Wren Found His Long Lost VFX Shot

11 years ago Wren made this shot and now he's breaking it down for the first time ever.

[PurpleColonel]

Man he's using that original reference photo too, thats insane

[JulianaInh]

Great technique! It looks so convincingly 3D while being 2D. Gotta love the idea to do it this way 🔥

[JeremyForTheWin]

Perfect timing for the hl2 anniversary

[panathentic]

Dude, you haven't aged a fucking day in 10 years. It took me a watch through to catch on that this was an old VFX plate and not a recreation or something.

[FishermensCorner]

digital blackface hidden until now. well played

[paolomolinelli]

You are honestly such a gem! Thank you for all these videos

[riloegaming]

I remember thinking that Eli looked amazing for a fan short back when this came out, pretty cool to see how it was done all these years later.

[scottjohnnyhelgemoaune]

Ngl, but I do miss these golden times of homemade vfx. Where you could manually (and creatively) create stunning effects like these that looks 80% real, and people would shit their pants.
Now everyone just clicks a deepfake button and you’ve have a good enough effect.

Edit: just to clear up a little bit. I’m not saying that either of them are bad. Some people like to do it the manual way, like myself. But we are still creating a lot of stunning homemade vfx today too. Just that now we have a lot more tools that autohelps out the process more (which isn’t a bad thing either, I like a lot of the tools we have now), in opposite of let’s take 10 years ago, when you sometimes had to think outside of the box

[Shrimp_Insurance]

"THAT is digital blackface."

[gerardomorales]

How did you add the teeth back in? Did you comp in the teeth from your plate?

[DeusVult]

Cool FX! Also just wanted to say You’re awesome Wren!!!! Thanks for making these awesome videos

[Neo_Tenko]

Wren should do a short of just Drunk Wren outtakes 😂

[chaotic.taco]

wren doing digital bf wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card 😭🙏

[Gamal]

11 años... dios... y sigue siendo de lo mejor que hay de HL en YouTube 😮

[JustAWildMTTC]

Making a short on a video about making shorts is crazy

[Laoruperteen]

Its a shame too, not only is it the half life anniversary, but eli vance's VA died recently.

[uIie]

Time comes and things change always but it never really hits me its going to end till it does, change is so hard but its inevitable, love yall genuinely, like ts gave me joy in times where I had very little, thank you.

[jackday]

"This has never seen the light of day"

And for good reason 😂

[martinhoog]

Corridor Shorts for the win! Congratz on 10mil!🎉🎉🎉

[AxLabsDS]

Did you know that the face of Eli was a scanned face of a homeless man and never got any credit