Half-Life: OVERWORLD - The Combine World Animation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to the Combine Overworld!
Until Valve reveals their next Half Life game, I tried to imagine what a trailer for a sequel to Half Life 2 Episode 2 would look like... Welcome to the Combine Overworld, and their next attempt to regain control of Earth.
Almost every visual asset in this short film (concepts, models, textures, rigs, animations) have been designed and handcrafted from scratch. Exceptions: (G-man, and Dr. Breen's Face)
No generative Ai assets have been used in this project, even for the concept stage... if that even matters to anyone.
I wanted to thank the Half Life subreddit for all their support and and even suggestions during the design process and a friend who helped with retopology of the bear and the "mother" creature.
Inspiration/references:
Half Life 2 Artbook "Raising The Bar" has been used as initial inspiration for the many original concepts I had to create but at the same time, other media has influenced the design process in many areas. "Alien", "Prometheus" "Scorn - game" and Denis Villeneuve sci-fi movies are some of the them.
Voice lines:
Dr. Wallace Breen by Robert Martin Culp 1930-2010
Half Life 2 and HL2 Episode One
Music
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Half-Life 2 EP2 "Dark Interval" Slowed down and reversed.
Half-Life: Alyx "Anti-Citizen"
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That was incredible.
Wait... That's actually you!
I saw almost all you HL movies last night, just for a refresh 😁
omg real theparrygod
@@UnknownDino Haha, ty! Can't wait to see what else you'll make. The portal startup sequence was chef's kiss. Also very glad to see that the almighty algorithm seems to be picking this one up. Well deserved.
We’re in the presence of greatness
Screw a return to ravenholm or the borealis, the combine overworld would be sick as an episode 3 or 4
We already have the Borealis sidestory. Why not have another sidestory?
Entropy: Zero 2 is Borealis, we now need Overworld
@@IdentificadorNoDisponibleYes, we need a game just like in this video!
@@IdentificadorNoDisponible This trailer has so many Scorn vibes to it and nails the Combine aesthetic PERFECTLY. We need a game like this.
Pretty sure that was the eventual destination in old script drafts
not sure if was intentional, but I love how you made it feel like how all the synths were just 'part' of the overworld, like cells in a unimaginably massive body, fitting with the combines use of medical jargon when dealing with humanity. Showing the combine isnt really an alien empire, but a single organism that is never ending in its growth, an organism so huge that it has to spread through universes to keep itself alive.
That's definitely my interpretation, too. I like to imagine that there is no 'top' to the combine, no actual leaders or species that's at the helm. The Combine is probably just a giant, impossibly vast AI; a blind idiot god that expands and consumes simply for the sake of it.
A perfect asthetic for something called “the combine”
That's the best way to put it. There is no "leadership" caste or ruling government for the combine. The combine is a super complex series of interlocking systems that brutalizes and absorbs other individual organisms and intellects into itself, reshaping them to become just another extension of The Combine.
So they're the ultimate cancer
ye. kinda reminds me of the Iris of Gemini Home Entertainment, which literally consumes other eldritch beings in order to keep itself alive.
And I wrote this cause I just read these comments lmao
Making the Striders look like crawling spiders on giant Combine architecture was GENIUS.
its like a spider crab colony
Dr. Gordon Freeman with 25 HP, no shield, and armed only with a super gravity gun: "They don't stand a chance."
The only thing the Doomslayer fears is Dr Gordon Freeman
@@davidwuhrer6704 What if the Doom Slayer He could teleport into the Half-Life universe and give Gordon Freeman his armor for a few weeks... Considering that it took Gordon no more than a couple of days to destroy the Alliance's "colony" on earth.
@@Аноним-п1ж One must remember that Gordon is steered by something mysterious.. We shall not name it!
I don't like their odds.
@@Аноним-п1ж That might weaken Freeman, I guess, but he did okay even without his HEV suit, so maybe not?
On the other hand, if the Doomslayer had access to Black Mesa's HEV suits with the longjump extension…
I love how there's almost no humans present, and just original alien combine synth designs, and I love the giger aesthetic for the overworld bio-structure things
Yeah only 2 humans, including Gordon. Actually 3… including… breengrub lol
@@chewy99. G-man is not human.
@@bizmasterTheSlav Yeah definitely not but he looks like one so he is familiar in that sense so it’s reasonable to count him
@@chewy99. good point
MAN! This captures the essence of Half-Life 2 and draws up on it in such a perfect way! Incredible new creature designs, showing how truly alien the Combine are, and that even with their humanity removed, the soldiers we fight in HL2 are the most human part of the Combine we could ever see, and that the desolate streets of City 17 are the most cozy and familiar place humanity can inhabit; the sense of scale, in which even the enormous Citadel dwarfs in comparison, showing how the force we fought was merely a policing garrison. And the last scene showing Gordon's POV making us imagine what Half-Life 3 could have been...
Also, this feels a lot like the alien homeworld scene in Pacific Rim (In a good way!)
The Precursor homeworld...I remember that.
You have quite the artsy mind
What about the crazy design of the gravity gun
I loved that scene in Pacific Rim! It really concluded for the imagination of the viewers thoughts about what or who was sending the Kaiju from the other side 👍 it was amazing for cinema because it fits pretty well for the ending of that movie! it’s done even better here for half life to reiterate the combine threat using its unknown technology to open gateways across the multiverse 😮 this scene also shows the audience how hidden humanity was to this sinister empire had it not been conducting experiments in territories of science not understood! Tie this combine over world scene back to half life Ch1 and it’s the perfect title choice unforeseen consequences! This strikes so many cords for my sci fi itch because I’m starting to see the subject of not what if in this universe but what if in the multi universe has become a serious topic since in actual scientific theory it’s become pretty obvious the multiverse is real!
@@TheKitMurkit The gravity gun reminds me of the gun from Prey (Q-Beam). It has a similar design to it.
Seeing the Combine Overworld being explored by fans (even conceptually) is something I've always wanted to see. I've had a lot of thoughts on what it may look like myself but THIS has to be the most accurate. I gotta love the striders climbing the citadel like spiders too. That and seeing breen grub was just... chilling.
EXCELLENT work, mate!
Pretty sure the grub was Gordon
@@Quenicalno, definitely breen
@@whnvr he’s wearing glasses. If you look at Gordon’s right hand in the last shot, you can see he’s in a host body
@@Quenical No... that's Breen.
@@Spark412 am I high cuz I swear even in the first person shot at the end you can see part of the host body
wow the combines home world looks like such a bright ray of sunshine
It's a happy workplace, like a big family.
I actually got the vibes that this is not their homeworld but more like worlds between world. a portal hub in sort. also from the HL2 lore. some of the combine penalties is to send you to "off world relocation" for their soldiers and Civil protection officer who disobey them. this probably one of them.
@@CoolSsreal
@@CoolSs I don't think they even have a single homeworld anymore.
I sure hope the locals are friendly to tourists, I’m sure theirs nothing to worry about.
The Combine seeing a Lambda graffiti on the wall
In earth: kalm
IN THE OVERWORLD: PANIK
I just love the organic feel of this combine overworld, all the strange creatures walking on the walls, with smaller synths climbing on larger synths and strange Pitcher Pot Ant like synths dangling from antenna and other things, its all just so good, like this machine is alive, like the planet they are on is alive. everything is alive
'It'll be the Seven Hour War, all over again. Except this time we won't last seven minutes...'
- Eli Vance
YEHEY TEAM CLOWN.
Damn, just like me fr
They won't last 7 minutes because the Earth's military is VERY VERY WEAKENED after the xen race x and combine wars or They are becoming MORE aggressive and stronger (Universal union)
If Gordon gets into the Overworld, it’s the grubs that won’t last seven minutes.
I cant even last that long!
This is so peak. Really gives the vibes the Combine are just playing a giant RTS game
More like interdimensional version of Stellaris, mixed with few RTS missions in invasions, sometimes leaving their AI to play a hybrid of City manager and Lambda Wars (RTS Half-Life 2 mod) style RTS game hybrid, with Advisors playing "no-build/limited resources" missions when shit gets real, like in Half-Life 2 and Episodes!
Sh gets real ™ Valve+ MFX (mind effects)
Its when you already beat the mission but dont finish the objective so you can harvest every resource and build the biggest base you can imagine
@@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 And you leave a little bit of your enemy remaining so that you can continue toying around with their forces, while your opponent is doing their best to not even try to beat you, but to survive.
So you mean like an empire
Next youll comment on a WW2 documentary "this shit is so peak, it really gives the vibe that the allies were playing Company of Heroes"
0:33 Everybody's favourite alien bureaucrate spotted!
I love g-man sightings
Seeing him in the Combine homeworld is weird.. as if he's arrived to make war against them.. "Now we take the fight.. to THEM..."
That headcrab bear was... An interesting concept. One helluva miniboss.
That's reference to Alyx's or Russell's offhand comment about whatever headcrabs would make bigger animals more or less dangerous than their naturally primal state in Half-Life: Alyx game.
Like in Metro.
@@-ak-634 Leaks show that a headcrab gorilla might actually make it into the next Half Life title
@@DistilledGuava Damn. Now we need all of the headcrabified animals!
A grizzly infected by a fast headcrab would be nightmare fuel
This is fucking VALVE quality animation, this is BEYOND amazing.
Don't forget the audio design! That stuff really stood out to me!
Half Life has been incredibly successful in many ways, but the fact that the art, writing, design, and lore continues to inspire stuff like this is a testament to its lasting success.
too bad a lazy company has the rights to the game, rip hl 3
@@spoodarman7748 No They acctually want to make games more impressive and intractable, But there's not enough good tech to push the limits
Would it even be possible for anyone other than valve to make a new half life game?
@@KatarinaBohtana no, especially not a sequel, but Entropy Zero: 2 is basically a DLC addon
@@Un_revealing I just want a regular fps game. I don't care about VR or 4d or smelling gmans farts. Just give a nice well developed world to play with. Valve makes hundreds of millions per year, a decent hl3 game is chump change to them.
Getting giant Oddworld and Scorn type vibes, this legit looks like a final level in a Half Life game. Remember this all happened because a guy was late for work
Not really, his lateness to work made other people's lives longer with at least 30 or minutes with the incident for people that died instantly and bit longer for others.
@@ilkeribrahim6541 They're being humorous. You don't have to reply seriously and "acktually" every fucking thing.
@@RootVegetabIe Well I know ,but it's still not accurate as a joke . There are many reasons basically, why this happened and being late is not one of them . Yes it's funny ,but it will be funnier if was actually true . :)
@@RootVegetabIe This is a worse response tbh
@@ilkeribrahim6541 I think freeman forgot to take the straight train and instead he take the scenery route
The combine in general feels so unimaginable to me that I’m surprised someone was able to come up with something like this
This guy just leaked HL3 trailer and still doesn't has even a few million views? Give this man some fame!
I hope you're joking on the "leaked" thing, because i can't tell if you're joking or not lol
🥸
This video game out five hours ago, calm down, fanboy. Also this much of the plot has been known for almost 5 years now.
@@Joe-dy7bb Dude don't be so rude. You're even more weird than he is.
@@Joe-dy7bb Piss off let him be a fanboy. We've been depraved from Half-Life 3 long enough. Let us have excitement for something probably we wont live long enough to see it.
I imagined when Breen said he was heading somewhere else he ended up in some fucked hellscape like this
I wonder if we'll ever get an answer.
I'm of the strong opinion that the barn advisor is Breen, given how it seems to toy with it's environment when it first wakes up.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Plus, the scene in episode one where an old recording of Breen plays and then an Advisor in a pod emerges directly after definitely seems like it was foreshadowing this
BreenGrub was always a thing
I've always thought that they put breen's mind into chell. Like she was a vegetable until they could find a good science brain for her.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Why do you guys keep saying Breen is an advisor? He never got his host body, he never crossed the portal. When Gordon destroyed the portal generator, the sphere Breen was in fell, and then the reactor exploded, turning Breen and everything else into dust. He's Dead.
Plus, that advisor is not toying with the environment, since it was forced out of its life support, it couldn't see properly, so it had to touch things with its tongue to find out what they are.
This is fucking insane and perfect, they need to hire you. I can’t believe it only too 6 months. I love the striders, the combine architecture is perfect, valve would be proud.
Love the image of all these striders in this large-scaled environment basically looking like Opilione spiders. Can't wait!
Can't wait for what?
bro its a fan made trailer, its not real 🤣🤣🤣
This is the greatest Half-Life cinematic I have ever seen
HEADCRAB BEARS
Where
@@ned2916 At the beginning.
We had zombines. Now we could get a zombears.
The horror
@@tobcyxob I was bummed when HL: Alyx foreshadowed Zombapes at the zoo, and then never delivered :(
The power of friendship may not suffice this time…
How about a right click with a SPAS-12 ?
Hello? Peak cinema?
Kino, perhaps?
it's not bad but still pretty mid idk about "peak" lol
@@phazon911 and no constructive criticism offered, great job dude!
@@phazon911 im not even a second in and i already know its peak just from the hd mud
Sir this is a Wendy's.
Half-Life: Combined.
Full life
Also : the aperture insignia on the only terrestrial component of the new gravity gun , masterpiece .
Imagine if aperature tech allows Gordon and team to teleport into their world and you go on rescue, sabotage and infiltration missions like Warhammer Darktide. I could Imagine this game playing like Half-Life+Doom+Quake
And then gman becomes super Saiyan and Eli vance becomes a Better nihilant ....but Alyx uploads Her consciusness in Glados and Ripley boxes vs dog in xen
Very few have noticed that!
What?! That makes this perfect!
@@andreisechi7871 half life if it was peak:
Dude, VALVE definitely should take this into account. This first Gigger architecture impression combined with Tripods striders walking around ...oh dude, you did great work.
2:35
I would be so fire if valve made the full game this way
I hope to see a battle 2:35
Gordon Freeman VS. Combine Overlord
On the Combine Over World Would be Fire..
given that the og half life is practically a boomer shooter now, it would be damn crazy if hl3 was a REAL boomer shooter, sort of like doom eternal or dusk or ultrakill or whatever good games there are. just imagine gordon freeman bunnyhopping around the combine world giving earth justice to every damned synth being
The most important thing about this imaginative sequel is the absence of a "3" in the title - so it might just happen. Good job!
I wouldn't dare.
After this project, 2 month later, Half Life X or "Project Whitesands" is found to be in development by VALVe.
Suspicious, isn't it?!
I'm joking, of course.
@@UnknownDino Hmm.. 🤔🤔
@@UnknownDino They should hire you to work on it cuz this video is some of the best half-life fan-made content i've ever seen. Huge props to you.
I absolutely LOVE the Striders (?) crawling around the portal gate at 1:10. It really evokes that sense of unease and disgust that we get when looking at a cluster of wooded stick-insects and the seemingly unnatural way that they move and behave. They're like bacteria infecting an open wound.
I reckon the four-legged ones should be called Bigmites.
The synth hit right there is perfect half life
Stick insects sway back and forth on their legs to imitate leaves blowing in the wind.
These things are more like a daddy long legs with legs pulled off.
They're probably janitors
Bruh, this is EXACTLY how I imagined the Combine Overworld to be! I really love all the unique synth designs, and the sheer magnitude of everything presented. Also, in this interpretation, is the Overworld just a local command center/nexus or the real “capital” of the Combine?
This shown here is just one of MANY interdimentional-portal generators. Many of them operate simultaneously whenever a massive attack is occurring. We happened to look at the one being managed by "BreenGrub"
By the way, why does Dr. Breens host body still have his original body latched on to it? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just completely transfer Breens consciousness into the host body?
The consciousness copies of Breen were "incomplete" and "disfunctional" to say the least (based on Mark Laidlaw writings on breengrub). This here was the latest version, the actual body parts of Breen that made it on the other side of the portal in the end of HL2. So the combine kept alive the only version of Breen that did not betray them, the original one.
I think this might be intended to be one of many consecutive sections, and whenever there is an invasion they connect the power plugs to turn the portals on and direct all the troops to them.
g-mans gotta make a shit ton of nudges for gordon to pull this one off
My thoughts exactly 😅
@@UnknownDino Half Life 3: You thought Dark Souls was hard?
Gordon doesn't have his crowbar, he is powerless.
This was the best fan-made Half-Life animation I've ever seen. In fact, I've never seen a fan-made video with so much work put into it, and I was like, "let this guy direct this game!". The imagination you have is really endless. Thank you for all your hard work ! ❤
Every time I watch the video I see more and more different details. I can't hide my amazement, it's amazing!!
The madman solo made the Half-Life 3 teaser trailer, are you even human?
Nope, UnknownDino is an advisor grub now
Gordon going into the Combine Homeworld to close off the portal from inside after the Combine’s discovery of Borealis.
Ok now this, this is the real Combine army that fucked the earth in 7 hours.
(edit: i did not expect 1k likes)
There is a reason for that..
The earth never encountered real combine army, just the small scouting contingent.
@@gustawbobowski1333 nah that wasnt the scouting party, they prob just sent in a single big arse carrier-like ship, which then proceeded to spam the shit out of those fly synths that rode on the strider 👌
@@nerdgusgun ?? it's well established it was a tiny scouting contingent wat are you waffling about
@@gustawbobowski1333 When is that ever stated?
The models look so good and you even redid the gravity gun from scratch and made me realize it was the weapon in just a few seconds? Really well done needs more attention in my opinion.
Just a reminder that we doesn't even know how does the original race of the combine looks, they could possibly even died out but the union stayed alive through combining species.
I think they are the advisors
Just flying giant worms with telekinetic powers
@@balticbvll2987The advisors are just another victim to the combine
@HideorEscape According to Marc Laidlaw's "Breengrub" posts, meant to be Episode 3 lore, the advisors (or Shu'ulathoi) are a conquered civilization of psychically powerful creatures that live as grubs, underground on their homeworld, for most of their lives. They evolved on an inhospitable planet exposed to long-lasting and intense radiation. They spend epochs as larvas, using their time creating an advanced "thought-based" civilization.
The Combine found their homeworld and used a preexisting parasitic "thought-form" to take over their society, while some isolated grubs hid themselves or escaped (I guess mirroring how they took over humanity). Now the Combine is using the augmented grub bodies for the leadership, advisor, and "host body" roles that we see in the game
@@redmanone That's fucking insane lore. Imagine being all cozy in your self-imposed The Matrix simulation and then your dreamworld itself gets invaded by external hackers
I can see a mix of HR Giger and War of the Worlds aesthetics here. Gabe would be proud.
I feel like there is a comeback of HL2 content these days.
One can hope.
What’s really terrifying is that we have no clue what the Combine actually look like. All of the aliens we have seen in Half Life are either Xen, Species X, or other species that the Combine have enslaved. So we have no idea what the actual Combine look like.
While I have some rough ideas, I could not dare portray them here. It would be too much and would ruin the mystery and beauty of the unknown.
It would be really fun if Valve did take Borg's way, aka Combine has original species but now it's irrelevance for them as original species melt into all those bioengineering mess and Combine didn't care about that anymore, others also didn't know. It has 'leader' synthetic species but just for efficiency reason only.
And also synths
I assumed they look like advisors. are advisors just another subjugated alien race?
It would be cool if they took the _Remembrance of Earth’s Past_ novel series approach and never revealed the aliens.
Really shows how the 7-hour war was just a small combine invasion before the full force arrives
The end really looked like the beginning of a DOOM game, with the industrial metal music building up, the way Freeman charges the gravity gun and proceeds to launch debris at the Strider. If this was the actual trailer for the next HL release, I'd tell you to take my money. You've done an incredible work on the details, properly depicting a combine world with all the technical challenges that comes along with it, now that's some proper dedication. Be proud of yourself because that's definitely an AAA game trailer quality you've achieved and shared for everyone to witness !
VALVE HIRE THIS GUY
ACTUALLY NO, DON'T
YOU'LL PROBABLY MAKE HIM WORK ON SOME MICROTRANSACTIONS
Valve and microtransactions?
@@blyad2137 Loot boxes, season passes/contracts, cosmetics, etc.
That's really portrays how Combine is not just any regular alien race with like one star system or a few captured, but that they conquered entire universes, chilling vibes
I don't think entire universes but possibly entire galaxies. It is an interesting idea about how many of these portal planets there could be throughout their empire, and how many planets are being invaded at a time.
@@artisticgamer777 I think it's actually implied they are a multiversal and multi-dimensional empire, that's what makes them powerful.
@@Omega-tc1xd I guess that even if their technology is not exactly the best possible technology, as long as they have the capacity to rapidly expand within and between universes with warp ships, as well as utilize any mineral resources found on asteroids and planets to produce more ships, they could dominate the universe.
@@artisticgamer777 The combine conquers entire solar systems easily( theres a photo of various solar system planets in a combine terminal such as venus, mars, etc, they probably didn't conquer them because there wasn't any life form in those planets) so i assume their technology and brutally powerful army makes them deadly enough to conquer universes, but as we saw they needed humanity teleport technology to teleport to universe to universe that's why they didn't come back to earth.
@@artisticgamer777 They definitely have the best possible technology when they're rivaling god like beings such as g-man's employers, and even the small forces on earth were able to build a temporary prison to trap g-man. They also wiped out entire civilizations of powerful beings like Nihilanth.
The only thing stopping them from being invincible is their lack of local teleportation, and that is exactly what g-man is trying to prevent them from getting. I think the Combine has grown so powerful that they've become the ultimate threat.
Holy shit this is beautiful! I can't stop looking at those Combine walking around, amazing designs. This could very well be just a trailer for Episode 3! AMAZING WORK!!!
"impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary"
how about "desolate, FUBAR, metallic, extreme, terrifying" 😂
@@artisticgamer777 One word. "Eldritch"
H. G. Wells' idea of aliens having three legs in The War of the Worlds was genius,
I'm so glad they gave a nod to that in Half-Life 2
Gordon.. we.. we're gonna need a big fucking crowbar for this...
Very big
Don't worry, Gordon is a highly trained professional! Surely, this is nothing he hasn't handled before!
@@yemboy6304 we've assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong
To me this animation is what I’ve always thought *nsfw* animators could do if they made *sfw* animations based on the universe the game characters they normally animate are from.
Absolute masterpiece. You mastered the combine design language and got it even more powerful. Great architecture, animations, rendering, scale, vfx and world building. Congrats man !!
0:30 If you look up in the middle to upper part of the screen, you can see G-MAN!!!
I love all the details in this, honestly!
My god that was just the most amazing piece of fan creation I've seen. Like right there with Astarte's project.
Damn, I am blown away by how well you nailed the Combine's feel and aesthethic with your custom models, they feel official! Great work!
After all these years I’ve never seen someone capture the combine aesthetic so perfectly, while even adapting and evolving it for higher graphical fidelity.
From the sheer size and scope of the Combine Overworld to one of the best usage of Combine Harvester I've seen, amazing work! I really hope it takes off, I've wanted to see something like this since 2007!
1:10 I love those new striders so much they're so creepy, they remind me of when harvester spiders bunch together
Or when amogus impostor is sus
When your playing a first person shooter and your enemy is playing stellaris
1:03 Bipedal creatures with cloth hanging from their backs look amazing! They seem more intelligent than our standard Combine soldier, and they look like they're taking commands from a superior creature (or maybe a tool Idk).
And I really hyped during the in-game section! You nailed the aesthetic without making it look like anything we're already familiar with. Great work!
that superior creature kinda looks like the same thing breen is in innit?
This is the best Game cinematic I've ever seen. I can't even fathom the work that must have gone into this. The art style takes the Half-Life motif, perfects it and then exceeds it in leaps and bounds. I need this game.
@@hun181 Yep, it's the same one.
To me it looks almost like a cult-leader instructing initiates or something.
Anyone else notice the G-Man walking around with his briefcase in the beginning?
Oh so that's g man😮
@@Mr_Rain_Forestno, it’s Smoking Man from X-Files
@@efraimkent No its Shakira from Wakka wakka
@@efraimkent No its Shakira from Wakka wakka
Have you not received a job offer from Valve yet? Speechless, this is poetry...
"Almost every visual asset in this short film (concepts, models, textures, rigs, animations) have been designed and handcrafted from scratch. Exceptions: (G-man, and Dr. Breen's Face)
No generative Ai assets have been used in this project, even for the concept stage... if that even matters to anyone." Yes - it matters to me and everyone else who appreciates art.
Fine work, you are another inspiration for my dreams and pursuit.
Gordon: *Arrives onto a completely new planet not knowing what's going on*
"So we're going to perform a grenade boosted backwards bunny hop to crash into Breengrub at mach 5 and instantly obliterate the entire Combine empire, freeing the earth and every other universe."
Now THIS is the proper Art Style for a Half Life Sequel! Antonov meets Bleszinsky. Amazing piece of work!
I did look back at their work during the concept stage actually!
2:49
Hey, look, an Aperture Science logo.
Using the anomaly from the borealis to make a sort of upgraded grav gun would be a really cool way to improve that mechanic for HL3
I am so in love with each and every combine abomination you've made, they all look so good and so half life 10/10, awesome
How on earth did you single handedly create something so creative and high quality. This is truly amazing
looks like Breen suffered a fate worse then death
yeah poor guy
Kinda GLaDOS-esque.. Forced to live forever.. though far more horrific and inhuman.. and gross...
* than
You've Met with a Terrible Fate, Haven't You?
@@damonnugent1993 i remember that Marc Laidlaw epistle 3 said that we would find breen grub and he will beg to die. The player will choose what to do kill or not.
This is madness, Hollywood, Valve level of quality! 🤯 You have vision, you have skills, and I hope you are proud of this work! Thanks for this cinematic!
I agree! It's a work of art for sure.
This made scorn look like industrial warfare, no emoji could describe the feeling of this art.
This is your magnum opus.
How does it feel?
Nice so far 😁
It's very nice, really hits hard if you think about it, what the 7 hour war must have been like
Some machines looking like fleas, those skinny spiders or ticks... I love that design!
Exactly the kind of bio mechanical nightmare I expected from a dimension-spanning empire. It's horrifying but I can't stop watching.
I have to admit this is the most actuate way i would believe the alien designs we saw in HALF LIFE would actually look.
Valve take notes. lol
Those first 30 seconds go hard, definitely high level but holds onto that one scene for too long. Definitely has Half-Life vibes
I was trying to build up the reveal on the other side of the portal.
the more the merrier bro. this is good shit
I absolutely love that you can kinda tell what was the predominant lifeform on this planet through the stalker-esque synths walking around at 1:00 . God that's an amazing design too- they look both clean and mass produced at the same time.
This is extremely well done! The huge megastructures and architecture remind me a lot of the dune movies, both the old one and new ones. This also very perfectly captures the art style of Half-Life, and its a really great take on what a combine homeworld would look like! The models too, are amazing! I cannot wait to use them with sfm posters! Amazing job!!
Your portrayal of the overworld is honestly the best I’ve seen. From the mix of machine and synths, to the different types of striders that carry different purposes. To it feeling like the inside of an organic system and it feeling both futuristic and nightmarish at the same time. It’s just *chefs kiss*
Just wanna say that the models look absolutely fantastic, as in, I immediately considered them to be Combine synths/creatures. Horrible metal additions like torches combined with weird grubby alien fleshy bits, absolutely a fantastic job. I feel like the true Combine Overworld is something that cannot, and should not, be represented in a visual medium - it's something so horrifying and frankly weird to us that Breen was running out of human vocabulary to describe it - but I think that this is realistically what could be done. Excellent job, bravo
Wow, you should totally be hired by Valve!
Oh, this fills The Parry God shaped hole in my heart... It's perfect. I hope he returns one day, so I can work with him again.
Truly though, a history of working on large creature anatomy paid off with all the biomechanical creations of the Combine! This is fantastic. Their soundtrack has never felt more appropriate.
And the speculative designs like the heavy dropships fit in so nicely with their aesthetic in a slightly Geiger-ish way, alongside the unused concept art striders and everything else. Even the Breengrub lore! Don't see that every day.
The citadel-scale power conduit descending from the sky and locking into place is *probably* the peak moment for me(?), but there's so many to pick from, and no weak moments. Just... Damn.
Oh my god, i remember the first big ass strider teaser, holy shit this is gonna be peak cinema
This is incredible. And it does matter pointing out when folks wisely avoid "AI!" I think it's vital that we point out when we don't use plagiarism software to make assets! It shows folks they don't need it; people make are! I appreciate you putting that in the description.
Your animation is so peak that it will be no wonder if valve wanted you!
Fine work, anyone making fan art would wish it to be on this quality level. I like how you extended the design and some solid effect work as well. That base-of-the-tower-portal scene was pretty epic.
The idea of a gravity gun that, instead of dense, impactful attacks that require a level of precision to pick up and fire, it picks up various smaller fragments and objects to launch like a shrapnel shotgun. Easier to grab ammo with, but potentially less impactful. Good for taking out large groups of light enemies.
Holy fuck. A Flechette shotty that just launches hundreds of Shrapnel pieces is genious. Imagine it's modular and has different modes with one of them being a Gauss cannon, Thermal Detonator launcher and SMG that fires each shard in succession.
The Grav Gun could have a tech Tree and modular upgrades as you progress through the game kinda like how Doom had weapon upgrades.
It could have offensive and defensive modes where the eletrical arca form a temporary frontal circular energy shield and a meter shows how much power it has before failing
@@ArilMaven I really like the shield idea.
Literal chills. Incredible design work. Fantastic to see more synthetic focus of the combine, and every figure shown feels so true to form. That tower being a power source for the portal, the way the mechanical arm just gently plops the matter into the sphere.. wow. I need this.
One of my most favourite depictions of the Combine. Pure unprecedented talent.
The fact that even the G-Man of all beings,cannot snap the Combine away by his wishes tells the words.
Very interesting reimagining of the combine's aesthetic.
Sir, you have won the internet for this day.
Nothing can top this for a week.
You perfectly captured the organo-synth look of the Combine. It's truly disgusting, and I love it.
BRO COOKED HARDER THAN VALVES, WTF THIS IS BEYOND AWESOME
Dude, this is amazing. How cool it looks. You can literally feel the scale and power of the Alliance, an alien super civilization that took over the earth in a measly 7 hours. This is about what I imagined the world and the power of the Alliance would look like. It feels like it's a teaser for Half Life 3. I still hope that we will wait for the release of HL3.
HL: Alyx was HL3. Now you have learned something.
You mean "Union", the Combine is not an alliance.
Look like breen sending out all the entire planet size populations combine just to hunt that freeman
Anyone notice that the gun Gordon is holding at 2:50 has the Aperture science logo?
i stil; think the only way we get a sequel to half life is if theres an interesting enough story, rather than the meh "gordon teleports the borealis to the combine world and realises it too big to defeat, oh well, the end".
now they have gone back and changed the timeline with half life alyx they should tie the portal and half life together properly, bring back gordon, alyx, dog, eli, sheppard, and barney and glados, chel, atlas and p-body and have them work together to perfect the portal tech and build a bunch of weapons that will give them a chance to beat the combine. it would be amazing. valve finally counts to three.
@@ge2719 Gordon meets the Combine at the Borealis. Despite their struggles they are too late, but Gordon can attempt to stop them before they can teleport the ship to their homeworld to study it by sacrificing himself. Gordon kills all the Combine and attempts to redirect the teleport, but the process is too far along and it shunts him into the homeworld anyway. Now he has to destroy the Combine army, find their portal generator, either attempt to reverse engineer it into a proper teleporter like Black Mesa and Aperture has. Or destroy all in his wake, Doomguy style.
Can’t imagine how long this took to put together; this is ridiculously good quality ❤
Its mox…!