Heart to Heart ; G Man's EP2 Speech Re imagined in Source 2

This was quite an undertaking - and it still has flaws - but after like a week of painful labor with a crashy, bootlegged Source 2 SDK ripped from the guts of SteamVR Home and stapled onto Half-Life: Alyx I managed to do it. This has been kind of a project I wanted to do anyway for a long time, but with Alyx announced I wanted to wait until I could get my hands on this G-Man model.

Everything in here was made from the ground up using only Half-Life: Alyx assets, except for the animation. Lipsync was done manually, bodymotion was motion-captured by me. The levels was made with the Source 2 Hammer tool (painstakingly). With that came some interesting lighting issues.

Also a huge thanks to the people in the Source 2 Research Center Discord server for the help getting all of this to function at all. Again, still flawed, but I'm glad I managed to get it to this point huehe.

[queencancerous]

"When their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor!"

Damn, he's hitting Gordon where it hurts

[EduardDelak]

The part where GMan says "Doctor freeman" It looks like something out of a movie, the facial expression is just amazing.

[LewdicideMouse]

I like how you can tell he's a little pissed

[fellowtraveler]

I cant believe the guy who made this deleted his channel. This was very well made.

[kinghashbrown]

G-man has to be one of the most intriguing and interesting characters I've seen in a game, he's one of the few characters I've seen where you have no clue what his intentions are and why he does what he does, valve have done an excellent job keeping the story interesting with G-mans presents and I hope we found out more about him in upcoming titles

[MatttAt]

This universe has always deserved it's own movie.

[OniGG]

The thing about gman is he doesn't really move his head unless he needs to and has less emotion than this but great job still to the OP

[altkingofdogs]

Jesus this was a clusterfuck of events still dont why the creator deleted everything he was so talented

[gabrieldeluccavieira]

I fear this man so much. When I hear him, when I see him - it's like my senses starts to tingle.

He is like bad omens.

He never damaged my life, but his presence kinda hurts my soul. It is worse than horror games, man!

I fear this man more than some real life people. I know it is dumb and silly to say.

Well done and good job to Valve and Mike Shapiro.

[MrSadisticLlama]

I know its a reupload and stuff since the Original dude deleted it, but you should edit the desc so it doesn't seem that YOU made it, but rather that its from the words of the OG creator.

[Chugway]

The original video seems to have been deleted, so this stolen video is now the only trace of it. Please don't delete it.

EDIT: Good news! The original video has been restored! But do keep this reupload up, just in case.

EDIT 2: The original video got deleted again. 😠

[kohakkanuva]

honestly, I think the Source 2 version of the g-man looks far too menacing. He was always extremely serious in the past with a stone cold face.

[NateCraven]

0:54 My feelings on assholes who hate two-handed bowling.

[thecaretaker]

Little did Eli and Gordon knew. The unforseen consequences was g-man giving alyx the same deal gordon got in hl1

[SAR-]

bruh this looks so real! very well done with this

[businessburd]

I keep coming back to this because after all this time I still find something new in it.

This time I came to the realization that Gman's little gesture when he talks about how "She was a mere child, and of no practical use to anyone" He's not doing some general motion. He's imitating another being; likely a coworker or perhaps his employers.
Somehow knowing that this seemingly unstoppable supernatural entity has an equal that he MOCKS when talking behind his back; scares me so much more.

[karolynesuguimoto]

G-Man just told Freeman that Black Mesa was just a piece of his puzzle.

[ArrowheadAN]

I hope the next half life instalment will keep this style of entrance for G-Man

[kairosprods]

This speech takes a whole other dimension after Half-Life : Alyx.

[LoafiLoaf]

For anybody looking for the original animator for this, they had deleted their channel and content, but it seems that they have made a new channel by the name of JazVega, it’s less about animation, more about streaming.