Battle Of Salamis 480 BC (3D Animated Documentary) Greco-Persian wars
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- The fate of Greek civilization hangs in the balance.
King Xerxes is only one battle away from total domination of the Greek mainland.
The Greek coalition converged on the small Island of Salamis, will either have to face the might of the imperial navy or disperse...
A cunning Athenian general with a strong vision will ultimately bring things to a head...
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Guys, I need your help.
The channel's subscriber base and especially my views are extremely low, in my opinion.
For some unidentified reason, HEB seems to be within an algorithmic "limbo" that makes the videos invisible not only to a wider audience but to the channel's own audience.
On average, only a third of the channel's current subscribers are watching the latest videos, and I really can't understand why.
Commenting, liking and especially sharing the video will help immensely not only the continuation of this channel but its further improvement.
So, I kindly request you to help me in this quest of expanding HEB's audience.
Thank you very much for sticking around and for listening.
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Feedback. Quality of narration is just as important as graphics.
"Make more!"
Beautiful work, as usual!
That's high praise, especially coming from K&G!
Thank you so much!
Can you do a video about Chris Chan?
didn't expect you to be here
Great video, I love all graphics. A few suggestions to improve:
- Show a larger overall map at start to show where locations are compared to the whole Greek world. Helps comprehends it all.
- A little background info on the war, quick catch up on previous battles, where the war stands at this moment.
- Explain the demographics of who's involved, Ionians, Dorian, Danaans, Macedonians etc.?
Your style is great and unique to all the other channels, but be great not to neglect the other crucial parts to a good battle video, a nice map, a little background info, who's involved, the purpose of the war etc. explaining it all. Just my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback, and the great suggestions!
Adding a little background info on the war for each video is certainly good for "standalone" videos, but this series is episodic, so to get the whole picture of the conflict you will probably have to watch the videos from the beginning.
For newcomers, the "standalone" format is pretty useful, but I went with the "series" format, which is a different "philosophy" when compared to a self-completing video.
I think I should create a playlist of the series, in chronological order.
@@hocestbellumchannel fair enough. In that case I would suggest you add something in the video name to let the audience know it is part of a series (ie "greco-Persian wars part x: battle of salamis"). Many of us are used to K&G style of a 10-15min preface before the battle, but your style works just as well if people know what to expect. The down side might be though that people will try to wait for the entire series to come out before watching it... it's what I did with the Ionian revolts :)
I agree!
Imagine what would have been going through the mind of Xerxes when he was witnessing a massacre of his fleet by the hands of 4 times less numerous Greeks, especially the Athenians whose city he sacked few days earlier. Imagine the helplessness and frustration of the King of Kings of the mightiest empire on earth.
Not to mention your so called "brave" Athenian got yeeted in the battle of artemisium
@@sorenathegreat lol, who won the war?
The camera movements are smoother and more concentrated, clearly you have put a lot of effort and it shows.
Amazing work! As always HEB
Thank you KHK!
Another wonderful video! I'm glad you take the time to describe the state of politics before the battle starts. The context makes it so much more intriguing!
Great depiction, always love your 3D work
Yesssss this just made my day!
This saved my Greco-Persian module many thanks
Absolute class. Good job
We missed your videos man. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you very much and welcome!
@@hocestbellumchannel I second that, being a Greek and a history lover
I JUST GOT BACK FROM ATHENS AND SAW WHERE THIS BATTLE HAPPENED SO GREAT TO SEE THIS VIDEO. WELL DONE!
Beautifuly covered!
Can't wait for the battle of Plataea
Great job once again and props again to my friend the faceless narrator
Hoc uploads, I watch.
Love this video style so much! Thanks again HEB.
Thank you for the wonderful feedback!
Thank you for making this series. Great video.
Thank's for sticking around!
History marche sent me your way. I have done quite a few searches and haven’t had your videos pop up. Quality work, and I just found a lot of new material!
Thank you very much!
Yeap, it seems that CZcams's algorithm isn't very fond of my channel...
I don't know why but hopefully, this will change.
Great, the way you talk or speak about this battle. Smooth. Clear and the background music.
Great content posted, visual also!
thanks Hoc Est Bellum!
Hey Dan, it's always great to see you around!
Thank you very much for watching!
@@hocestbellumchannel Greek tales from the past are always beautiful to listen and watch, they indeed made many heroic battles , being few against a large army of persians...they don't give up
The views of these great videos can definitely be discouraging, this is sad considering the creator is one of the best animator for history content on CZcams.
Thank you very much for your kind words!
To be honest, it is a bit discouraging to work so much on a video and only get 4k views max.
It is a bit baffling to me, but I do hope that it is an algorithmic fluke of some short, and I will soon get a bit more views for the videos I'm making.
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The animation of Themistocles arguing is really well done but the Spartan commander just looked dead inside. My suggestion would've been to make him look like he's pondering or something similar. Although I criticize you on this the animations as a whole are really well done!
That's a detail that actually bothered me somewhat. I could not find any proper usable animation for that, so I would have to create it from scratch, which would have been really time-consuming, so I went with this "idle' expressionless animation.
The thing is, IF my channel grows appropriately because right now both my views and my subscriber base is really small, this will increase my budget, and with an increased budget, I can then invest in a few gadgets that will allow me to create detailed facial motion captures and maybe even custom animations for whatever instance-situation I need.
clearly a great deal of work has gone into this, well done keep it up
Btw just a very obscure suggestion I would love to give. The narrator makes lip smacking noise after some dialogues, which actually isn't really noticible but can be annoying. Good job nonetheless again
Thanks for the feedback Dhumal.
We'll keep that in mind!
In the heart of the action...truly superb! 👍👍
amazing video, extremely informative, the animation has improved triemndously
Aaaaa one of my favorite collab back at it again~
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
I haven’t been able to watch this video until now because I’ve been away, but I’m still commenting for the algorithm because more people need to see these awesome videos.
Your works are surely underrated and deserve more of us history geeks to know this channel.
I am pretty sure soon you will be blessed by youtube’s algorithm!
Keep on the great work!
Always looking for more of your works!
Love your videos and channel HEB, indeed too few views for such a great video, do not despair, I am sure views will come, keep up the great work and thank you!
Ι really hope so!
Thank you very much for the support and encouragement!
Great video about a pivotal battle.
really great 3D animations.
Cool stuff , very well done
Awesome, you just keep improving 👍
Wow ! Amazing video !
Great work. You're one of the few channels that I have notifications turned on. Cheers.
Fantastic! This is as good as it gets!
Very Good Thanks
Thank you for watching!
this is why i think you needed more videos[as we talked about before]....i think the algorithm for many starts to ignore channels with low uploads in preference for regular content....maybe have some more content [small and often] to keep the viewers in touch , with a large better quality video every month ? :)
Smaller and more frequent videos is a "maybe".
But bear in mind that this larger and better quality video every month, literally consumes my entire month to make it...
So, my best bet is to increase somehow my productivity, which is not going to get significantly better, because then I would need more hours within a day!
In any case, your feedback is really helpful, and I indeed think of making more and smaller videos.
I'll probably test this after the next big video.
Awesome job! Great video.
Thank you, MB!
I like your videos a lot!
@@hocestbellumchannel Hey thanks! I especially admire your 3D animations a lot. I can tell a lot of hard work goes into them. You have very original, informative, and entertaining content.
Finally! Another great vid
I live near mount Aigaleon where Xerxes watched the naval battle.... Also l visit Salamis island quiet often to visit family there, takes 10 minutes by ferry boat from Attica to Salamis called Salamina in Greek. I always think of this battle when l'm on the boat actually most Greeks do. Psitalia is a very small islet now a sewage plant system that cleans the sewage from the whole Athens vicinity.
The 3D animation is nice!!
Great video!
Maan i soo love the athenian armour& shields here in these stories.. i wished someone would done a mod to Rome2 as they re here❤
What i like is roman legionaries all same armour& shields❤
Thank you very much 💪
Thank you for watching!
Always good to hear from this channel, very informative and well done.
Amazing work!!!
Τhanks Kingsun!
Sooooo goooooood!
Very nice! Very nice 👍
I am long awaited for this. thank you for this amazing content brother. You deserve more subscriber. Despite this you are the best youtuber.
Thank you so much, Subham!
I really hope that the channel will grow a bit, soon. But nonetheless, I'll try to live up to your high praise.
@@hocestbellumchannel
Brother I am always with you
Great work
Thank you so much 😀
Huzzah! Time to hack the algos!
It was a bit difficult to make out the sides when the camera was zoomed all the way out.
Truth be told.
Unless I paint the two sides the only thing that separated the two sides was the type- shape of the ship.
Amazing video
Love your videos!
So glad!
Outstanding video!
I bet it's not often that a spy is sent to tell the enemy the truth.
That's so true.
But I think that Xerxe's judgement was influenced by previous Greek-traitor informants. Like Ephialtes for eg.
Excellent! I wish I could narrate for you!
If you are interested, contact me via my e-mail.
@@hocestbellumchannel Where can I find your email?
@@edhage727 It's Caesar1769@mail.com
It says that enki/posiedon/samyaza the diety of sea help the Greeks won the war.
After the battle of salamis the Greeks made a temple of posiedon/enki at the cape of sounion.
Fantastic work! Probably the best animated battle I've ever seen.
My only issues are:
1. The narrator making lip smacking noises at the end of a sentence.
2. It's difficult to tell the ships apart. Perhaps flags mounted on top, purple for the Persians, blue for the Greeks? Otherwise you've got to look closely to tell the difference.
3. Please show which ships belong to which contingent by highlighting when mentioned.
4. Give numbers and names in letters(No need to go 3D, just insert text to the video). Otherwise it gets slightly confusing, especially ship numbers and the different greeks.
Otherwise, unbelievably good! Keep it up!
Thank you very much for your detailed feedback!
I was actually considering making a poll for this exact reason, I was wondering if introducing 2d callouts with Numbers and highlighting formations would have been useful for the audience.
It adds a bit more work to the overall outcome but nothing that's not manageable.
I'll certainly test this for the upcoming videos and see if the final product looks nice with 2d layers on top .
"Make more!"
Nice.
What 3D software do you use? Great work by the way.
😲👍 wow video 👏
Very well done. But there's a glaring issue. The narrative and visualization don't explain why Persian losses were 10:1. Individual ship to ship battles have a problem - it takes time to subdue a ship by boarding. To lose 400 ships in say 10 hours - you have to knock out 40 ships an hour on average - which means that the Persian ships would have to have crumbled under attack. I think there's a deeper explanation in Greek technology (bronze rams that worked to puncture Persian vessels more effectively thereby reducing the need to board vessels) and Greek tactics. Video does a good job of showing some of the tactics but we probably need to realize that Persians with their 3-deep formation may have packed the strait too tightly to maneuver. This would allow Greeks to ram, retreat, shift target and repeat while the Persian front line couldn't rearrange itself. I'm not sure this explains why the Persian 2nd and 3rd lines took such heavy damages. Perhaps the authors could comment.
Do you have a good narrators voice.. nicely done video
For the Algorithm, Molon Labe
The graphics are amazing!! But the voice of the narrator is very off
HERODOTOS MENTIONS AEGINITANS IN THE CLOSING PHASE OF THE BATTLE WHO WERE BLOCKING THE PERSIAN RETREAT. HE SAYS THAT WHILE DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE BATTLE ATHENIAN NAVY FOUGHT THE BEST IN THE CLOSING PHASE IT WAS THE AEGINITANS.
Great video, what animation or game do you take your graphics from?
Comment for the youtube God!
Whats up
Sweet momma Hera!
Tus vídeos están muy bien, y si tan sólo pusieras subtítulos en castellano, doblarías tus visionados, como poco. Ánimo y no lo dejes, haces muy buen trabajo.
The realism is just as good if not better than rome 2 total war lmao
Make an animation about battle of artemisium
👍
Any plans for plataea
Yes, definitely.
Plataea will probably be the next video.
@@hocestbellumchannel any of your collaborators have any videos on the peloponessian wars
@@jasondoherty7497 My only collaborator is TFN, who is doing the narration.
He has a channel that talks about a variety of niche or more obscure historical personalities and events.
czcams.com/channels/xvtqYXRQZsJhemiy8d7E5A.html
Good content but lackluster voice by the narrator. Narration lacks energy. Need to fix that. Anyway all the best 👍
This is beautiful, the 3D animation is so impressive and unique; however, I don’t want to offend your narrator, but I think he’s just not fit for this kind of content. He talks like he’s reading a book, but I think you’ll need someone like Kings and Generals/History Marche/Historia Civilis narrator to make the video easier and more intriguing to watch. His voice is too flat, and many names are hard to understand because of his pronunciation
Deck devastation virus!
Narration is rushed; the heavy Aussi accent is, in some instances, impossible to understand. The icons representing the ships are all the same shape, size and color, making identification of the opposing forces unnecessarily difficult.
There are no Icons, though.
The ship design is different, but it is indeed difficult to discern them from a distance.
The reason for these compromises is the extreme workload that a video like that entails for a single creator and, of course, the amount of experimentation and knowledge I could acquire while pioneering this video style.
@@hocestbellumchannel I think different colors would solve the ship identification problem, no?
@@manchuscout4545 Technically, the Persian ships are coloured and differently shaped than the Greek ships.
This is visible in the thumbnail.
ok we get it. The announcer did not want to do the commentating this video, and it sounds like it. this is the most boring and insipid narration I have heard in a while. Great subject, poor presentation.
So, you didn't like the narration, the animations, the graphics, the directing, or all at once?
Great video but this narration is awful. This guys voice makes me feel weird. I don't like him at all.
Feels like he has phlegm or is sick or has doubled the voice or done some weird filter, it's very wrong.
Soo wrong
Ruins the whole video. Completely unwatchable with this guy talking
This voice is making me sick, I can't finish this video.
Weird filter or something going on.
Lol damn... just a regurgitation of wikipedia huh? Not even a mention of Artemisia? 🙄
If you consider Herodotus as a "regurgitation of Wikipedia",...
There were some details that I decided to leave outside the narrative.
Artemisia did not add anything other than "colour", and her inclusion would have complicated the already complex production process.
@@hocestbellumchannel your retort is a logical fallacy? 😂 you missed the point
@@-VOR Logical fallacy?
I wasn't trying to retort, though.
Great video!