Seven hour war would be just goresome. Imagine you're in a city during the war and everywhere are ashes, smoke, fire from collapsed buildings, destroyed air support. And then dead bodies of those who couldn't run away fast enough. Damn valve knows how to create a story
@@mariodario1427 I will say in the accual half life games the military did pretty alright with the xen forces the problem was that the xen forces numbers were far greater then theres so they just got outnumbered by the sheer number of xen forces
But Im confuse ....😅 Headcrab zombies has their mouth on their chest and body right?? The sharp things? How they bite from their mouth??? I thought their face was hidden to the headcrab
People forget that the HEV suit was a powered exo suit with life-saving tech inside. Outside of Gordon's natural survival skills and Hazard course training. As the player, we see Vorts mid threatening enemies and zombies/headcrabs as low ones. But Gordon happened to have the right gear at the wrong time for surviving what he faced. It was a small miracle that Barney and Shepard made it, lacking what Gordon had on him when all went to hell.
@@lord-of-roses6647 it was more of a high tech vest with some features of the hev suit. But shepherd was badass and was way more trained the Gordon was in heavy combat. That the time I wrote that. I forgot what the corporal did and survived.
@@zombiehunter501Well, were it not for Gman, Shepard wasn't going to make it. He would've been at ground zero of the nuclear strike had he not been plucked from the warzone by Gman. Granted, he's been in stasis for 20+ years, so he's basically dead.
@@zombiehunter501actually the air vehicle he was going to get into got shot down by black ops later in the game, so he would have definitely died if not for gman closing the door
This single handedly one of the best depictions of Black Mesa's messy withdrawl I've seen. My jaw dropped watching the marine get overpowered and torn apart by those zombies. I loved the cinematography in this: the marines move around and respond in a manner that if it wasn't the source engine would look positively life like. The only exclusion to great movement would be the alien grunts: but it's such a small moment that it's entirely forgivable due to the raw passion and eye for detail exhibited everywhere.
@@joaconsdude you did the grunts and the aliens so well though. the zombies and the headcrabs move disorganized and in hordes but the nihilanth's armies of vorts and grunts made a coordinated assault. grunts stood back providing support fire with their hive hands while the vortigaunt slaves worked as cannon fodder and did most of the dirty work really shows not just that they arent there only fighting a stupid alien horde, but an alien horde AND a coordinated alien assault with tactics and means of warfare beyond their training or understanding.
Not only for the smooth realistic gmod animations that you rarely see in most gmod animations, i also loved the part where you incorperate the wounded HECU soldier radio into the animation. 11/10 Masterpiece animations.
I'm amazed. You managed to preserve and flesh out the HORROR of Half-Life's storyline, which a lot of players seem to have forgotten because we're so used to playing the game we basically blaze through it like some sort of action shooter; and we don't stop to consider how HORRIFYING the whole thing must've been to the characters in-game.
What I always found creepy about HL zombies is that if you pay attention, you can hear words among their moaning like "help me" and "oh god". Makes you think that the people are still there, trapped in their own, mutating bodies. Always made me feel sad about them and I saw putting them down as an act of mercy. You've really showed that side of zombies in this film. Excellent job.
@Thanawin Saiwongpanya I wouldn't animate in sfm if you wanna make animation like this. Sfm can't handle the models and the sounds. It's too old. I in the middle of changing from sfm to gmod
@@mr.springlock3934 SFM is old but it's still a capable animation software, there are pros and cons to animating on sfm or gmod but either way if you feel comfortable animating in gmod go ahead, sfm? yeah sure go for it. What matters in the end are the animator themselves, no matter which software you chose your still going have to put in the time and effort into making animations. no BS talents just pure skill that you earned through hard-work, learning from mistakes and being dedicated to turn a silly idea into an animation. Case point, if it works for you. Go for it.
@@rebelsolution8524 Where's the combine augmentation part? It never says anything about that.. Even then we can't say that every single one of them are dead, there's a slim population of personnel still recognized as marines most likely.
@@software927 "Where's the combine augmentation part? It never says anything about that.." It wasn't mentioned in the video, and that comment of mine. Well, you don't want to know what happened to the HECU Marines during the Seven Hour War. According to Half Life 2, what you don't understand that earth government already surrendered to the Combines after they lost the Seven Hour War. Most the outlying human military personal surrendered for joining the Combine to be part of Civil Protection and transformed into Overwatch Soldiers. "It never says anything about that.." You seems to be confused from your responses, if you look at the news article headline from Black Mesa East. Eli already mentioned that part to Freeman why earth government surrender to the Combines. Not just HECU Marines, but the entire human Armed Forces branches itself lost the war. "Even then we can't say that every single one of them are dead, there's a slim population of personnel still recognized as marines most likely." I didn't say they are all dead, most of them died, captured, and surrendered to the Combines. But there are dozens of human military resistances DID formed up a organization to fight against the Combines, and especially HECU Marine survivor such as Adrian Shepherd. But he's already inside the statis by the Gman. There's already a fangame where you played as a HECU Marine survivor such as Adrian Shepherd such as, "Half Life 2 Through the City" take place during Half Life 2 and "Half Life 2 Opposing Force 2 (It was meant to be cancelled and now it's called, "Urban Chaos.") take place during the Seven Hour War. Link of Half Life 2 Through the City Demo: th-cam.com/video/DPKNRbJJRXg/w-d-xo.html Link of Half Life 2 Urban Chaos: th-cam.com/video/x3IvJoL1SXA/w-d-xo.html For the rest of the HECU Marines survivors during in Half Life 2, my thought maybe they joined the Lambda Rebels or formed up a resistance to fight against the Combines OFFSCREEN from the game. If you have any questions, just let me know. Alright? Thank You.
@@rebelsolution8524 I know the lore I don't need a new recap and you did, in fact, say all of them died. I'm just saying that they weren't all turned into combine (the augmented section).
It's a horrifying thought, to think that the fortifications they put to prevent anyone from escaping Black Mesa. Kinda also backfired on them. Especially, as they started to lose ground.
God I love each little detail poured into this, such as 1:52 showing that the PCV can tank vorti hits to the torso but doesn't protect the rest of the body as the HEV does.
Definitely a masterpiece! Brutally, darkly and dramatically. Feel sorry for the HECU unit, that left for die. Moreover, they died brutally - not like heroes.
@@concept5631it’s what we soldiers do, we follow orders, don’t like it? Then don’t be apart of a country cuz it’s what every soldier does to serve and protect
This is by far one of the greatest sfm short films I've ever seen. I don't know what else to say, this is, this is perfection. the use of prexisting voice lines from other games to portray the HECU grunts we see here, the angles, the realism in how they fought and reacted, the emotions in this... just perfect. I always wanted to see something like this, and you made it come to life in the best way possible. thank you, man, this really made my day
I never took into account just how dangerous and deadly the Xen creatures are. Playing as Gordon Freeman, you feel practically invincible as long as you keep your suit power up. This does a phenomenal job showing the true reality of it
yeah in half life its easy to see all the zombies or headcrabs as total pushovers especially considering headcrabs are small, slow, and dont do nothing to you other than leap at you and chip away your health. but to anyone who isnt gordon headcrabs are a fucking nightmare creature. small, relatively agile, and worst of all if one manages to latch onto your head its literally game over. and you best hope to hell theres someone nearby who will put you out of your misery fast before you wake up and experience an existence of unimaginable excruciation
The texture quality, yet nice camera-work and action, really reminds me of the in-game cutscenes from World in Conflict. Also helps that the gear the HECU and the US military depicted in that game look visually similar.
But this is not even Seven Hour War, 7h War- is war between All army’s of all human countrys and combine invaders army, and in this video is war between Hecu and Xen Army. Xen creatures were trying to save from combine’s, so they were teleported on earth by Nihilanth. Imagine how 7h war would look like
@@Scorch052 The 7 Hour war was months after the incident at Black Mesa. By the time of the 7 Hour War, the Earth had been plagued by portal storms and the likes.
I love the usage of voice lines from different games (noticed the 60% combat effectiveness line from Modern Warfare 2) which kept the scene feeling varied and realistic. Fantastic job.
This was fucking amazing. I can’t even begin to fathom how difficult and long this was to make, but you somehow perfectly portrayed the grim situation the HECU were thrust into with barely any dialogue. I felt more sympathy for these marines than most overinflated TV series and movies. I think the simplicity of the story and characters, as well as knowing it was made by a single person makes you appreciate it far more. Knowing this was made as purely a passion project adds to it too.
I feel like vortigaunts would be completely ineffective against modern human small arms, I mean they don't use cover and take a long time to charge up their energy attacks. I always thought of the failures at black mesa being a result of the marines being cut-off and surprised by the teleportation technology, and the heavier, more armored units like the grunts
Nah, Skin can be pretty tough and Vortigaunts never felt the need to wear protective clothing, even 20 years later in HL2, that tells me their hide is thick meaning 556 is probably not that great against them. 308 and Higher calibres with more punch are probably a better pick and that's if they don't fuckin' predict your presence and vaporise you like the insignificant human flesh toy you are lol
They were being suppressed by the volley of fire by the grunts and taken out by the pin point lethal accuracy of the vortigaunts. Pretty good strategy I must say.
Not sure what or who deleted my comment, but I am just gonna say, Vortigaunts got tough hides and psychic abilities and therefore HECU didn't have the firing power to take on Vortigaunt and Xen creatures which some were tougher then the Vorts. In general, I estimated you'd want a higher caliber of bullet to more reliably punch through their natural armour and to mover quicker cos the psychic powers are murder. *Cross Fingers not deleted again*
You not only made the headcrabs extremely useful but the zombies as well. Also seeing how much tension the marines were going through in this was incredible.
I feel bad for both HECU and Zombies, the amount of emotions that i felt when the last Hecu troop saw that one zombie, screaming in pain, not being even capable of controling his own body, he only screams, while the Hecu cannot move, he's bleeding, weakened, about to fade away. This is a masterpiece.
This is amazing, truly one of a kind. This is probably my favorite piece of HECU lore I've ever seen. This is a whole movie. The execution is flawless, this deserves to be up there with the greats. The fact that it only has 726 likes is insane. This is excellent.
Holy. Shit. The way you presented the pressure and TERROR of the cascade literally sent me down a lot of shivers. I was afraid to not suddenly get jumpscared, that's how tense this all was. This made me feel sad for marines even more. Poor dudes thought this will be just a standard operation, but no, that is a global conflict between worlds. I almost shed a tear watching them die horribly. Salute for HECU, you have my respect. This is truly a masterpiece among Half Life animations! You did a phenomenal job and I hope this blows up in the future!
I love that you added a simple yet forgotten attention to detail that most people get wrong! The basic trigger safety, the way you make the Marines fight better than most animations, the way you animate the Marines (realistic), the Marines saying Gunny (term in the USMC for Gunnery Sergeant) and the despair. This is excellent! Bravo!
i love that this shows the reality of the horror the HECU had to face when dealing with black mesa as a whole. pretty sure the last thing they thought they'd be fighting was aliens. This was amazing man. very good.
I love how you incorporated acutal radio chatter from the game to your story. This must be one of the most dreadful depictions of the Black Mesa Incident
The scene at 8:26 is some of the most brutal stuff I've ever seen from these Black Mesa animations, Honestly this whole video is a different caliber with how gritty and brutal it all is.
I'm actually flabbergasted by the quality of this video. It really just shows that everyone in the half-life universe, every "bad" guy in the first game was all just following orders, not just some mindless machine aimed to kill the player and everyone else. This really shows how the H.E.C.U was absolutely not prepare for the horrors black mesa was going to bring and were trying their best to control the situation at black mesa against the Xenians.
This video really emphasizes the reality of the Resonance Cascade incident. If you're not Gordon "more luck than Master Chief" Freeman everything happening in Half Life 1 is equivalent to an apocalyptic sci fi horror movie.
This animation shows perfectly why I love the Black Mesa incident. We've seen depictions of a warzone in many works of fiction, but the Black Mesa one is my favorite by far, for a simple reason: It was a lost war. We can see how the incident goes from the HECU taking over and controlling Black Mesa relatively well, to how they are starting to lose control, and finishing with them having to retreat from Black Mesa in a hurry, heck, I might even argue it's not a retreat, is flat-out an escape. A rush to get the fuck out of there. This is why I cherish mods that show more of this catastrophe, it's just so fascinating, watching three entirely different factions fighting each other.
I actually really enjoyed this film. I really liked the aspect of how everyone who is in shock is either frozen or just completely oblivious to their surroundings. 10/10 video, would recommend.
This is it, we have the three people that we all need. We have all played through the original, and the expansions, and animators like you bring the vision of what our imaginations tossed out there. Taking perceived memories into a visual all of us itched to view. You took the idea of the HECU, the force that felt had the power and confidence to contain anything, and showed the visceral fear and breakdown of what was supposed to be routine. Animux - Gordon's Storyline (Unforseen Consequences) BAST Brushie - Barney Calhoun (Insecurity) You: Opposing Force. You all portray the actions and events during the Black Mesa Incident in the respective of the groups: Gordon=Fear and Confusion. Barney=Normality Folding. HECU=No Plan B.
The moment I saw that guy lean against the wall I had a feeling he's going to be the one with the destroyed IFAK and when he reached for the radio I just knew. It was depressing listening to it in-game and seeing it in animated form makes it even more sad. It was really cool hearing the LZ Sparrow distress call (which I also caught in the game just like many other people I'm sure) and seeing an interpretation of how things went down. Amazing work
Man this is phenominally good. It's amazing how much emotion you are conveying using the crude facial expressions. Combat scenes are really good too and you can really feel the hopelessness of the soliders here. Great job!
Some models in GMod have easier to understand facial bones like "mouth O" which makes their mouth go "oh" and also SFM ports have good facial bones unlike HL2's primitive ones
Looking back at this I appreciate how you portrayed the weapons used by the HECU as being different from each other in this machinima like the M16 and MP5 along with the Glock and Beretta pistols rather than just having them all use MP5s and shotguns as seen in the games.
This is one of the best SFMs out there. I clicked on this video out of curiosity and i was blown away by the level of details. First time the whole thing was depicted with all the gore and chaos. Fantastic job. Valve should take a look at this and start considering a TV series, especially for the Oposing force. Talented creators like you show what is possible.
Tragic and truly hooking piece of art, the true nature of the individuals living this situations. One of the best animations I have ever seen. Your deserve more for this talent and effort.
My God, now the line where a soldier says "There's not frontline with these things" in Black Mesa became more terrifying. Imagine your squad makes a perimeter just for the enemy to teleport right behind you, it must've been a nightmare. Also Zombies and Headcrabs are very dangerous in numbers, with that in mind just imagine being unlucky enough to encounter a single Gonome.
Oh my god, i never seen a horrific scenario about Black Mesa. I was take a very pleasure to see this masterpiece. You create a really anxious moment and we very seen the scare of the guy. You deserve a lot of view for that
I'll chip in and comment. I genuinely love how you gave Black Mesa a Hue City feel in terms of casualties and futility and hope you make more content. As someone currently writing and working with an artist on a graphic novel, I appreciate what you did to tell the story visually as well as through characters' emotions.
Everyone talks about head crabs, but good god the sheer impact from vort's blast is terrifying. Imagine being trough all your combat training and months of preparing l, and then you get equivalent of getting fucking smithed by God himself.
The king of Gmod animation is back and bigger than ever! How the hell do you do it, Jo?! Incredible, awesome work and an absolute delight to watch! Bravo! 👏👏👏🤘
I absolutely ADORE how you done all of this and how good of a portrayal this is of how really fucked and unorganized shit got, and I also especially love the gore effects and how the zombies being really terrifying ( headcrabs too! ) 20/10 short film, it's like something how I imagine my npc battles go in gmod but animated and done really well , and the fact all this was done in gmod too as well makes it all the more got DAYMN impressive.
Its terrifying to think about. These men were forced to do a speechless act when they only wanted to follow orders, and to think that the families of these people will never see the face of thier husband due to the nuke is sad. These brave soldiers gave thier life for nothing. They weren't remembered. They weren't appreciated. They weren't successful in stopping the invasion.
Funny enough, I was watching a video on all of the radio transmissions + EAS messages just to re-listen to the beautiful voice acting, and I just kinda stumbled onto this video after recognizing "LZ Sparrow". Though it's a damn shame to watch the final moments of Goose 4, you did a great job animating this in Gmod! Always impressed seeing your work.
I genuinely thought this was SFM at first... the cinematography is amazing and very high quality. You made me feel for these soldiers when in any other circumstances in-game would make me feel nothing but disgust for them It just goes to show that literally everyone is a victim in the HL universe... There's no true malcontent enemy (except maybe Gman and the Combine) but everyone else, (both human and Xenian) was forced by circumstance. Vortigaunts never asked to be enslaved and be apart of a brainwashed army, headcrabs, houndeyes, bullsquids etc. Who are just poor wildlife aliens going off of their instincts end up transported to earth and being in an environment they're not familiar with, HECU definitely got it rough having to be ordered to gundown unarmed civilans which definitely lowered their morale and ability to fight effectively, even the Black Ops are just doing what's being expected of them in the hopes they can fix and stop the invasion from spreading any further, It's all seriously FUBAR for any and all of them, all because of a man in a blue suit and an interdimensonal totalitarian empire...
Amazing. Really shows how desperate the struggle became, and how outmatched these marines were. It also makes me think about the amount of real world time that's passed since the game was released; 24-25 years, and back in 1999 (IIRC the year the resonance cascade happened) a lot of the things we associate with US infantry were relatively new or didn't even exist yet. That's one of the things I love about HL, the technology and clothing developed along totally different lines than in our world. Time was essentially frozen for human civilization, having lost all manufacturing capability, and then the Combine took over. Being pragmatic and efficient, they took what we had and grafted their technology onto it. I'd bet these guys served as the archetypes for later Combine soldiers
I love the foreboding sense the head crab soldier gives off You as the viewer know it’s gonna jump up suddenly and start attacking them. But they don’t know that
I say this every time he uploads but this guy is criminally underrated, the part when the headcrab zombie raises back up near the end of the film was like straight out of a horror film. Amazing work
That was golden, mate. Loved how it swung from the confusion and anxiety at the messy retreat to the horror of the Black Mesa interior. Preemo stuff my guy
Nightmare fuel when the head crab zombies just chomped on him. I wouldn't even be able to imagine the pain. Jesus Christ. Well time to watch some memes before bed! But honestly, Great work. Had my heart pumping for a good 20 minutes after this.
I remember playing Black Mesa and coming across a radio and listening to the "My IFAK's gone" conversation. That hit fucking hard. I tried imagining what must've happened to him, and lo and behold I come across a beautifully-made short film that shows me.
I'd almost tear up because of how amazing and well-made this was. Especially since I'm a fan of the lore. Thanks to people like you, Half-Life never truly dies (pun sorta intended).
A very bleak, and realistic view (I think) of what it would be like to face the Zen invasion. You go in as a bad-ass HECU and before you know it, you are desperate to remain alive. The tag-team work between the zombie-fied soldiers and head crabs was creepy good.
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Seeing how extreme, gory, violent, and terrifying the Black Mesa incident was, imagine the Seven Hour War...
Seven hour war would be just goresome. Imagine you're in a city during the war and everywhere are ashes, smoke, fire from collapsed buildings, destroyed air support. And then dead bodies of those who couldn't run away fast enough. Damn valve knows how to create a story
@@mariodario1427 I will say in the accual half life games the military did pretty alright with the xen forces the problem was that the xen forces numbers were far greater then theres so they just got outnumbered by the sheer number of xen forces
@@abhikergaming7783 also portals opened like around the world in many locations so no matter how powerful we were we wouldn't defend earth
@@mariodario1427 Exactly
@@abhikergaming7783 Not to mention the combine intervening in the war did a number on the global forces.
The grunt carrying his buddy with a headcrab attached to his head makes me feel so sad :(
real bro its like he has no idea that hes as good as dead at that point but doesnt want to abandon his guy
Man spent the last moments of his life unknowingly saving his squadmate from the agonizing existence of being a headcrab zombie. What a lad.
I think bro knew :(
@@Jonathan-om1wq Maybe
I think he knew because of the screams of the soldier
@@Sisbrolife8183 Yeah. You can hear the marine crying "Kill me! Oh god!"
The way you have the headcrabs disable marines, and then having the zombies get at them. My god, I absolutely love your usage of em.
thanks for noticing it~
@@joacons ayo whats with the ~
@@sogthunder Im fucking dead
@@sogthunder what~
But Im confuse ....😅
Headcrab zombies has their mouth on their chest and body right?? The sharp things?
How they bite from their mouth??? I thought their face was hidden to the headcrab
This really gives me a perspective on how much of a force Gordon Freeman is throughout this chaos
People forget that the HEV suit was a powered exo suit with life-saving tech inside. Outside of Gordon's natural survival skills and Hazard course training. As the player, we see Vorts mid threatening enemies and zombies/headcrabs as low ones. But Gordon happened to have the right gear at the wrong time for surviving what he faced. It was a small miracle that Barney and Shepard made it, lacking what Gordon had on him when all went to hell.
@zombiehunter501 Shepard's armor was mostly equivalent to Gordon's, though. Only Barney had an ordinary kevlar vest
@@lord-of-roses6647 it was more of a high tech vest with some features of the hev suit. But shepherd was badass and was way more trained the Gordon was in heavy combat. That the time I wrote that. I forgot what the corporal did and survived.
@@zombiehunter501Well, were it not for Gman, Shepard wasn't going to make it. He would've been at ground zero of the nuclear strike had he not been plucked from the warzone by Gman.
Granted, he's been in stasis for 20+ years, so he's basically dead.
@@zombiehunter501actually the air vehicle he was going to get into got shot down by black ops later in the game, so he would have definitely died if not for gman closing the door
its creepy how realistic the people are, you can see the fear in their faces and eyes
This single handedly one of the best depictions of Black Mesa's messy withdrawl I've seen. My jaw dropped watching the marine get overpowered and torn apart by those zombies.
I loved the cinematography in this: the marines move around and respond in a manner that if it wasn't the source engine would look positively life like. The only exclusion to great movement would be the alien grunts: but it's such a small moment that it's entirely forgivable due to the raw passion and eye for detail exhibited everywhere.
yeah I tried to animate the alien grunts myself, but it was impossible to get their firing particles without using NPCs :'c
It's funny cause you don't really see it in HL1, in fact it looks like the marines were winning until later on there was a switch.
Kriegsmarine :)
@@joaconsdude you did the grunts and the aliens so well though. the zombies and the headcrabs move disorganized and in hordes but the nihilanth's armies of vorts and grunts made a coordinated assault. grunts stood back providing support fire with their hive hands while the vortigaunt slaves worked as cannon fodder and did most of the dirty work
really shows not just that they arent there only fighting a stupid alien horde, but an alien horde AND a coordinated alien assault with tactics and means of warfare beyond their training or understanding.
Not only for the smooth realistic gmod animations that you rarely see in most gmod animations, i also loved the part where you incorperate the wounded HECU soldier radio into the animation.
11/10 Masterpiece animations.
its MTB 👀
THIS IS MADE ON GMOD??
@@ImJustNes yea i guess
@@joacons dude, your job is awesome, I swear to god I thought this was SFM
I'm amazed.
You managed to preserve and flesh out the HORROR of Half-Life's storyline, which a lot of players seem to have forgotten because we're so used to playing the game we basically blaze through it like some sort of action shooter; and we don't stop to consider how HORRIFYING the whole thing must've been to the characters in-game.
Dying marine: "IFAK's gone."
Radioman: "Say again?"
Dying Marine: "My IFAK's gone..."
That's something you never want to hear in the field.
Echo 3 Juliet
Echo 3 Juliet and Echo 5 Romeo.
What is an IFAK?
@@JGgamerreset Individual First Aid Kit.
@@jjtninjaThanks bro 👍
Really captured the “Oh crap everything has gone wrong and we are now desperate” feeling with this animation
What I always found creepy about HL zombies is that if you pay attention, you can hear words among their moaning like "help me" and "oh god". Makes you think that the people are still there, trapped in their own, mutating bodies. Always made me feel sad about them and I saw putting them down as an act of mercy. You've really showed that side of zombies in this film. Excellent job.
100%
They are conscious.
Look at the zombies faces without the headcrab in HL Alyx, they made this sh3t even more disturbing in this game.
Jesus, this guy is only a few years older then me, and is already pumping out works of art. I gotta step up my game.
You still have time to change your paths, young one. Don't make the same mistakes I made~
@@joacons changing path to animate in sfm instead of gmod like you did
@Thanawin Saiwongpanya I wouldn't animate in sfm if you wanna make animation like this. Sfm can't handle the models and the sounds. It's too old. I in the middle of changing from sfm to gmod
@@mr.springlock3934 SFM is old but it's still a capable animation software, there are pros and cons to animating on sfm or gmod but either way if you feel comfortable animating in gmod go ahead, sfm? yeah sure go for it.
What matters in the end are the animator themselves, no matter which software you chose your still going have to put in the time and effort into making animations. no BS talents just pure skill that you earned through hard-work, learning from mistakes and being dedicated to turn a silly idea into an animation.
Case point, if it works for you. Go for it.
@@mr.springlock3934 did you see Reticulon and his films man
2:06 the soldier fusing with the fence causing it to get stuck is so sick... i love it!
For those HECU Marines who died in the field, I salute you.
Imagine being HECU marine barely getting out of black mesa then the 7 hour war kicks off...
@@Vrooto Sadley they all died in Seven Hour War and transformed themselves to become Combines. But not all of them. :'(
@@rebelsolution8524 Where's the combine augmentation part? It never says anything about that.. Even then we can't say that every single one of them are dead, there's a slim population of personnel still recognized as marines most likely.
@@software927
"Where's the combine augmentation part? It never says anything about that.."
It wasn't mentioned in the video, and that comment of mine. Well, you don't want to know what happened to the HECU Marines during the Seven Hour War. According to Half Life 2, what you don't understand that earth government already surrendered to the Combines after they lost the Seven Hour War. Most the outlying human military personal surrendered for joining the Combine to be part of Civil Protection and transformed into Overwatch Soldiers.
"It never says anything about that.."
You seems to be confused from your responses, if you look at the news article headline from Black Mesa East. Eli already mentioned that part to Freeman why earth government surrender to the Combines. Not just HECU Marines, but the entire human Armed Forces branches itself lost the war.
"Even then we can't say that every single one of them are dead, there's a slim population of personnel still recognized as marines most likely."
I didn't say they are all dead, most of them died, captured, and surrendered to the Combines. But there are dozens of human military resistances DID formed up a organization to fight against the Combines, and especially HECU Marine survivor such as Adrian Shepherd. But he's already inside the statis by the Gman.
There's already a fangame where you played as a HECU Marine survivor such as Adrian Shepherd such as, "Half Life 2 Through the City" take place during Half Life 2 and "Half Life 2 Opposing Force 2 (It was meant to be cancelled and now it's called, "Urban Chaos.") take place during the Seven Hour War.
Link of Half Life 2 Through the City Demo: th-cam.com/video/DPKNRbJJRXg/w-d-xo.html
Link of Half Life 2 Urban Chaos: th-cam.com/video/x3IvJoL1SXA/w-d-xo.html
For the rest of the HECU Marines survivors during in Half Life 2, my thought maybe they joined the Lambda Rebels or formed up a resistance to fight against the Combines OFFSCREEN from the game.
If you have any questions, just let me know. Alright?
Thank You.
@@rebelsolution8524 I know the lore I don't need a new recap and you did, in fact, say all of them died. I'm just saying that they weren't all turned into combine (the augmented section).
It's a horrifying thought, to think that the fortifications they put to prevent anyone from escaping Black Mesa. Kinda also backfired on them. Especially, as they started to lose ground.
God I love each little detail poured into this, such as 1:52 showing that the PCV can tank vorti hits to the torso but doesn't protect the rest of the body as the HEV does.
Definitely a masterpiece!
Brutally, darkly and dramatically. Feel sorry for the HECU unit, that left for die. Moreover, they died brutally - not like heroes.
Su objetivo principal era controlar la amenaza y silenciar a todos dentro del complejo. No fueron muy buenos que digamos xd.
@@ingenioj
They were just following orders.
@@TheLane1976Bro... Don't start.
@@ingeniojHonestly? I would rather be shot than torn apart.
@@concept5631it’s what we soldiers do, we follow orders, don’t like it? Then don’t be apart of a country cuz it’s what every soldier does to serve and protect
This is by far one of the greatest sfm short films I've ever seen. I don't know what else to say, this is, this is perfection. the use of prexisting voice lines from other games to portray the HECU grunts we see here, the angles, the realism in how they fought and reacted, the emotions in this... just perfect. I always wanted to see something like this, and you made it come to life in the best way possible. thank you, man, this really made my day
thankss
This is Gmod tho
@@joacons ah, I thought all film making in gmod had to be through sfm
@@heyythatsprettygood8763 Gmod animations and SFM animations are different
@@Ushankov damn
@@heyythatsprettygood8763 Yep
This guy sacrifices his own flesh and blood, his own soul to deliver us art. I salute thee.
Always appreciate good Black Mesa videos, they are rare these days
daiumnn Thanksss!!
@@joaconswould be nice to see the black ops perspective
A whole dad gum year
The fact you guys managed to persevere and not abandon it says quite a lot…
Take a break! You deserve it!
nahhhh
Oh hi val.
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this is a perfect portrayal of how terrifying black mesa really was, especially for the HECU marines
I never took into account just how dangerous and deadly the Xen creatures are. Playing as Gordon Freeman, you feel practically invincible as long as you keep your suit power up. This does a phenomenal job showing the true reality of it
yeah in half life its easy to see all the zombies or headcrabs as total pushovers especially considering headcrabs are small, slow, and dont do nothing to you other than leap at you and chip away your health. but to anyone who isnt gordon headcrabs are a fucking nightmare creature. small, relatively agile, and worst of all if one manages to latch onto your head its literally game over. and you best hope to hell theres someone nearby who will put you out of your misery fast before you wake up and experience an existence of unimaginable excruciation
The texture quality, yet nice camera-work and action, really reminds me of the in-game cutscenes from World in Conflict. Also helps that the gear the HECU and the US military depicted in that game look visually similar.
I have never in my entire life seen a better representation of the abject hopelessness of the Seven Hour War than this video.
But this is not even Seven Hour War, 7h War- is war between All army’s of all human countrys and combine invaders army, and in this video is war between Hecu and Xen Army. Xen creatures were trying to save from combine’s, so they were teleported on earth by Nihilanth. Imagine how 7h war would look like
@@МихаилОднолетко I would consider this the opening stages of the war. I never really considered the Black Mesa Incident separated from it.
@@Scorch052 The 7 Hour war was months after the incident at Black Mesa. By the time of the 7 Hour War, the Earth had been plagued by portal storms and the likes.
@@brendanmoore5804 the 7 hour war was directly after black mesa from what I've heard
@@daveywaveypavey The Earth and its governments were weakened from the portal storms that ravaged earth along with Xen flora and fauna.
I love the usage of voice lines from different games (noticed the 60% combat effectiveness line from Modern Warfare 2) which kept the scene feeling varied and realistic. Fantastic job.
This was fucking amazing. I can’t even begin to fathom how difficult and long this was to make, but you somehow perfectly portrayed the grim situation the HECU were thrust into with barely any dialogue. I felt more sympathy for these marines than most overinflated TV series and movies.
I think the simplicity of the story and characters, as well as knowing it was made by a single person makes you appreciate it far more. Knowing this was made as purely a passion project adds to it too.
I feel like vortigaunts would be completely ineffective against modern human small arms, I mean they don't use cover and take a long time to charge up their energy attacks. I always thought of the failures at black mesa being a result of the marines being cut-off and surprised by the teleportation technology, and the heavier, more armored units like the grunts
with dozens of them coming from the front, back, sides and above, its dangerous anyway~
Nah, Skin can be pretty tough and Vortigaunts never felt the need to wear protective clothing, even 20 years later in HL2, that tells me their hide is thick meaning 556 is probably not that great against them. 308 and Higher calibres with more punch are probably a better pick and that's if they don't fuckin' predict your presence and vaporise you like the insignificant human flesh toy you are lol
They were being suppressed by the volley of fire by the grunts and taken out by the pin point lethal accuracy of the vortigaunts. Pretty good strategy I must say.
Not sure what or who deleted my comment, but I am just gonna say, Vortigaunts got tough hides and psychic abilities and therefore HECU didn't have the firing power to take on Vortigaunt and Xen creatures which some were tougher then the Vorts.
In general, I estimated you'd want a higher caliber of bullet to more reliably punch through their natural armour and to mover quicker cos the psychic powers are murder.
*Cross Fingers not deleted again*
You not only made the headcrabs extremely useful but the zombies as well.
Also seeing how much tension the marines were going through in this was incredible.
I feel bad for both HECU and Zombies, the amount of emotions that i felt when the last Hecu troop saw that one zombie, screaming in pain, not being even capable of controling his own body, he only screams, while the Hecu cannot move, he's bleeding, weakened, about to fade away.
This is a masterpiece.
i really want adrian sheperd to come back because he's one of the most badass hecu members there are and he was just a corporal
This is amazing, truly one of a kind. This is probably my favorite piece of HECU lore I've ever seen. This is a whole movie. The execution is flawless, this deserves to be up there with the greats. The fact that it only has 726 likes is insane. This is excellent.
sharing it on places like reddit would help :x
@@joacons I can do that
1:49 I cannot stop rewatching this part, it's just so unbelievably smooth I love it.
Holy. Shit.
The way you presented the pressure and TERROR of the cascade literally sent me down a lot of shivers. I was afraid to not suddenly get jumpscared, that's how tense this all was.
This made me feel sad for marines even more. Poor dudes thought this will be just a standard operation, but no, that is a global conflict between worlds. I almost shed a tear watching them die horribly. Salute for HECU, you have my respect.
This is truly a masterpiece among Half Life animations! You did a phenomenal job and I hope this blows up in the future!
The existential dread is just amazing. The brutal reality of the Resonance Cascade makes you realize just how horrible the 7 Hour War must have been.
I love that you added a simple yet forgotten attention to detail that most people get wrong! The basic trigger safety, the way you make the Marines fight better than most animations, the way you animate the Marines (realistic), the Marines saying Gunny (term in the USMC for Gunnery Sergeant) and the despair. This is excellent! Bravo!
Dear god, the zombie sounds will forever haunt me, just from how much pain there is in them.
i love that this shows the reality of the horror the HECU had to face when dealing with black mesa as a whole. pretty sure the last thing they thought they'd be fighting was aliens. This was amazing man. very good.
man i have no words, this is a masterpiece
the animation was smooth as butter, the dialogue, the references
I always wondered how could the well trained marines be infested by head crabs if not by ambush.. now I know the answer is during chaos.
I love how you incorporated acutal radio chatter from the game to your story. This must be one of the most dreadful depictions of the Black Mesa Incident
I like how you made the person in the end die slowly instead of "Oh IFAKs gone. Guess I'll die." crap.
10/10.
The scene at 8:26 is some of the most brutal stuff I've ever seen from these Black Mesa animations, Honestly this whole video is a different caliber with how gritty and brutal it all is.
One of the best things about your animations is the ability to depict a side losing but still make it extremely enjoyable to watch
This is complete masterpiece. Lore details, use of assets, tension, story, Just the best HECU fan animation I saw.
The HECU didn't stand a chance, this war was lost since the beginning.
Awesome work!
God... When I was playing the game I was so confused on why the military pulled out. This really shows why,
Can't say I have ever seen a HECU focused video like this before. I would watch a movie lenght one of this.
This adaptation of the head crab zombies were even more terrefying than the ones we got in game.
I'm actually flabbergasted by the quality of this video. It really just shows that everyone in the half-life universe, every "bad" guy in the first game was all just following orders, not just some mindless machine aimed to kill the player and everyone else. This really shows how the H.E.C.U was absolutely not prepare for the horrors black mesa was going to bring and were trying their best to control the situation at black mesa against the Xenians.
This video really emphasizes the reality of the Resonance Cascade incident.
If you're not Gordon "more luck than Master Chief" Freeman everything happening in Half Life 1 is equivalent to an apocalyptic sci fi horror movie.
4:16 i think i just saw marine having PTSD in background
This animation shows perfectly why I love the Black Mesa incident. We've seen depictions of a warzone in many works of fiction, but the Black Mesa one is my favorite by far, for a simple reason: It was a lost war. We can see how the incident goes from the HECU taking over and controlling Black Mesa relatively well, to how they are starting to lose control, and finishing with them having to retreat from Black Mesa in a hurry, heck, I might even argue it's not a retreat, is flat-out an escape. A rush to get the fuck out of there. This is why I cherish mods that show more of this catastrophe, it's just so fascinating, watching three entirely different factions fighting each other.
The ending was wild, the zombified marine asking for help, but what I heard was “Tommy god help me”
I actually really enjoyed this film. I really liked the aspect of how everyone who is in shock is either frozen or just completely oblivious to their surroundings.
10/10 video, would recommend.
as brutal as black mesa was,and it WAS brutal. Nothing would prepare the survivors for the next seven hours...
This is it, we have the three people that we all need. We have all played through the original, and the expansions, and animators like you bring the vision of what our imaginations tossed out there. Taking perceived memories into a visual all of us itched to view. You took the idea of the HECU, the force that felt had the power and confidence to contain anything, and showed the visceral fear and breakdown of what was supposed to be routine.
Animux - Gordon's Storyline (Unforseen Consequences)
BAST Brushie - Barney Calhoun (Insecurity)
You: Opposing Force.
You all portray the actions and events during the Black Mesa Incident in the respective of the groups:
Gordon=Fear and Confusion.
Barney=Normality Folding.
HECU=No Plan B.
Epic
The moment I saw that guy lean against the wall I had a feeling he's going to be the one with the destroyed IFAK and when he reached for the radio I just knew. It was depressing listening to it in-game and seeing it in animated form makes it even more sad. It was really cool hearing the LZ Sparrow distress call (which I also caught in the game just like many other people I'm sure) and seeing an interpretation of how things went down. Amazing work
Man this is phenominally good. It's amazing how much emotion you are conveying using the crude facial expressions. Combat scenes are really good too and you can really feel the hopelessness of the soliders here. Great job!
Some models in GMod have easier to understand facial bones like "mouth O" which makes their mouth go "oh" and also SFM ports have good facial bones unlike HL2's primitive ones
Looking back at this I appreciate how you portrayed the weapons used by the HECU as being different from each other in this machinima like the M16 and MP5 along with the Glock and Beretta pistols rather than just having them all use MP5s and shotguns as seen in the games.
This is really good when those guys were eaten by the zombies it was terrifying, smooth as butter animation
This is one of the best SFMs out there. I clicked on this video out of curiosity and i was blown away by the level of details. First time the whole thing was depicted with all the gore and chaos. Fantastic job. Valve should take a look at this and start considering a TV series, especially for the Oposing force. Talented creators like you show what is possible.
Its gmod tho~
Tragic and truly hooking piece of art, the true nature of the individuals living this situations. One of the best animations I have ever seen. Your deserve more for this talent and effort.
20/10 "Retreat! Reetreat!" Best moment!
My God, now the line where a soldier says "There's not frontline with these things" in Black Mesa became more terrifying. Imagine your squad makes a perimeter just for the enemy to teleport right behind you, it must've been a nightmare.
Also Zombies and Headcrabs are very dangerous in numbers, with that in mind just imagine being unlucky enough to encounter a single Gonome.
Bro really animated this whole thing Stop Motion Helper and still manages to make a realistic depiction of war.
You sir are an hidden gem.
This is seriously well-done! It really humanizes the marines a whole lot more, and doesn't just make them "badass military dudes".
Oh my god, i never seen a horrific scenario about Black Mesa. I was take a very pleasure to see this masterpiece. You create a really anxious moment and we very seen the scare of the guy. You deserve a lot of view for that
I'll chip in and comment. I genuinely love how you gave Black Mesa a Hue City feel in terms of casualties and futility and hope you make more content. As someone currently writing and working with an artist on a graphic novel, I appreciate what you did to tell the story visually as well as through characters' emotions.
Everyone talks about head crabs, but good god the sheer impact from vort's blast is terrifying. Imagine being trough all your combat training and months of preparing l, and then you get equivalent of getting fucking smithed by God himself.
Better tension than most movies I've seen that have come out lately.
this jsut shows how fucking scary the headcrabs are like jesus christ
El hecho de que esto es GMOD, simplemente es sensacional.
This was hands down THE best Half-Life SFM animation I EVER saw! Top notch!
gmod tho
That just makes it even more impressive@@joacons
The king of Gmod animation is back and bigger than ever! How the hell do you do it, Jo?! Incredible, awesome work and an absolute delight to watch! Bravo! 👏👏👏🤘
thanks man :D
hearing that from you means a lot
yooo
I absolutely ADORE how you done all of this and how good of a portrayal this is of how really fucked and unorganized shit got, and I also especially love the gore effects and how the zombies being really terrifying ( headcrabs too! )
20/10 short film, it's like something how I imagine my npc battles go in gmod but animated and done really well , and the fact all this was done in gmod too as well makes it all the more got DAYMN impressive.
This was probably a single hard to watch animation ive seen. You really nailed the brutality.
Not bad."Half-Life" turned from a joyful FPS into a real horror.
Good shit, really goes to show how the marines went from having the situation under control to being completely overrun
I truly love the way you use the headcrabs, you're the first person I see that uses the headcrabs to disable the marines(also using teamwork in a way)
Its terrifying to think about. These men were forced to do a speechless act when they only wanted to follow orders, and to think that the families of these people will never see the face of thier husband due to the nuke is sad. These brave soldiers gave thier life for nothing. They weren't remembered. They weren't appreciated. They weren't successful in stopping the invasion.
Funny enough, I was watching a video on all of the radio transmissions + EAS messages just to re-listen to the beautiful voice acting, and I just kinda stumbled onto this video after recognizing "LZ Sparrow". Though it's a damn shame to watch the final moments of Goose 4, you did a great job animating this in Gmod! Always impressed seeing your work.
If Shepard was over there they would've survived.
I genuinely thought this was SFM at first... the cinematography is amazing and very high quality. You made me feel for these soldiers when in any other circumstances in-game would make me feel nothing but disgust for them
It just goes to show that literally everyone is a victim in the HL universe... There's no true malcontent enemy (except maybe Gman and the Combine) but everyone else, (both human and Xenian) was forced by circumstance. Vortigaunts never asked to be enslaved and be apart of a brainwashed army, headcrabs, houndeyes, bullsquids etc. Who are just poor wildlife aliens going off of their instincts end up transported to earth and being in an environment they're not familiar with, HECU definitely got it rough having to be ordered to gundown unarmed civilans which definitely lowered their morale and ability to fight effectively, even the Black Ops are just doing what's being expected of them in the hopes they can fix and stop the invasion from spreading any further,
It's all seriously FUBAR for any and all of them, all because of a man in a blue suit and an interdimensonal totalitarian empire...
Nice comments, thanks for taking the time xd
Amazing. Really shows how desperate the struggle became, and how outmatched these marines were. It also makes me think about the amount of real world time that's passed since the game was released; 24-25 years, and back in 1999 (IIRC the year the resonance cascade happened) a lot of the things we associate with US infantry were relatively new or didn't even exist yet. That's one of the things I love about HL, the technology and clothing developed along totally different lines than in our world. Time was essentially frozen for human civilization, having lost all manufacturing capability, and then the Combine took over. Being pragmatic and efficient, they took what we had and grafted their technology onto it. I'd bet these guys served as the archetypes for later Combine soldiers
I still love how well animated this is and the references. This deserves more views
I love the foreboding sense the head crab soldier gives off
You as the viewer know it’s gonna jump up suddenly and start attacking them.
But they don’t know that
I say this every time he uploads but this guy is criminally underrated, the part when the headcrab zombie raises back up near the end of the film was like straight out of a horror film. Amazing work
man, this is probably the only decent depiction of what a chaotic clusterfuck black mesa must've been, bravo
2:56 It's kind of like a tribute to Saving Private Ryan.
That was golden, mate. Loved how it swung from the confusion and anxiety at the messy retreat to the horror of the Black Mesa interior. Preemo stuff my guy
Nightmare fuel when the head crab zombies just chomped on him. I wouldn't even be able to imagine the pain. Jesus Christ. Well time to watch some memes before bed!
But honestly, Great work. Had my heart pumping for a good 20 minutes after this.
Half life universe has got to be beyond terrifying to live in; animation conveys that really well. Excellent work!
Always wanted to see someone animate these radio transmissions and this was beautiful. You did great
I remember playing Black Mesa and coming across a radio and listening to the "My IFAK's gone" conversation. That hit fucking hard. I tried imagining what must've happened to him, and lo and behold I come across a beautifully-made short film that shows me.
I'd almost tear up because of how amazing and well-made this was. Especially since I'm a fan of the lore. Thanks to people like you, Half-Life never truly dies (pun sorta intended).
A very bleak, and realistic view (I think) of what it would be like to face the Zen invasion. You go in as a bad-ass HECU and before you know it, you are desperate to remain alive. The tag-team work between the zombie-fied soldiers and head crabs was creepy good.
8:33 - This part makes headcrab zombies a lot scarier. That must be a painful way to die.
As well as this part: 9:57
DAYUM this is the grueling things I like from a good military film. showing that when you can't be prepared you die fr fr
Amazing work divine
"They didnt even stand a chance"