PATIENT ZERO - A Half-Life Short [S2FM]

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Resistance members set an ambush for the Combine in the abandoned outskirts of City 17.
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A very short explanation behind this custom Combine model for my fellow obsessive weirdos. As stated in the intro it's 1 year after the events of HLA and 4 before HL2; and so I wanted to create something that could be the missing link between the wallhammer and HL2 shotgunner. That is the long and short of it. I hope I managed to find a good balance with the design and it comes off as "believable" given the context.
This project itself started out as a "Hey let's make a very short trailer for my custom Combine model" so it obviously grew into the most complex project I've done so far. In all honesty it did not came together as good as I imagined, but I'm still incredibly proud with what I managed to cobble together here. If anything, visually I think this is the best I've gotten out of Source 2 so far. I realize gray isn't everyone's cup of tea. I like it very much.
UKposts compression unfortunately really didn't like the low-light + uniform color pallette interior scenes and they look quite horrible in places. I did tests with several different codecs, bitrates etc and these are the best results. I'm looking into options to host my videos somewhere where I can provide the uncompressed files, but due to how big these videos are I haven't yet landed on a solution.
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I'd like to thank everyone who helped me out on this project. Firstly, my current and past patrons and everyone else who donated through other channels. You helped fund a lot of what went into this and lifted a lot of stress for not uploading squat for 4 months.
Fabian Brandt, who designed the big guy's vocoder. It is just the most glorious thing I've ever heard.
linktr.ee/nyonmusic
Jordan Gottschick for all the feedback, inputs and voice performance.
And all the wonderful folks for their voice work.
Tito Ferradans
/ @anamorphiconabudget
Forrest McGilvray
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Saverio Turrano
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Valencia R
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Csaba Szigeti
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Software:
Source 2 Filmmaker
HLA Workshop Tools
Premiere Pro
Photoshop
Blender
Substance Painter
Audacity
Song:
• HITMAN Soundtrack - Pa...
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@nyonmusic Рік тому

Creating the vocoder dialogue sound design was an absolute blast! I had so much fun while working and fine tuning them. I'm so blown away by this short. Honored to be a part of this tbh! :D

@settingsgear5602 Рік тому

The contrast of civil protection struggling with combine jargon at the beginning and combine soldier being perfectly fluent in it is amazing.

@calcuimconsumer6980 Рік тому

Hopper mines are actually terrifying. When you aren’t Gordon Freemen everything in the Half-Life universe is a force to be reckoned with

@mihaitoma4144

give this man 50 cans of red bull, a couple million dollars, a super computer and 2 years of time, he'll make a movie better than hollywood, i guarantee it

@Excalibursin

6:35

@N3ON47 Рік тому

I absolutely love how you portray that even a group of rebels can hardly stand a chance against a single combine soldier. Also nice to see manhacks getting some much needed attention. Those things would be terrifying in real life.

@IJNAoba9-25-26

With this you can tell why Gordon is very much highly respected in the Rebel alliance. Here a group of them almost got slaughtered by a single Combine Soldier, meanwhile Gordon casually strolls into the Nova Prospekt and Citadel, destroys everyone, then leaves.

@tilasole3252

"Attention Hostile Targets. You can come out now. It is safe." 😂

@petertse5353

You can see at

@pewpewplasma3793

I think the thing that scares me the most about the soldier is the way everything just cuts off after it dies. There’s clear agony, it reaches for its missing “eye”, it wheezes in pain clearly not completely dead yet, and then lights out. It’s just gone. Like it got unplugged. Like Overwatch realized the unit was beyond repair so it just switched it off. It just dies so unnaturally and machine-like.

@czajkowski2352 Рік тому

The deadpan delivery on the "You can come out now. It is safe. (ಠ ‿ ↼)" was amazing 😂

@JATorigin

6:16

@Deltadog55

6:20

@AVGyerra22 Рік тому

0:40

@JonSudano Рік тому

The more you watch the Combine operate in the way they do, the more you begin to understand the reason Earth surrendered in just 7 hours.

@raiderone-zero1267

6:11

@0inarrow735

I absolutely love the transistion at

@cheezkid2689 Рік тому

Did NOT expect this to be so violent. God, the screams as that one rebel had his arm blown off were visceral. Absolutely love it. 10/10 work, as usual.

@dkkanofkash8798 Рік тому

I LOVE how the Combine Soldier is introduced as more of a super soldier compared to the regular human CP cops. There’s honestly nothing better than these beautiful Half Life SFMs.