Portal Nightmares - VFX Breakdown

A look at some of the processes that went into making my 'Portal Nightmares' animation in Source 2.

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Music provided by Epidemic Sound:
Fountainhead - by Osoku

Animation | Editing | Motion-capture
Harry Callaghan

Animated and rendered in Source 2 Filmmaker
Motion-capture recorded with 2 Microsoft Azure cameras + Ipisoft

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[Morganscat]

The way you used real movement from your own recordings to get a more accurate feel in the simulations is amazing. Great job!!

[ComicalRealm]

The crossover we didn't know we wanted, but the crossover we all needed

[KaiJason]

Remastered pipe: Out now with 200% structural integrity and 150% flow rate over the original pipe!

[BonBunFilms]

After working on this project, would you recommend the current public release of S2FM over SFM? Would you say the trials and efforts required for working with a relatively undocumented software are worth the final result?

[onion]

Dear Harry,

I really want to thank you. You inspired me to download and try out SFM too. Sure, my first few animations looked a bit.... Well, weird, but with the learning curve I had so far, I am optimistic that it will get better.

Ofcourse, I cant ever reach your legendary level, but still, your work made me think and encouraged me to just give it a shot and see what happens.

I think I am speaking for your whole Community by saying: Your animations are straightup breathtaking and combined with the lovely music, and awesome "Story telling" you really make us smile every time we see the notification "Harry101uk uploaded...". It really makes out daily life more bearable and gives us something to work towards to.

It is impossible to find the perfect YouTube Video but this is just because your Creations amaze us everytime anew, especially with the Potential of Source 2 which you will definetly fulfill and even go beyond, even further than what Valve think you could to with their very own Tools.

But as it always is, YouTube fame is not related to quality, which is why you are WAAAYYY underrated given your god-like Performance.

Please keep up the great work you are doing, but when ever you feel the need, have a break, you can clearly tell by the Creations if the Creator likes their work or not.
If you are fully behind your project, we will love to wait another Month or two.

Go Away (please dont.... that's just my username.... really... please stay :))

Edit: This mught be the biggest compliments I ever made in my life, but:
For you I would even install TikTok!

[TheDapperPenguinAnimator]

Really nice seeing some of the full scene builds for this video, especially with how impressive the environments are!

[MetFanMac]

It is completely nutty how much work goes into making these things.

[smorgasbord]

The amount of effort and attention to detail never ceases to amaze me

[AdamHolland-Adz]

There are no words. No possible compliment I could give to justify this beauty of an animation and the tremendous talent, hard work and expertise you put into it. You can't have animated this, you recorded this with an 8k camera in Aperture, some how. Right? No... It was animated. But how? I may never know, even with the BTS laid bare for me to see. Congratulations Harry on continually creating stunning... no, that's not the right word... Wonderous? Nah. Spectacular? Hm... Infinitely impressive and gorgeous animations in this Portal universe, keeping the fandom alive...

[happywalter]

With every one of your uploads, my happiness increases

[FusionKirby]

Me over this entire video at the S2FM improvements: "It's so COOL, that's so cool!!!" -repeat as many times as needed

[tomhubbard]

Literally one of the best channels on YT

[joeltrekwars]

Wow -- I did not expect you to do the motion capture for Six. That's cool!

[Cengizhan]

holy shit man, i was so amazed i literally had my mouth open the whole time and was wowing every 2 seconds. This turned out so great and is such a big inspiration to get better in this <3 :D

[jaysea]

I love the behind the scenes looks at all the work that goes into making your animations look awesome

[liammcbillybob]

I really respect the fact that you did the motion capture yourself. Great work man!

[jsloanhpi]

HOLY COW, what a TON of work. Thanks for sharing this peek at just how laborious each shot was! I’ll be honest, could care little for the LN franchise myself, but as a die-hard Portal fan I really appreciated the main work.

[wimtzw]

The visuals already blew me away, the motion capture sent my flying to another continent. It is awesome to see the amount of energy you put in into every detail.

[InfinityMartian]

this ended up to be a literal movie quality video! it deserves so much more!

[Squirrely.]

Wow, I'm so suprised how much work and effort went into a 3 minute video- its crazy. I had no idea so much went into the process of film making and I hope I keep a more open mind next time