Thank you! I agree, there aren't enough high-quality pre-disaster animations out there. Don't worry, i've got some juicy ones on the way (involving Dr. Cross/Green) and the Hazard Course.
He's also shaved, compared to the normal HD Gordon (which is at the end of episode 2, which is about 5 to 6 days of him not shaving) (2 to 3 days from HL1, 2 to 3 days from HL2 to EP2)
I just watched part of an e1 playthrough where alyx mentioned this and the guy was like "I would love to see that" And it pops up into my recs. Good guy youtube.
I'm SO glad you made an animation of this. Really reminds me of Barney's monologue over the radio in Black Mesa. Well done! I love the little details you included like Gordon's ponytail and the fact that Kleiner held Gordon's coffee for him while he was in the vents. You manage to tell a story where you can just understand what the characters are saying without a word being spoken. Really amazing work! Definitely laughed at 1:17
More to come my friend! I've got some custom models in the works, we may well someday get a pre-disaster SFM of Azian Vance and toddler Alyx before/during the cascade >.>
oh my god, I happened to stumble on your animations and this especially is FANTASTIC! I pretty much never comment, but this I have to because of the quality. I adore the interactions so much (especially Barney and Gordon), but also how casual it is. they see like they seem like actual friends, plus Kleiner was just. golden as well. I also appreciate how you made Gordon seem actually athletic, but nothing super complicated that still kept with him being a scientist. I seriously adkre this version and the VHS one! the POV is also genius, besides making it so you don't have to use voice clips, but also tells the story in such a unique and fun way. you also have a talent with the acting for then as well, and it brought me a huge amount of joy. I'd love to gush more but it's late, but know I'll absolutely be coming back to watch this many more time as well as your other work! thank you for this absolutely LOVELY animation.
I appreciate the outpouring man... I’m the same way. I generally don’t comment on UA-cam because I know it’ll never get seen or make any difference. That’s the nice thing about small channels, for awhile they can be quite fun to interact with. You should join one of my streams sometime! I stream myself animating half life sfms 5 days a week, and I just finished a gargantua motion capture animation.
@@Validatormaybelater yeah same tbh, definitely makes it more fun to comment on smaller channels absolutely! I'll have to see, thank you! my internet is awful for streaming, so I usually have to watch uploads of then if anything, but I'll see if I can stop by sometime :) I've always been interested in animation so it would be super helpful thank you!
Motion capture x3 I'm actually a terrible animator, but mocap really fills in that perceived skill gap haha If you go watch my fellow HL animators, like Sepko, try looking for an animation that I helped them with (gave them motion capture). You'll often see that they do a great job combining their manual animation skills with the mocap data, and the end result is better than my work.
This animation was made under the assumption that the VHS filters would drown out most of the details, so things like finger movements and fine details I just ignored because I knew you wouldn't be able to see them. I uploaded a high quality version as a compromise, because there are a few small things you can miss if you don't know where to look.
LOVE IT, I LOVE HOW IT'S ALL CAPTURED FROM A SECURITY CAMERA'S POV, FANTASTIC WORK YET AGAIN VAL! U CAN TELL WHAT THERE SAYING JUST BY THEIR BODY MOVEMENTS, I LOVE THAT...TBH IT REMINDS ME OF TOM AND JERRY OR EVEN MINE STYLED ACTING, NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT LOL! [NOT THAT I MEAN TO SAY IT'S CHILDISH OF CORSE LOL]. ALSO, I LOVE THE PART WHERE GORDON LAUGHS AT HIM LOL, I LAUGHED MYSELF WHEN I SAW HIM DO THAT XD! ONE THING I GOTTA ASK IS...DID BARNEY SHOVE HIM, WAS THAT A PLAYFUL TYPE THING [I ASSUME IT WAS], BUT JUST TO BE SRE I'M ASKING, I COULDN'T TELL FI HE WAS BEING PLAYFUL/JOKING AROUND OR HE WAS ANNOYED AT/BY GORDON. ALSO, JUST CURIOUS DO YOU PLAN TO DO ONE WERE IT'S FROM NORMAL NON-CAMERA PERSPECTIVE TO WHERE WE CAN HEAR "THEM" SPEAK? [I THINK THAT'S CALLED THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE RIGHT]? ALSO, HOW DID YOU GET THE CELLING TO FALL LIKE THAT, SOME KIND OF GREENSCREEN EFFECT OR SOMETHING? ALSO, JUST CURIOUS, CAN WE HAVE THE LINK TO THE BLACK MESA FONT? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT FOR MYSELF PLEASE IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. :)
This animation was made under the assumption that the VHS filters would drown out most of the details, so things like finger movements and fine details I just ignored because I knew you wouldn't be able to see them. I uploaded a high quality version as a compromise, because there are a few small things you can miss if you don't know where to look. When I made Barney shove Gordon, I decided to do it in a way that lets the viewer decide how he handled it (its pretty hard to see his face in the VHS filter version). As far as my body language during that mocap session, I tried to act as if Barney was pushing Gordon because he was frustrated that he lost the race, as well as damaging Black Mesa property (which he might have to pay for) so it was mostly a frustration thing. Then he calms down and get back into the playful banter mood. I got the ceiling to fall like that due to a very particular feature I discovered. I may make a video on how to use it someday... Anyways, it allows me to convert objects/brushes that can't be moved (like walls, floors and static objects that can only be edited in Hammer) into animatable props using a certain feature of SFM. This has huge potential... I can break apart the environment and animate it in SFM without using an external program like Propper. So when grenades or explosions go off, I can cut up the walls or floors around the explosion and animate them. The best part is, its not very hard to do. Yeah, here's the link! www.1001fonts.com/alte-din-1451-mittelschrift-font.html
@@Validatormaybelater THAT'S AWESOME ABOUT THE TILES IT'S SAVE SO MUCH TIME AND MAKES IT LOOK REALISTIC. ANDI SEE WHY YOU MADE THE QUALITY DIFFERENT NOW, IT MAKES IT EVEN MORE BELIEVABLE, GREAT WORK LIKE I SAID BEFORE. AND LOL I LIKE HOW YOU LET US INTERPRIATE THE SHOVING ORDEAL, AND YEA POOR BARNEY WILL HAVE THAT DOCCED FROM HIS CALERY. POOR BARNEY, XD! ALSO, THANKS FOR THE FONT LINK. :D
I can already hear the conversation before Barney pushes him Gordon: You owe me a beer now Barney: *jokingly shoves* the hell I do! Gordon: *as they walk away* those were the rules, remember? Btw I really love the world building you've created pre resonance cascade, I feel like not that many people explore this concept and it's really awesome and wholesome to see everyone one just living normal daily life at Black Mesa, also it's real rad you added the ponytail to add to the consistency of him still having one before the experiment haha this is really awesome man!
Thanks! The end credits aren't just for show, most of my animations are actually speculated and thought out by the community, and I merely try to represent what you guys want. I'm in love with the idea of pre-disaster Black Mesa... Most people hyper-focus on HL2 and beyond. There's honestly a lot of unique speculative lore potential in the HL1 timeline, before the Combine come in to play at least. It would be really neat to see some kind of fanfiction that explores what would have happened had the Combine not come to Earth... Would vort-human relations be hostile? Would the Vorts call Earth their new home, or try to return to Xen or somewhere else? Would the Vorts, despite the lack of Combine presense, opt to ally with the humans anyways in order to better hide Earth and humanity from the Combine? So much to think about...
@@Validatormaybelater I really love how you take other people suggestions into consideration, especially since a lot of them seem to really try to be as accurate or grounded as possible which is really amazing since the end result always looks brilliant! And yeah I've actually always speculated about that too! I've always pictured this scenario outside of the research facility within the actual town/city of Black Mesa, New Mexico where there's like lots of people listening in on the emergency broadcast messages that you listen to throughout the game but instead you're just some ordinary Black Mesa resident and maybe during or after the destruction of the research facility, the entire town is just being overrun by Xen life forms and fauna as everyone is in a hysterical panic from all the crazy hecticness happening around them. and I feel like even if the Combine hadn't invaded, Earth definitely would still be in a somewhat post apocalyptic state due to the uncontrollably state of the portal storms that keep coming from Xen specifically, unless killing the nihilanth somehow stops these portal storms from occuring, but yeah that definitely would be cool to see come to life one day. Though I feel like the humans would probably treat the vorts like how the humans treated the prawns in district 9, after how everything went down in BM the vorts would have to explain themselves real fast if they didn't want to be associated with the nihilanth and his plans to invade. But yeah seeing this animation is making me wanna get back to working on my Half-Life animated series, I posted a small animatic of it awhile ago on Reddit and I think you actually commented on it saying how you felt inspired, which I find kinda ironic now because now I feel really inspired by you and all the work you've done for the community and making the world of the Half-Life universe feel more alive and lore friendly in ever way possible, and I'm sure these things take lots of time and effort but I just wanna let you know you're awesome for pulling yourself through all that hard work just to see those end results, can't wait to see more from you man! If I haven't been subscribed already, I definitely am now :)
Hahaha, this was a good one man! Barney broke his back though, lol. Thank you for making an animation based on the race they did to Kleiner's office, which is classic. It's good and relaxing to see these two buddies in pre-cascade times :)
Its heresy that ole Gordon doesnt have his ponytail anymore. Glad to see it here. I like this a lot, I'd like it twice if I could. but I cant. so here we are. 👍
I tried very hard to make it seem that way! Well, the reference is canon, but how I implemented it might be overwritten by valve someday. Valve is nice for being vague in that way sometimes, let creators like me step in and take some creative liberties here and there x3
Nah, i'm not that good, I use motion capture haha The nice thing at least is that my production time is faster than normal animators, so hopefully I won't go under as quickly like Pinwheel Arts did.
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Great job man! Not many SFMs I’ve seen can grasp pre-cascade life as well as this. The movements looked really natural, keep up the great work man!
Thank you! I agree, there aren't enough high-quality pre-disaster animations out there. Don't worry, i've got some juicy ones on the way (involving Dr. Cross/Green) and the Hazard Course.
I agree with you, this is the only one I have seen so far witch is kind of sad.
@@Validatormaybelater Hell yeah!
"Hey Barney"
"Hey Gordon"
"That hurt"
You beat me to it!
The other security guard going "Aw hell nah, not my problem" made this for me
I like that gordon has the ponytail
He's also shaved, compared to the normal HD Gordon (which is at the end of episode 2, which is about 5 to 6 days of him not shaving) (2 to 3 days from HL1, 2 to 3 days from HL2 to EP2)
ah, man! you cut the ponytail! sellout.
@@SquiffyDev say hi to Dr cross for me
@@Validatormaybelater probably the worst week in human history
0:43 you can see Gman on the TV on the left in Kleiner's office
Thanks for letting me know I kept looking at the way Barney came from expecting gman to poke his head out
I just watched part of an e1 playthrough where alyx mentioned this and the guy was like "I would love to see that" And it pops up into my recs. Good guy youtube.
Love how Gordon rubs it in when he walks in the hallway to Barney laying on the ground.
He didn't make it.
Gordon just laughing his arse off while everyone else is, "Not this shit again".
Definitely lol
Took me long enough to realise that this is those stories that alyx was talking about in ep1 lowlife.
0:59 I love how that security gaurd looked into the hallway and is like "... I had nothing to do with this."
"Hey Ron".
"Hey Billy".
Pre-Cascade BM looks pretty chill ngl
I'm SO glad you made an animation of this. Really reminds me of Barney's monologue over the radio in Black Mesa. Well done! I love the little details you included like Gordon's ponytail and the fact that Kleiner held Gordon's coffee for him while he was in the vents. You manage to tell a story where you can just understand what the characters are saying without a word being spoken. Really amazing work! Definitely laughed at 1:17
More to come my friend! I've got some custom models in the works, we may well someday get a pre-disaster SFM of Azian Vance and toddler Alyx before/during the cascade >.>
@@Validatormaybelater Sounds amazing! Can't wait to see it! If only there were a way to get a notific-
*subscribed*
Good stuff. Makes me wish there's a pre-cascade mod while playing as Gordon and maybe even Barney and Dr. Kleiner.
oh my god, I happened to stumble on your animations and this especially is FANTASTIC! I pretty much never comment, but this I have to because of the quality.
I adore the interactions so much (especially Barney and Gordon), but also how casual it is. they see like they seem like actual friends, plus Kleiner was just. golden as well. I also appreciate how you made Gordon seem actually athletic, but nothing super complicated that still kept with him being a scientist. I seriously adkre this version and the VHS one! the POV is also genius, besides making it so you don't have to use voice clips, but also tells the story in such a unique and fun way. you also have a talent with the acting for then as well, and it brought me a huge amount of joy.
I'd love to gush more but it's late, but know I'll absolutely be coming back to watch this many more time as well as your other work! thank you for this absolutely LOVELY animation.
I appreciate the outpouring man... I’m the same way. I generally don’t comment on UA-cam because I know it’ll never get seen or make any difference.
That’s the nice thing about small channels, for awhile they can be quite fun to interact with. You should join one of my streams sometime! I stream myself animating half life sfms 5 days a week, and I just finished a gargantua motion capture animation.
@@Validatormaybelater yeah same tbh, definitely makes it more fun to comment on smaller channels absolutely!
I'll have to see, thank you! my internet is awful for streaming, so I usually have to watch uploads of then if anything, but I'll see if I can stop by sometime :) I've always been interested in animation so it would be super helpful thank you!
This is a reference. Alex in HL 2 told how Gordon and Barney competed together to see who could get to the ventilation room the fastest. Gordon won.
Now I can’t stop thinking of a black Mesa / the office type of show this stuffs good man.
How in the good name of the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit can you animate like this! You're a god! Keep up the good work chief!
Motion capture x3
I'm actually a terrible animator, but mocap really fills in that perceived skill gap haha
If you go watch my fellow HL animators, like Sepko, try looking for an animation that I helped them with (gave them motion capture).
You'll often see that they do a great job combining their manual animation skills with the mocap data, and the end result is better than my work.
@@Validatormaybelater Hot Damn! you lucky dog you.
Pretty darn great! I only noticed one problem, it looks like Barney's arm went through Gordons chest at around 1:37
This animation was made under the assumption that the VHS filters would drown out most of the details, so things like finger movements and fine details I just ignored because I knew you wouldn't be able to see them. I uploaded a high quality version as a compromise, because there are a few small things you can miss if you don't know where to look.
I love that the other security guard was like "not even gonna touch it"
Did you know that permeable infrastructure
Is an achievement in black Mesa.
Yes! I believe the suggestions at the end of the video mention this, that's where the name came from.
LOVE IT, I LOVE HOW IT'S ALL CAPTURED FROM A SECURITY CAMERA'S POV, FANTASTIC WORK YET AGAIN VAL!
U CAN TELL WHAT THERE SAYING JUST BY THEIR BODY MOVEMENTS, I LOVE THAT...TBH IT REMINDS ME OF TOM AND JERRY OR EVEN MINE STYLED ACTING, NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT LOL! [NOT THAT I MEAN TO SAY IT'S CHILDISH OF CORSE LOL].
ALSO, I LOVE THE PART WHERE GORDON LAUGHS AT HIM LOL, I LAUGHED MYSELF WHEN I SAW HIM DO THAT XD!
ONE THING I GOTTA ASK IS...DID BARNEY SHOVE HIM, WAS THAT A PLAYFUL TYPE THING [I ASSUME IT WAS], BUT JUST TO BE SRE I'M ASKING, I COULDN'T TELL FI HE WAS BEING PLAYFUL/JOKING AROUND OR HE WAS ANNOYED AT/BY GORDON.
ALSO, JUST CURIOUS DO YOU PLAN TO DO ONE WERE IT'S FROM NORMAL NON-CAMERA PERSPECTIVE TO WHERE WE CAN HEAR "THEM" SPEAK? [I THINK THAT'S CALLED THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE RIGHT]?
ALSO, HOW DID YOU GET THE CELLING TO FALL LIKE THAT, SOME KIND OF GREENSCREEN EFFECT OR SOMETHING?
ALSO, JUST CURIOUS, CAN WE HAVE THE LINK TO THE BLACK MESA FONT? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT FOR MYSELF PLEASE IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. :)
This animation was made under the assumption that the VHS filters would drown out most of the details, so things like finger movements and fine details I just ignored because I knew you wouldn't be able to see them. I uploaded a high quality version as a compromise, because there are a few small things you can miss if you don't know where to look.
When I made Barney shove Gordon, I decided to do it in a way that lets the viewer decide how he handled it (its pretty hard to see his face in the VHS filter version). As far as my body language during that mocap session, I tried to act as if Barney was pushing Gordon because he was frustrated that he lost the race, as well as damaging Black Mesa property (which he might have to pay for) so it was mostly a frustration thing. Then he calms down and get back into the playful banter mood.
I got the ceiling to fall like that due to a very particular feature I discovered. I may make a video on how to use it someday... Anyways, it allows me to convert objects/brushes that can't be moved (like walls, floors and static objects that can only be edited in Hammer) into animatable props using a certain feature of SFM. This has huge potential... I can break apart the environment and animate it in SFM without using an external program like Propper. So when grenades or explosions go off, I can cut up the walls or floors around the explosion and animate them. The best part is, its not very hard to do.
Yeah, here's the link! www.1001fonts.com/alte-din-1451-mittelschrift-font.html
@@Validatormaybelater THAT'S AWESOME ABOUT THE TILES IT'S SAVE SO MUCH TIME AND MAKES IT LOOK REALISTIC.
ANDI SEE WHY YOU MADE THE QUALITY DIFFERENT NOW, IT MAKES IT EVEN MORE BELIEVABLE, GREAT WORK LIKE I SAID BEFORE.
AND LOL I LIKE HOW YOU LET US INTERPRIATE THE SHOVING ORDEAL, AND YEA POOR BARNEY WILL HAVE THAT DOCCED FROM HIS CALERY. POOR BARNEY, XD!
ALSO, THANKS FOR THE FONT LINK. :D
@@GORYGIRL WHY ALL CAPS THO
@@omnidirectionalhuntergodradar broke their caps lock
@@1ztype343 YEA I HATE IT WHEN IT HAPPENS
I can already hear the conversation before Barney pushes him
Gordon: You owe me a beer now
Barney: *jokingly shoves* the hell I do!
Gordon: *as they walk away* those were the rules, remember?
Btw I really love the world building you've created pre resonance cascade, I feel like not that many people explore this concept and it's really awesome and wholesome to see everyone one just living normal daily life at Black Mesa, also it's real rad you added the ponytail to add to the consistency of him still having one before the experiment haha this is really awesome man!
Thanks! The end credits aren't just for show, most of my animations are actually speculated and thought out by the community, and I merely try to represent what you guys want.
I'm in love with the idea of pre-disaster Black Mesa... Most people hyper-focus on HL2 and beyond. There's honestly a lot of unique speculative lore potential in the HL1 timeline, before the Combine come in to play at least.
It would be really neat to see some kind of fanfiction that explores what would have happened had the Combine not come to Earth...
Would vort-human relations be hostile? Would the Vorts call Earth their new home, or try to return to Xen or somewhere else?
Would the Vorts, despite the lack of Combine presense, opt to ally with the humans anyways in order to better hide Earth and humanity from the Combine?
So much to think about...
@@Validatormaybelater I really love how you take other people suggestions into consideration, especially since a lot of them seem to really try to be as accurate or grounded as possible which is really amazing since the end result always looks brilliant! And yeah I've actually always speculated about that too! I've always pictured this scenario outside of the research facility within the actual town/city of Black Mesa, New Mexico where there's like lots of people listening in on the emergency broadcast messages that you listen to throughout the game but instead you're just some ordinary Black Mesa resident and maybe during or after the destruction of the research facility, the entire town is just being overrun by Xen life forms and fauna as everyone is in a hysterical panic from all the crazy hecticness happening around them.
and I feel like even if the Combine hadn't invaded, Earth definitely would still be in a somewhat post apocalyptic state due to the uncontrollably state of the portal storms that keep coming from Xen specifically, unless killing the nihilanth somehow stops these portal storms from occuring, but yeah that definitely would be cool to see come to life one day. Though I feel like the humans would probably treat the vorts like how the humans treated the prawns in district 9, after how everything went down in BM the vorts would have to explain themselves real fast if they didn't want to be associated with the nihilanth and his plans to invade.
But yeah seeing this animation is making me wanna get back to working on my Half-Life animated series, I posted a small animatic of it awhile ago on Reddit and I think you actually commented on it saying how you felt inspired, which I find kinda ironic now because now I feel really inspired by you and all the work you've done for the community and making the world of the Half-Life universe feel more alive and lore friendly in ever way possible, and I'm sure these things take lots of time and effort but I just wanna let you know you're awesome for pulling yourself through all that hard work just to see those end results, can't wait to see more from you man! If I haven't been subscribed already, I definitely am now :)
this is so good, they feel so human
Has anyone noticed how Gordon Freeman has the ponytail still this would’ve been the day before the incident
Absolutely golden! I like it, excellent recreation of Akyx's tales Kleiner and or her Father told her ^_^
This is my favorite halflife content right here. This channel. It is great!
Hahaha, this was a good one man! Barney broke his back though, lol. Thank you for making an animation based on the race they did to Kleiner's office, which is classic. It's good and relaxing to see these two buddies in pre-cascade times :)
I imagine they're off to go buy a beer.
He aint gonna beat em
I like how gman appeared on the tv once Barney fell
Ahaa so thats why barney owes him that beer. But great work on the animation =)
"Hey Ron"
"Hey Billy"
bro im in love with ur work, its all so good
This animation made me feel something. Btw really nice work, I'd like to see more animations like this please :D
Holy moly that's so cool! (idk which i prefer if i'm being honest hahah i really like this one)
I love the credits btw
I laughed at this whole video, this is 100% gold.
THIS IS FANTASTIC
Simple but awesome. Love this.
Its heresy that ole Gordon doesnt have his ponytail anymore. Glad to see it here. I like this a lot, I'd like it twice if I could. but I cant. so here we are. 👍
Your getting so good at animating dude (it’s trey by the way)
This is canon btw
I tried very hard to make it seem that way! Well, the reference is canon, but how I implemented it might be overwritten by valve someday. Valve is nice for being vague in that way sometimes, let creators like me step in and take some creative liberties here and there x3
Oh looks like it coming out of his pay check
Oh hey Ron
Hey Billy
Damn,good work!
I NOW WHAT IT CA BE!
Kkkkkk thank you that moment when alyx mentioned on half life 2 this make me laugh
Hey, Ron!
Hey Billy ;-;
0:43 - sup gman
Did you use motion-tracking or are you actually badass at animating?
Nah, i'm not that good, I use motion capture haha
The nice thing at least is that my production time is faster than normal animators, so hopefully I won't go under as quickly like Pinwheel Arts did.
I can’t believe nobody asked this on the VHS and this version, but will there be a Point of view for Everybody in the scene?
Старые друзья барни и гордон
Nice
Wow XD
Is there a G-Man sighting? Or I'm just dumb?
Yup! I clearly remember making a gman sighting in this haha
@@Validatormaybelater I found it later, very clever...