Half-Life 2: Main Menu Concept (Route Kanal) - Blender

[@chrizandriroth101]

I'm curious: has anyone spotted the two sightings of our mutual fiend... the Gman?

[@taterwaffles9613]

I saw him on his way into the station, but i've yet to find the second.

[@taterwaffles9613]

found the second but I won't tell

[@Hhhologram]

The scanner bumping into a chainlink fence made my day! Very well made stuff and so athmospheric! :3

[@chrizandriroth101]

Thank you and glad you liked it, and I was hoping the little scanner would put a smile on someone's face 😀

[@rokcris7313]

goated fr

[@StarOnCheek]

This is very nice. Has that playful 2000s game feel. Especially the moment at 1:03 where the drone kind of breaks the 4th wall and interacts with the "main menu camera". Would be also really fun if it requested you to click "load game" but that might be too playful for Half Life.

[@chrizandriroth101]

The 2000's era of gaming was my favorite and I'm glad it feels like a 2000's era. That idea of the scanner kind of requesting you to click 'load game' is kind of cute and nice. Or if it hovered next to the main menu and kind of followed your cursor as you explored the main menu and clicked on things.

[@green_lettuce]

The Razor Train at 4:00 must be real important to have 4 razor engines on one train.

[@shadoweagle7774]

Wait this is actually good! Deserves more views.

[@chrizandriroth101]

Thank you very much!

[@shadoweagle7774]

@ someone make a mod so that this video plays on the title screen during Route Kanal.

[@Realdieseltrainsrock]

On the last scene, the way you used the train sound where the sound of the train engine passing is paired with the doubling up of the Razor Trains consist was absolutely perfect. It never made sense to me why the engine sound was in the train moving audio. It’s not like the train cars themselves make the sound of an engine. Only the engine does. Because well, it’s the engine. This is absolutely a perfect video.

[@chrizandriroth101]

Thank you for noticing that and the compliment. Creating the sounds for these scenes, especially the trains, is a lot of fun, and from the beginning I wanted two sets of Razor Train consists together and I knew the sound would work perfectly. Even little details in the previous scene with the Razor Train up close I synced the sound of the wheels as they moved over the joint of the rails and made sure the train sounded and felt powerful.

[@Lonner_IsTaken]

I actually never seen this good... This is amazing! Valve would hire you!

[@chrizandriroth101]

Thank you very much!

[@majo_nez9684]

I can't wait to see other main menus or really anything you are working on

[@chrizandriroth101]

Thank you... I am already well into the next project and it's more ambitious than these ones. You kind of play the character of a scanner floating around the first map of Water Hazard seeing the aftermath of Gordon that passed through there moments earlier.

[@keddiels9843]

@@chrizandriroth101 That's a great idea! Looking forward to seeing it, good luck!!

[@rchltmedia-backup]

valve need to implement this.

[@waliddreemurr340]

"this will be half-life 2 in 2016!" -some half-life 2 fan

[@mastermindcat]

this is extremely underrated

[@dayfloweerr]

Very well done!

[@Goofy_goober_2011]

Ngl I hope you get hired by valve themselves

[@chrizandriroth101]

That would be quite awesome! But I still have a lot to learn ☺

[@SOLOG-m4y]

Hello. I really liked what you did, keep it up)

[@chrizandriroth101]

@@SOLOG-m4y Thank you!

[@rajinselalu8796]

Cooooool definitely beeds more attention

[@piggosalternateaccount4917]

Very very good

[@BlgMac]

you should make one inside the citadel

[@gqsak]

Add a video to the steam workshop as a replacement for the maps in the original

[@chrizandriroth101]

That would be nice... but I have no idea if it is at all possible to mod this in as a video playing in the background of the main menu in the game.

[@Julian_Heredia]

Amazing, cook more!

[@jaythecoderx4623]

woah that's epic

[@salza01]

i wonder how it would look like in cycles

[@chrizandriroth101]

I actually played around with rendering it in Cycles, but it was going to take much too long to render. Plus, I wanted to keep the render close to the look of the Source Engine and Eevee was a good choice for that.

[@Gubbus.]

Will we get soldiers patrolling the scenery one day?

[@chrizandriroth101]

I am still learning and improving my skills with animations. Even after importing the default animations, you still have some work to do to 'connect' the different sets of animations. The next scene I'm working on I'm adding Civil Protection, so I hope I nail it.

[@alex135t]

very much

[@chickenman404]

Please make these into a workshop download.

[@chrizandriroth101]

I'm not sure if that would be possible? Maybe one can edit the backgrounds of Half-life 2 to play videos instead of loading background maps like in Left 4 Dead or Portal 2.

[@chickenman404]

@@chrizandriroth101 That was my idea. I think it would be cool.