Oh lord, yes, that dreadful version that shunted it to the Edwardian period for no reason whatever and then beat everyone around the head repeatedly with the woke-bat by droning on endlessly about colonialism (no, make that _British_ colonialism, the only really bad kind) and screwing with the ending by having the Red Weed take over (whereas in fact it dies early on with a canker, thus foreshadowing the fate of the Martians themselves).
Wow, maybe War Of the Worlds is where 'Wow' came from, but this production brings back most of the places I went to as a kid, and I have always admired H.G.Wells works, and the fact that he wrote this story while staying at The Maybury Inn for some months. I would go to the Saturday morning children's film program at the Odeon, which would cost us a silver thruppence to get in. On the way from Byfleet on the 426 or 437 bus, I would pass the Maybury Inn, and go down under the train track bridge, turn left on Oriental Road, which is probably not called that any more, I am guessing. I would get on my bike or walk to Pyrford, Wisley, Oxshott, Wisley Lake, Cobham, Addlestone, and Weybridge, along the Wey Navigation canal, and other nearby towns, from Byfleet, and had so much fun in those days. I remember most of the buildings in the 4 chapters so far, and they bring back very pleasant memories to me, I am now living in Idaho U.S.A. where the weather is similar to Byfleet, but so glad I was born in Woking, and grew up in Byfleet. I was so lucky, and thank God for everything. Adrian Robinson. This film maker is a Genius, in my mind.
I am so glad that you are enjoying my project. I live near to Woking and have known the area for nearly 40 years. The Wey navigation and the Basingstoke canal are favourite places. Oriental Road is still there, as is the little church which I blew up in Chapter 1. Woking is changing dramatically at present, the town centre a mass of sky-scrapers. About time the Martians came back......!
I watched all four episodes in a row and I can't wait for you to finish the story and gather them all in one video. I'm amused how much the retro-charm of the Correa tripods have really grown on me. When I first saw them in illustrations I was amused he basically wanted to give the tripods eyes and a hat.
Just watched this in a completely spaced out state for reasons I won't go into, and I'm not lying when I say it blew my mind! Intensely awesome work of creativity!
For the first minutes I believed that it was an early 1910s movie. Before I took a longer look at the actors. Just an excellent CAD visualization. This is art!
@@OscarMaldonadoce3dr1910s didn’t have sound, so they usually added music, thats why the characters don’t speak, instead they have the little screens of words
Of all of the WoW movies that I have ever seen, this is the closest to perfection in its production as well as being closest to the both the word and spirit of the book. Bravo! Magnificent!
*_Only just realized that you have other chapters shared on your RUclips channel. Am going to watch the rest of them_* Ultra-Professional work. Great to see you have stayed loyal to the original designs and concepts found in the early years. Yours being different, yet very realistic and quite scary, seeing those heat rays at work. Hope you expand this and are able to share it. 10/10
This! This is exactly how Wells described it. The animation is wonderful, and it exactly matches Henrique Alvim Correa's illustrations from the 1906 French version. I have waited for a production exactly like this since I first read The War of the Worlds in junior high school in 1968. Thank you so much! May you find success in all your endeavors!
Ooh, some seriously nicely done composites (loved the train and station) and it's great you've chosen the older, illustrated Fighting Machines too! Off to start from the beginning ;)
@@badgers1975 Well there was always the concept of Martians never developing the wheel so the joints would have to be very much like a biological one (ball and socket etc with cartilage to reduce friction etc). My design follows this and the rest of the description from the books
I'm one who is very, very fond of the novel and mostly pretty unimpressed with the various screen adaptations. So, for me, this is quite a great find! You've done a nice job here. So it's time for me to go back to chapter one and work up to this point. I have no doubt I'll enjoy it.
@@kevinmccullen1 I understand, it wasn’t even me who typed this tbh it was my little cousin who I watch these with and he does check your Chanel everyday waiting for new vids anyways, these are amazing especially that you’re doing this type of stuff on your own and thank you for taking time to reply to my/my little cousins comment.
@@kevinmccullen1 I wanna say how much i love these videos and the amount if effort and dedication you put in, I can’t wait to see more from your talented self
Wonderful job! Of course I've subscribed and can't wait for the rest. Keep it up! But do take your time and keep the rest as superb as these 4 chapters have been -- we'll wait and it'll be worth it!
Gorgeous work here, and extra kudos for staying so faithful to the original book. You did a better job in these little ten minute scenes than the BBC did in several hours. Looking forward to seeing HMS Thunderchild being rendered in all her heroic glory!
Outstanding! Whenever I'm in this part of Surrey I stop and imagine " the martians went this way.." and this is the realisation of those musings, Best animation of the tripods I have seen.
This is just fantastic! I am a massive war of the worlds fan and i have just purchased a model of the Correa tripod and was looking through RUclips for inspiration to make a diarama and found these videos!! Perfect, please keep them coming 🙂
Always great to see more of this project! It's really refreshing to see a fan adaptation that does its own thing instead of just copying one of the films or following the book word for word.
@@levthemapperxd Hard disagree on that. While it is very close to the novel, there is a distinct shift in which scenes are given priority and how things are ordered. "Doing its own thing" goes deeper than the plot beats. There are creative choices here that are separate from the source material, which is what I was getting at with this comment (trying to, at least).
Brilliant stuff. I'm really enjoying these and it's lovely to see something that is so close to the source material (still one of the eeriest and scary novels i've read). I can't wait for ep 5! I take it the next one will concentrate on his brother and the flight out of London/Black Smoke
Just discovered these. At last a version done set in the right place at the right time and as true to the book as possible. You can’t beat the original story. Very well done.
As a 'local,' I am happy to report that the monument on Monument Green in Weybridge was later restored and still stands today. I was looking at it the other day whilst having a free coffee in Waitrose. Fun fact: The author E. M. Forster once lived for a while in a house on Monument Green and Weybridge Station hasn't changed much since the arrival of the Martians!!
This is absolutely wonderful stuff, I love the use of the Corrêa Martians (from the 1906 edition, by the way, so not quite the very earliest images of the Martians)
Hay, this looks real slick man. I have been building sets and models for a bunch of 'Buck Rogers a'la 1930's adventure stories I have writing. I do not think either one of us has the easy job but, you can definitely do some things I just can't with models and small sound stages but...I do actualy get to blow stuff up in the garage...nope, not married...any more. Good luck man, looks great. P.S. I'm a cinema-snob and love old black and white movies. I typically snub lousy looking retro ticky-tacky but you, well I am intrigued; second time round now. My second favorite thing about your short film is the complete and total lack of Tom Cruse.
Henrique Alvim Correa, o Pintor Brasileiro (Naturalizado Belga) criador das primeiras ilustrações artísticas dos Tripods... Simplesmente Incrível !!! English = Henrique Alvim Correa, the Brazilian Painter (Belgian Natural) creator of the first artistic illustrations of the Tripods... Simply Incredible !!!
I like that this follows the book, and isn’t a vague interpretation like every other adaptation has been. However, even this version hasn’t managed to get the movement of the tripods right, even though their motion is described simply and concisely by Wells in just one sentence: “a milking stool, tilted and bowled violently along the ground”. There is also reference to striding with articulated legs with joints at the knees in the book, so presumably Wells imagined they had separate ‘walk’ and ‘run’ movements, much as every animal does.
The way tripods move has always been the source of debate. Wells' description of a "milking stool" I think is because the tripods were being viewed via lightning flashes, ie a strobe like effect with only a brief glimpse every second or so. That would certainly give the effect as he described it. As you say, he described articulated legs, as was taken up by Correa's illustrations. A walking tripod as I have tried to animate based upon these illustrations with "hip" and "knee" joints, would be difficult to visualise any differently. Since at each stage of the walk cycle the tripod only has two "feet" on the ground, the centre of gravity has to shift, giving a rolling motion. A run cycle may be possible but the tripod would have to leave the ground or at the very least always have one foot in contact. The huge size would make their walk pretty fast anyway. "Striding" suggests walking - I cannot find a reference to running.
Absolutely superb! You’ve done what the BBC with all its millions couldn’t do!
You are too kind - glad you enjoyed it.
Fax
Oh lord, yes, that dreadful version that shunted it to the Edwardian period for no reason whatever and then beat everyone around the head repeatedly with the woke-bat by droning on endlessly about colonialism (no, make that _British_ colonialism, the only really bad kind) and screwing with the ending by having the Red Weed take over (whereas in fact it dies early on with a canker, thus foreshadowing the fate of the Martians themselves).
@@richardgregory3684 yep. No amount is of glitter could disguise that turd. It was awful.
Wait can somebody please explain what BBC did? Did they pretended there was a Martian invasion or something?
If you think about it the last scene makes it look like the tripods really do care about eachother and thats the reason why the even started attacking
I love this series, the Correa tripods are really underrated.
We need people to know about this
I know right
Hello gm :)
I like to call them “water towers with googlie eyes”
Wait what is a "Correa" tripod?
As a lifelong HG Wells fan, I think you've done better than the BBC on this one. Great work, can't wait for more.
Ohiofffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
YAAAY HE POSTED!!!
Well done sir! Fantastic! Absolutely phenomenal!
Wow, maybe War Of the Worlds is where 'Wow' came from, but
this production brings back most of the places I went to as a kid, and I have always admired H.G.Wells works, and the fact that he wrote this story while staying at The Maybury Inn for some months.
I would go to the Saturday morning children's film program at the Odeon, which would cost us a silver thruppence to get in.
On the way from Byfleet on the 426 or 437 bus, I would pass the Maybury Inn, and go down under the train track bridge, turn left on Oriental Road, which is probably not called that any more, I am guessing.
I would get on my bike or walk to Pyrford, Wisley, Oxshott, Wisley Lake, Cobham, Addlestone, and Weybridge, along the Wey Navigation canal, and other nearby towns, from Byfleet, and had so much fun in those days.
I remember most of the buildings in the 4 chapters so far, and they bring back very pleasant memories to me, I am now living in Idaho U.S.A. where the weather is similar to Byfleet, but so glad I was born in Woking, and grew up in Byfleet. I was so lucky, and thank God for everything.
Adrian Robinson. This film maker is a Genius, in my mind.
I am so glad that you are enjoying my project. I live near to Woking and have known the area for nearly 40 years. The Wey navigation and the Basingstoke canal are favourite places. Oriental Road is still there, as is the little church which I blew up in Chapter 1. Woking is changing dramatically at present, the town centre a mass of sky-scrapers. About time the Martians came back......!
I watched all four episodes in a row and I can't wait for you to finish the story and gather them all in one video. I'm amused how much the retro-charm of the Correa tripods have really grown on me. When I first saw them in illustrations I was amused he basically wanted to give the tripods eyes and a hat.
The legend graced us yet again
I believe that this is the first time that I have seen this done right.
Five gold stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Just watched this in a completely spaced out state for reasons I won't go into, and I'm not lying when I say it blew my mind! Intensely awesome work of creativity!
For the first minutes I believed that it was an early 1910s movie. Before I took a longer look at the actors. Just an excellent CAD visualization. This is art!
Why they have music in the movie?
@@OscarMaldonadoce3dr1910s didn’t have sound, so they usually added music, thats why the characters don’t speak, instead they have the little screens of words
@@benzbenz-m8h ok imagine in the great Martian war
@It was a fake documentary, I don’t think they had sounds during the 1913-19Iforgot parts, It was usually narrated by someone during that, wrong?
Of all of the WoW movies that I have ever seen, this is the closest to perfection in its production as well as being closest to the both the word and spirit of the book. Bravo! Magnificent!
I do like the album though, Jeff Wayne has been promising us a film for the last 30 years lol
*_Only just realized that you have other chapters shared on your RUclips channel. Am going to watch the rest of them_*
Ultra-Professional work. Great to see you have stayed loyal to the original designs and concepts found in the early years. Yours being different, yet very realistic and quite scary, seeing those heat rays at work. Hope you expand this and are able to share it. 10/10
Bro the visual effects are so amazing, seem so real. Ultra nice work!
The wait was worth it
Very good achievement. It's great that you take the original concept of tripods and illustrations from the book 👍
This! This is exactly how Wells described it. The animation is wonderful, and it exactly matches Henrique Alvim Correa's illustrations from the 1906 French version.
I have waited for a production exactly like this since I first read The War of the Worlds in junior high school in 1968. Thank you so much! May you find success in all your endeavors!
Right! These Martians do look like the illustrations in the old books.
@@jarniwoop Yes, and I love the "Chinese" hats. Cheers.
I sincerely hope you continue making more for this series! It's splendid!
Ooh, some seriously nicely done composites (loved the train and station) and it's great you've chosen the older, illustrated Fighting Machines too! Off to start from the beginning ;)
Although they look like the drawings that the journalist refers to as looking to mechanical and not organic in the popular pamphlet after the war
@@badgers1975 Well there was always the concept of Martians never developing the wheel so the joints would have to be very much like a biological one (ball and socket etc with cartilage to reduce friction etc). My design follows this and the rest of the description from the books
Utterly Fantastical. I love what you have done and am eagerly awaiting the next instalment!
Excellent work! Bravo! I hope you'll continue this series. 👍
I'm one who is very, very fond of the novel and mostly pretty unimpressed with the various screen adaptations. So, for me, this is quite a great find! You've done a nice job here.
So it's time for me to go back to chapter one and work up to this point.
I have no doubt I'll enjoy it.
As always a work of art!
Amazing. All this destruction simulations would have been a nightmare to render.
Keenly awaiting the next chapter 👍
Hello there!
@@pkmovies92 Hello there fine sir. A pleasure to cross paths again.
@@pkmovies92 general kenobi you are a bold one.
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for such a faithfully told, yet mesmerising series. HGW would have been very proud of such a respectful production.
Just discovered this series, and very much enjoying it! Glad to see that it's not an abandoned project. Looking forward to the next installment! Ulla!
YES it's FINALLY HERE
Pls don’t make us wait so long, everyday for the past 7 months I’ve checked this Chanel waiting for this
Thank you for your interest and kind comments. Unfortunately, this type of animation takes a long time to do and there is only me!!!!
@@kevinmccullen1 I understand, it wasn’t even me who typed this tbh it was my little cousin who I watch these with and he does check your Chanel everyday waiting for new vids anyways, these are amazing especially that you’re doing this type of stuff on your own and thank you for taking time to reply to my/my little cousins comment.
@@kevinmccullen1 I wanna say how much i love these videos and the amount if effort and dedication you put in, I can’t wait to see more from your talented self
I want to see the flying machine
Hit! Score one for the humans! This episode is incredible! You are doing such an awesome job! Thank you!
Fantastic work as always. Love the detail and the way the people turn into skeletons when hit by the heat ray. 👍👋👋
Superb! You did a great job bringing those Correa illustrations to life.
The video:scary
That music at background:fun :D
Absolutely brilliant,well done and true to the original story. Much better than the films so far.can’t wait for the next instalment,and thank you.
Wonderful job! Of course I've subscribed and can't wait for the rest. Keep it up! But do take your time and keep the rest as superb as these 4 chapters have been -- we'll wait and it'll be worth it!
Gorgeous work here, and extra kudos for staying so faithful to the original book. You did a better job in these little ten minute scenes than the BBC did in several hours. Looking forward to seeing HMS Thunderchild being rendered in all her heroic glory!
A brilliant piece of work. 👍
Outstanding! Whenever I'm in this part of Surrey I stop and imagine " the martians went this way.." and this is the realisation of those musings, Best animation of the tripods I have seen.
This is just fantastic! I am a massive war of the worlds fan and i have just purchased a model of the Correa tripod and was looking through RUclips for inspiration to make a diarama and found these videos!! Perfect, please keep them coming 🙂
Trabalho fantástico, eu terminei de ler o livro há 2 dias atrás, e acho curioso como os Tripods ilustrados por Corrêa parecem chapéus gigantes.
Hey mano, acabei conhecendo o trabalho de Correa pelo youtube e acabei comprando o livro por causa disso, muito top os designs
These are fookin amazing!!! Absolutely brilliant! 👌👌👌👌
Well done friend- please do continue!
I've been so looking forward to this episode. Another master piece as usual. Shame the episodes are months apart but well worth the wait haha
this is really cool! I've been interested in this type of stuff for a while now. Good job!
This is incredibly well animated. Nicely done!
Always great to see more of this project! It's really refreshing to see a fan adaptation that does its own thing instead of just copying one of the films or following the book word for word.
The thing is, it’s following the book 99% of the time
@@levthemapperxd Hard disagree on that. While it is very close to the novel, there is a distinct shift in which scenes are given priority and how things are ordered. "Doing its own thing" goes deeper than the plot beats. There are creative choices here that are separate from the source material, which is what I was getting at with this comment (trying to, at least).
Am I bad to laugh at some of the bodies flying? It's great! Gruesome and darkly hilarious at the same time. Gruelarious!
Agree!!
Very well done, excellent work.
Brilliant stuff. I'm really enjoying these and it's lovely to see something that is so close to the source material (still one of the eeriest and scary novels i've read). I can't wait for ep 5!
I take it the next one will concentrate on his brother and the flight out of London/Black Smoke
6:51 I absolutely love how you made it look just like the Correa illustration!
WoW this is much better than the BBC's one.
Incredible job, bro!
Can't wait for the next chapter!
So happy to see it out
I love what you're doing! Such a fun escape! Thanks!
Really well made, good job!
Just discovered these. At last a version done set in the right place at the right time and as true to the book as possible. You can’t beat the original story. Very well done.
The water effects and the smoke and fire during the ThunderChild scene are amazing
YES you've returned!!!!!
Pure brilliance.
Absolutely brilliant, superb! Bravo to you.
Exactly as i pictured the carnage in my minds eye, when i first read the book as a young boy, over fifty years ago.
GIVE US THE NAMES OF THESE SONGS (I ALREADY KNOW FUN I A BOTTLE
BUT I WANT THIS ONE: 2:35)
As a 'local,' I am happy to report that the monument on Monument Green in Weybridge was later restored and still stands today. I was looking at it the other day whilst having a free coffee in Waitrose.
Fun fact: The author E. M. Forster once lived for a while in a house on Monument Green and Weybridge Station hasn't changed much since the arrival of the Martians!!
I would have thought that that must have been a municipal priority after the end of the invasion. Civic pride and all that.
YES FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR DAYS SUCH A MASTER PIECE!
Its funny how some people are running for their life at like 0.1 mph while others are just walking
There not scared of me?
@@Thundertoadeagle123 i think they are but they're legs are broken
Average earth bacteria:
The average earth bacteria could literally win, fighting the tripods
@@sixthatom7786the martians not pods
@@Thundertoadeagle123 what
@@Thundertoadeagle123 they are in tripods or fighting machines
@@sixthatom7786 exactly the tripods don't move on their own there's martians in there
You can understand how frightening this story could be and how a novel scenario like this can delight and thrill people. This is cool interpretation.
Absolutely incredible
I hope you adapt the whole book. The Thunderchild battle would be epic.
THAT'S what I'm looking for. This guy's take on it will be spectacular I bet.
This is absolutely wonderful stuff, I love the use of the Corrêa Martians (from the 1906 edition, by the way, so not quite the very earliest images of the Martians)
4:13 what's that song name?
Well done!! 6.83K subscribers should be 683K. Keep going, you will get there.
Took you a spell longer, but well worth the wait.
Brilliant as always.
Wow. I just stumbled upon this gem and I love it!
"ACK. Ack ack ack. Ack ack. Aaaack ack ack. Ack ACK."
---Old Martian Proverb
no it's alooo
Absolutely phenomenal job thank you!!!!
All of these are EXCELLENT!! BRAVO!! When is the next chapter?
0:51 WTH ARE YOU DOING THOMAS!?
XD
war time thomas
Thomas is a e2 that's an E1
Thomas is a e2 that's an e4 actually
looks so close like him
That tripod is my favourite
This is brilliant, blows the BBC effort away.
Very well done indeed.
4:16 "Bloooom"! Muy buena esa parte, me encanta esta adaptación!!!! Es genial!!!
OMG! That was astounding!
Subscribed, liked, and hit that Bell 🔔
Hay, this looks real slick man. I have been building sets and models for a bunch of 'Buck Rogers a'la 1930's adventure stories I have writing. I do not think either one of us has the easy job but, you can definitely do some things I just can't with models and small sound stages but...I do actualy get to blow stuff up in the garage...nope, not married...any more. Good luck man, looks great.
P.S. I'm a cinema-snob and love old black and white movies. I typically snub lousy looking retro ticky-tacky but you, well I am intrigued; second time round now. My second favorite thing about your short film is the complete and total lack of Tom Cruse.
Henrique Alvim Correa, o Pintor Brasileiro (Naturalizado Belga) criador das primeiras ilustrações artísticas dos Tripods... Simplesmente Incrível !!!
English = Henrique Alvim Correa, the Brazilian Painter (Belgian Natural) creator of the first artistic illustrations of the Tripods... Simply Incredible !!!
Sim yes
I loved this,please continue
Absutely brilliant in a weird, retro way.
Outstanding
What is the music from 9:48
At 7:34 when the to tripods were destroying the town the one in the right was in the moment meanwhile the one on the right was just doing his job
Man this looks so realistic
Excellent work!
Can't wait for the next part! This is just delightful...in a horrible sort of way...
Brilliant, very impressed.
I love this! Please make more
阿鼻叫喚の地獄絵図の中で、「無声映画よろしく」ホンキートンク的な伴奏BGMが付くのが、とても良いです！！
演出が上手いです！
I like that this follows the book, and isn’t a vague interpretation like every other adaptation has been. However, even this version hasn’t managed to get the movement of the tripods right, even though their motion is described simply and concisely by Wells in just one sentence: “a milking stool, tilted and bowled violently along the ground”. There is also reference to striding with articulated legs with joints at the knees in the book, so presumably Wells imagined they had separate ‘walk’ and ‘run’ movements, much as every animal does.
The way tripods move has always been the source of debate. Wells' description of a "milking stool" I think is because the tripods were being viewed via lightning flashes, ie a strobe like effect with only a brief glimpse every second or so. That would certainly give the effect as he described it. As you say, he described articulated legs, as was taken up by Correa's illustrations. A walking tripod as I have tried to animate based upon these illustrations with "hip" and "knee" joints, would be difficult to visualise any differently. Since at each stage of the walk cycle the tripod only has two "feet" on the ground, the centre of gravity has to shift, giving a rolling motion. A run cycle may be possible but the tripod would have to leave the ground or at the very least always have one foot in contact. The huge size would make their walk pretty fast anyway. "Striding" suggests walking - I cannot find a reference to running.
Dude, I would be so embarrassed to be losing to those tripods
When running wasnt inventend💀💀
i love these tripods
4:18 Mission Successful! You hit Puberty.
what is this music 9:35
This is really cool man 😊