If any of you guys are interested, here’s the test compilation I made for this video, along with some very limited BTS. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btuihqhn2cXMd30.html

dude. this is freaking unbelievable. your directing is so freaking good. this madman actually animated the shells ejecting from the chaingun the timing and spacing on the skewer shot at the beginning is PERFECT the shot choices, the rapid cuts, the camera shake, the closeups- this is freaking INTENSE and so in-your-face and brutal without being gratuitous- it’s just straight up gritty HOLY CRAP THAT MOMENT WHEN THE SPARTAN STOPS THE HAMMER THEIR FIGHT WITH THE BRUTE THE JUMPS AND FLIPS AND KICKS AND RAPID PUNCHES i just… how are you doing this? how are you making their motions feel so grounded with such a chaotic style?? how is your timing this perfect??? yeah. wow. this is truly stupendous. your best work by far. one of my favorite MCX films ever. i really wish i could animate and direct like this. your style is freaking impeccable.

I didn't want this to end! Loved how animalistic those brutes were - I could tell you were going for a take similar to Halo landfall, you nailed it! That chieftain fit the bill of an Alpha beast perfectly, and the Spartan's pinpoint accuracy was glorious. Stellar work my friend, aspiring animators will look to this for years to come!

Dude this was absolutely incredible. This felt so much like a real war, especially through the camera shaking in the battle so you could really feel that impact of the gunfire and explosions. This was also very brutal, especially with the behavior of the brutes in the fight, which was fkn awesome. The music and lack of music fit in perfectly, as you could mainly just hear the sounds of the battle to really immerse yourself into the fight. And then that fight between the brute and the spartan towards the end was badass. This is easily one of the best halo stop motion battle scenes I’ve ever seen, and probably your best one yet. Absolutely incredible man. Amazing work.

This really reminds me of Landfall. Absolutely some of the best stop motion action I've ever seen! It keeps you at the edge of your seat all the way through!

This is phenomenal animating. Your lack of VFX and use of practical effects is so awesome. The camera work was super impressive, I know how hard it is to get a big fat camera down in the weeds with the models. But the main thing was your use of momentum. Making those models look like their punches actually hit with their punches is really hard and you absolutely nailed it. Phenomenal work mate.

The Cinematography in this better than any other Mega Construx animation I have ever seen. and the fight was one of my favorites as well. Absolutely outstanding film making.

The cinematography overall is amazing! I personally think that the graininess from the phone camera really goes well with this, better than a dedicated camera. The fight scene was a tiny bit hard to follow, but I loved how strong everything felt, I was really immersed in it. I also love how emotions get conveyed with no dialogue. This is genuinely the best stop motion I have ever seen, probably the best one I will ever see. My favorite shot in all of it is probably at 1:18. Just something about that elite dying was satisfying for me XD.

I absolutely adored all of the small details! And the constant shaky cam added a much more, realistic feel. I mean, I really can’t find any massive issues (except for maybe how grainy the zoomed in shots can get, but that’s more of a nitpick thing, and sometimes the shaky cam can get a little nauseating [though that’s probably because I get motion sickness easily]) This was definitely a treat to watch, and even more entertaining to see the process that led to it being finished. The inspiration from landfall was also really clear, and overall really good! I can’t even imagine how long the scenes must’ve taken to animate.

Holy shit. That was like, I don't even know what to say. Everything was so grainy and gorey. It felt like an actual war, and that made it so much better to watch. I love how amazing your practical effects are with destructible environments, like when Ava blocks the grav hammer, and you see her feet get firmly planted into the ground with rocks getting flung up, or when she got thrown into the wall and it made a huge indent in it. Like, your small attention to detail is on a whole nother level, and don't get me started on your cinematography. All the angles and smooth shaky movements really tied everything together. I can't fathom how you do camera movements so well. Ava's fight with the chieftain was Phenomenal. all the quick secession jabs, and right/left hooks felt so crisp, and had a perfect level of weight behind them. The fight was in the chieftens favor, but Ava utilized her boost pack, her grapple shot, and most of all her speed to get an edge on the brute, who just couldn't keep up. seeing Codas dead body was actually pretty sad to see, but it was what Ava needed to push a little harder. That neck snap tho. Good shit. Loved everything about this Badlaxe. Only critiques I could give is, during a few of the cuts during Avas and the chieftains duel, the shaky camera movement didn't allow for a proper easing in for transitioning cuts to different angles, which could have been the intention, but it was a little hard to follow. Still really good though 👍👍👍 10/10

Absolutely glorious. It's so gritty and brutal. So many shots were just perfectly executed. I love the tiny detaillike the weapon popping up on the Spartans back and then grabbing it, like we've seen in other cutscsnes. I love the camera shake. I love the brutes genuinely feeling scary. I love the practical effects. I'm blown away! This was amazing, well done as always Badlaxe!!!

Great stuff as usual. You have to have a lot of patience to go through with all of those camera movements. I especially enjoyed the sound design in this one, everything felt smooth and realistic. Also, love the little details like the spartan boost to dodge as well as how animated you made the brute, he really felt like a well thought out villain. Awesome stuff man.

Can we take a moment to mention the amazing voice acting that tied this whole bundle of brilliant animation and effects into a studio level short film!? The sound design alone was already next level, but combined with stunning animation and HAND DRAWN blood effects all in one package…incredible work This is the Halo community at it’s best👏👏👏

wow... this has some of the best, most expressive figure movements i've seen in a long time. Like dude... the mg shells, the elite's sidestep, the br moving up as its being picked from the spartans back, the ENTIRETY of the brute fight. This is truly something special. Amazing work.

This was just so expertly crafted! The amount of experimentation used here was very impressive! From sound design, sets, lighting, Camara shake, colour etc... you’ve really managed to change your style which is very refreshing! The practical effects (cotton, plastic, paper etc...) were just so well done and in combination with the solid vfx (blood/shields/masking etc...) it created a great atmosphere. The use of various unique non halo sounds also added to the sound design (ex: terminator Sfx/ other Sfx). Overall the use of angles, Camara movement, set, lighting, sound design and just the sheer fluidity of the animation really added to making this so entertaining. May I also add this served as a good stop motion extension to the Halo 3 ODST live action commercial! Awesome work man!

Oh my god. *Actually* one of the best stop motions I’ve ever seen. The camera work and set and just EVERYTHING was so well done. At 3:55 this fight scene looks so REAL and just badass. Definitely one of my favorite stop motions ever and anyone who says this isn’t good is braindead

A brute ripped a guy's arm off and proceeded to eat it WHILE the marine was injured. I've always been such a fan of how realistic your take on war is and how brutal it is. I've been following your animations for some time now, and I'd just like to say, that you're my favorite animator I've ever seen. You have such a raw process, and it is awesome to see how far you've come. Keep up the good work!

Wooooooooooooooooooahhhhh! You sure know how to motivate me to animate.The fact that you did so much camera shake and still managed to make the action clear is phenomenal and the the hand to hand stuff with the chieftain was so impactful,reminds me of your capture the flag video, the green screening was pretty clean as well,so glad that you’re back.

This gotta be one of my favorite animations cause everything about it is great

Man this was awesome , the animation is so smooth and great to watch, the only thing I personally didn’t like was the camera shake , it felt a bit to extreme but overall it’s amazing

Had to watch this like 10 more times at .5x speed just to grasp the insane amount of detail in this. Wow, my friend really well done, I can see the passion that went into this amazing work of art. 🙌

This should win some kind of award. This is like the Zack Synder of Stop Motion entertainment 💯

Yooooo!!! Holly shit! I wasn’t ready for such an amazing animated hand to hand combat with a chieftain! This was really well done! Beautiful work dude! Keep it up!

Dude that was spectacular! I loved the dialogue, action and the gore was used amazingly! I think there was a bit too much screen shake at the start, but this was amazing at showing the brutality of the brutes and war in general! Great video and keep up the amazing work!

This. This is how brutes should be animated. I'm impressed! I don't usually watch your content but rapid suggested I watch this, and boy am I glad I did! Keep up the great work!

You’re an actual inspiration man, can always learn so much from your animations, you fight choreography never ceases to amaze me and I can imagine how tedious it was to animate everything with shaky cam. Amazing work.

That shaky cam was a chefs kiss

This was absolutely phenomenal!!! Definitely one of the coolest stop Motions I've seen in a while! Just subbed🔥🔥

This is genuinely one of the most coolest things I have ever seen in my entire life

dude..........THIS WAS AWSOME!! I love the part when the brute rips off the marines arm and starts eating it!

Bro this was great. It was WAAAAAAYY better than the entire "THE HALO" TV show. It was well animated with the stop motion and it felt gritty. The similarities with the camera were greatly inspired by the HALO Landfall, well done 😁👍 and I can't wait to see what you make next.

Wow this is literally the best stop motion video for halo I've ever seen, the effects and camera movements were superb

Ok a few things, 1 this is the most amazing mega books video I have ever seen! 2 the fluidity and quality of this is incredible! 3 this shows how badass spartans are, they aren't your average soldier. they are given the best training in all aspects from guns to hand to hand, and 4 you are the most talented stop motion animator I have ever seen.

Find myself returning to this animation every once in a while just for reference on fights, have to say this is probably my favorite work of yours.

One of the best if not the best and most brutal stop motion I have ever seen about Halo MConstrux, good job and subbed

Due the cinematography blew me away. It was like a Michal Bay movie (the good parts) with frantic scream shaking that pulls you towards the action. The body language, attitude, weight, and speed of all of the characters was amazing. Spartans were heavy and powerful (like the Spartan lifting his friend back up) but agile in a fight against the monstrous brutes. Just amazing man.

I love it how you made the brute BITE the Marines arm clean of!!

I love a megabloks animation that uses vehicles. That’s always a good time. I love the sound design and camerawork as well, it feels like a proper war zone. Also that ending fist fight was god tier.

Amazing work! You really captured how chaotic and stressful this situation would be with the crazy camera covenants and such! Absolutely incredible!

The extremely minimal dialogue made this piece so much more thrilling

One of the greatest stopmotion videos ive ever seen- KEEP IT UP. THAT WAS AWSOME. I DID NOT WANT IT TO END. PLZ KEEP DOING MORE!!!!

Holy moly! The non stop action! The choreography between the Spartan and the brute! The shaky cams! The black and white live feed like from the Halo 3 live action trailer! I loved every second of this stop motion!

Pretty baller animation, there’s so many small details and effects that all add up to make the project an amazing watch, good stuff👍

That fight between the spartan and the brute was the best fight animation from mega blocks I had ever seen

That hand-to-hand combat with the brute was so clean!!

Probably the greatest work I’ve ever seen put into a film made with mega construx figures I really love how you see the marines a lot more than a normal halo stop motion would show and the voice acting is great more dialogue is always good and the action was amazing the fight with the brute chieftain was crazy great stuff! 👍

DUDE THIS IS THE BEST STOP MOTION IVE EVER SEEN, WORDS CANT EVEN DESCRIBE HOW GOOD THIS IS. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Brilliant! The shaky camera worked very well with the flashy, quick paced style you went for here. Very Halo Landfall and Remember Reach trailer esque.

Dude the brutality of the animation is so good and it’s made kinda funny with the look of mega blocks really good keep it up

So glad this popped up this was crazy! The fight choreography and anything and everything the brutes did was sick dude incredible job!

Hella underated!! This was incredible, the audio, the action, had me on the edge of my chair, and that brute swinging the hammer...wow...it's too good bro

This is perfect!👌👌👌 One of the best animations ive seen and one of the ones that I rewatch the most! I love how untamed the brutes are, and how the banished is a much more significant threat than how theyre shown in the game. Great job!

Such a badass stop motion, my favorite part was the brute pounding its chest cause that made the brutes more realistic plus they were more durable and animal like. 4:53

That was amazing! Incredible camera angles, so good. Even better than some of those big budget movies out there, lol. Very very well done!

Never seen stop motion in shaking camera before. Very good positioning to be able to pull that of with consistency. Really nice work.

Your videos are always worth the wait. They are so much fun to watch, from start to finish. Everything is done phenomenally, and I especially loved the fight between the brute and the spartan at the end. I love how you over exaggerate movements and really sell the impacts. Fantastic stuff man

The camera wobble is a little weird but it's still amazing you even pulled it off with out it looking like garbage nice work my dude This is what the halo tv series should have been

Great job honestly, I loved all of it. Really fantastic job. I've never seen a stop motion be this smooth

This is so overwhelmingly awesome! It was so smooth and all that, I love it so much. Keep up the good work dude! 👍

I absoluteley love the fact that this has the same feel to it as Halo Landfall. Great work!

That was the dopest thing ive ever seen. I loved the grapple moves the most, and how it felt like a real war.

BRO THIS ANIMATION IS AMAZING!!! Im actually really impressed that u can do this type of stuff on your own, love your work hopefully you keep doing this.

damn, this was amazing. I think near-perfect. and I dont say that likely. usually really good animation like this compromises with Halo lore, shields and how equipment works, sfx and stuff. a big thing I see is shields tend to get removed in order for animation and story to take the front seat, which is completely understandable. but this had everything, it was very real. it felt very Halo, yet very realistic, it had that gritty vibe where the camera quality isn't perfect, but a grainy softness to it that I personally get along with a lot more. I love this. I'd say this is definitely one of if not my definitive new favourite stop motion animations, and I really don't say that lightly. with Mootroid's latest project, it was fucking brilliant and quite over the top spectacular, with the Planet Qutari series, the story was a massive reason it did so well, you knew what you were doing and wanted to do and you executed it well. the combat at times was a little disconnected as it was shots of the enemy shooting and shots of the soldiers shooting, and that's at its worst which is still a bar that surpasses so much of what I've seen. but this is very much different, people just blowing up and dying out of nowhere in almost jumpscares, where you don't know whether you're about to follow these soldiers into battle or just watch them get blown apart or slaughtered. they're mini-stories of their own and really engaging for a war setting. the hammer fight felt like a spiritual successor to the heretic and the ODSTs vs the chieftain in the Qutari finale in every way that a sequel should be - an expansion, an improvement, different yet doesn't throw dirt on the original. the choreography was interesting and brilliant to watch, it showed how much you've improved and how much you strive to continue to, lord knows how much of a god you'll be by the end of this story, whenever that'll be. there's not much more I can say, I get so deep into these points that I forget everything else and just want to praise over and over. very very good, 4 months more than worth the wait, feeling so spoilt with this stuff.

Dude, this animation was WILD. Reminds me of the old star wars lego animations but 10x better tuned for halo! FANTASTIC JOB GOOD SIR

Bro I came across this video because I was bored and it had been a while since I last checked out some halo Mega Construx animation and HOLY SHI- bruh the beginning was amazing but when the Spartan and the brute were fighting AND THEY STARTED THROWING HANDS OMG I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A FLIPPIN MOVIE. This was amazingly done with care, detail, and precision. This was beautiful animation. Keep up the amazing and I MEAN amazing work.

personally i never get tired of watching your videoes in this one i love how you give the battle rifle a full auto function......something not done in games but it was done in that live action halo short film halo landfall ^^

Honestly out of all this I really like the part at 4:53 where the brute pounded his chest like a some gorilla or great ape. It really sold the primitive feel that brutes have.

Broooo!!! Wow!!! This stop motion,efects,movements, etc is very nice!!

This was just fantastic! It was like watching a remake of Landfall in mega construx! You've just earned a sub

Absolutely incredible! Those over the shoulder shots gave off huge Saving Private Ryan vibes

Camera 📷 movement on POINT! 👁 honestly don’t understand how you got most of these shots, but they are truly impressive

This was awesome! Please keep making more. The animation, camera work, abosutely incredible!

I see that grapple shot technique. The hook and wire was from the HG Gouf custom so now I can use that too sense I own that HG also really nice action packed stopmotion you did good sir. Keep up the great work man.

At 0:58 the Skewer was perfect!

this was clean the fight scene with the spartan and the brute pure gold its was amazing

Wow, this is probably the best stop motion ever made

Dude the fight between the spartan and the brute is literally so sick

Bloody amazing stuff. Great animation and sound work, actually loving the shaky camera here and it's so visceral. Blood and despair, more like a WW2 recounting and less fantasy space-fight.

Yeah...that camera shake makes it realistic and brutal. Nice work.

The scene where Ava is boxing the Brute was so entertaining keep it up this stuff is amazing 👍🏻

Man this stop-motion is insane. amazing job with everything!

This was so crazy! I loved how involved I was. It was like I was watching a game cutscenes! Very intense scenes

Love the use of CoD accessories to make the Spartans look more grounded and battle hardened.

I haven't watched stop motion in forever and man was this amazing brings back so many memories and it is so beautifully well done. Better quality than some live action films lol

Your back!!!! Edit: Just finished watching and man was that so awesome love the Spartan fight with the brute. Great work as always here man😎👊

Bro this is incredible. When I saw it I didn't see your name so my only thought was "this guy makes Badlaxe look like and amateur." This is so good mate

Great stuff as always, I love how you animate your hand to hand fight scenes they’re incredible. Plus the overall story telling is amazing with the limited dialogue there is.

Absolutely insane man. You captured the movement and feel of the brutes perfectly. You really knocked it out of the park with the way you used shields in the combat. Also the camera work isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen before.

this is the best Halo Mega Bloks Animation ever! it looks like its from the books.

This video was absolutely fantastic!!! The camera work was great, and the atmosphere really felt like this was a warzone. I loved how you portrayed the Brutes in this, you can really get a feel for their strength and weight by looking at their movements and hearing their loud footsteps. This was a freaking 10/10 !!

Wow Badlaxe this was freaking amazing I loved everything about. I am so shocked that you were able to keep the camera shake at a constant pace to where the viewer can still visually see what's taking place so Bravo to you on that. The gore was fantastic, really showed the gruesomeness of the banished forces as well as the voice acting to make the audience really have a feeling towards the elites. The movements were clear and smooth, the emotions of Spartan Ava were executed perfectly with our having to hear her say a word. The music choices are amazing, Drawing effects definitely showed the time and care you put into them, and lastly the sound effects were great touches as well. Oh the last thing was the set it's self I loved the bunker shots. Such a great addition to your short film. Amazing job Badlaxe for this stellar video and I also thank you for allowing me to voice act I do appreciate it.

What a blast!!!! Even on my knees I do not belong in your presence. The Guerrilla style, the “found footage” from the vehicles and helmets & when the Spartan stood up between the hammer and the marine… the rocks and slow mo’ just wow

Thanks for defending my discord server. You're a true chad for that.

This was absolutely incredible. This felt so gritty and real, and then we come across one of the best stop motion fights I have EVER seen. Hands down, 10/10.

Man I loved the constant camera movement you used, and I don’t say love often

I like how you made the banished brutes smart and cunning

that, was the most beautiful Halo stop motion, I have ever seen

This was so well done really loved the realistic movements, gore and action

After seeing this again. You have gotten me back into collecting these figures. Can't wait to see what else you make and thanks for the great video. Keep it up!

Amazing Unique for a stop motion with the hand-held style. Blomkamp would adore this