The Faces of Half-Life 2
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Жыл бұрынHalf-Life 2's characters are iconic, but they are also REAL. Let's talk about it.
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Footage Credit:
Gorgeous Freeman by Delak (Beautiful classic)
IGN (Half-Life Alyx footage)
The VOC Podcast (Cheers for the work y'all do)
Harry101UK (Valve tour footage)
Into the Pixel Interview with ArenaNet's Daniel Dociu
Garry's Mod Steam Trailer
This Is Martin Bonner! (Film Trailer)
Land Ho! (Film Trailer)
Music Credit:
Various tracks from Half-Life + Half-Life 2
Various tracks from Donkey Kong Country 2
Various tracks from ISS 2000
Super Mario Sunshine - Welcome to Isle Delfino
Team Fortress 2 - MVM Shop Theme
Resident Evil 4 - Save Theme
Postal 2 - Map Muzak
Pink Guy - Ronald McDonald Instrumental
Shook - Within
@carnum1159 6 ай бұрын
From skibidi toilet not half life 2
@kwabecikuwu9161 6 ай бұрын
rel
@aquiIa_chrysaetos 6 ай бұрын
oh hell no
@WohaoG 6 ай бұрын
oh hell *yes*
@recang360 6 ай бұрын
The day has come.
@insane.braindamage 6 ай бұрын
half life stiole the gman toilet and give him suit ripoff!!!1
@elliotnutella8044 Жыл бұрын
Imagine walking down the street, completely minding your own business, and bumping into G Man.
@rogerphone481 Жыл бұрын
"I've been looking for you, Dr. Freeman."
@cheesemanthe2nd Жыл бұрын
They really modified his look in hl2, I probably wouldn't recognize him unless I was looking
@Reposterkkkk Жыл бұрын
i would shit myself
@elijahreeves4890 Жыл бұрын
totally mind fucked
@bitty_01 Жыл бұрын
Then he sends you into the shadow realm and you wake up in an alien universe afterwards lmao
@Vvix0 Жыл бұрын
A random Janitor becoming an eldritch god-like G-man just for being at a right place and right time is the most G-man thing he could do.
@catpurrito5586 Жыл бұрын
Sounds kinda like Ahti from Control 2019
@VinVonVoom Жыл бұрын
Hello
@lynxovski Жыл бұрын
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world"
@constructinvestigator Жыл бұрын
the gman: “the right man in the wrong place, can make aLL the dif-ference in the world.”
@thebasedspectre3048 Жыл бұрын
"Dr freeman I'm going to make you my discord kitten"-gman
@warmongerous Жыл бұрын
I don't know where I heard it, but Gmans face actor, when they asked him to come back for HL:A, turned up with a full suit and briefcase. He knows at least a little bit of the legacy he created
@Daveaintreal 6 ай бұрын
Absolute legend
@Kat-327 4 ай бұрын
I've been looking for you, dr freeman...
@Quaxo21 Ай бұрын
The right man at the right place
@anonymouse740 Жыл бұрын
Larry Heard is not just a house DJ, he almost single handily created the modern incarnation of House music. If you listen to "Can You Feel It" it's produced in 1984 and could be a house track you'd hear today in a nightclub. It was also in GTA5. Really cool guy, I'm amazed he's a HL2 character, I didn't know that!
@1chrisanderson Жыл бұрын
TRUTH. I had no idea he was in HL2. As a deep house fanatic and DJ/producer myself, it's hard to overstate Larry's contributions to the genre. He is literally the progenitor of the darker, jazz-infused dance sounds of today (Fred P, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Space Ghost, and countless others are clearly influenced by his work)
@streeatbeat Жыл бұрын
dude my fucking shock when i found out HE'S MR FINGERS!??!
@ar_xiv Жыл бұрын
It's a different larry heard, unfortunately. It was a homeless guy in Seattle named Larry "The Count" Heard. Had to fact check this one because it just seemed too unlikely as Larry Heard the DJ is from Chicago and lives in Nashville.
@1chrisanderson Жыл бұрын
@@ar_xiv A letdown if it's true but would definitely make sense. I'm gonna rename my DJ act to The Other Larry Heard
@crylune Жыл бұрын
I heard that in San Andreas. The song was stuck in my brain ever since.
@Shea7TDM Жыл бұрын
imagine being an avid half life fan and buy half life 2 on release, just for one of the main characters to be your dad.
@creepersammyb2926 Жыл бұрын
and he has a pet headcrab (i deleted my original comment because I now know that Ted Cohrt has kids who were half life fans)
@iifireii9885 Жыл бұрын
@Cleminite About that beer I owe ya
@sparkyboi4387 Жыл бұрын
I like to think that Kleiner's VA bought the game for them and watched them play until they got to the Kleiner part, as a surprise
@FalkyRocket2222 Жыл бұрын
@@creepersammyb2926 he mentioned it in the video lol
@FalkyRocket2222 Жыл бұрын
@Benny sure but this is not the place
@HLRaven Жыл бұрын
It's really sad that the face actor for Eli Vance goes unrecognized. IMO he is one of the most comforting characters in video games
@char7490 Жыл бұрын
im glad they bought him back in half life alyx i would love him to be a companion when hl3 comes out soon
@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge Жыл бұрын
@@char7490 I don't know. In Alyx Eli just feels... somehow not right to me. Don't know what it is, but something is off about him, like they used a different person's face entirely.
@neevko267 Жыл бұрын
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge it's probably just that he looks younger
@minelayer26 Жыл бұрын
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialoungeit could also be because of the voice actor, the voice just doesnt work
@minelayer26 Жыл бұрын
@@goti4no820 hes protective of his daughter, that is something he would say
@ForgillMaster51 9 ай бұрын
Imagine being Michael Smith walking in the street and being attacked by some random ass kid screaming "THE SKIBIDI GUY! ITS THE SKIBI TOILET FACE MAN!"
@Cheerful__1 7 ай бұрын
💀
@BlyckMesa 6 ай бұрын
Lmao there is no way this is original
@RedBadGaming 4 ай бұрын
Rip
@thisnameisbad3609 4 ай бұрын
"I'm hurt!"
@jeffriesjohnsonjames6518 Ай бұрын
Me: Good bye little Timmy *sends to zen*
@warpare6138 Жыл бұрын
I went to Warrens obituary page and started to cry. His parents would go and leave comment's wishing him happy birthdays and Christmases. Rest in Peace Warren.
@Josuemaneiros7 Жыл бұрын
I think the best 'actor to character" design Valve made was Nick from L4D2 They did a fantastic job at making Nick look like a playable Taymour Ghazi without making him uncanny or clay-faced
@youbaouahdi4358 Жыл бұрын
I will never forget seeing his face IRL, I thought the actor was a 3D render haha
@oldman4443 Жыл бұрын
Tbh man they did such a good job with nicks face I can’t look at Taymour Ghazi’s face without automatically recognizing him as nick from l4d2, I think I might have a problem
@unclesandvich Жыл бұрын
@@oldman4443 Its perfect. I don't know how they done it, but it feels like they took Tay Ghazi and literally put in the game. I can't describe it right now, but it's done perfect. It feels more like "Nick was so popular they made him an actual person" joke. But man, Taymour Ghazi is really handsome and charismatic, no wonder why they chose him for Nick.
@bigbad5067 Жыл бұрын
i was in one of a taymour's acting classes and he told us he was nick from left 4 dead and i honestly cant unsee it now, they did a brilliant job
@facilityguardryan8561 Жыл бұрын
Nah, the best 'actor to character' valve made was the Holy Mackarel from Team Fortress 2
@gametram6139 Жыл бұрын
Anyone who is curious about gordon's face, he is referenced by half life 2's sound designer, kelly bailey!
@notfreeman1776 Жыл бұрын
Kailey Bailey also likely recorded gordon breathing from HL1, he is Freeman
@gsp1995 Жыл бұрын
Not entirely true as three other people's likeness were also used to compose Gordon's face.
@fredspreadem5638 Жыл бұрын
Among others, including Eric Kirchner.
@CAPTAIN_CLOCK Жыл бұрын
This might not hold true for HL2 and HLA Gordon, but as far as I know his face is an amalgamation of everyone that worked at Valve at the time of HL1.
@SentenceToDESU Жыл бұрын
Not just a sound designer, but a whole composer who made a banger of the OST for Half-Life and Portal
@2diabolical 9 ай бұрын
Imagine booting up half-life 2 after you bought it excited to play, then you see your dad as one of the main characters
@ShyborgAnimates 9 ай бұрын
yea lmao
@BlyckMesa 6 ай бұрын
Kinda wholesome ngl
@princegoatcheese9379 Жыл бұрын
G-Man's quote in the beginning of HL2, "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world," sums up Frank Sheldon's opportunity perfectly. If Valve cast him as Dr. Breen then the world would not have gotten such an iconic face as G-Man.
@commandertoastcz6256 6 ай бұрын
A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.
@commandertoastcz6256 6 ай бұрын
A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.
@zOOpygOOpert Жыл бұрын
I really hope Eli's face actor is okay.
@unoriginalperson72 Жыл бұрын
I highly doubt he's in any horrible situation because honestly I think he might be long dead now.
@BOBBY69 Жыл бұрын
We gotta face the truth, he's probably not alive anymore. If he is, I wish him all the best.
@Omega-jg4oq Жыл бұрын
@@unoriginalperson72 Wow bro.. you REALLY made it sounds so Fcking Dark.. jeez
@flunkiebubs2002 Жыл бұрын
He'd probably be in his 90s by now.
@natalie_v0.1 Жыл бұрын
@@unoriginalperson72 people are really good at dying.. saddening
@bigcooltony437 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Half Life 2 was so popular they made all the characters in real life!
@Freemelon07 Жыл бұрын
It'd be cool to see all their models in Source 2 with 3D hair/facial hair.
@catboy6451 Жыл бұрын
@Benny what the fuck are you talking about
@The_Grecian_Empire Жыл бұрын
@Benny cultist
@sam.4768 8 ай бұрын
@@benny7569 why are u spouting jesus shit on like every comment on a half life video like bro what are u doing with ur life, aint no one reading this and going "omg bro i need to be a Christian"
@Some_guy-on-the-internet 8 ай бұрын
@@Freemelon07gman
@Devar Жыл бұрын
So. my uncle is Paul Eenhoorn (yes, two O's but you nailed the pronunciation which barely no one does!). I had asked him about this, and he had no idea that the scan he did ended up in any thing until I told him about it. The scan was done quite a long time before the actual release of Ep2. Anyway. I had no idea either, until actually playing... now that was one hell of a surprise! Rest In Peace uncle Paul.
@nobodys-home Ай бұрын
eli?
@PennyroyallBlew Жыл бұрын
Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) is actually one of the Godfathers of House music and really important figure for electronic music history in general. It's kind of amusing to see him being somehow present in game series which soundtrack is really inspired by music that he paved way for.
@dextergrif Жыл бұрын
I think it’s okay that they used a random guy’s face for Eli and compensated him for it, but they really should have credited him for it. That’s kind of messed up that they didn’t
@VinVonVoom Жыл бұрын
It's possible they just never got his name or he didn't want to be credited.
@kennnnny Жыл бұрын
@@VinVonVoom Even if either of those was the case, I wish they’d made it more clear in an interview or when the story of his face actor was actually brought up. Because it seems like whatever info Richter could get, it wasn’t conclusive
@samuraijackoff5354 Жыл бұрын
Maybe he forgot his name, didn't have ID or a social security. It happens sadly being homeless.
@ZekeFreek Жыл бұрын
@@kennnnny That would require Valve to communicate with the public and you know how much they hate doing that lol
@jackspedicy2711 Жыл бұрын
credits: Eli Vance - a random hobo on the street
@thememester1190 Жыл бұрын
The use of scans of real people is just another reason why Half Life 2 was so ahead of its time. Using random people from the streets of Seattle for civilians really captures the feeling of being amongst the remnants of a downtrodden urban populace.
@olzhas1one755 Жыл бұрын
By the time HL2 released this was already the common practice in the industry. As far as I know Goldeneye 64 in 1997 was the first game to use photography of real people on 3D meshes, and this method became only more common since then.
@naturesquad9174 Жыл бұрын
and they based the metrocops personalities on the metropolice of seattle!
@omegatrion7139 Жыл бұрын
come back to g10 please
@thememester1190 Жыл бұрын
@@omegatrion7139 I don't wanna.
@jaidendeprez1842 Жыл бұрын
So did Postal 2, which came out in 2003
@Joskilani Жыл бұрын
It's always interesting how Valve bases their characters off of real people. The actress they modeled Chell from Portal after is Alesia Glidewell, who's also known for being the voice of Zero Suit Samus in Super Smash Brothers, and Carmelita Fox/Neyla in Sly 2: Band of Thieves
@thinkingboi9508 Жыл бұрын
The Half Life universe sure does have a weird story with female actors who played furry characters huh?
@LordVader1094 Жыл бұрын
@@thinkingboi9508 How so?
@thinkingboi9508 Жыл бұрын
@@LordVader1094 A voice actor who voiced a character in Star Fox, which has a cast composed of entirely of anthro animals, came out of retirement to voice a character that was modded into the game
@mattmedrala1947 10 ай бұрын
Alesia was also the original face model for Zoey from Left 4 Dead, and provided the voice acting for Alma Wade in FEAR 2.
@Dowux 8 ай бұрын
@@mattmedrala1947damnit i now know why Zoey and Chell looked so similar
@JAB6322 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if the homeless man who provided Eli's face was both credited and well compensated with Half Life 2's success and actually had his life changed for the better. It would've been one heartwarming story.
@Trackman71 Жыл бұрын
Wow I originally remember hearing some rumors about Eli’s Face actor was a homeless dude but this just confirmed it. The sad thing is he probably wasn’t paid a lot for how pivotal and recognizable he is in gaming. The horrible truth is that he is likely dead. That one hurt the most out of them all. 😢
@Timic83tc Жыл бұрын
Makes Ep2 even sadder.
@pigster8 Жыл бұрын
it's not that sad bro. honestly
@gugibugi0 Жыл бұрын
It's not like he did a lot of work to be paid a lot. You literally just get your face scanned and that's it
@cluckendip Жыл бұрын
You just repeated verbatim the video
@Trackman71 Жыл бұрын
@@cluckendip Lmao true.
@ProfessorProfesorman Жыл бұрын
Finally, a video which shows all of the face in HL2. I've been looking for something like this for ages! Awesome job Richter!
@nnikitov57 Жыл бұрын
you didn't even watch the video when you commented this, how can you know whether if it's an "awesome job" or not?
@TimTam60 Жыл бұрын
@@nnikitov57 and who are you to assume this person doesn't just have an ability to hear important info from videos quickly?
@ProfessorProfesorman Жыл бұрын
@@nnikitov57 The title....
@doughboywhine 8 ай бұрын
He didn't include gordons face...
@ProfessorProfesorman 8 ай бұрын
Yeah fr@@doughboywhine
@hangry3102 Жыл бұрын
The fact we know absolutely nothing about the man behind one of the most loveable video game characters in existence bugs me. The guy literally had the "perfect face" for Eli, and he gets no credit? At this point we're doing a disservice not to find more information on him. He's likely already gone, but damn he deserves more recognition than just "that poor guy who needed money." He is literally an icon.
@hangry3102 Жыл бұрын
And by find more information, I'm not saying we should track him down or anything crazy like that. Just his name is more than enough credit wise. The guy deserved his privacy just like anyone else.
@LordVader1094 Жыл бұрын
They may have offered to credit him and he refused, given his situation.
@SpecterNeverSpectator 7 ай бұрын
maybe this exactly why, some creep on the internet will want to find out where he lives to give him shit he didnt ask for, like you
@averydissapointedparent6124 Жыл бұрын
The eli vance one is such a sad case, unfortunate that someone won’t ever get to see their legacy in a way, he’s forever immortalized by this game yet nobody will ever know his name.
@cacaPoopTrain Жыл бұрын
#RescueEli
@TheBreakingBenny 10 ай бұрын
He won't be forgotten... no matter how unknown he is. That man is someone I'd want to fight alongside.
@loserghoul Жыл бұрын
been a fan of Larry Heards music casually so learning he's been the face of male_03 this whole time is so weirdly specific thats its mindblowing to me.
@kinematosis Жыл бұрын
Heh, same. I've been listening to Larry Heard for a while now, and I just played HL2 for the first time a couple of months ago. When I saw his name in the HL2 credits, I thought, "there's no way that's *the* Larry Heard." I looked it up and was shocked to learn that, in fact, it was *the* Larry Heard.
@Michelle_Wellbeck Жыл бұрын
Would love to have heard how he got into the game as by hl2 wouldn't he have been quite a famous guy?
@russelledwards001 Жыл бұрын
Some guys at valve probably loved his music. There’s quite a lot of techno beats and sounds in the half life series.
@S44BBOI Жыл бұрын
Mr fingers
@DeepWeeb Жыл бұрын
Eli's face being based on a homeless man they picked from the streets for a only couple of bucks to run his face under some strange device without any further recognition kinda hits different when you remember *they made a joke about using hobos and bums as test subjects of almost-lethal experiments for $60 in Portal 2*
@Lips0fDeceit Жыл бұрын
For as great value has been stuff like thise goes to remind you that they do some of the fucked up things that disney or Netflix or google do they are a company at the end of the day
@vakarianalenko Жыл бұрын
Yeah it's fucking sad man
@soupcake3092 Жыл бұрын
I really would like to hope they didn't use someone like that and payed him well. But I feel like that's far more likely...
@unoriginalperson72 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if that line is actually based on how much money they gave him
@BeyondBaito Жыл бұрын
They use astronauts, war heros, and Olympians
@Feasco Жыл бұрын
2:17 Imagine calling or having to visit Tanner Electric for some reason and trying to resist the urge to say, "Barney said to tell you this: FUCK YOU!"
@knoxvolpe Жыл бұрын
I tend to forget that the face of Father Grigori is a guy named Daniel Dociu that was born in Cluj, Romania. It's cool to think we have a romanian guy forever in our hearts :)
@mighi3963 Жыл бұрын
Nu mă mira are fata de ardelean ngl 😂
@DrSeaDevil Жыл бұрын
7:13 He also appeared in the first Half-Life as the scientist who shouts at you for destroying his cassourole.
@VinVonVoom Жыл бұрын
That was indeed his casserole but it's not Magnusson who's watching over it.
@DrSeaDevil Жыл бұрын
@@VinVonVoom Oh I see
@agrastiOs Жыл бұрын
@@hebbocake he might not have been in the same room his casserole was in
@-Zakhiel- Жыл бұрын
It's a retcon... Valve does this in every Half Life sequels, retcons everywhere.
@agrastiOs Жыл бұрын
@@-Zakhiel- and they're very based for doing that and expanding the world and the games. Well aside from the Alyx retcon
Жыл бұрын
Richter, this is a great video! We'd love to see you make one about the voices as well! About Donna Van Buren, we did manage to contact and talk to her - while she was not interested in coming on for an interview because as she says - she likes to stay behind the scenes. She did work as a make-up artist for Valve specifically on the face models for HL2, on Frank Sheldon for sure. She also added the following - "Truthfully, I was only a placeholder head for Dr. Judith Mossman that never got replaced."
@chiefhydropolis Жыл бұрын
so judith would have looked wayyy different had a dev not forgotten or didnt like the model now used ingame
@RedStar441 Жыл бұрын
Whoever Eli's look alike is, I hope he had passed through this world peacefully. His face lives on and will be remembered for time beyond now.
@adrianwoods2752 Жыл бұрын
A quote from the G-man himself is perfectly fitting for how his face actor got the role: “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”
@CenturyRev Жыл бұрын
3:31 Bro thinks he's Walter White.
@uhhhhhyea Жыл бұрын
honestly i always found interesting to use as reference real people faces on like a game
@Steak818 Жыл бұрын
I always thought that the faces of Alyx was too peculiar to have been created from nothing, sometimes uncanny valley-peculiar.
@Freemelon07 Жыл бұрын
Hi G-man!
@uhhhhhyea Жыл бұрын
@@Freemelon07 hello mr...uh freemelon
@MrPerson9000 Жыл бұрын
12:05 Maybe the guy didn’t want to be credited
@Profkol0rado Жыл бұрын
He probably didn't want to be famous
@EMAHGERD Жыл бұрын
Male03 being Larry Heard is absolutely insane! He is one of the most important figures of electronic music, maybe just short of the likes of Kraftwerk. Both were essential to my younger years.
@BBPOFFICAL Жыл бұрын
3:04 those kids are lucky like imagine seeing the faces of them seeing there father in half life 2 :)
@Imirui Жыл бұрын
Most realistic characters in valve games are in fact, based on real people. In the Left 4 Dead series, every survivor has their face modeled after an actual person, and the face references are well known among people who know that they are modeled after people.
@Cheerful__1 7 ай бұрын
Imagine giving your face to a new game and all long time later you see yourself in a toilet singing animation
@xFluing Жыл бұрын
I love how half life's ties with eastern europe go beyond just city 17 looking like it (and its confirmed to actually be sofia, bulgaria) into father grigori as well, as daniel dociu is romanian The circle is complete
@ManiacHatTF2 Жыл бұрын
0:36 You know you've made it when you're a brief mention in a Richter Overtime video.
@MMitochondria Жыл бұрын
you
@unoriginalperson72 Жыл бұрын
Maniac Hat you've officially hit stardom
@spaghettimkay5795 Жыл бұрын
Omg is that THE Maniac Hat?!
@highmedic2351 Жыл бұрын
Absolute legend!!!
@pigster8 Жыл бұрын
you're still a nobody
@lambdaspecialist_source Жыл бұрын
Really smart from Valve to do this in the developement, because this makes the game more immersive and the faces are iconic another thing why hl2 was and is so great.
@horriblechronicdiseases Жыл бұрын
We need to bring back the face scan process for video game development.
@amspook Жыл бұрын
@@horriblechronicdiseases Capcom already did that
@friendofp.24 Жыл бұрын
Wait til you realize every triple A game does this...
@friendofp.24 Жыл бұрын
@@horriblechronicdiseases Literally every game does this...
@lambdaspecialist_source Жыл бұрын
@@friendofp.24 not really and at the time HL2 was the first to do this
@Mr.Marbles Жыл бұрын
wow what the hell. i thought i didnt read it right when i saw larry heard was a character. big 80s / 90s house fan and this guy is a damn legend. his stuff as mister fingers is legendary in the scene.
@purpleourple Жыл бұрын
I hope Eli’s face actor gets to learn how famous half life 2 and his character became, or at least got to learn.
@notfreeman1776 Жыл бұрын
honestly im happy for Eli's model, hes going to live on for far longer than most of us people watching this video thanks to that chance encounter
@mutantwalnut3390 Жыл бұрын
12:52 “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”
@Detah_ 8 ай бұрын
Imagine seeing your face 20 years later pop out of a toilet
@wojtek4351 8 ай бұрын
making fun of a man on the phone call was uncalled for, he answered your question
@TheUltimateGun Жыл бұрын
7:27 "What are you waiting for freeman, a hug?" RIP
@red-hot Жыл бұрын
No way they made half life real
@TwoNumbahNiens Жыл бұрын
Gabe Newell liked these people so much he hired and contracted them to make a game about them.
@protocetid Жыл бұрын
the amount of stuff taken from real life makes the game half real heh
@zerbutterftw Ай бұрын
hlfaf lifbe twoo 😱😱
@okeoi Жыл бұрын
This is actually surprisingly wholesome. It's like you're just checking in on some old, estranged friends to see how they're doing.
@Luzum Жыл бұрын
this is such a good video for people who are fans of the series, the title alone intrigued me and the video definitely delivered, good job Richter keep doing what you're doing. Very few youtubers do what you do, and do it right.
@danbarnes4069 Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a Half-Life 2 movie with all the people who were the characters for the game.
@Myhandlehandlehandjahakoof Жыл бұрын
except for the fact that most of them are dead...
@kts0717 Жыл бұрын
Litterally i see the thumbnail and it Comes to my mind "its starts with"
@labenvenci1584 Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact : During development on a project intended as a potential Half-Life 3, Valve brought back in Frank Sheldon to re-scan his face for the Source 2 engine. The developers were very surprised when Sheldon, obviously familiar with the character his face had been used for, showed up to the photoshoot complete with a suit and tie. This project was ultimately cancelled due to the Source 2 engine's unfinished state, but the scans were re-used for Half-Life: Alyx. The original scans look more like Frank, until they morphed it to make it younger and look like his HL2 Counterpart.
@stuff31 11 ай бұрын
It's kind of bittersweet to think about the guy who Eli was modelled after. He was probably just a down-on-his-luck, homeless guy, desperate for any work that came his way. After that day he might not have ever remembered taking that job. We don't even know his name. For all we know, he's long since died, from one way or another. But he's always going to be remembered. In taking that job, he became Eli Vance, one of the most iconic characters in videogame history. And in that way, he's immortal.
@gaberino1 6 ай бұрын
Incredible that someone who’s face has been seen tens of millions of times could simply vanish into the pages of history so effortlessly
@raga.8950 Жыл бұрын
9:30 Larry's music was on GTA: San Andreas!
@pnrxyz Жыл бұрын
San Fierro Underground Radio (SF-UR) :)
@libertycitysfinest219 Жыл бұрын
That game also used real people's faces
@NoNameTaken117 Жыл бұрын
I still remember the time when I found out that the hl2 models were actual people, I was scared of that fact because I thought actual people were trapped in the game and I was killing them just for my enjoyment while they were being tortured... Anyways I had a good childhood!
@floor.mp3 Жыл бұрын
Incredibly well made video. You deserve more recognition :)
@RichterOvertime Жыл бұрын
Thank you :) I appreciate you saying that more than you know
@epicman1232 10 ай бұрын
dude, imagine your dad being used as a facescan in one of your favorite games. that'd be crazy!
@fiskburger Жыл бұрын
9:57 low key thought that was Trent Reznor
@John-mp4qc 11 ай бұрын
Male 07 is skibidi toilet
@facilityguardryan8561 Жыл бұрын
1:07 you are wrong, the most iconic character is Male07
@jaski4022 Жыл бұрын
Use normal people that you can casually see on the street as the faces of some of the most popular and beloved characters in videogame history is genius. It just makes the game much more realistic and grounded than using big actors with hundreds of movies.
@-Zakhiel- Жыл бұрын
Also, it costs almost nothing $
@fathergrigori-halflife-2 Жыл бұрын
6:33 someone said father grigori?
@YourLocalDrugDealer69 7 ай бұрын
*HOLY CRAP HO- OMG ITS THE MAD MAN HIMSELF*
@wealthybone2990 Жыл бұрын
Wait the characters faces are based on real people? So do most valve games actually use real faces? But this is actually really cool to know and I probably wouldn't never known and it's nice to know who these people are and what they're probably doing these days. Getting so used to half life it's like kinda uncanny seeing this people irl and I'd probably would mistaken them for their character lol.
@toomerboomer2772 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Chell in Portal 2 (not sure about the first game) is actually modeled after the same person who voices Samus in Smash Bros
@lol3342 Жыл бұрын
Hey its you!
@jensen1646 Жыл бұрын
Most game characters' faces are based on real faces. More and more companies are starting to use the same person for the face, voice, and mocap captures.
@CAMSLAYER13 Жыл бұрын
Even the burned corpse is a real person
@unoriginalperson72 Жыл бұрын
@@CAMSLAYER13 Old news bro, nobody cares anymore
@caitenten 5 ай бұрын
and after all these years barney still owes gorden a beer
@memes.mp3102 6 ай бұрын
Imagine being the guy behind male_07 and you see your face being plastered on a toilet just to rot the brains of millions of children
@atotiten Жыл бұрын
Imagine your teacher being g-man. Time...to submit your assignments doctor freeman.
@RadioMan2023 6 ай бұрын
The janitor after the toilet gets clogged: "prepare for...unforeseen consequences"
@BlueAmpharos Жыл бұрын
12:28 "The right man in the wrong place can make ALL the differrrenccccce in the world."
@endi7097 Жыл бұрын
the guy who became the G-man was "the right man, in the right place" we could say
@naturesquad9174 Жыл бұрын
1:51 I thought he was about to say something else here
@Kden21 Жыл бұрын
The Eli fact always makes me so sad, I really hope his face actor got to see the impact his likeness set for an entire industry
@letsgame9740 Жыл бұрын
12:12 it literally says in the end of half life Alex that he died may you RIP (insert unknown name here)
@oblivion5619 Жыл бұрын
9:22 YO THIS IS THE GUY THAT MADE THAT "Can You Feel It?" SONG IN GTA SAN ANDREAS LOL
@byyourstruly1599 Жыл бұрын
Woah, trippy. I was just looking up the face actors for Half-life 2 yesterday, and all of a sudden you made a video about it.
@bestbleb7264 10 ай бұрын
I feel bad for the ones who get seen by kids as skibidi toilets people
@jackjezewski7270 Жыл бұрын
I find it more surprising that the old man citizen is the most athletic I was not actually expecting that.
@JONNYTUBSTER Жыл бұрын
Shoutout Mr Fingers! I never knew he was the face of that NPC, that’s bloody amazing! Mr Fingers is such a pivotal producer in electronic music especially acid house. Can’t beat the amnesia compilation, bit dated but damn it’s fuckin great at where the squelchy, chunky house sound originates from
@urazoktay7940 8 ай бұрын
Amazing video, throughly enjoyed it. Thank you.
@Someone_1994 Жыл бұрын
thank you for making the video because i always had this thought and i never bothered to check until this video
@wolfcl0ck Жыл бұрын
Thank the heavens that you addressed the nasty misinformation about Eli's face actor being Larry Heard. I'm so sick of having to correct people on it so frequently. And you *know* damn well that the only reason people think Heard was Eli is because he was the only bearded black man in the "thanks for letting us use your face" section of the credits despite the obvious differences between the two.
@Freemelon07 Жыл бұрын
They don't even look the same! It takes 2 seconds to Google "hl2 faces" for a chart of the main character's faces and their references to show up.
@ar_xiv Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it's double misinformation because it's a totally different Larry Heard to begin with lol
@Freemelon07 Жыл бұрын
@@ar_xiv As in male_03's face?
@mello_bread_art Жыл бұрын
They shouldve gotten them together and made a movie. Also i can't imagine how i'd feel if i saw Dr. Kleiner on the street lol
@tob_mb3736 Жыл бұрын
BRO I am a HUGE house nerd and Larry Heard is one of my FAVORITE artists. TO HEAR HE WAS IN ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES???? Dude I love you, subscribed
@lemonbreadsf3828 Жыл бұрын
you should do a video on half life's voice actors. i think there's some pretty cool trivia to be found there (such as how barney's va also voiced mczee from microsoft 3d movie maker or how little amount of voice actors there are for hl1)
@AudioEsoterixxx Жыл бұрын
THE FACE OF THE MALE RESISTANCE FIGHTER IS LARRY FUCKING HEARD?? LEGENDARY DEEP HOUSE PRODUCER???
@crank1point3 7 ай бұрын
very informative video. awesome stuff man keep it up!
@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug 2 ай бұрын
5:56 What? Considering the situation, Father Grigori seemed very well balanced and friendly; I trusted him immediately.
@pavlotretiakov2130 Жыл бұрын
Rip to a real one😔✊️
@creepersammyb2926 Жыл бұрын
oh god seeing the faces of the characters alongside the real faces feels so.... uncanny.... but AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME.
@creepersammyb2926 Жыл бұрын
they're all just so..... *accurate.*
@creepersammyb2926 Жыл бұрын
I'd immediately recognize the people whose faces were used for G-Man, Eli Vance, and Kleiner. It's insane!
@zaammy3584 Жыл бұрын
as much as I think Ted Cohrt is probably a swell guy, that photo of him is just deeply unsettling for some reason.
@surytrap Жыл бұрын
"lets start with most iconic character of all" so who is the real male_07 "the g-man-"
@veryregularname Жыл бұрын
I kind of wish somebody added more variety to Half-life 2 NPCs by using faces from ThisPersonDoesNotExist
@BonziBuddy. Жыл бұрын
I had no idea Larry Heard was the model for male 03. He's one of my favorite house music artists. He released music under the name of Mr Fingers, among several others. "Can You Feel It?" was actually on SF-UR in GTA San Andreas.
@jjforcebreaker Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Great work!
@wailmutt Жыл бұрын
0:09 perfect wording for gorgeous freeman
@umi9050 Жыл бұрын
10:11 ngl he looks like mike shinoda
@GabrielDonhauser Жыл бұрын
The voice of GMAN is also the same voice of Barney, Scott Lynch play both of them
@wholefttheydogatcentralpoint Жыл бұрын
I know it's not really the focus of the channel, but I'd love to see a video like this about the l4d characters! Just finished watching, and I gotta say, the situation with Eli's face actor really is quite an injustice... Even outside of in-game lore, half life has an... Interesting history.
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