Short animation: 'Ex Tenebris Venimus'

Translation for the song! Ex tenebris / Ex tenebris venimus Out of darkness / Out of darkness we come Custodes aetheris / Corona aeterna Keepers of the heavens / The eternal crown Dominae stellarum Ladies of the stars Genuflectite / Genuflectite, terra tacet / Aperite viam Kneel / Kneel, the earth falls silent / Open the way Selena, Sabina / Filiae aetheris / Lumina coronae Selena, Sabine / Daughters of the heavens / Lights of the crown Ecce Seleone / Ecce imperatrix / Venit, venit / Adveniat regina Tetranorum Behold Seleone / Behold the Empress / She comes, she comes / Let the Queen of the Tetrans come

Alright I've slept and here's fun facts! 1. Captain in the intro is nameless and just there for flavor. Him and his first lieutenant are just getting ready to make landfall to join the ceremony. He's nervous because just about anyone who's going to be in proximity of the Empress is nervous around her. His body language is supposed to be "i'd rather be getting shot at than risk the Empress finding something is wrong with my ship." 2. The ring around the sun is called a Dyson swarm, it's a 'real' albeit not within out current engineering capabilities ,concept. Originally it was around a black hole, but it looked REAL fuckin silly so I just went with a sun, plus the Empress' use of her powers to summon a black hole later is cheapened if we see one twice. 3. The two girls standing next to Amina are actual characters from the rp. 4. Lip syncing 1 character is a lot of work, but I do it manually because it matters. Lip syncing like 20 people in a chorus wasn't something I was mentally prepared to do while finishing this lmfao. 5. The titan is just called 'nanite-titan'. And Selena's author was super obsessive over how he looked. Dx 6. It's current timeline, not in the past. 7. It is very 40k inspired and that's by design, Tetra is supposed to be an insurmountable enemy in the RP. Which is why everything about them is dialed to a ridiculous degree. 8. Some of the lyrics in latin kinda bothered me because it refers to "heavens" and such, and Tetra is extremely anti-religion, but within the context of using an old language to sing, it was fine. Because any other lyrics to the song didn't sound right. 9. No one has red hair except Empress, Selena, and Sabine, because no one else is allowed to. 10. the approaching enemy fleet has entire history, again, insisted by Selena's author. Idk why for a race that's wiped out in like 5 seconds, and I do mean entire race because their home was destroyed by Tetra. So the Empress erased everything that was left of them. That's everything fun I can think of. : D

And we see why the Empress is feared! Holy shit! We know how Selena has been built up to be the most powerful of the OC6. But on seeing a potential invasion on Tetra, she just waved a hand, and the empress just made a “fleet” of spaceships get eaten up by a black hole. The video itself? God tier level animation! It’s only 2-3minutes long but this beats the majority of CGI quality films out there into the fuckin ground!

It's much easier to show then to just constantly tell. :)

Haha! I see what you did there! Storytelling 101! ;) And I’m all for that!

For Tetra!!! For the Empress!!

Did these MF just SWALLOW A FLEET WITH THE FLICK OF THE WRIST! LOL

Yeh kinda

The new 3D style rendering is really fluid with overall movement. (Character movements specifically, hair control and strand movement I bet is easier said then done.) The scene of the soldiers marching through the streets gave me those 40k vibes which was cool. But momma tetran just wiping out a fleet, light work for her. Just to deal with her kids arguing 😂 that's a real parent and siblings moment if I ever saw one, had me dying.

Tetra is very 40k inspired. And the ending I almost cut because I was feeling like it undercut the vid, but i left it in to give everyone their moment. xP

@Nodoka_Katana I love the details put into the supporting characters ❤️

@Nodoka_Katana Maybe you can me in the next one.👻

@Nodoka_Katana OMG! It would be an honor!

Damn Levi, you really upping your game, that's some intro cinematic stuff right there 👏

WWWOOOOWWW. Your really are making a whole movie! I remember when “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” first released in 2001 & it was considered such a “huge” production & feat of animation. But you… you basically did this yourself & I got to say it looks absolutely amazing! 🤩 Leave it to the Tetrens to stand on Ceremony. But then again, most great civilizations do. “Win the crowed, with the mob, ad they will love you.” Is it just me or does her Empress seem taller that Selena? I loved her smirk at the end when the daughters are bickering. I’m so excited to see what’s next! 🥹

The Empress is shorter than Selena! And I would love to continue this, but I will do it at a slower pace once ive caught up on everything else haha.

Heaven knows you have many irons in the fire. 🔥

what in the Warhammer/Star Wars is going on here

Anyone else getting 40k vibes.

Freaking awesome!

Holyy leviii this world your making looks soo interesting I want more its soo damm sick :))

That was amazing Levi!

Tyty

What name is this move?www

Uh, Ex Tenebris Venimus lol

Ok, this is cool as fuck, great work Levi

I hope i'm not the only one who is hoping that a full version of the song will be available or is in the works? ^.^

Holy fuck thats was fuckin diabolical 10/10 its like a mixed every badass scifi and lot of love and care. The animation was so fluid and awesome it was wort every second of it. BUT the latin music was just the cherry on the surprisint but in the best way

Just jaw dropped from begin to end. Spectacular work once again Levi. 😲🤩🙌🌹🌹🌹🌹

😍🤩🥳🥳❤️❤️❤️❤️

That was spectacular! It gave me those epic Star Ocean vibes (the latter 3 of that series). Absolutely amazing. I like cool space drama themes (I even saw some Mecha there.)

sorry bro i did NOT mean to blow you up with that haha

By all means don't hold back. It did make me more curious to be honest.

Magnificent

Love the animation!! Love the end, when Selena begins arguing with Sabine.