*“HE MADE THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!”* _- Games Workshop CEO addressing creative team_

Event Horizon: "I am grim dark." Hellraiser: "No, I am grim dark." DoH: "Hold my baby..."

Can we take a moment to appreciate the design of the armor? It is so detailed and ornate. Like, damn!

A year later and he’s basically the last animator standing

"I'm no animator and I absolutely HATE doing it", and YET this is 1000x better than the film production studio made Ultramarines movie. This is amazing!

"I breathe. It will be enough." It's literally "Tis' but a scratch" but ten times more badass

The most terrifying part for this was when one of the cultists looked out a window and into the warp. There are demons and warp entities crawling all over the hull of the ship. It's like they're in a submarine diving into the depths of an ocean inside hell.

For this project to have been ALLOWED to be cancelled, is a goddamn crime.

The fact that woman is so disfigured and still believes in the emperor is astounding

And this children is why joining Chaos is *never* warranted.

Seeing the bodies fused with the hull of the ship is so fuckin creepy, and I love it.

200% more what I picture the 40k setting looks like over what has generally been being put out these days. What an incredible fan project. I'd love to see more.

I wonder what chaos space marines look like under the armor. 1 minute later. Take it back! Take it back!

"Have you recovered?" "I breathe. It will be enough." Doesn't get more Space Marine than this

I really love that you don't shy away from the more gruesome aspects of 40k. I feel like you're the only animator that could get the Dark Eldar down right

*1. corpses on the outside of the ship are stuck there due to astartes magboots, giving a glimpse of the previous boarding assault fight on the hull.* *2. marines in floors and walls are due to either a blind, rushed, or warp interferenced teleport assault attempt.* -both of these make it seems like the fight was a last ditch effort assault just so they could potentially get a few men on board to sabotage or to break out and warn the next planet where ever they exit the warp from. *3. blipping demons, old school bloodletter, and mutated mother/child are because there is no gellar field on while they're warp traveling (makes sense given they're wordbearers)* *4. dark mechanicus guy says there's an intruder messing around with the ship: either a surviving ultramarine or maybe that nightlord astartes perched over the pit (could be loyalist).* -more than likely the first since the guy in the cell asks the ultramarine if he's recovered after he finds out they're close to the next planet/about to exit warp, as if ready to spring their own plan. *5. torso ultramarine over pit is probably the captured captain from part 2 that welcomed wordbearers onto planet; now being forced to watch his captured brothers fight/die in the pit.* -he has his imperial laurel nailed to his head, probably in mockery , and the ultramarine in the pit is wearing his while fighting with two "Macragge" ultramarine signature axes *6. normal guy in cell is probably a captured ultramarine initiate based on his shoulder armor and dialogue with the world eater; "aspire to become one with the 13th legion".* - also says he doesn't need to be modified to go toe to toe with the world eater, referring to either the gene seed needed to become an astartes or the butchers nails. *7. same guy recognizes the ultramarine walking with the wordbearers and is in disbelief; astarte in next cell tells him its a wordbearer that's just wearing his armor; "a lie".* -at the end, you can see both the imprisoned astartes armor being worn by the wordbears and Nakal, as shells that they will "march onto the streets of neighboring worlds" MK1 Terminator and gal vorbak were a great touch as well. Phenomenal animation: liked and subscribed.

Dear god I'm beginning to understand why Imperium has such a thorough purging policy.

The best depiction of Chaos in Warhammer Universe ever created.

And this is why you take care of Gellar Fields.

Dude as a 30k Word Bearer player, I watch these every chance i can get...they help motivate me to paint and enjoy the hobby. How you animated them, voiced them, is exactly how I imagined them when hearing/reading their lore. Regardless what anyone says, these are the most hardcore and badass videos I've watched. The perfect amount of grimdark....just wonderful...an artist is supposed to project their vision, the viewer is suppose to stand in awe of the creativity. I stand in awe of the art and dedication for these animations...I do wish you'd continue making them....but this is your creation. I wish GW would realise its thanks to the creative minds like yours that created free marketing for them instead of what they're doing now. Anyway, dude, you're the best. I'd be happy if you do a word bearers movie for just me lol. If i had unlimited money, i'd hire you to animate just for me Word bearer lore....sadly.....i'm a broke blue collar man...

This is what Warhammer supposed to look and feels. Horror and disturbing gothic space fantasy

Between this and Astartes. Life is good to be a warhammer fan.

People just don't get how dark and serious 40k really is, this guy gets it. Amazing.

How can anyone hate this? Even I don't play 40k see this as an amazing work of art. Truly GRIM and DARK as the people of 40k like to say. Good luck to the rest of your endeavors. You 100% have talent!

6:15 You know that you've got the most dedicated, most nerdgasmic fan of old-school 40K when you see a Saturnine Tactical Dreadnought armour brought to life... My heart is racing, I'm close to tears. Thank you.

Hello from the Warhammer fan from Russia. It is absolutely stunning. What I especially appreciate is the way you managed to show the Chaos, its true horrifying nature. The problem about books or "encyclopedia-type" videos is that none of them could give the real undestanding of all those hellish horrors that hide behind this word, "Chaos". You absolutely DID IT. All this hopeless atmosphere and whole material feed give an opportunity to feel like I am right there, on that ship, and that feeling creeps me out. Great job done on details, every single rust stain is alive and the darkness of that world is seen in every minute. I hope I made myself clear to understand, thank you so much! Hoping to see the complete story.

I watched this again 3 years later and I think the amount of effort that went into this should not be underscored. Someone was trying to share their vision of something. I appreciate it.

Love how the two humans walking with the group don't even need to be speaking English for us to understand the mood, gawd damn this is so good!

The crying mother makes me realize the inquisition and its brutality may just be warrented in this universe.

Sees the absolute savage barbarity of the World Eaters and their fighting pits brought to life in shockingly detailed fashion. It's... beautiful... 😭😍

2024 here again. This still is the top of the top showing how grim, how dark, this universe is. Other fan made pieces may be more incredibly polished, this is the real feel.

How GW saw this and didnt immediately say "this guy, this guy has more heart and talent than the entire production department at Warhammer TV, hire him and give him what he needs to make a full production immediately" is beyond me.

"Brother! There's Ultramarines roaming freely on board." "Describe his armour, brother." "Uhh. Ultramarine mohawk with studs on right shoulder?" "Actually, brother, I think that's Brother Tal from our Legion." "What about the one with lightening marks on his chest?" "I think he's also one of ours?" "Make them wear name tapes. I almost tore his head off."

Astartes, Helsreach, Death of Hope... Animators in this community have stepped their game up so high that I honestly doubt GW can even catch up. Look at this, that mother scene and the ritual going about nearby her alone was more brutal and grimdark than half of this setting. Demons from warp flickering in and out, Hereteks roaming about, Marines that actually look as scary as they are supposed to be, good representation of the animosity people have against each other in the setting, and for once Chaos is actually the ultra fucked up universal terror it is rather than a Saturday night cartoon villain. Thank you, this 20 minute glimpse into the grimdark represents how it is supposed to be far better than it's creator does.

This guy caught the essence of WH40k to the point with this video

Thanks for a glimpse into a place that I hope never happens lol. Myself having a wiki-level amount of knowledge of warhammer, this really illustrates that absolute horror of life in it's universe. And that baby scene... ugh... Almost as heartbreaking as that scene in Mother! From the bottom of my heart, bravo and fuck that!

Fantastic stuff, cannot imagine the amount of work that went into such a production, but undoubtedly worth it

Somebody should check Gellar fields, I don't think they're running properly.

just read "know no fear" and hot damn this hits even harder. amazing, gruesome, heartbreaking damn traitors.

Man never have I thought that a day will come when I will feel anything for the Ultramarines... This is just brilliant

"The titanic labor you're about to 'see' was 3D modeled,animated, written, directed, drawn, created by one MARK LOUIS SPARK" in any other video this would be seen as boastful egotistical and inappropriate. In this video it's an understatement. Well done and I can't wait for more!

that one ultramarine stuck in the floor after a failed teleportation: "shid"

This animation quality is amazing, even better than some Marvel movies out there

Dude. OK, I know you may not see this, but I have to congratulate you here. This is fucking incredible. This entire video oozes grimdark. The Warp and the Ruinstorm are fucked up beyond fucked up, as it should be. The scene with the mother, JESUS CHRIST! This absolutely encapsulates the horror of Chaos and the terror of the Heresy. The models are fantastically detailed, and while I have a personal complaint about the "Saturnine" Armor appearance, it's not a big enough complaint for me to really care. Each Space Marine is absolutely imposing, and their often still-living corpses are nightmare-inducing. This is an incredible fan film. It may only be the one, maybe two parts, but this is an awesome taste of the Horus Heresy.

"Hey Word Bearers, is the ship grimdark enough for you?" "Needs about another 80 tons of Silent Hill"

The marine pinned to the wall really sets the mood

In a video filled with unbelievably talented voice actors, the one who does the “Guilliman lies” speech at the beginning is my favorite. The voice acting and soundscape is one of the best parts of this series

I really love how you made the Space Marines look, and feel big. I'm looking forward for the second part.

The urge to purge, BEGINS TO SURGE

“In the grim darkness of the far future there is only the Death of Hope.” Mark, this is a truly stunning piece of art you have lovingly crafted here. Your tireless adherence to exquisite detail and in-universe authenticity is without peer and sets a new bar of animated story telling in the universe of the Horus Heresy and wider Warhammer 40,000. Never before have I seen these stories and art brought to life with such power and utterly uncompromising and brilliant clarity. Your Astartes and Mechanicum are how I imagine them in the minds of the Black Library authors and of course, the late great Alan Bligh. The depictions of the neverborn daemons are inspired and connect to the deepest, darkest lore of 40K and took me vividly back to the Realm of Chaos books Slaves to Darkness and Lost And The Damned. I offer my heartfelt appreciation and most admiring compliments to you and those who contributed towards the incredible creation the is “Death of Hope”. It is a grimdark masterpiece! A final personal note. I cannot find the words right now to express how completely overwhelmed and honoured I am to see you mention my humble content in your dedication. Imagination is perhaps the greatest of gifts to give and to see you say so is a moment I will always treasure and remember. Thank you Mark.

After a year and watching this 100x times I am still in absolute awe of what you created here

"I breathe. It will be enough" You know he abt that ass kickin business😭😭😂😂

The Random misshapen ghostly figures were chilling.. You really seemed to capture the warp chaotic nature with them. Loved it

*Malformed Woman Mourning her Dead Flesh-fused Child* Chaos Marine: I love this Song!

I still come back to this video at least 2x a week. I love the attention to detail of EVERYTHING.

This is insane. One of the greatest Warhammer videos I've ever seen. How is it the Warhammer community has this much talent and dedication! It's truly inspiring! Thank you to everyone involved for your hard work !

Saturnine-pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armour.... no words....

I don't think anyone has acknowledged the scene with the girl and her baby being the same girl and baby that ran past the ultra marines in death of hope trailer 2, this is what chaos did to her when they took her prisoner and that little continuance and detail is what really makes these videos so special mark.

I come back to this vid a couple of times a year, thank you for such masterpiece.

Amazing job in every aspect. I loved the detail throughout, especially in the armors. Did a great job making the marines actually look, sound, and feel terrifying.

Whats so amazing about this is how the creator has made marines into being actually really f**king scary. Even the ultramarines look scary. It really captures this sense in the books of transhuman dread. That these beings are so ascended beyond a normal human, that people are like insects. There is many comparisons I read between this and astartes. I like everyone else enjoy astartes, its very polished. But Death of Hope OOZES atmosphere, the world it creates is such an authentic representation of the grim wh world. Normally I dont like too much deviation from 'normal' space marine appearance. But the detail in DoH, its really awe inspiring. I love the art so much, but something worries me, surely only one touched by the warp could produce such dire majesty. Summon the Inquisition!

When I first watched Event Horizon, I thought: "I wish these fellows made a proper Warhammer film", until watched what you made. If you ask me, despite the old vs new debate, we live in an age where amazing talented people like you can finally gives us a vision of the grim darkness of the far future, and I'm thankful for that.

Been a long time fan of this project. When frends, family and coworkers ask if Im into horror, I tell them Im more into Grimdark and Cosmic Horror. Not the trifling, popular things they are exposed to. A few of them I have shown this animation as to non-verbally explain what I mean, and they all shudder at the knowledge as to why I think their interests in "horror" is mundane. My mind, and the minds of those who are fans of this universe we call Warhammer are on a whole other level than mainstream "horror". And I remind them of that fact every time they want to watch some Hollywood bs with me.

How I imagined the universe from the books, horror, gritty and chaos. Thank you for the hard work bringing this to life.

Mark, thank you for all the time and effort you've put towards this project over the years, you're a legend, mate, the community needs people like you who make this awesome content, thank you!

With "Death of Hope" and the "Astartes" videos, the bar has been set pretty high for GW's official CGI series. Your work here is beautiful, you managed to make the immaterium unnerving and I love the unique apparitions rather than just the cliche daemons.

Great job I wish you didn’t stop making these fan base films. GW is losing lot of money not letting there fans make amazing films GFYS GW!!!

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY 100% FANTASTIC! YOU DESERVE ALL THE PRAISE! Look forward to part 2!

I dont understand how people dont appreciate this, 30k was extremely dark

This video is the only Warhammer video that does the Warp and the sheer brutality of the 30k-40k universe justice. Well bloody done!

8:10 that Night Lord with that armor is just chef's kiss.

The only 40K video ive ever seen that i would truly call Grimdark

For anyone thinking they forgot to activate their Gellar Fields, they didn't... They left it off.

Holy hell, man! This project is absolutely unbelievable! The atmosphere is just entirely perfect, 100% on point. Just exceptional work here, I'm blown away. That exo-armor! Those wierd daemons! The Dark Mech looking all bizarre! All of the layers & details on the Marine armor that are all still recognizable marks & models! The wild uniforms & gear on the baseline humans! The strange bone biomech Eldar! Just... Grim-dark perfection. Going to watch it five more times then start building some Dark Angel Legionnaires...

I'm 47 years old. I dont watch tv and I'm very picky with what movies I watch. Between graduating highschool in 1993 and 2014, I read every book ever written by Dean Koontz, John Saul, Ann Rice, Steven King, Tolkien, Joe McKinney, and many others, with hundreds of stand-alone novels between. I had just finished 60 something novels in The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore along with all offshoot series related to the Dark Drow Elf's journey when a Barnes and Nobles employee recommended The Horus Heresy. I haven't played the table top, not due to lack of interest but, lack of free time. The world of 40k has become part of my life. This series has been the most compelling, radical, work of genius over the many novels and series I have read. That being said, of all the fan made material out there, this animation took me back to when I read this story. I felt true despair at what the loyalists were facing on a galactic scale simply by the death of hope that befell the warriors captured on this ship. The betrayal is unimaginable and the scenes and atrocities that I saw in my minds eye while reading this abhorrent account of treason to the Emporor, couldn't have been portrayed better than this. It's as if you looked into my imagination and pulled the images from the dark recesses where I had stored this traumatic tale. Amazing, simply amazing .

First time i saw this i was blown away. i still have come time to time to watch this. probably most epic short movie in YT!

The mother and baby was what really stuck with me. Man it really shows just how fucked up the warp is and you wonder the reason for what sick twisted reason they are keeping her on the ship mutating like that. Absolutely brilliant.

The atmosphere, the voices, the art style, the animation *EVERYTHING* is on point. Man-Emperor bless the Warhammer 40k fanbase, especially to you and your team, Mark.

How long till Games Workshop removes this video due to its horrible new policies? T_T I want to cry, we will never see part 2 and soon we will lose part 1 too.

I'm a newcomer to The Horus Heresy novels and I'm completely blown away by them. I absolutely love it. These videos capture the uncompromising nature of Grimdarkness perfectly . The imagery will enhance my imagination immensely, as I read. Thank you so much for your work from a fellow fan.

This is a milestone in the Warhammer fan made movies. Impressive work

Brilliant but i was a little confused at first and had to watch it a couple of times before I realised that the figures walking about in Ultramarine armour are wearing stolen gear.

This love for a universe I have so few outlets to experience it makes me sad. But for these 20 minutes I got to suspend it all and be immersed. Genuinely incredible work. Thank you for your effort and I'm sorry GW has made it so we don't get another episode. Maybe one day they will see you and this for what's it's worth and fund it. Good luck Mark, I will watch anything you create in future.

this is the peak of what every 40k serieres/movie has to strife for. Truly a masterpiece, in picture, immersion and so much more. I would sacrifice my entire sector for the emporer to get more of THIS. I bow before you Mark, you genius

Guys, there are other 40k animations that are nice, especially Astartes, but this one... Damn, here we find the madness of encapsulated heresy, the violence and horror of the warp spread throughout the material universe, in such an unhealthy way... it's perfect. Visually as well as in the atmosphere, it's exactly as I saw Horus' Heresy... Mark, you point out that the animations are perfectible, ok, but the amount of work you had to put in to get this result transpires..., the details of the environments, the armors, the characters, damn it's huge! Get some rest man, because you deserve it, you've just delivered the best visual representation of Horus' Heresy (and even 40k I dare say) we've ever seen. Thank you, and Bravo.

GW has to pick you up man, this IS what Grim Dark is all about and sadly this IS why 40K will most likely never be mainstream, most of the people cant really take this shit... however, we can :) thank you for your work!

This is how I imagined the madness of the warp. Amazing work

Such a wonderful work of art. Absolutely stunning. Thank you so very much for this.

This work has been blessed by the Emperor, the Four Chaos Gods, and the Machine God. The grimdark despair clearly shines a light on just how gruesome and terrible the Warhammer 30-40k universe really is. So many scenes in this capture the pure essence of Word Bearer evil, the horror of the warp, the transhuman dread of Astartes, and so much more. In modern 40k, Chaos has been relegated to meme jokes where we laugh at Abaddon. That or we see these "fix bayonets" memes that completely takes away from the intimidation factor of Chaos Marines. THIS RIGHT HERE delivers so much justice for us people that have grown tired of the modern day vanilla stuff and the stupid memes. I could go on about every scene and how it digs into the soul and makes you feel uncomfortable. This is a situation where the good guys aren't going to win and everything is not going to be alright. The one scene where the World Eater enters that guy's cell is intimidating as fuck. Props to that guy for having the balls to stand up to him. That is how you respectfully showcase a guardsman's bravery without taking anything away from the marine. Then we see the woman from the first trailer with her baby and they're both corrupted by being on that chaos ship with no Gellar field up. We see a botched teleportation with is rarely ever mentioned anymore. We see these warp horrors just materializing in and out of the ship as the traitor marines carelessly ignore them. That shit right there is real Chaos and I deeply appreciate this accurate and detailed depiction of it. I imagine it will be another year or so before the next part, but I sincerely thank you for all your hard work in making this Mark.

Damn, i didnt expect this to be actually disturbing but wow

After seeing this, the idea of being on a ship and having the gellar field go out is even more terrifying

I cant believe how ALL of this is made by ONE person. This looks like actual movie quality. Extremely well made. Normally I'm not a huge fan of warhammer overall or this time period but this is just amazing.

The warp seems like a fun place to hang out in. You get spontaneous mutations, random demons, immense torture, and stuff you can’t even imagine.

I don't have any words that can describe the disturbing and uncomfortable scenes in this video. But one thing's for certain, this is really well made.

This video was amazing. Truly terrifying how you portrayed chaos.

Absolutely stunning efect. Atmosphere of this -unforgettable

If one Mark Louis Spark can do this just imagine what a squad of Mark Louis Sparks could do.

The Inquisition will find and prosecute the 142 heretics that downvoted this most holy recitation.

This is still so awesome, it shows so much cool stuff from the setting, warp being weird, do you like cubes? here hell cubes with tentacles and some crawlies on top, space marines while some may be handsome they are also disgusting piles of artificial muscle, the eldar who are super sexy, but to human they would be disturbing and unnatural, over the top insane bullshit hand crafted detailed armour ? sure thing, space marines are the best of the best, they deserve those eight trillion not-slaves working on every tiny detail on their pauldrons That oldschool terminator just walking past gives me absolute chills, this could be intro to a game and it would be the best 11/10 - IGN game ever made

Okay, I've seen a few different WH40k/30k fan videos, and this one is quite literally one of the best works of fan animation I have ever seen. You made the Warp, and it's inhabitants, as disturbing as they described in lore and novelizations. The visual design of the armor and even the human subjects was frankly better than a good many major release films I've seen in the last two decades. How you managed to model, rig, animate, and composite all of this by yourself is a testament to not only your skill and ambition, but the dedication of the GW fanbase to attract creators like you. Thank you for sharing, this is literally now my all-time favorite piece of WH40/30k media