was pretty crappy, with it's 15 minutes of fame being wasted putting Holly (Kim Basinger's character) on top of the Hollywood sign to advertise the movie.

Actually, I have heard of that movie. It came out in 1992, and I remember seeing the ads for it on TV when I was ten years old.

18 Till wrote:Seriously, unless we intend for this to be one of them, what's the Japanese word...oh i forget, but unless its gonna be one of them "Boy's Love" things (the anime people know what i'm talking about) then we'll need some actual anime chicks, realism be damned.

Otherwise it'll be a total sausage factory.

Shounen-ai, and I love your "logic" here: an all male cast automatically makes something "gay."

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-11-15 07:24pm

Cool World is fantastic...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-11-16 12:01pm

18-Till-I-Die wrote:It might be better to have the chicks from the second picture in the movie.

Has anyone ever seen the models from GW. Practically everyone of them is male. One or two females. (and not really even good looking men either, they're all bald and look like Holocaust survivors mostly)

Seriously, unless we intend for this to be one of them, what's the Japanese word...oh i forget, but unless its gonna be one of them "Boy's Love" things (the anime people know what i'm talking about) then we'll need some actual anime chicks, realism be damned.

Otherwise it'll be a total sausage factory.

You've evidently never seen an Adepta Sororitas army, then.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-11-16 12:32pm

Rogue 9 wrote: You've evidently never seen an Adepta Sororitas army, then.

I don't think Sisters are very cuddly. In fact, they're probably Nuns with Guns anyhow.

Wait, Anime...
Nuns...
Belay that quibble!

Akhlut · Post by **Akhlut** » 2005-11-16 01:01pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:You know, when polite people talk about stuff that is potentially funny and/or entertaining, they provide links to it.

BTW - Ghost Rider, where is that picture of the cool masked dudes from?
Jin Roh. Actually a pretty decent anime, and I enjoyed it's level of brutality and rather dismal setting.

Strangely thought how they looked like primitive Space Marine, epsecially fully decked out.

I thought they looked more like Death Korps of Krieg, myself.

Also, I need to get Jin Roh now. Even though I'm broke.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-11-16 11:46pm

MRDOD wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote: You've evidently never seen an Adepta Sororitas army, then.
I don't think Sisters are very cuddly. In fact, they're probably Nuns with Guns anyhow.

Wait, Anime...
Nuns...
Belay that quibble!

What Space Marines do in their spare time.