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New Video Brings Portal To Life
NaklsonofNakkl writes "The Portal series was an amazing blend of gameplay, storytelling and puzzles, which left players wishing there was a portal gun they could use in real life. A recent YouTube video brings a cinematic view on what it would look like."
While I wish they had featured GLaDOS, I think its nice that they put a little twist to it with the guards. It reminds me of the Half Life guards, and its nice because Portal and Half Life are supposedly from the same "universe".
Good thing for her that the "landscape wall" is positioned on the building she jumps to, and is not the building itself :)
Dan Trachtenberg from TRS was responsible for this. It just goes to show that just because you're a critic/fan of movies and games doesn't mean you can't create great stuff yourself! Kudos
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I agree with the YouTube commenter who said "Get this up on Kickstarter and make a full length movie".
I'd chip in $50 easy. Congrats to the people involved!
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There's another portal video from earlier this year that I also found to be rather enjoying. Watching this new video reminded me of the one I saw earlier in the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0
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Wasn't expecting that ending. At all.
Slashdotted already?
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Can someone post the youtube link, please?
OK, found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
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Created cinematography. Cinema quality, no doubt.
I want to see the full feature length movie of this now...
So what, all he got out of it was that the blog is now slashdotted and his provider probably quite a wee bit pissed off.
it's just so win-win...
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In all seriousness, if this becomes a full blown movie, I will probably even forgive the second and third part of Matrix (i.e. the last times I was actually at a movie theater) and return to watching movies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0
Based on the original Portal.
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I love the vid. But, /. seems to be the place to mention, the perspective of the view through the portals when she first creates portals seems wrong and it immediately bugged me.
If you look at the still image used as a placeholder for the vid, the image you see in the blue portal is from the perspective of the camera, not from the perspective of the other portal. You should be able to see her whole body in the blue portal.
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That about sums up my feelings as well.
I'm ashamed of you. That should have been a Rickroll, seriously, they were asking for it.
and it's too close, in the wide shot the walls are about 5/6 metres apart, but the view through the portals are as if they are closer, like only a couple of metres
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Portal? Really? Sorry, was distracted by the fit bird in the vest.
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Nice, but I've seen 1000 "portal in real life" videos in the 4 years since the game was released.
Seems very Nine Inch Nails-y, a la Ghosts.
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the perspective of the view through the portals when she first creates portals seems wrong and it immediately bugged me.
Yep. I don't think it was the angle, so much as it was insufficient depth. Each 'repetition' of the portal should have been recessed by a distance equal to the full width of the room... but instead, it looked like it was repeating every 5-10 feet.
I'm willing to cut visual media slack, though, because sometimes they do things that are deliberately wrong, in order to make something clearer on screen. Sometimes a good artist will completely break the rules of perspective or shading in order to give subtle emphasis or a certain mood. As long as it only bothers a few slashdotters, it's not a huge problem.
I saw it from an "expanded universe" view and my initial thought was that the guards were HL Combine solders. I thought it made a good twist to see the cross-over.
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"As long as it only bothers a few slashdotters, it's not a huge problem."
Who else than slashdotters is gonna look at it? :)
1) The work out scenes and the time lapse security camera video was to show time passing. She was in there for a while, being fed, and eventually she figures out the numbers on the wall. We're not supposed to know how long it took. Also, someone who has the mind to come up with a code is also likely to be able to solve that code (assuming she wrote it, if not then for all we know she was in there for months pondering the numbers)
2) If you had played the game you'd know that if you shoot Orange portal it stays in place even if you shoot the Blue portal multiple times (and vice versa). That said the section with the first guard was a bit unclear what happened due to the shooting angle.
The gun has two triggers, orange and blue. Each shot creates one portal. After the second shot, whichever trigger you pull deletes the current portal of that color and creates a new one.
When she shot the ceiling she created a new portal (deleting one of the original two), then pushed the bed into the original one remaining. This caused the bed to fall out of the ceiling onto the guard.
She kicks the bed through the already existing portal in the wall, so it falls out the newly placed portal in the ceiling hitting the guard.
Yes, they really should have included 5 seconds of her shooting a second portal to show the mechanics before using them with a bad camera angle.
How long was it from the beginning of Wall-E until the first actual line of dialogue?
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1) Danielle Rayne is HOT.
2) Awesome effects work, pro or not
3) It was hard to figure out what she did to the first guard, had to watch it twice.
4) i have no idea why she was sitting there one moment, and opening the panel the next. i guess it has something to do with the markings.
5) A Portal movie would be unlikely to have mass appeal. i'd love to see a web series.
6) Fit women like Danielle Rayne are ten times hotter to me than stick figure fashion models
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