The Martian Invasion of Surrey - Ch 5: In London

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  • čas přidán 16. 05. 2023
  • Chapter 5 of my ongoing serialisation of H G Wells's novel War of the Worlds sees the narrative switch to London where the seriousness of the Martian invasion is beginning to dawn on the population. The narrator's brother is eager for news and travels across town to Waterloo intending to catch a train to Woking, only to discover that Woking has been destroyed along with other Surrey towns. Londoners are woken early on the Monday morning with the terrifying news that the Martians are advancing on London and using poisonous gas "The Black Smoke"
    In this chapter, I have tried to re-create what central London would have looked like in Victorian times. Serious traffic congestion in our cities is not a new phenomenon - just look on-line at old film footage from the era.
    This animated series is made using Lightwave 2020, FCPX, Affinity Photo, Metashape, Makehuman, Logic Pro & Mixamo (for the MOCAP animation), and now software from D-ID.com (for mouth animation)
    My apologies for the delay getting this chapter out there. There is a lot of animation here and I have also been otherwise engaged filming a family of Tawny Owls (which will eventually appear on CZcams)
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Komentáře • 108

  • @sidibill
    @sidibill Před rokem +30

    Every moment of each chapter is wonderful. I was really happy to see another one posted. Keep going. The best version of the book so far. Thanks

  • @reddalek555
    @reddalek555 Před rokem +20

    As always, excellent work. Every episode is well worth the wait! You amaze me with your attention to detail and atmosphere, the passion and dedication to this kind of a project is inspirational.
    Thank you for producing these, you're doing a great rare service to fans of War of the Worlds out there.
    Looking eagerly forward to the next!
    Interested to see that footage of Tawny Owls too!

  • @therobloxplayer5556
    @therobloxplayer5556 Před 9 měsíci +5

    i hope we see some of the more obscure correa moment like my favorite where it shows a tripod trying to rip off a railroad from the ground and it looks like its really putting its back into it

  • @davidmccann9811
    @davidmccann9811 Před rokem +5

    Another outstanding episode. 👍 So impressed that you used the correct London locations and even showed him following the correct route from Charing Cross ro Waterloo Station, via the Strand. 👍👍👍

  • @MervynPartin
    @MervynPartin Před rokem +3

    Just finished a binge watch of Chapters 1 to 5. Absolutely riveting. Looking forward to the next chapters. HG Wells would be proud of your production.

  • @oyundurag1915
    @oyundurag1915 Před 10 měsíci +2

    You do this better than big companies

  • @robertbray8850
    @robertbray8850 Před rokem +3

    Been waiting ages for this and the wait was well worth the while. Brilliant stuff as usual. Can't wait for episode 6!

  • @themissapproject
    @themissapproject Před rokem +2

    Well worth the wait,can see why it takes so long but don’t rush them.thank you for your hard work I am really enjoying them and telling all my friends to watch as well.

  • @nitricoxide5899
    @nitricoxide5899 Před rokem +1

    As always, well worth the wait for these.
    I haven't even watched the thing yet I know with your work, it's going to be fantastic.

  • @MattVF
    @MattVF Před rokem

    Brilliant as always! Been eagerly waiting for the new episode!

  • @georgehopkins2069
    @georgehopkins2069 Před rokem +2

    How very excellent indeed. Thank-you for another extremely well done installment. You follow the book particularly closely, and I agree with and understand the elements you've left out to move the story along. The background detail is astounding, as is that of the NPCs. Thank-you again - can't wait for Chapter 6.

  • @chitlika
    @chitlika Před rokem +2

    The adventures of the journalists brother is a large part of Wells book and completely ignored by all the films Thank you for covering it in your excellent
    series I eagerly await every new episode

  • @KillenOlsson
    @KillenOlsson Před rokem

    Always great to see a new update from this series

  • @tomcooley9782
    @tomcooley9782 Před 10 měsíci

    I have been enjoying all of these so far. Can't wait to see more!

  • @DictatorTreacle
    @DictatorTreacle Před 23 dny

    these are absolutely incredible, thank you so much for making them, it's really wonderful to see what I had imagined when reading the book!

  • @someoneorsomething7591
    @someoneorsomething7591 Před 11 měsíci

    Freaking incredible! Keep up the awesome work! It’s just amazing!

  • @ivanelias3916
    @ivanelias3916 Před rokem

    i am really glad to see you back :D

  • @williamconnors1510
    @williamconnors1510 Před rokem +1

    Thanks for your talent and hard work!

  • @tomflynn2912
    @tomflynn2912 Před rokem

    Thank you for another chapter!

  • @philthycat1408
    @philthycat1408 Před rokem

    Can’t wait . Keep up the great work. Best ever 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @montylc2001
    @montylc2001 Před rokem

    Excellent work. Please do not stop.

  • @exileinderby51
    @exileinderby51 Před rokem +1

    Brilliant, just brilliant. As a fan of War of the Worlds, i think that this is the best version I have seen,

  • @ludo9234
    @ludo9234 Před rokem

    So looking forward to a new episode. And not disappointed.

  • @Kashi-K
    @Kashi-K Před rokem +3

    i can see why it took this long for Chapter 5 to come out
    the god damn CROWDS

    • @estoniandude
      @estoniandude Před rokem

      tbh he can just make the crowd simulated, look at how well the buildings are made

  • @Kreanke
    @Kreanke Před rokem +2

    YES YES YES YES THE LEGEND POSTED

  • @MateusTheMartian
    @MateusTheMartian Před rokem +29

    OMG YOUR NOT DEAD1!1!1!

  • @BobbyCoggins
    @BobbyCoggins Před rokem +1

    YAAY!!! I love these!!!

  • @mrpreppy72288
    @mrpreppy72288 Před rokem

    The animation is amazing my god

  • @emmanuelmathews1718
    @emmanuelmathews1718 Před rokem

    Immediate like. I love this series

  • @Godzilla_1.0
    @Godzilla_1.0 Před rokem

    OMG I BEEN WAITING

    • @YT_2558
      @YT_2558 Před rokem

      I have been waiting for you 😏

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Před rokem

    At last ❤ wonderful !! More !!!

  • @J-dogd
    @J-dogd Před rokem +1

    So u take 5 to 6 months to make these perfect to know mate keep up the work

  • @davidmccann9811
    @davidmccann9811 Před rokem +1

    The drunk crossing the road to the left at 5:53. 😂😂 Had a few of those nights in my youth.

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +5

      Funny you should say that. That pub, in Chalk Farm, was one that I and my friends would occasionally visit in our University days (during the '60s), which is why I included it. It is also very near to Regent's Park, where the main character lived. The drunk could have been any one of us!

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 Před rokem

    I love these. A few years back I read WOtW again for the Nth time and that time had Google Maps to follow along with all the locations mentioned in the book, which are all real.

  • @maquinadeobservar
    @maquinadeobservar Před rokem +1

    AMAZING

  • @lKES1898
    @lKES1898 Před rokem

    I love these

  • @bryanevans350
    @bryanevans350 Před rokem

    Brilliant thanks

  • @tomdelvetto9906
    @tomdelvetto9906 Před rokem +4

    I thought this project was dead! (Also first)

  • @Axgoodofdunemaul
    @Axgoodofdunemaul Před rokem

    How did you ever do this??? It's fantastic!

  • @ginovella7295
    @ginovella7295 Před rokem

    Those fighting machines look so authentic !

  • @stephencampbell9384
    @stephencampbell9384 Před rokem

    The following statements are both true.
    1. There are a number of things that really get my goat, not least the sanitised heat ray going pew pew.
    2. This, hands down, no question, the best version ever made.
    I cannot WAIT to see the stampede, the torpedo ram and Sunday night in the Thames Valley.
    SUPERB.

  • @diskgrinder
    @diskgrinder Před rokem

    Brilliant

  • @CliffordRutley
    @CliffordRutley Před rokem +2

    They should put this on at The Grand Cinema at the Beamish Museum.

  • @RiceFarmerMartian
    @RiceFarmerMartian Před rokem +1

    Cool!

  • @bonitahogue5938
    @bonitahogue5938 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great animation, and why is it so hard to find these videos on Yutube

  • @Mel0dyMusic
    @Mel0dyMusic Před 11 měsíci

    Chapter 6 now I can’t wait

  • @penumbragaming5072
    @penumbragaming5072 Před 2 měsíci

    This is the type of thing i would see on MTV.

  • @paulhammersley4562
    @paulhammersley4562 Před rokem

    sterling stuff,

  • @MattVF
    @MattVF Před rokem +1

    When’s the next one! Getting withdrawal symptoms!

  • @dj_1828
    @dj_1828 Před rokem

    LET'S GO

  • @mizzjanice23
    @mizzjanice23 Před rokem +2

    Can you include the flying machine and the handling machine?

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +2

      Hi, thanks for your interest. Yes, those machines will appear in the appropriate chapters in due course. They will be based on Correa's illustrations, of course.

  • @nursantiasimbolon
    @nursantiasimbolon Před rokem

    I' m waiting for chapter 6

  • @lozzauk
    @lozzauk Před rokem +1

    Part 6 👀 ☺️🛸

  • @LauTartaros
    @LauTartaros Před rokem +1

    Idea for next vids
    Like in some of Warwick's illustrations, have the render/animation/image have a text in somewhere of the screen wich is the part of the book its based

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +3

      Thanks for your interest in my project and your suggestions. I am following the book chapter by chapter, including as many of the "set pieces" as my animation skills will allow. I am not sure adding text will achieve anything as anyone with a copy of WOTW can follow the narrative.

    • @LauTartaros
      @LauTartaros Před rokem +1

      @@kevinmccullen1 no problem
      This project is amazing and could be the best adaptation of wells classic story
      *I WISH YOU ALL MY LUCK*

  • @DougguoD
    @DougguoD Před rokem +1

    2:51 London seems to be experiencing a remarkable lack of women 👀

  • @siwatchphanratisra2408
    @siwatchphanratisra2408 Před 9 měsíci +1

    So sad i am late

  • @Split860
    @Split860 Před rokem

    Look big Ben.

  • @gamerpaulakatheDoomSlayer
    @gamerpaulakatheDoomSlayer Před 10 měsíci

    SO... are the protagonist and the protags bro gonna have different music?

  • @frenchmapping8178
    @frenchmapping8178 Před rokem +1

    Where is the music from

  • @whiteknightcat
    @whiteknightcat Před 10 měsíci

    Why are we seeing what appear to be fluorescent light fixtures at 4:49 at a time when electricity wasn't even in use?

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před 9 měsíci

      Well spotted!!! Although electricity was in use back then and quite widespread.

  • @ichmalealsobinich
    @ichmalealsobinich Před rokem

    No motorcars and no autobus in London around 1904? I have other photographies of that time

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +1

      An early motor car (a Humber 1904 model) appears in Trafalgar Square and Regent's Park (in the last scene). Although motorised omnibuses were being developed and some were in use, the horse drawn buses were still, at that time, by far the most common. Certainly, archive film footage of London traffic shows only horse drawn buses with the very occasional motor car and these films are what I have based these scenes on. Thank you for your interest.

  • @C1idgeneral
    @C1idgeneral Před rokem

    Ah yes the Industrial Revolution

  • @J--cp9gi
    @J--cp9gi Před 6 měsíci +1

    what is this music 0:26

  • @Harvey_Pekar
    @Harvey_Pekar Před rokem

    We'll take the car, go to Mum's, kill Phil - "Sorry." - grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
    How's that for a slice of fried gold?

  • @paulbriggs3072
    @paulbriggs3072 Před rokem

    Superbly done but I think piano music of more dramatic quality by more sensitive in talented musicians would have been done better back in the day.

  • @axjagfilms
    @axjagfilms Před rokem +2

    Pod gang, please rise

  • @FoxWalter
    @FoxWalter Před 10 měsíci

    The humans need to find a way to fight back they know a weakness to the martians are the artillery cannons so they need to use those more but there aim is not that good so I don’t know how the humans are gonna fight back air strikes maybe I don’t know

  • @maricelgonzales1046
    @maricelgonzales1046 Před rokem

    its new

  • @graemekeable8461
    @graemekeable8461 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This is so amazing and I look forward to every installment. How many chapters do you expect there will be?

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před 9 měsíci

      I'm about half way through the book, although some of the later chapters may be condensed as they are a bit "wordy" - not good for a silent film. Next chapter has the Martians regaining the offensive and using the Black Smoke - will be finished in a couple of weeks I hope. After that will be the mass exodus from London and the "Thunderchild" encounter, which everyone seems to be waiting for. Thanks for your interest.

  • @benwalker7218
    @benwalker7218 Před rokem

    when will the chapter be out

    • @therobloxplayer5556
      @therobloxplayer5556 Před rokem

      the next one might be out in the next 3 months considering it took 5 monthed to post this one after the previous one

  • @AC-kb3uk
    @AC-kb3uk Před rokem

    what will be chapter 6

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +1

      Thanks for your interest. Chapter 6 will see the Narrator hooking up with a Curate, and the Martians deploying the "Black Smoke". Only just started it, so will be a few months away. It's only me producing this serialisation, and I do have other projects on the go!

  • @theaabello-gw6xv
    @theaabello-gw6xv Před rokem

    Soo the martian attack London that's called the great martian war

  • @user-fo7zf8lk6p
    @user-fo7zf8lk6p Před rokem

    6

  • @rgnogstar
    @rgnogstar Před rokem +1

    Wheres the tripods

    • @axjagfilms
      @axjagfilms Před rokem +1

      Not every chapter in the book had tripods

    • @rgnogstar
      @rgnogstar Před rokem

      ​@@axjagfilms what parts of the book have tripods in it

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +2

      @@rgnogstar This chapter sets the scene for what eventually happens off the coast of Essex, when the tripods engage with the "Thunderchild". The narrator's brother is fleeing London and will make his way eastwards and will get on a steamer heading to the Continent as the tripods close in.
      The next chapter, however, will return to the narrator currently unconscious on the banks of the Thames. The tripods are re-grouping after their set-back, but return with new tactics - the use of the "Black Smoke". My animation follows the book closely, so get hold of a copy or read it online and you will see in which chapters the tripods are active.

    • @rgnogstar
      @rgnogstar Před rokem

      @@kevinmccullen1 will chapter 6 come out with handling machines and the thunder child?

    • @kevinmccullen1
      @kevinmccullen1  Před rokem +2

      @@rgnogstar Chapter 6 will include the narrator falling in with a curate and witnessing the Martian Tripods using the Black Smoke and Heat Ray to overcome the artillery. Handling machines and Thunderchild come in future chapters

  • @paulie6446
    @paulie6446 Před rokem

    Nice surprise!👏had forgotten all about it, cheers✌️🪴🤘

  • @user-fo7zf8lk6p
    @user-fo7zf8lk6p Před 11 měsíci

    6