We’re moved by emotion, not words. If it makes us feel peaceful, we’ll behave peacefully (this started as a funny quip comment, then got weirdly serious - I blame the song 😉 )
You should now feel mentally reinvigorated. If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music.
actually just because of this masterpiece I bought Portal & Portal 2 a couple days ago - and finally I understood what this "cake and party position" thing is about...
Holy shit, I never noticed it until now! But what we don't know is whether Chell had the portal gun when she walked in. Her stance assumes that of holding a portal gun, but we can't see it. hOLY SHIT IT'S SCHRODINGER'S CAT ALL OVER AGAIN
This may be true,but were missing one critical component for chells escape: She needs to make another portal to pop out through the other and the floor isn't portal-compatible and the walls seem to be covered all over with incinerators, I assume. The only possibility would be, that she can make a portal on the backside of the wall that she entered the room through or on the door, again, if they are portal compatible.
Dont expect steam to put out anything again. It's all about the store for them. Honestly, though Microsoft is going to win that one in the end with free Xbox pc cross-play. Not to mention having you save data crossover as well.
I love how the turrets slowly transition from unison singing to chords. Like they start unison then leak into chords and more and more until it’s all chords. It’s amazing!
Your comment intrigued me, what exactly do you mean by transitioning from unison to chords? Not really an expert on musical techniques, but I'm curious nonetheless!
Yeah, how many notes are playing at once. Like at first they’re all singing the one note and then they slowly break into more and more notes at once until all 5 are on a different note. It’s a really neat drama builder and it’s amazing how incrementally it’s done
And scary to those who encounter whoever builds and/or maintains the turrets. (ie they sing the name of the mechanic, and they're feared by everyone else for that reason)
Everyone is gushing about the animation, but I can’t get over how incredible this SOUNDS. Like, holy shit the depth of the sound field, the layers of vocals (including harmonizing!), and how it just builds... I’m stunned. Incredible job!
I got to that part and my brain just blew. “OH, WoW, wAAAw, so g00d! PoRtAL LyRiCs iN a P0rTaL s0nG! 👌👏👌👏” wasn’t expecting the great reference to one of the best video game songs. 10/10
I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard something so haunting and beautiful and right up my alley, this whole video is a wonderful experience.
I wouldn't be surprised honestly if the whole song was written in part to stick that absolutely perfect reference in it. This song highlights it in such a sad/horrifying way that Still Alive doesn't. The robots have no choice, they must do it. "Hear [their] words and try to understand." It's almost pleading in a desperate way. "I'm sorry, we *must* do this." Why must they? Just because they can. Someone said "We can do this, so let's", and now the monster has been created and unleashed. "For science"
@Noah Black the motto of Aperture Science is “We do what we must because we can”. Here at Blaperture we do what we must to make a better tomorrow for all mankind because we can.
When you look at the turrets, if they are moving and looking around, they look very nice and friendly, but when they aren't emoting or moving, simply staring forward they immediately become terrifying
Dear God...this is hauntingly beautiful. You've perfectly captured the horror of Aperture Science within this song and video...as well as Chell's endless determination and tenacity. The shots of within the test chambers, her exit to see 'ten thousand more', her dogged defiance and moments of frustrated despair, lonliness, fear, and the scenes of those who have fallen and failed within Aperture are hypnotizing. The last scene is masterful. The intentional open-endedness to it allows for the possibility that, despite being surrounded by walls of flame, Chell could find a way out. The turrets are apathetic, and at once cheerful and nightmarish. The Stupendium's lyrics emphasise the enormity, the hopelessness and the constant cycle of endless testing within the walls of Aperture. Gleaming Facades and hi-tech machines, built on nightmares and death. Harry, you've done it again. A work of art from the world of Portal. I'm getting this on Itunes. Thank you.
I couldn't agree more with your analysis. I also enjoyed the beginning, the turrets' song and the image of sleeping Chell made scene seem innocent, I think I even spot a *small smile* on the sleeping Chell's lips. The feeling is of turrets gently waking a young woman to work. Even the Samba beamed into her brain feels like something she might have volunteered to... Then the image transitions to liquid filled containers, in neat factory lines, with people inside... and the lyrics are saying how the people are *kept* asleep until the tests, and the feeling of a lullaby disappears.
For me,the Aperture Science laboratory is a perfect(sic) visualization of absolute evil. Glados would gladly test even Satan and God if at all possible. Satan at least notices that you're alive (meaning you have an intrinsic meaning that he presumably hates). Glados just extinguishes meaning, while at the same time not gaining meaning/purpose itself.
@@michaelbennett7561 ...which brings it to a whole new level, really. There must be "decent" employees bothering with the coffins to bury their victims in...
GLaDOS is very meticulous with her cleaning. If you stumble on a corpse then she needs to absolutely destroy every android, personality sphere and turret left in the building and start from scratch. She'll do it too, she has plenty of time.
@@kirielvids but what about when Wheatly mentions shaking skeletons out of old test chambers to try and kill us with? GLaDOS says, "skeletons... right... i guess I did stockpile a few tests"
Found this by accident a couple of days ago and now is saved to my play list. It's absolutely beautiful. I loved the original by Simon & Garfunkel and your version does it proud. Well done! I used to play Portal and Portal 2 back in the day & this makes me want to set up one of my old consoles to play it again. I'm 60yrs old and still gaming on Playstation and Xbox.
This is so very well done. The writing, the vocals, the harmony... then there's the animation. This is top tier work that normally could only be achieved by corporations with a full team working on the project.
I'm sure corporations and especially unemployed college grads would love us to believe this, but the truth is that more people are only necessary when they're making something they don't care about. A small team or an individual working on something they're passionate about will beat a large company churning out content almost every time.
Exactly, most of the time, a lot of these "parody" type songs are brought down by really bad lyrics or music composition, but this fit so well and they nailed everything Portal.
wow, well done. The attention to small details really sells it - ie when the dorm/hotel door is first opened, it fully opens and then bounces back just so slightly.
I initially wondered if it was filmed then some CGI applied to make it look, well, CGI. But no, it's crazy animation and mocap! And I don't even dare to think how long it took to render!
There are 3 reasons I love this. One, it shows the attitude of aperture science, doing it "because we can", "though we don't know what the data means". A truly morbid and scary attitude. 2 The music is created very reflective of that from music from the portal series. 3, The "camera shots" especially the one of the flames through the turrets eye is extremely effective! Again this enforces the aperture attitude... This is the best portal song I've heard in a while! (Edit) -Horrible grammar, corrected...
Every single one of these parody’s are so well crafted from the animation to the lyrics and ESPECIALLY the voice acting. It always impresses me that you can voice act every character so well. Another job well done!
There's something so viscerally dystopian and beautiful about the test subjects praying to the cake, like it really is this holy relic that no one's seen before. The tone of this whole video is breathtaking.
Well, I never played Portal 2, but it's interesting that I was so busy laughing that I never really took the time to visualize exactly how dark the series was. Harry manages to show us that Portal 2, if you think about it, is nothing less than a horror game with a comic overtone.
When i saw that man fall to his knees at 2:48, before I saw cake in the next scene, I thought; Man GlaDOS really is heartless. Those test subjects may have been suck in the facility since forever and now being lucky enough to pass through all the test chambers that man bows and thanks the Lord. Only he doesn't know that GLaDOS kills her test subjects after the 'Science' is done. Even though aperature labs may have won the portal technology race against Black Mesa ages ago, but GLaDOS still continues her brutal ways with those test subjects. Of course, they have never seen that cake before just shows how isolated their life has been as test subjects. Slavery to GLaDOS' "Science".
@@derekreer8625 a analogy of life going test to test hoping to get a cake and eat it yet there is no cake its death...... day after day working for what??????? to get food, water and all needed to survive. its sad how stupid humanity became to the painfully obvious.
@@antlerr Oh, look, an edgy teenager in an existential crisis. I guess I'm going to get all mopey and depressed, for he has thought of all the things I never have. Hahaha, just kidding. Grow an upper lip, kid. That's life, deal with it.
I'm not usually one who glomps onto a different version of a song, when I've heard one form before the other. However, this was so well done that it's starting to replace the original in my brain. Bravo and thank you for making this. It continues to bring me joy
@@MoonGuardian866 A rocket engine, especially the Saturn V Rocketdyne F-1 Engine, may be very powerful but I doubt it will immediately ash someone out in just 1/10 a second.
This is brilliant. I can't believe Valve didn't produce this, or the original voice actress. The best part is how this is equally as funny in 2020 as it would have been in 2011. Major kudos. MAJOR kudos.
I'm unsure what impresses me the most: - the singing - the idea of this song and writing - the video And I don't know if I want to know how many hours this video took
There's a peculiar feeling I get every single time I watch/listen to this. It is a feeling of nostalgic comfort and I really like it. Amazing job on literally EVERYTHING in this art! It really feels and sounds like this BELONGS in a Portal game. Everything is perfect.
@@Aerotactics Yeah, but those are separate from the actual core, and instead mounted externally. But attached to the core directly... that's just demonic.
When you compare the quality of the 99% of SFM videos that are uploaded to TH-cam right now, to the quality of this? Wow Incredible how you can squeeze enough good scenes out of something like Source Filmmaker for an awesome song like this! Keep up the great work and have a nice day!
How bad most of them are is just a meme at this point, and then when slight effort is put into the actual animations, people go all "holy shit this is some serious gourmet shit" while Harry runs rings around the entire sfm community.
As time passes our excitment is slowly replaced by nostalgy, while we start investing our passion and efforts in newer, freshly hyped things. But here and then you encounter them: passionate creators whos say "Nay, tis not something of the past! Tis as good today as it was yesterday!" And then they go and work tirelessly to produce a masterpiece of fanwork that puts to shame any modern fandom. Today I made such an encounter. I did not know you Harry, but thank you.
As for someone that has MtG card as his nickname and Touhou character as profile pic you're probbaly more fond of older things in general. No offence, just my opinion.
Misread title as "Portal - The Sound Of Silence" and thought it would be funny to hear that song sung by GLaDOS. What I actually got was nothing short of a masterpiece :)
The fact that this dude is still going with this literally makes me wanna create stuff and just have tons of fun Thanks for being an inspiration, seriously!
I was thinking this too! "We kept you dreaming peaceful while we arranged our portal tiles" could mean that they made a game while the franchise and fanbase slowly died down.
That would be cool. But i just want to say Portal 3 could not really happen, atleast for the story of chell. Chell escaped. it would be sad for her to be stuck in aperture science, for whatever reason. And plus her ending was also kind of bad, Portal 2 is after millions of years! Past civilizations fall. (and how Portal is in with the universe of Half Life 2. Which means the combine crushed society before Portal 2's end. )There could be a story for another subject, though.
dont forget, they were sold as home security units and to the military. I think the singing ability was given to them by GLaDOS but they might have had it before her in order to sing lullabys or war cries. although, most likely they sang lullabies to the enemy soldiers and shot the babies
I am honestly incredibly surprised Valve hasn’t hired you on to do this stuff to make it official. Honestly better in most cases than Valve’s own projects in SFM. Every time you upload, the world becomes a slightly better place
And believe me, Harry’s still alive. He’s making videos and he’s still alive. And while we’re waiting, he’ll still be alive And when we’re watching, he’ll still be alive. Still alive Still Alive.
Dude I was literally obsessed with making science and this is aperture and the Wheatley song when I was in like, 5th grade? 6th grade? And suddenly TH-cam hits me with this recommendation after all these years,, and it's a jam, AND the lyrics were written by Stupendium who I've taken a major liking to more recently coz his stuff jams, basically this song is extremely good and also a major flashback for me and I love it, thank you
Wow... the lyrics of this one seriously hit and I love the "we do what we must because we can" reference. Great work as always, Harry! You once again knocked it completely out of the park.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!???? This was the finest piece of art that I have seen, EVER!!! Simply brilliant. I am still tearing up from the beauty and tragedy. I am eternally grateful that you and Gregory took the time to gift us all this masterpiece. I am sharing this with every human (and robot) I know. Once again, thank you.
Holy crap. This is just brilliant. From the lyrics, to the editing, even the mastering of the audio is phenomenal. Just really great work. I'll be sharing this one with more than a couple people. THANK YOU.
"Hear our words and try to understand
we do what we must because we can"
This is pure gold
That's a lyric from Portal 1's song "Still alive"
this was a triumph
Hey! A brother!
That was a bunch of breathtakingness
I love this community
It actually does reflect how terrifying the base concept of Portal is...
Yeah fcking lunatics. And the funny thing is gamers praising Cave, who was a military psycho
@GalaxyVerse Cave Johnson. The founder and CEO of Aperture Science
The entire premise is hillarious.
“Though we’re not sure what the data means”
Entire concept of test subjects
@GalaxyVerse Cave Johnson, he owns the place
This is art in its purest form.
The video just came out
its*
@@apestogetherstrong341 its itzs iti siitraisrisr
You're obviously confusing art with science.
No, this is SCIENCE in it's purest form.
They are singing about how you might die or never escape and yet it's so peaceful, I love it.
We’re moved by emotion, not words. If it makes us feel peaceful, we’ll behave peacefully (this started as a funny quip comment, then got weirdly serious - I blame the song 😉 )
@@normalityrelief it really makes sense. I am sometimes moved to tears by parody songs and I couldn’t put my finger on why, than you for that
Seems pretty in brand for the franchise.
Turrets: "Or you'll be staaaaaasbed, by the spikes of a moveing waaaaaaall.... that crush your skuuuuuull"
Me: "sounds lovely."
It's quite fitting with the original song, too.
The words might be less violent, but there is no escape
I was really enjoying this thinking: "Harry you've done it again!" then it got dark... real fast.
Harry... you've actually done it again...
Yeah, that tends to happen when you collaborate with The Stupendium for lyrics.
Amazing songs. Depressing songs, but amazing songs none the less.
Bruh it inspired by "hello darkness my old friend"
Goldenary Gold
We know
Your not a fucking genius
It’s a parody
And he had to get all the scenes and get the voices to make this song
Goldenary Gold r/woooosh
Ha....ha...ha.......Chell is the impossible-to-kill type,she must have escaped the bake room
This is art. You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art.
You should now feel mentally reinvigorated. If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music.
This statement is [TRUE]
This channel is art
@@olietheridge310 [CLASSICAL MUSIC] interrupted by a buzzer.
*knocking* *sounds* Hello? Is anyone in there? Hello?
AAARRRGGH You look terrib
, I mean great you look good
"we do what we must because we can"
that was a great throwback line. love it.
may I ask to what?
@@nickunplugged9791 Still Alive
Also "Bake room" => "You will be baked and then there will be cake"
@@TheMhalpern *_9000 kelvin kicks in_*
"Aperture Science, We do what we must because we can" -GLaDOS
This makes me want to play Portal more than any trailer or review ever could
Same, I'm At work watching this right now, wanna go home and play portal.... This is a masterpiece
why have you not already started playing portal its like the best game ever
@@imnotbadokbro more like why is he watching yt at work
im the thousandth like
actually just because of this masterpiece I bought Portal & Portal 2 a couple days ago - and finally I understood what this "cake and party position" thing is about...
I see that portalable surface behind the turret in the "Cake" room. And i think we all know what that means...
Damn, that's some great attention to detail.
Holy shit, I never noticed it until now! But what we don't know is whether Chell had the portal gun when she walked in. Her stance assumes that of holding a portal gun, but we can't see it.
hOLY SHIT IT'S SCHRODINGER'S CAT ALL OVER AGAIN
Schrodinger's lab rat.
Chell won't post this gesture if she isn't holding a portal gun .w. So I guess the next scene will be like ''Shutting down."
This may be true,but were missing one critical component for chells escape:
She needs to make another portal to pop out through the other and the floor isn't portal-compatible and the walls seem to be covered all over with incinerators, I assume. The only possibility would be, that she can make a portal on the backside of the wall that she entered the room through or on the door, again, if they are portal compatible.
It's so good my husband came running in thinking it was a Portal 3 trailer. His disappointment was only calmed by how awesome this is lol.
Sad
Gotta admit, I deeply wish it /was/ a Portal 3 trailer.
@@CyberiusT same here :/
Dont expect steam to put out anything again. It's all about the store for them. Honestly, though Microsoft is going to win that one in the end with free Xbox pc cross-play. Not to mention having you save data crossover as well.
I'd like to congratulate you on your choice of both the videos that you watch and your husband. You have excellent taste.
I love how the turrets slowly transition from unison singing to chords. Like they start unison then leak into chords and more and more until it’s all chords. It’s amazing!
Your comment intrigued me, what exactly do you mean by transitioning from unison to chords? Not really an expert on musical techniques, but I'm curious nonetheless!
Vlad L. Unison means they’re all playing roughly the same notes, then chords means they’re... well, playing chords lol
Yeah, how many notes are playing at once. Like at first they’re all singing the one note and then they slowly break into more and more notes at once until all 5 are on a different note. It’s a really neat drama builder and it’s amazing how incrementally it’s done
You can hear it really well at 1:10
Absolutely, the way they build towards harmonizing so beautifully is really haunting. I love everything about this 😊
"The turrets sing your name" is one of the scariest phrases I've ever heard.
"...but if there's pain... Your screams are just the sounds... Of science."
scarier than that? 👀
"As they take aim"
And scary to those who encounter whoever builds and/or maintains the turrets. (ie they sing the name of the mechanic, and they're feared by everyone else for that reason)
i’m surprised Harry101UK isn’t a doctor from how much he’s kept the Portal fandom alive
For a second,I thought we had the same name.
@@theangel1975 lol
Harry: IM NOT GIVING UP ON YOU YET YOU SON OF A GUN!
Harry101UK should be an honorary member of aperture in portal 3.
@@Hade-Official Absolutely! If nothing else, they should at least have a log from "Harry in lab 101" or something :D
This man has single handedly kept the Portal fanbase alive.
The portal fanbase will neva die
Portal is immortal.
@@birdboy1092 good rhyme
He kept it
Still alive
Ikr
this is scarily good. the music, the animation and everything. this gave me goosebumps. this isn't a parody, this is pure art
Even tho its is "art" anyone could "probably" make this with some edits.
This isn't art. This is science.
Very true, maybe even better than his past animations.
@@ILOVENUKACOLA shut up, this is pure art
Not saying that its not perfection.
Me and my husband just found this- WTH - were amazed- we were like “where did he get that footage?” Wait-what? He made it?!? Dude! Woah!!
@Lady Melody Quebralyes
I love so much the fluid movements and protagonism of Chell here, Harry has never give her that much atention before, is incredible, as always.
He did an amazing job!
yeah i dont think he gave her irises at all back then
Harry S2FM was released will you learn to use it or no
Everyone is gushing about the animation, but I can’t get over how incredible this SOUNDS. Like, holy shit the depth of the sound field, the layers of vocals (including harmonizing!), and how it just builds... I’m stunned. Incredible job!
Right!? I'm so happy it's available on Bandcamp - it may be overkill but, I _need_ to experience this in all it's flac-y goodness.
it's the sound of science
I hope you know it's a cover ^^
Perfect comment. You just saved me brain time to think about a good comment here.
Amazing work, be justifiably proud of this!
"We do what we must because we can"
Sweet mercy that gives me chills. That is some skillful lyric delivery, and a grade A callback.
I be honest, this is how I would feel ruining the tests
I can’t stop watching that part.
I got to that part and my brain just blew. “OH, WoW, wAAAw, so g00d! PoRtAL LyRiCs iN a P0rTaL s0nG! 👌👏👌👏” wasn’t expecting the great reference to one of the best video game songs. 10/10
2:24 Replay button
Ahh chills, literal chills.
- It was number five. Number five killed my test subject.
Oh my god, I forgot about that part.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard something so haunting and beautiful and right up my alley, this whole video is a wonderful experience.
The lyrics may be dark, but I can't help that the turret voices are strangely calming.
They were intended to be. Turrets were initially designed to be babysitters
Lyrics are as dark as some of history of out past..
@@nickady2752 Until they began to provide 60 percent more bullet per bullet.
Maybe even more calming than the original lyrics?
I had to fix a problem with the grammer, I used the voice thingy on mobile
I love how the aperture logo shines brighter as the turrets sing "We do what we must because we can."
We do what we must to make a better future for all mankind because we can.
I wouldn't be surprised honestly if the whole song was written in part to stick that absolutely perfect reference in it.
This song highlights it in such a sad/horrifying way that Still Alive doesn't. The robots have no choice, they must do it. "Hear [their] words and try to understand." It's almost pleading in a desperate way. "I'm sorry, we *must* do this."
Why must they? Just because they can. Someone said "We can do this, so let's", and now the monster has been created and unleashed. "For science"
@Ethan man I know, I was just pointing out that it was a cool addition to the video.
@Noah Black the motto of Aperture Science is “We do what we must because we can”. Here at Blaperture we do what we must to make a better tomorrow for all mankind because we can.
@Ethan man no sh*t.
Talk about a blast from the past! So cool to see this project after all these years. Stellar animation as always! :D
Gotta say man, you did a great job on these lyrics! You and Harry make a great team :D
Love both of u. you all make such high production videos its unbelivable
Im your 500th like
What a couple of nerds. Stupendous job.
I’m so glad you guys have worked together
When you look at the turrets, if they are moving and looking around, they look very nice and friendly, but when they aren't emoting or moving, simply staring forward they immediately become terrifying
"we do what we must because we can" was an excellent touch.
It sticks to cannon *nods*
The way the Aperture logo lights up when they sing that is absolutely brilliant.
Dear God...this is hauntingly beautiful.
You've perfectly captured the horror of Aperture Science within this song and video...as well as Chell's endless determination and tenacity. The shots of within the test chambers, her exit to see 'ten thousand more', her dogged defiance and moments of frustrated despair, lonliness, fear, and the scenes of those who have fallen and failed within Aperture are hypnotizing.
The last scene is masterful. The intentional open-endedness to it allows for the possibility that, despite being surrounded by walls of flame, Chell could find a way out. The turrets are apathetic, and at once cheerful and nightmarish.
The Stupendium's lyrics emphasise the enormity, the hopelessness and the constant cycle of endless testing within the walls of Aperture. Gleaming Facades and hi-tech machines, built on nightmares and death.
Harry, you've done it again. A work of art from the world of Portal. I'm getting this on Itunes. Thank you.
Sure, but I hope I never get literally captured by Aperture science
I couldn't agree more with your analysis.
I also enjoyed the beginning, the turrets' song and the image of sleeping Chell made scene seem innocent, I think I even spot a *small smile* on the sleeping Chell's lips. The feeling is of turrets gently waking a young woman to work. Even the Samba beamed into her brain feels like something she might have volunteered to...
Then the image transitions to liquid filled containers, in neat factory lines, with people inside... and the lyrics are saying how the people are *kept* asleep until the tests, and the feeling of a lullaby disappears.
For me,the Aperture Science laboratory is a perfect(sic) visualization of absolute evil. Glados would gladly test even Satan and God if at all possible. Satan at least notices that you're alive (meaning you have an intrinsic meaning that he presumably hates). Glados just extinguishes meaning, while at the same time not gaining meaning/purpose itself.
Пожалейте русского, у меня чип расплавится пока я эти переведу!
Kinda reminds me of my everyday life...well said!
My man still putting out fantastic portal content all these years
Ikr?
Still feels like yesterday I was being amazed by "This is Aperature".
That was in 2012.
right?
My man
The shot with the coffins really drives home just how brutal and uncaring the world of the Aperture Science test labs really is.
GLADOS would never have bothered with coffins. Incinerators or pools of acid would suffice.
for me it is more likely all the incubators full of subjects
@@michaelbennett7561 ...which brings it to a whole new level, really. There must be "decent" employees bothering with the coffins to bury their victims in...
The shot of Chell running down the catwalk while the crushers collide behind her is absolutely *breathtaking*
I couldn't agree more. I can't count how many times I've watched it.
You’re breathtaking!
Indeed one of the best choreographed shots i have seen in quite some time. NICELY DONE for the whole clip and ESPECIALLY for this short shot. Bravo!
literally
Yap
You know, realizing how many people are either still kept in tanks or how many dead bodies may still be in the facility is actually horrific
GLaDOS is very meticulous with her cleaning. If you stumble on a corpse then she needs to absolutely destroy every android, personality sphere and turret left in the building and start from scratch. She'll do it too, she has plenty of time.
@@kirielvids but what about when Wheatly mentions shaking skeletons out of old test chambers to try and kill us with? GLaDOS says, "skeletons... right... i guess I did stockpile a few tests"
@@generalcodsworth4417 I guess you're right, but Aperture is a big facility, maybe she was planning on getting around to those ones.
Well it's better than what we did
At black mesa
I thought it was implied in Portal 2 that Chell was the only one left alive.
This hit me personally, you’ve single-handedly inspired me to revisit Portal.
Same. Just hit install on Steam for Portal 1 and 2
Yeah, I'm definitely replaying Portal 2.
I bet he used both hands tho. So awesome was it.
Found this by accident a couple of days ago and now is saved to my play list.
It's absolutely beautiful.
I loved the original by Simon & Garfunkel and your version does it proud.
Well done!
I used to play Portal and Portal 2 back in the day & this makes me want to set up one of my old consoles to play it again.
I'm 60yrs old and still gaming on Playstation and Xbox.
Its on steam. You don't need to pull out the consoles.
Awesome. Keep on gaming, it keeps wits sharp & life fun. 😀
“And as you reach the exit door you’ll find 10,000 chambers more...”
sounds like children learning how to count.
from 1 to 3 to 5 to 10 to 20 to 50 to 100 and finally to whatever is left in Pi (π)
I also watched the video
Why are comments taking lines from the video and making no comment on them so popular?
spiraling forevermore
one by one they bowed and prayed, then we poisoned the chocolate cake,for them all
"And when you’re bested by our tests and left to fall...
...as do they all...
You heed the call of science."
So dark but such a good line
"...crushing skulls, that's just the sound of science", the most Aperture Science quote ever
We do what we must because we can
*Using the MKX skull asset
@@ARC9652 Why are you using the Asterisk (*)? There's nothing to correct
Furebel sad lemon quote noises
@@cemmeral2493
Do you crush skulls?
how could you watch this working for Valve and not think: "we should go back, we should make art again, set a new higher standard".
This is so very well done.
The writing, the vocals, the harmony... then there's the animation.
This is top tier work that normally could only be achieved by corporations with a full team working on the project.
I want to like but I cant... leave it at 69
The Astartes series would like to have a word :P
But I do agree that it's extremely well made and the song is haunting
I'm sure corporations and especially unemployed college grads would love us to believe this, but the truth is that more people are only necessary when they're making something they don't care about. A small team or an individual working on something they're passionate about will beat a large company churning out content almost every time.
Exactly, most of the time, a lot of these "parody" type songs are brought down by really bad lyrics or music composition, but this fit so well and they nailed everything Portal.
Except they don't achieve it. So the accurate quote is "This could only be achieved by a dedicated fan without pay"
wow, well done. The attention to small details really sells it - ie when the dorm/hotel door is first opened, it fully opens and then bounces back just so slightly.
I initially wondered if it was filmed then some CGI applied to make it look, well, CGI. But no, it's crazy animation and mocap! And I don't even dare to think how long it took to render!
Well everyone knows a door bounces back when you push it out past where it's meant to reach
And it makes it realistic when it’s focused on the skull and they switch the camera focus to the turrets. That stuffs crazy
You have failed me TH-cam algorithm. It took 7.5 months for you to recommend me this masterpiece.
Let's stuff Susan into a machine and have her constantly test to improve the algorithm.
Right!!! >:( Especially since I've seen most of their other songs.
Same except longer
Took me 10
TH-cam failed me too. My friend had to recommend this masterpiece!
This is weirdly horrifying. It so viscerally captures the horror that is _Portal_ that the game doesn't really address.
There are 3 reasons I love this. One, it shows the attitude of aperture science, doing it "because we can", "though we don't know what the data means". A truly morbid and scary attitude. 2 The music is created very reflective of that from music from the portal series. 3, The "camera shots" especially the one of the flames through the turrets eye is extremely effective! Again this enforces the aperture attitude... This is the best portal song I've heard in a while! (Edit) -Horrible grammar, corrected...
It also covers unconventional facts or things, like the mass graves of Apature, thats something I've never considered or even thought about
@@local38on-tv Because probably incinerating leaves nothing to the casket.
Every single one of these parody’s are so well crafted from the animation to the lyrics and ESPECIALLY the voice acting. It always impresses me that you can voice act every character so well. Another job well done!
Eat your cereal
@@cemmeral2493 Don't plug yourself in other people's comment section. It's not cool, dude.
Us: *Watches Test subject burn alive
Harry: Sooooo, what'd ya thiiink??
Hot!
Her name name is Chell
Lol
we think its pretty neat!
@@leroyjenkins2830 I wasn't talking to you.
Sorry if I sounded rude
How on earth have I not heard of this for 4 years!?! This is pure gold.
listent carefully between 0:00 - 4:10
Thats the best part
yes the song is great
SPACE
@@spacecore751 space indeed space core, unless you have been rescued somehow
That last second must not be very good then (it's showing as 4m11 long for me)
The last second: Am I a joke to you?
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
@Anton Kring Aperture Science
@@Cha11engerD we do what we must because we can
@@weball7899 For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
@@Cha11engerD but theres no sense crying over every mistake
@@weball7899 You just keep on trying till you run out of science
There's something so viscerally dystopian and beautiful about the test subjects praying to the cake, like it really is this holy relic that no one's seen before. The tone of this whole video is breathtaking.
Well, I never played Portal 2, but it's interesting that I was so busy laughing that I never really took the time to visualize exactly how dark the series was. Harry manages to show us that Portal 2, if you think about it, is nothing less than a horror game with a comic overtone.
When i saw that man fall to his knees at 2:48, before I saw cake in the next scene, I thought; Man GlaDOS really is heartless. Those test subjects may have been suck in the facility since forever and now being lucky enough to pass through all the test chambers that man bows and thanks the Lord. Only he doesn't know that GLaDOS kills her test subjects after the 'Science' is done. Even though aperature labs may have won the portal technology race against Black Mesa ages ago, but GLaDOS still continues her brutal ways with those test subjects. Of course, they have never seen that cake before just shows how isolated their life has been as test subjects. Slavery to GLaDOS' "Science".
And this horrifying dystopian setting is best punctuated at 3:14
@@derekreer8625 a analogy of life going test to test hoping to get a cake and eat it yet there is no cake its death...... day after day working for what??????? to get food, water and all needed to survive. its sad how stupid humanity became to the painfully obvious.
@@antlerr Oh, look, an edgy teenager in an existential crisis. I guess I'm going to get all mopey and depressed, for he has thought of all the things I never have.
Hahaha, just kidding. Grow an upper lip, kid. That's life, deal with it.
I'm not usually one who glomps onto a different version of a song, when I've heard one form before the other. However, this was so well done that it's starting to replace the original in my brain. Bravo and thank you for making this. It continues to bring me joy
It still remains?
The live crematorium at the end scared me.
I'll do one better. It takes 3 days to burn a body to ash.
@@martelbaggins9113 i can do 0.1 seconds. I just need a rocket, the sun and carefull calculation
@@MoonGuardian866 A rocket engine, especially the Saturn V Rocketdyne F-1 Engine, may be very powerful but I doubt it will immediately ash someone out in just 1/10 a second.
This is brilliant. I can't believe Valve didn't produce this, or the original voice actress. The best part is how this is equally as funny in 2020 as it would have been in 2011. Major kudos. MAJOR kudos.
I saw your comment and went "wait, was this released in 2011"
@@dillonkillen6044 same
That's because their voice is so accurate it's pointless
Wait isn't the song in Minor?
I'm unsure what impresses me the most:
- the singing
- the idea of this song and writing
- the video
And I don't know if I want to know how many hours this video took
Everything.
The resolution (image and sound) is what impressed me the most
if you read the description, 2 months were put into the making of this video
it’s a parody..
By the are you new to this channel or something?
There's a peculiar feeling I get every single time I watch/listen to this. It is a feeling of nostalgic comfort and I really like it. Amazing job on literally EVERYTHING in this art! It really feels and sounds like this BELONGS in a Portal game. Everything is perfect.
"How to Make Turrets go from Cute to Creepy in Under 5 Minutes."
It would have been purely soothing if it wasn't the lyrics.I could recommend this to some of my friends who don't speak English.
@@HJPark-ku5oj The ending's quite fucked up as well, recommend it to them as long as they don't intend on *watching* the video
i never thought those fuckers were cute until the end of P2, and now. This is a masterpiece
They were always creepy...
H.J Park I'll assume you're new here
3:38 Some turrets just want to see the world learn
I see what you did there.
We don’t see enough animated Chell. Never realized this was something I needed.
The real life Chell (the model behind her) is beautiful
They also go into weird a subject matter, such as showing the mass grave
She’s lowkey beautiful
@@edgymoji8260 wdym she's HIGHKEY gorgeous.
How come I only discover this masterpiece now ? It's magnificient.
Instantly subscribed.
"We do what we must because we can."
Nice little reference.
Phenomenal work as always, Harry.
Disturbed: Ours is the most haunting Sound Of Silence cover ever.
Harry101UK: Hold my cores.
@@svininavkusnaya8597 lol nobody cares
Disturbed is STILL the most haunting "Sound of Silence" cover ever. This is a parody. :) This IS the most haunting PARODY ever.
@@TheKirbs01 I love Disturbed man. They make great music
@@svininavkusnaya8597 Damn Rickroll
@@svininavkusnaya8597 Idk what this is a link to, probs your youtube channel, but you gotta try to lie at least a little better than that.
Psychiatrist: The core with hands isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Core with hands: 3:10
That’s the Party Escort Bot
He's like the "there's no meme" meme, manifested in a bot.
A core with hands is featured in Aperture Hand Labs
@@Aerotactics Yeah, but those are separate from the actual core, and instead mounted externally.
But attached to the core directly... that's just demonic.
Oh god
Chills. My whole body had chills. This is amazing and I love it so much!
When you compare the quality of the 99% of SFM videos that are uploaded to TH-cam right now, to the quality of this? Wow
Incredible how you can squeeze enough good scenes out of something like Source Filmmaker for an awesome song like this!
Keep up the great work and have a nice day!
How bad most of them are is just a meme at this point, and then when slight effort is put into the actual animations, people go all "holy shit this is some serious gourmet shit" while Harry runs rings around the entire sfm community.
If you're reading this, Harry, you inspired me to learn SFM
This is so freaking adorable
Terrifying,
But so freaking adorable
Isn't that was portal is all about?
Adorrifying.
--Dave, like Bonesaw/Riley
I wonder how much Harry has to deal with SFM crashing when he makes these amazing videos. Must have a lot of patients.
I havent seen SFM in a long time,have they updated it yet or they forgot it exists
@@aegeanharrier6648 yep... well no. theres HLA and its S2FM. but. i don't count that... right -_-
Yes, his psychiatrist does have a lot of patients scheduled. And they're all him.
Was that a pun or typo?
@@babyherc1000old but that is legitimately SFM 2
Wow... this is insanely good. Just goes to show how good Portal was, inspiring works of this quality so long after it was released.
**Can we take a moment to realize how this video has no ads?**
In the end, isn't the whole video an ad for -Aperture Science- Portal?
Only 4 minutes video
on FF with umatrix and ublock i have never add on You Tube...ever.
@@liljenborg2517 if it is, they can take my money
I never noticed :O
Glad to see you are still alive
I made that pun on accident get over it.
Glad to see the Portal 2 community still alive and still strong
This was indeed a triumph
Don't you mean GLaD
Aperture Science
Haha
Some Turrets just want to see Subjects Burn...
or filled with bullets. ;)
And say its science
Some?
And beg and plead
@@jameskotter2920 Yeah, there are a very few that are different
How am I only seeing this now? This is brilliant!
Chell's fine, by the way. She can just load a quicksave.
Just don't tell Glados how to access quicksave technology.
btw that isn't chell
@Chara Dreemurrthe half life wiki says its 122-7605
@@ali_m_ 122-7605 is the ID number on an unused texture for the uniform. Her name is Chell.
girl has Dio's The world, Diavolos king crimson(ping crimson), and whatever the stand for the past is.
"What was noise?"
"It's the sound of science, my friend."
Nice TF2 reference
now, it's time to practice science
another successful test chamber!
@@DasioreqDev are you sure this will work professor?
ha-ha I have an Idea!
@@BlackMesaLaboratories black mesa???
Your here?
As time passes our excitment is slowly replaced by nostalgy, while we start investing our passion and efforts in newer, freshly hyped things.
But here and then you encounter them: passionate creators whos say "Nay, tis not something of the past! Tis as good today as it was yesterday!"
And then they go and work tirelessly to produce a masterpiece of fanwork that puts to shame any modern fandom.
Today I made such an encounter. I did not know you Harry, but thank you.
Accept for Fortnite, it may still be updated, but Minecraft is still better, nothing beats Minecraft.
Yes
Couldn't of said it better, this was awesome and nostalgic
As for someone that has MtG card as his nickname and Touhou character as profile pic you're probbaly more fond of older things in general.
No offence, just my opinion.
damn, thats deep, yet very true
Misread title as "Portal - The Sound Of Silence" and thought it would be funny to hear that song sung by GLaDOS.
What I actually got was nothing short of a masterpiece :)
The fact that this dude is still going with this literally makes me wanna create stuff and just have tons of fun
Thanks for being an inspiration, seriously!
not gonna lie, I thought he was done with science. I guess even Gladdos won't stop testing
Imagine for a minute... That Valve used this to announce Portal 3..
I was thinking this too! "We kept you dreaming peaceful while we arranged our portal tiles" could mean that they made a game while the franchise and fanbase slowly died down.
Well Valve and rhw number 3...
Valve doesn't believe in the number 3.
That would be cool. But i just want to say Portal 3 could not really happen, atleast for the story of chell. Chell escaped. it would be sad for her to be stuck in aperture science, for whatever reason. And plus her ending was also kind of bad, Portal 2 is after millions of years! Past civilizations fall. (and how Portal is in with the universe of Half Life 2. Which means the combine crushed society before Portal 2's end. )There could be a story for another subject, though.
Almost was convinced it was at first...
Let's be honest, turrets missed their true calling, and while I'm sure shooting test subjects is fun, I think they like to sing even more!
dont forget, they were sold as home security units and to the military. I think the singing ability was given to them by GLaDOS but they might have had it before her in order to sing lullabys or war cries. although, most likely they sang lullabies to the enemy soldiers and shot the babies
We all like singing in the shower. Theirs is metal......
I love that the Aperture logo lights up when they proudly say "We do what we must because we can."
I am honestly incredibly surprised Valve hasn’t hired you on to do this stuff to make it official. Honestly better in most cases than Valve’s own projects in SFM.
Every time you upload, the world becomes a slightly better place
He had that vlog where he went to valve HQ in Bellevue, surely discussion happened then
Suicide Booth Did you miss Half Life: Alyx?
@@indigo8592 My thought exactly
@Suicide Booth "Valve doesn't really make games anymore"
*_in which year are you right now?_*
@Suicide Booth They did make more Half Life
And believe me, Harry’s still alive.
He’s making videos and he’s still alive.
And while we’re waiting, he’ll still be alive
And when we’re watching, he’ll still be alive.
Still alive
Still Alive.
_”right?”_
Im STILL ALIVE youre STILL ALIVE ? PS THE CAKE IS A LIE
Only want you gone
Harry:*Uploads*
Me: "WOT?! ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!"
He truly is still alive, isn't he?
Jesus, that ending. Seeing that panic as the units ignite, with the sole turret looking down from above.
A+ production, though!
turret not really looking down it is an ullision you can see that in portal 2 too
Yea, I love how they managed to capture that underlinging feeling of dread that existed throughout portal, despite the rather upbeat composition.
@@BattleBladeWarrior Yeah, the way this video captures so much emotion is incredible.
The sound of silence is a great song! This is a great representation of it. I could put this into my Simon & Garfunkel playlist with how good it is!
I’m glad the Portal fandom is Still Alive
Haha, I see what you did there!
MnrREAD This was a triumph
and the cake will always be a lie.
Alcer Demon I’m making a note here, huge success.
FearIess it’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
People: "2020 this is the worst year ever"
2020 giving us this: "maybe i treated you too sharply"
Alejandro Bardo Laserna and too fast
Perhaps all the stuff going on in the world right now is just the sound of science
And then GradeAUnderA comes back lol. Imagine if that actually happened.
Wait
This might be one of the most beautiful songs out there. The sense of hopelessness and oppression. Portal and Portal 2 are horror games
Dude I was literally obsessed with making science and this is aperture and the Wheatley song when I was in like, 5th grade? 6th grade? And suddenly TH-cam hits me with this recommendation after all these years,, and it's a jam, AND the lyrics were written by Stupendium who I've taken a major liking to more recently coz his stuff jams, basically this song is extremely good and also a major flashback for me and I love it, thank you
Stfu shadow!
@@hp5051 chill out bruh wtf
The turret models are so detailed, it's incredible. This is one of your best animations, in my opinion.
THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER TOUCHED THE INTERNETS!
I N T E R W E B S
this was one of the first portal related content I saw, and it introduced me to the series, so thank you harry101uk
Man, right when I left the fandom, this masterpiece comes out and drags me back in. The science is too powerful!
The escape is a lie
Once you enter, you can *never* leave
@@lostacelonnie You may check out any time you like, but you may never leave.
You have real talent in music. And in everything. I feel like you could make portal 3 by yourself
He participated in Portal Stories Mel, which can be considered an unofficial Portal 3.
Why the heck portal 3? Portal 2 had the best ending, idk y ppl want portal 3 so much. Half-Life 3 on the other hand....
@@AngryCaesCorporation Portal Stories: Mel takes place between Portal 1 and 2. So it might be more accurate to say "Portal 1.5"
RANDOM CHANNEL no, because I think the outside ended up being fake, so...
@@otherlego I hate that theory. So many people think that.
Glad to see you're still posting this stuff, loved watching your songs growing up. Keep up the fantastic work
OMG! I LOVE this!!!!!! Thank you so much for lighting up my day!
Wow... the lyrics of this one seriously hit and I love the "we do what we must because we can" reference. Great work as always, Harry! You once again knocked it completely out of the park.
Those innocent shooty bois are, in fact, NOT innocent shooty bois.
Says who?
Lol u got dat right
You are correct @Dr. Phill Sends the Joke to the Ranch.
but they are still shooty bois
I think Wheatley is ACTUALLY spending 10 years in android hell while we are waiting for going home 2
This... can be pretty accurate.
OMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Going home 2 is out
That was at the same time awesome and absolutely terrifying.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!???? This was the finest piece of art that I have seen, EVER!!! Simply brilliant. I am still tearing up from the beauty and tragedy. I am eternally grateful that you and Gregory took the time to gift us all this masterpiece. I am sharing this with every human (and robot) I know. Once again, thank you.
Holy crap. This is just brilliant. From the lyrics, to the editing, even the mastering of the audio is phenomenal. Just really great work. I'll be sharing this one with more than a couple people. THANK YOU.
I'm not crying
...
....
I'm just leaking science
Oh God there's science everywhere!
Cave Johnson- We can make moon rocks out of this
@@Harry101UK In fact about 66 percent of the known world is covered in science! You also, consist to sixty percent out of science!
@@overfailed3639 That's 126%
It's just tears
OMG! My new favorite TH-cam video! This is brilliant on so many levels!
The fire in the turret's eye at the end- absolutely amazing!