The GLaDOS Design You Don't Remember - Portal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Today, I ramble for about 11 minutes about a design for GLaDOS I deeply adore that only appears in a 2 minute long cutscene in Portal 2's introductory moments, mainly about it's design and lore implications.
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Hey everyone, the name's Ossy Flawol!
Happy 12 years of Portal 2!
This is my first video that has me using Premiere Pro to edit. As much as I love Vegas Pro 13, it straight up started falling apart near the end of production of my documentary on Portal: The Flash Version and I knew that my editing style was no longer compatible with it, so this video served as a good learning experience to learn Premiere :)
As a premiere pro user for the past 7 years, welcome!
Although if you'd be interested in a robust free editing software (and not have to pay Adobe lol), Davinci Resolve is also great
The comparison to portal 2 being as cartoony as tf2 is and portal 1 being grounded as half life 2 is pretty accurate one.
Always kind of found it hard to believe that in portal 2 aperture was suppose to be the much "smaller" competitor research center to black mesa considering it comes across as being almost 1/4 the entire state of Michigan in size and like 4x deeper than the deepest salt mines that exist IRL.
Would make for a great idea for a video idea though, actually trying to make a compete map of the enrichment center in its entirety like whats been done with black mesa already.
As @CaptainJZH have said, if you are switching editing software due to instability, Premiere Pro is not recommended. DaVinci Resolve is free, almost as feature packed as Premiere and much, much more stable. I strongly suggest you give it a try.
Welcome to Adobe friend
The most shocking part of this statement is that Portal 2 is 12 YEARS OLD. it doesn't feel that old, it feels like a 2017 game! And that's why Valve is such a good game dev.
we see the two glados designs so far apart from each other in portal 2's story that it's easy to forget how different they are. I can understand how the differences go overlooked in that case, they look similar enough that the differences don't stand out as much more than "she's not fully repaired yet"
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Hey I saw that you posted a reply to my question but I didn't have time to answer it. You have since deleted it for some reason but I'm going to reply regardless. I don't join servers because I'm too shy. Although I might briefly if not just to confirm things. The reason I'm so interested in you is because I swear I've seen you other places but the fact I can't find where those places are now is actively bugging me.
@@thewakeup5459 I don't know what happened to my reply, I didn't delete it myself, weird
@@DessDragon if it had a link in it yt automatically deletes it
Yeah.
I bet that part where she says she has to go "fix the turbines" and leaves us alone for a couple chambers was an excuse for her to temporarily shut off and her body be upgraded.
I dunno if she needs to be offline to upgrade herself. That's part of what makes her a terrifying antagonist, is that she _is_ the whole facility, and can upgrade, update and alter parts of it and herself as she needs to without missing a beat. I do wonder how she got the articulation to do it, though, unless she just lowers herself into the bay beneath or something.
@@ultmateragnarok8376 I mean, give a supercomputer a few thousand years alone and im sure it could come up with a solution to nearly everything
@@ultmateragnarok8376 She clearly runs Linux
@@zeniththetoaster9712 she runs the Steam Deck OS
@Milk that would be called the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, or GLaDOS for short
The ironic part is, this GLaDOS design is the one people have seen the most when booting up Portal 2, it's on the opening screen AND the main menu used for the first chapters of the game.
its also the steam library banner and the background used when you hover over portal 2 on the ps3 xmb
I mean, I was floored and thinking that it was the coolest GLaDOS design of the 3 that really stands out.
they really wanted to show it off !!
I will always remember this design because it scared the hell out of me when I first booted the game up lmao
@@kellymountainand the Xbox 360 tile
2:12 wheatley's little scream as he disappears omg
Lol
clipp it
AAAUUugh-
AA-
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I always felt as though the clear and obviously different chasis between the wakeup sequence and later section when you confront her was entirely intentional, as it shows her JUST coming back versus her at full power again, and I imagine that this is an intended effect as well.
I honestly never would have noticed if it weren't for this video, but yeah that could be why they kept it as it was, to emphasise her being in control again. At least in part. I'm sure nobody at Valve was too keen on reanimating that whole wakeup sequence just to update the design haha
I thought when glados exploded that white part perfectly landed on her face and when she turned it it came on with her but no one can say anything about how her face was dragged so meny times as when glados was wearing that face thingy it must have adjusted to her over time
Yep. And it is easy to imagine that her wakeup design is so different from Portal 1 because she's literally just assembling whatever parts are immediately around her.
We later learn that Glados herself is basically just the "eye" when she gets stuck in the potato. The rest of her body is mostly just wiring.
I have a theory about her "body" and why it's actually important. So we know that back when GLaDOS was still being built, Caroline was integrated into her AI, and yet, it's always seemed like GLaDOS was in control, because she makes all the decisions and didn't even know Caroline existed until she was put in the potato and freed from her "body". We know that GLaDOS is basically just her head as she is still conscious when Wheatley's put on her body. And when Chell sees GLaDOS again, the automated voice says she is "80% corrupt", which we know happens from corrupt cores/AIs being added, but GLaDOS didn't have any cores added. However, she did have Caroline somewhere in her hard drive. As soon as Wheatley is put on her body, he quickly goes mad and when we enter the bossfight, we learn he's already 25% corrupt without the cores. This means that GLaDOS's body has something in it that corrupts AIs, and since we know too many cores in the same body do that, Caroline is stored in GLaDOS's body, not just her brain, and that's why GLaDOS didn't know where Caroline was stored until she saved Chell and regained control of the facility, as well as why Caroline isn't apparently conscious.
EDIT: I am genuinely sorry for anyone who reads this, I did not intend for this to be so long.
5:52 I believe the reason they break up the model like that is probably due to how complex it is. I actually took a few minutes to add together the total poly-count and number of bones.
New GLaDOS has 43 bones, and a poly-count of 28,280.
Wake-up GLaDOS, with all parts combined (including cables), has 205 bones, and a poly-count of 66,057.
So instead of having one MASSIVE file that could potentially crash Hammer if you tried to load it in, they break it up into individual parts. The same is done for models that have pre-simulated destruction, such as the relaxation chamber in the beginning of the game.
Hey, thanks for actually going through and checking the design’s model components! I kind of had a vague feeling that there was some Source Engine jank at play with Wakeup GLaDOS’s seperations, however my expertise in Source lie more in the Environment Art department rather than Modelling. Polycount isn’t a problem for Source and Hammer as they’re able to handle some pretty high poly stuff, however the bone count is definitely the real issue with the model as Source, IIRC, can only handle a maximum 128 bones on 1 model. All checks out then!
My main problem with it is the lack of a reference pose, as the "reference pose" is just "Disabled GLaDOS"
@@brodielobins6318 I mean, can't you just take one of the other animations, pause on a frame she looks alright in, and then just make their entire animation based on that pose?
Yeah source has a max of 128 bones per model.
Wake up GlaDos has as much bones as a human
I remember when, on the eve of the release of Portal RTX, everyone was wondering "what will be the design of Glados?". And, God, how shocked everyone was when they saw this mixture of design from Portal 1 and Portal 2. And the spooky thing is - IT LOOKS GOOD
Did they change GLaDOS's model in RTX? I know they changed the cores, but GLaDOS looked the same in the playthroughs I watched(?) Maybe I just couldn't tell because those didn't get a close enough look.
@@ZMYaro i didn't play it but in the playthroughs it seems like her body is more portal 2-esque and while her head is the same the color palette is closer to portal 2's design
Portal 2 best
That's so silly. The reason GLaDOS looks different between games is because she f*cking exploded at the end of Portal 1, and Portal 2 GLaDOS is what's left. There is no continuity issue here.
@@HOTD108_ the faceplate looks too radically different to be just exploded, imo
I adore Glados' damaged design. the way her broken dangling panel almost looks like an arm for her to gesticulate with like a furby's ears is so cool.
FURBYS MENTIONED RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
I had a greenish-cyan furby, it died
Portal 1 and Portal 2 have different art DIRECTIONS, not different art styles. The art styles are the same, the art direction is the one that changed (or evolved)
Exactly
It's not leviosaw it's leviosaw
SAME THING
What's the difference?
@@Lou-yf1jonot at all
I love that the eye for wake up Glados looks so enraged and how she is just barely holding herself back from slaughtering you, and the fact for the past few years she has only been watching you killing her and the first new thing she sees is YOU
A few Years? No, 50.000
@@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAO000 It's unidentified, so we don't know if it was a few years or 50,000
@@marvinarellano3087 Ok but NOT just a few years Lol
@@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAO000 Who knows
@@marvinarellano3087
99999 days
THE WAY YOU MADE WHEATLEY DISAPPEAR AND SCREAM GOT ME, I don't know why that was so funny to me. Like those clips of something making a noise and disappearing (the cat meowing and vanishing, the duck quacking and then disappearing, ect)
Youre laughing. Wheatley got fucking banished to the shadow realm and youre laughing
(so am i its such a perfect editing choice)
The most creepy part of the portal 2 GLaDOS model is half of the stuff she had was missing because when chell killed her most of her parts remained in scrap in the parking lot and the only thing that was brought back in was her head and her body containing her backup power system
I can see how the old design can become the new one. The front panel on her eye could have simply fallen off. She could also have lost a lot of wires. They could have restricted her movements. As for their technological purpose maybe they linked her up with lower Aperature. That would explain why Wheatley doesn't have any control down there.
I always headcannoned her not moving much as them trying to physically restrain her so she doesn't try to kill people
GLaDOS can control old aperture at the end of the co-op campaign somehow. I wonder how she managed that. Nanobots?
@@n646nmaybe Wheatley just didn’t know how to, he is an idiot after all
@@n646n
I mean, she probably has some blueprint files to her own, old design somewhere, so I'd say it's safe to assume she used those and reconnected herself to the old aperture
I actually noticed that the model was different during the wakeup scene, and I'm glad somebody finally mentioned it.
I noticed her appearance had changed when you met her later, but I never went and compared just how different the models were, so I still appreciated this breakdown!
Starting off saying the way you just make wheatley disappear, and have him scream, is hilarious
Now, i want to say I think the idea of GLaDoS having been coiled up when you encounter her is super cool, it would suit her very well considering her movements and appearance are already very serpentine. It could also be interpreted as a kind of defensive curl, reflecting how she’s heavily damaged and not at her prime power
Now that you mentioned Portal 2's stylistic traits, I'd love to see someone go through the massive task of overhauling Portal 2 to fit with Portal 1/Half-Life 2's artstyle.
portal with rtx did that
@@SadatSharifAlternate Not sure what you mean.
Instead it did the opposite (and also kind of failed at that since it was just an elaborate texture pack); that being changing Portal 1 to fit within Portal 2's style.
@@Gulliblepikmin i meant the glados design, the only thig that they managed to do correctly was the glados design, a perfect mix of p1 and p2
@@SadatSharifAlternate Then I now think you missed what I was meaning in a different way. I wasn't meaning a middle-ground between Portal 1 and Portal 2's artstyles, I was meaning that'd I'd like to see a mod that completely overrides Portal 2's art direction with that of Portal 1's.
@@Gulliblepikmin ah ok, well, i'd also like a mod like that
2:12 Wheatley gets banished to the shadow realm
8:36
GLaDOS with arms looks so incredibly goofy omg
It's also weird how in Portal 1 she's seen outside the facility completely detached from her wiring, I always thought that this new design is just a backup chassis in the case of the Original's destruction. And this is kinda supported by the fact that in a COOP ending we can see a chassis that sort of resembles GLaDOS but with a computer in the place of her head. This explanation may not be accurate but to me this seems like the most logical
I'm so glad you made a video about this; GLaDOS waking up has got to be one of my favorite parts in Portal 2; I used to have this hobby where I'd open Portal 2 and noclip thru the whole game to take a look at all the details each level had, I thought it was so weird how no one used GLaDOS' first model on any of their SFM animations, but I never could've guessed it was because of how broken it was.
Side note, GLaDOS' model from Portal: Aperture Robot Repair is also pretty good.
I love that one, it's got some details that the others don't, particularly flickering pixel-like squares in her eye. I dunno what they're meant to be but they certainly look cool, and the rest of her feels similar but different somehow.
@@ultmateragnarok8376 It's so unique, but it doesn't take away from her original Portal 2 design; not too much detail, just enough to make her look modern.
I hope we get to see more of her if they ever do a sequel or a spin-off like Aperture Desk Job.
2:10 A-
*Player: Wheatley has been banned*
*GLADOS liked that*
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I always thought of the obvious design changes between portal 1 and 2 as something just done for game design because it doesn't make sense canonically. Like, if nobody has touched the facility since you killed her, why would the design of the doors and cubes be different than portal 1? but it's interesting that wakeup glados has some elements of original glados, I don't think I ever noticed.
That one is actually easy to explain, it's a totally different test track, and the evidence was before our eyes all this time.
If you remember from Portal 1, test chamber 7 is rather far away from GLaDOS' chamber.
Not only do you have to go all the way up to test chamber 19, but you still have further climbing to do during the escape.
Now let's look at Portal 2.
You escape test chamber 7 through a different test chamber 8 right next to it, walk on a few catwalks, through a few doors, and you literally arrive in GLaDOS' chamber on the same level.
Definitely not the same test track.
Same goes for test chamber 19 right after GLaDOS wakes up, you actually fall way further down than where the Portal 1 counterpart should be, so that is yet another test track separate from the other two.
@@Chapmike yeah, guess it does make sense there would be identical sets of tests on different tracks in different styles. and the companion cube in the final portal 2 cutscene is the first game's model, so they are two different styles. but some things still don't make sense, like how glados' head would completely change even before waking up if she's supposed to have been dead all this time, and how the end of portal 1 cutscene is outside. unless there are two different glados bodies in universe, which makes even less sense.
@@Zory13 For GLaDOS changing between games, all we can do is theorize.
I think Wheatley wasn't entirely honest when he said "Then there was a sort of long chunk of time where absolutely nothing happened and then there's us escaping now."
I mean, even his previous sentence is wrong, "Apparently this human escaped and nobody's seen him since."
I don't think I need to prove Chell didn't escape at all.
So, what could he potentially hide from us?
We know from GLaDOS' allusions in Portal 1 that the Combine was still around during the first game.
Now don't you think that huge explosion literally dragging GLaDOS and Chell outside would catch their attention?
I find it hard to believe they would just ignore that, especially if they're tracking down Aperture technology.
She even warns us that she's the only protection between us and them.
My guess is that they brought back GLaDOS inside, removed damaged parts, replaced the external chassis with the reshaped rings, and tried to put her back online.
Problem is, they would need a core to activate the main breaker room, but the cores could have used turrets and other stuff to defend themselves.
Eventually, the Combine concluded that Aperture portals were way too small for their need, and left everything.
Maybe they even thought it would be useless as their own technology had similarities, like the High Energy Pellet and the Combine Energy Ball.
And THEN nothing else happened.
It's just my interpretation, but it's still fun to fill the gaps.
That's quite interesting! It makes sense too especially for the timeline. People don't seem to mention that either.
So great theory, makes a lot of sense.
@@Zory13 I personally believe that the GLaDOS in Portal2 is a different chassis that simply shares a memory pool with the Portal1 version. There are actually a lot things that hint towards that, for example the hallways before GLaDOS' chamber being completely different or even just the fact that a prototype chassis exists (coop DLC)
Glados in portal 1 felt like a computer, glados in portal 2 felt like a person.
just like it's supposed to feel!
Wow. 12 years since Portal 2 release and I just realized that wake-up GLaDOS is a whole different model.
It’s details like this that keep me interested in passionate, detailed games like these decades after release.
The older model isn't completely different.
It is a different model, but it's just the damaged counterpart of the cleaned up and repaired model they made later on.
I thought everyone noticed that GLaDOS got repaired during the core transfer?
They even do that dramatic reveal of her newly repaired body as the panels open up in the beginning of the sequence.
Here's to 12 years of Portal 2!!!
Edit: for those who watched my Portal 2 video of GLaDOS awakes in the first chapter, then you know it’s a Different GLaDOS which is the “Wakeup” Model and that deserves it even if you saw the Portal 2 Teaser Trailer which the scene looks different during development. Ossy, you’re on a roll today!
I think there actually is a good explanation for how her head ended up as it did. Obviously when portal 1 ended both chell and glados were on the surface, particularly glados was not in a great state. However as we know some of the facility is still functioning as there is a robot that drags chell back into the facility right at the end. A very easy explanation is that the same robot also dragged glados' core back into the facility and as it was in a damaged state it was probably rebuilt in one of the personality core production areas and then dropped off where it should be in her annex, however as we see her put herself back together it probably wasnt in the capabilities of the other robots to actually fully recontrustruct her so she was just left on the floor. So when she wakes up she's in a half built state and rebuilds herself with her superior access to the facilities and obviously higher intelligence than most of the machines in aperture.
I'll be honest, excepted the fact that she actually looks broken, I didn't know that they were two differnet GLaDOS models in Portal2. But now that I know, I must admit that my heart is torn about which one do I like the most. On one hand, having a broken model that links much better than I could have imagined with its previous model is just ultra cool. But more importantly, I remember the first time I saw Broken GLaDOS. I have always loved GLaDOS, from my discovery of Portal 1 to today, she remains a character that I adore immensely.
In Portal 1, she was obviously much more of an antagonist than in 2, but there was something that emanated from her. Yes, she is funny. But more importantly, she is... Cute? When you start from the principle that she is designed for one thing and is buggy, there is something that makes her a bit childlike? Like a 3-year-old niece who is a bit foolish and likes to tap your leg at family gatherings just for fun. As if that niece suddenly had phenomenal intelligence, almost limitless resources in her environment, and a clear and precise objective. But she was still foolish enough to tap your leg repeatedly.
That kind of cuteness.
And seeing her in that state at the beginning of Portal 2, when I hadn't seen any trailers or screenshots announcing the game (I always do that for games I'm really looking forward to, I don't read or watch anything about them so as not to spoil anything, or get too hyped and then be disappointed by the downgrades)... I don't know, it made me feel something. Almost sad. But also happy to see her again after all this time.
Then, the rest of the game was just as emotional. Her awakening, the tests again, her new absolutely sublime model, emphasizing her femininity much more and almost "standing" upright at all times, while obviously being much more expressive, then the potato phase, so many emotions.
All this to say that I think I would have a hard time choosing a favorite model. Yes, the one from P1 is less "interesting" than the one from P2, let's be honest, it is much less like GLaDOS as a character. But I still love it with all my heart. Just like the Wake Up Model is absolutely perfect as it represents the hardness of what she went through, her destruction, and later we learn that she experienced her death over and over again...
And yes, the "final" model is absolutely graceful and beautiful. But even if I can find the latter more beautiful than the others, I do not prefer it. I think what I prefer, deep down, is the fact that the model evolved along with the character. That it changed, as GLaDOS changed, grew. What I prefer is that they did that well enough to make GLaDOS come alive. It's just crazy.
Yes, I just wanted to ramble about a character that I like so much ahah. Thanks Ossy, that was refreshing.
That's a surprisingly good way to describe her. She still seems new to certain things, confident though she may be. Sure, her coordination of the various parts of the facility and her knowledge of what's going on is pretty much as good as it could get, but she can make mistakes regardless and is rather prone to in a situation she has no way to predict - just as anyone else would be. She just has the natural advantage of still being the entire facility.
GLaDOS is GLaDOS don't matter which one better
"Lets just get rid of him"
"AH-"
nice
Thanks for the “25th frame”. I will watch the next videos in the “not subscribed” state.
8:35: GLaDOS Movement Animation Tests
My theory: Glados has multiple backup "body's" and in fact you can see one in a co-op cutscene.
nah she just lost pieces, and then at some point in the game she fixed herself
@@joeeel.d How do we explain the head tho?
@@AevilJ just for that, she lost pieces from her head
@@AevilJ if you look at portal 1 glados the only differences between the head are the plate covering the eye and something that looks like a pair of headphones (obv its not but thats the only way i can describe it) id assume these pieces blew off exposing the mechanisms behind them aka what we see in portal 2
The one from the Co-op DLC was merely just a prototype chassis, it's not actually connected to her.
I think the reason glados’ head was different because she lost pieces of it, I remember when you fall down to the incinerator room where you get the portal gun that shoots both portals, Glados mentions something about parts of her self being down there.
That's implied to be in reference to the cores, which went down that very same incinerator, but it's entirely likely that in the blast some parts were torn away and lost to areas like that.
@@ultmateragnarok8376 ahhh I see, I didn’t think she would refer to them as herself considering Wheatley was once attached to her and she refers to him being a different entity unlike the cores she had on her in the first game.
@@veryoddnaw GLaDOS isn't beyond bending the truth when it allows her to make a quip at someone she hates (like Chell or Wheatley)
@@Axodus that’s true
i mean i definitely think pieces came off her.. If you look closely at glados from P1 you can see that there is a semi circle shaped piece that is similar to portal 2, except on top of that there is the plate in front of the "eye" and a thing that looks like headphones id assume those blew off from the explosion
Something I think that's really funny about her Wakeup Design is that she doesn't technically have an eye: She has a sprite floating inside her eye socket that looks completely different to what her eye looks like in the rest of the game
I noticed that back when I played as well, I liked to chalk it up to her body being damaged and running on back-up power.
I assumed it’s because the little screen thing that normally covers the lightbulb in her eye was broken so we were just seeing the bulb
@@burningsexuality1540 Exactly, that's what I thought as well.
i mean in portal 1 theres a huge piece covering it and id assume thats what would have had the glass in it... so since thats missing yeah wed just be seeing what would be a bulb or something
@@TimeMasterOG I think it's because to give her her proper eye Valve'd need to make an entirely unique texture to apply to her model, with the only difference being her eye is off. That be a huge waste of space when placing a floating sprite in her socket is almost as good
I wish we'd see more Portal fan content using the original Portal 1 artstyle, I think it's heavily underrated.
edit: I think Entropy Zero 2 made the right decision in using Portal 1's rendition of Aperture rather than Portal 2, since a lot of Portal 1 assets (primarily bts assets) are either taken directly from HL2, or roughly based on the style of HL2. I think it would've been weird to see a mix of lower quality HL2 models and then super high poly Portal 2 models.
It's a bit dated but could be unique and good if polished.
How would you decribe it without saying it's "like half life 2"?
I'd say it's realism with high contrast
@@AmBush2048 A clinical, retro-futuristic style is how I think of it
I recommend checking out some of the videos Zepalesque has posted. I think they do a great job blending the old and new artstyles
honestly i dont really see it, the want to use an older look, art style wise they're very similar, arguably the same but one is updated to a higher fidelity level, there is a differnt art direction as the setting isnt eniterly the same (portal 1 has semi run down look while portal 2 has either a very run down and broken look, or a new and cleaned up look) but style wise i dont see portal 1, or half life 2, being underrated. they're just dated. they're not bad but they were products of their time, new half life looks more like portal 2 than like half life 2
So I just noticed while she's swinging around during the wakeup animation that her head hasn't actually changed all that much. It actually still has that creepy upside-down human-like shape, but the "face" you talk to is on the BACK of the "head"!
Honestly im happy that the portal community is still going strong after 12 years. Man its been a long time
This game is a solid half of my childhood, so I practically played it in my own little bottle, I had no idea this *wasn't* known! I thought the different designs were obvious, and that it was clear she discarded any old part that of no use, and added new stuff. (Which was always mesmerizing to me as a kid. I always loved any indication that the characters were still dynamic and alive even when you aren't watching. Adds extra depth and spook to it. She's doing things. Somewhere. Where you can't find her. Who knows what she's plotting.)
All that stuff about her model is fascinating though. I find the unusable mess that is her wakeup model much funnier than I should.
"Let's just remove Wheatley"
Wheatley:AHHHHHHHHHHh
When I think about glados I think about portal 2 glados I actually forgot completely about the portal 1 design
People make some sugestive desings about a robotic humanoid form of glados but the beta versions of this video only prove that such thing would be creepy as hell
i just had a flashback of a meme i saw where it was GLaDOS but THICC, and it haunts me
After all these years someone just posted an enhanced all in one model of wake up glados to the sfm workshop, they even credited you for inspiration
The other theory I've seen is that the nanobots partially repaired her body, but weren't able to reactivate her due to the power outage.
Wakeup GLaDOS is one of my favourite designs, idk the little dangly bit from the original Portal 1, GLaDOS’s body moving around like a ragdoll when waking up. It’s just very cool to me, i don’t know, maybe I just like ragdolls and broken machinery.
Id Say that the "broken modle" being in different pieces is because of how she appears. She appears through her parts PULLING herself together. They likely couldn't make the change from those pieces to one singular model
To add more to why GLADoS looks different is a line she says after she drops you.
"Here we are. The Incinerator Room. Be careful not to trip over any parts of me that didn't get completely burned when you threw them down here."
Any parts of her portal 1 design that didn't appear on her wakeup design were just incinerated, or left in the surface.
Also, here's another thing to notice.
The glados chamber has 3-4 different designs in Portal 2. Wrecked Portal 1 version, Stalemate button version, THE LAYER design, and the ending design.
Thanos: *snap*
Wheatley: *AAAAHHHH!*
actually, i DO remember that design and was sorta pissed to find out that portal rtx takes elements from portal 2 glados' fixed design, rather than the broken one.
i also had some portal 1 redesign ideas from wakeup glados but they were sorta shit LOL
I would love to see this model used more, thank you for showing off this version!
I once painted this version of Her cause i loved how eerie and expressive she is, it's been a long time.....
7:17 "And, of course it wouldn't be a Source engine video without talkin' 'bout some BETA"
*Gunshot*
*Crash symbols*
*Saxophone*
"Freeze!"
1:13 there is a video that contains possible GLaDOS transition.
Glados can gladly test me
This is how it starts
So you're telling me that when you find Glados dead on the ground she's actually T-posing at you?
I just assumed they retconned her design.
But my headcanon is that she just had 2 different bodies and she woke up in the second body.
I actually never saw Glados 1 desing until this video. I thought it was the same model than Portal 2.
Portal 1 doesn't really give you time to see Glados in detail, no cinematic and it's the final boss, so you are probably more focused in the battle than her model itself.
"But, really, there's a very easy explanation for these [discrepancies]..."
Oh, you mean explanations like how the panel over her eye could've been irreparably damaged and fell off because of the rockets, and the plating being different since she just woke up and didn't have the time to properly freshen up to her Portal 1 look?
"It's just that [the games] happen to be in completely different art styles."
...oh. Never mind, then.
the little wheatley scream at 2:05 LOL
Was wondering if you'd mention the Robot Repair design, glad you did :P
Great video as per usual!
“ well you found me congratulations. Was it WORTH IT!”
2:12
Chell: fall
Weatley: *AH*- *dissappears*
i think i know why her head change in-between games, after the explosion and after chell was dragged in along with the remains the little outer shell for the eye either decomposed or fell off while being dragged in.
bro just sent Wheatley to the backrooms
I've been playing Portal 2 since it came out, so as of currently, 12 years. I was always keenly aware of the little dangly bit, but I never didn't notice it later in the game. Never knew there were two models, but looking back at it now, I was so aware of the differences between them, even while not knowing they were different.
The thing is, I never realised that her wakeup design is any different from her later design, with the exception of the dust and dirt. I always assumed it was the same model just with different textures.
1:29 BRUH! I love the color of the text changing!
yes, you got a new subscriber for that! I just know this video is gonna be good
2:08
Ossy: “if you ignore Wheatley being in your face that is. Let’s get rid of him.”
Wheatley: *SCREAMS* As he is eradicated from existence.
Also, this is a interesting video about this GLaDOS’s design that not many Portal fans know about. Not trying to say that many Portal fans know about it because there are, but there are just some that don’t know about it.
Wheatley: disappears A A A A
The little glowing dot on her eye is that whats make this "wake-up" model the best and scarier.
In reality, the differences are ALL in the player's head (GLaDOS look, the facility general feel, etc.) - after all, Chell "might have a *very* minor case of serious brain damage", remember? :)
I remember wakeup glados
I based my lego build off of that form
shut up, and give me THICC glados
Listen...
Spud GLaDOS, best version
You mention sunk cost fallacy. In this case it's not a fallacy, they literally had limited resources.
1:12 question answered. Nanobots.
2:08 was the perfect cut scream
When I think portal 2 glados I honestly keep thinking of this one cuz I got Portal 2 when I was about 9 or 10 and after I'd beaten Portal, and because of this her waking up placed in me a sort of nostalgic fear of sorts that has stuck with me because I remembered beating Glados prior so seeing her wake up before the days of me being on youtube and able to understand to search for Portal 2 playthroughs terrified me
now I'm imagining glados just rebuilding herself like an evil villain putting on makeup in the mirror while she talks to the player throughout
4 actually dont forget carcass glados
There is a thing worth noting between GLaDOS's head in Portal 1 and Portal 2. Obviously, GLaDOS scrapped some of the parts she originally had after waking up, probably because they served no purpose anymore, and there was nothing to repair it with. As for the head, if you compare her head from the first game to the second, you can actually see the outline of the Portal 2 head in the first model. It's behind a plate that covers it and two round pieces on the sides of the head. If you remove those, you get Portal 2 GLaDOS's appearance. So presumably, during the time she was dead, something caused those pieces to fall off. This is presumably the time the Combine invaded earth, so they may have salvaged parts of GLaDOS.
Combine hasn't touched aperture or the world would be in hell
@@quantumblauthor7300 Well yeah but in the end of Portal 1 we're in the Aperture parking lot which isn't sealed off, so it's possible the Combine and/or humans took some parts and then possibly the parking lot collapsed, sending the remains back down into the ruins of the original chamber.
I really want to see Portal 1 glados in the P2 artstyle with the faceplate and all
8:35 glados moments animation tests
2:44
is this where hoopy the hoop goes...?
I KNEW I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT PORTAL 2'S ARTSTYLE WAS SIMILAR TO TF2
eh its a bit of a stretch, it's more in line with L4D2's which did have a bit of a more simpler artstyle than HL2/L4D1. (CS2/Alyx is also PBR evolution of the same L4D2/Portal2 style) Fstop is the only one that was really styled like TF2.
Portal 2 is 12 years old, it’s been a while.
holy crap these subtitles are amazing
a shame people forget about wakeup glados !! i think it would be great if this model got more attention, especially for artists and animators like you said =]
2:11 had me dying XD Great video! I want to use premiere pro for my videos, but it's a bit too advanced for me, heh.
I don't know how you talked about 5 minutes maximum worth of content in nearly 12.
I love the colored subtitles for the characters in this video, helps this feel consistent with the games.
FINALLY someone talks about this. I am still surprised that no one has talked about this design until now.
I like portal 2 GLaDOS’s heightened mobility and expressiveness
Babe wake up! Ossy Flawol posted a new video!
For over a decade now I felt like I was the only one who ever noticed that she looks completely different when she first wakes up vs. the rest of the game. Really neat video!
Ossy Flawol: "Let's Get rid of Him"
Wheatley: "AAHHH"
i thought that she just got turned higher quality for portal 2 just like the cores
No way in hell I could forget damaged glados design in portal 2. the arm thing she has is way too unique to forget.
Honestly it's incredible how they animated wakeup GLaDOS
If you use SFM on a regular basis you know how insane wake-up glados would be to make, it’s literally 6 models held together with an animation
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