The Making of the Announcement Trailer

**Orkfaeller** · October 05, 2015, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by Joey CA

Hi Guys,

Did you spot all the secrets?

As most of you may know, we announced Total War: WARHAMMER with an epic CGI trailer back in April of this year. What some of you may not know are all the intricate details and secrets that went into the video itself over the course of its two year production.

Maverick and Platige - the makers of the trailer- put together this ‘Making Of’ video to show just how much excitement and attention to detail went into this cinematic marvel. Did you catch everything?

https://youtu.be/kgyGMpmBRR0

Joey CA

**scoicarius** · October 05, 2015, 09:18 AM

Thank you for the link. So many details I hadn't noticed. I now feel like rewatching it frame by frame.

**HigoChumbo** · October 05, 2015, 10:09 AM

For vampire fans, the man himself:

**joedreck** · October 05, 2015, 12:08 PM

So they put so much time and energy into trailers, but have no time for flagbearer, which is Basic into Warhammer.

CA tell us fantasy.

**scoicarius** · October 05, 2015, 12:17 PM

I love the design of the Zombie Dragon:

**Chris P. Bacon** · October 05, 2015, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by joedreck

So they put so much time and energy into trailers, but have no time for flagbearer, which is Basic into Warhammer.

CA tell us fantasy.

Yes cause the CGI guys make the banners. Might as well ask the art guys to code the game.

**Markas** · October 05, 2015, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by joedreck

So they put so much time and energy into trailers, but have no time for flagbearer, which is Basic into Warhammer.

CA tell us fantasy.

Yeah everyone who works at CA, including the Cleaning Lady that comes in at 8am on Thursdays, is responsible for coding and game design.

**Aanker** · October 05, 2015, 04:11 PM

Although I also dearly want both banners and musicians, I don't think the CGI trailer is the culprit.

**joedreck** · October 06, 2015, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Markas

Yeah everyone who works at CA, including the Cleaning Lady that comes in at 8am on Thursdays, is responsible for coding and game design.

So Maybe they hire wrong people. Instead of to much clearing people,they should grow up Team for important things.
Would you write same, if your favorite faction will be not add, cause they want fix better to make all other a little better!? Surely not. You would first scream for bigger faction creatin Team instead of teaser creation team and everyone would understand.

So if CA tell us there are no teaser, but all factions we know from tabletop, nobody honestly will cry.

**ScipioGermanicus** · October 06, 2015, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by joedreck

So Maybe they hire wrong people. Instead of to much clearing people,they should grow up Team for important things.
Would you write same, if your favorite faction will be not add, cause they want fix better to make all other a little better!? Surely not. You would first scream for bigger faction creatin Team instead of teaser creation team and everyone would understand.

Considering that only 4 races are playable in the first games, CA did that. The overall reaction was, as far I saw it, "I would love my race to be in, but I hope they come later and that this means that CA does them right".

So if CA tell us there are no teaser, but all factions we know from tabletop, nobody honestly will cry.

Yes, because most of us wouldn't know anything about the game (let alone all the people not active in forums anyway).

**Saurus** · October 06, 2015, 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by joedreck

So Maybe they hire wrong people. Instead of to much clearing people,they should grow up Team for important things.
Would you write same, if your favorite faction will be not add, cause they want fix better to make all other a little better!? Surely not. You would first scream for bigger faction creatin Team instead of teaser creation team and everyone would understand.

So if CA tell us there are no teaser, but all factions we know from tabletop, nobody honestly will cry.

Wow.
Firstly: nice that you define what is important and what's not.
Secondly: who are you, beeing able to judge which people companies should hire or not?

If you need a place to let your anger slip away because they decided to not implement certain features that are important to you, it's understandable and ok to do so. But don't act, like crying on a forum where no one of the people in charge actually see your rant is the reasonable choice. I'm a lizardmen player, a faction likely not to be added in the first 2 games - if at all. Yet I don't act like an immature kid telling CA what to do and how incompetent they are. Seriously: embracing what's to come is far better for your health and mood than arguing over

you can't change anyway. Especially in places where you just piss off others instead of voicing an opinion to the people that are beeing able to potentially change things up.

**joedreck** · October 06, 2015, 04:42 AM

Originally Posted by ScipioGermanicus

Considering that only 4 races are playable in the first games, CA did that. The overall reaction was, as far I saw it, "I would love my race to be in, but I hope they come later and that this means that CA does them right".

And this is always same. We hope only...

**Evan MF** · October 06, 2015, 08:24 AM

It looks like they hire a separate studio to do the trailers whilst giving lending them a couple of graphical assets and an aesthetic brief. No wonder the disconnect between their trailers and their games. It explains things like the horde of banners existing in the trailer and the stark lack-of in the actual game itself.

**Aquila_Mars** · October 06, 2015, 08:33 AM

To be fair, I never take cinematic trailers to be a representation of the game (gameplay/graphical-wise etc) I mean... Who does?

**StephanVos** · October 06, 2015, 09:25 AM

well, these trailers can do more harm than good if the trailer does not capture the player experience. Personally, I agree that money is always better spent on the game itself than fancy trailers. Let the game do the talking!.....but I am pretty sure CA is convinced trailers are an essential part of advertising/getting people interested in their game. Still, no flag bearers in the game versus spending money on fancy trailers just seems like poor allocation of funds.

**Markas** · October 06, 2015, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by joedreck

You would first scream for bigger faction creatin Team instead of teaser creation team and everyone would understand.

No, I wouldn't. That's the key difference. At 35 years old my time of screaming over unimportant things has passed.

So if CA tell us there are no teaser, but all factions we know from tabletop, nobody honestly will cry.

You can't be serious. If they didn't put together a trailer that was primarily put together by an outside company they would have time to put in all factions?!? As an Artifex I'm surprised you don't have a better understanding of how game companies work.