The burnt corpse from GMod is a real body

Kind of scary revelation in the GMod/Half-Life 2 community. Wanted to do a quick educational vid about it. Discovered by Krispywafers and alfiepople007
Model is called corpse01.mdl
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[@Ubadiah]

imagine being in the valve office and your boss tells you that you’ve gotta pull up pictures of genuine human corpses

[@NeoAya]

Valve doesn't have a traditional work environment though, this was just one guy who happened to have a gore folder that he used

[@zombieoutbreakprod]

And already having them ready

[@stonemanofgardnerville1162]

@@NeoAya boss iz gots a good buoy for yah its a fouwld3r full of corpzizs " valve employee circa 2001

[@CyberLou]

@@NeoAya That's actually pretty creepy...

[@Brutaltronics]

I'd be like... Again? It's like the third time this week Gabe

[@doodleboi4744]

Forever cursed to be in a dark rp server. A fate worse than death

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

Ha ha ha....puns....

[@HolyCobalt]

forever cursed to live in erp servers

[@Richard-iv3ii]

Think of it that he gets to be in even more mafias!

[@olliverferlin4082]

exactly, eugh.

[@lacryingbaby3005]

word

[@ffwast]

Imagine Gabe Newell calling you into his office to tell you "look man you gotta stop using the corpse pictures"

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Since he encouraged mr friendly and the gonarch, he would probably congratulate you for the good idea

[@cremedelamemesupreme1649]

Gabe: "Look man, I'm gonna need you to use more corpse pictures..."

[@unoriginalperson72]

POV: you're Ted Backman

[@Al-Azdi]

I’m 99% sure that it’s from Iraq Fallujah in 2004, it’s the aftermath of internationally banned white phosphorus burning, there’s a lot of these images on web.

[@Bithe_Get]

Actually gabe says:bro you had an revolutionary idea thats just amazing keep up the good work

[@Mistyf1]

Imagine asking your colleague to borrow their computer for just a second, and you get flashed with 50 terabytes worth of human corpses

[@oddcrafter1270]

Somehow _worse_ than finding porn!

[@aaronhebblewhite6929]

Obviously

[@thien0300]

And it's under the "for work" file.

[@twistertornado677]

hey... that scenario sounds familiar

[@Rodrigo-kq3js]

​@@thien0300and it IS FOR WORK!!! WHAT THE FUCK

[@theocan]

I remember always trying to avoid looking at then corpse as a kid. Less so because of the grotesque nature and more because I always got this feeling of uncanny valley from the texture work.. Suddenly that now makes sense.

[@candle_eatist]

yeah lol, always felt they were a little.. too real

[@louiss138]

same, I haven't avoided him but if I've spawned him, I've always had this uncanny feeling and it just didn't feel right. Fascinating how our brain can sense this but doesn't really know it. I can't look at the real image of the man but in gmod it's strange and uncanny but not so bad like the real one...

[@monkeyman767]

Right?! They always just felt...off? slightly out of place with the rest of HL2's textures. Never enough to break the immersion of the game, but I always kinda went "hmm, weird" every time I saw one.

[@Datsmileyboi]

Crazy how the body has its own sense of instincts

[@aliceinchainz]

same

[@bitty_01]

Respect for the Valve employee who sarcaficed himself to make this model.

[@xinniethepooh204]

The person who commented under me is a 45 yr old registered cat cuddler. Watch out guys

[@louiss138]

@@xinniethepooh204 The person above me is a 60 year old registered feet tickler. watch out guys

[@brooksgunn5235]

@@louiss138 And I respect your mother who clearly raised you into a beautiful human being

[@ryzenryne8747]

Check this out ⬆️

[@ricebowl733]

And I respect your mother for letting me smash

[@cubio_7743]

That body has always felt too realistic

[@TFFan-hu5qi]

And out of place with the burned ones

[@unoriginalperson72]

It probably would've felt more in place if they gave it the actual retail citizens clothes but obviously the face would still be the noticeable part

[@mrscruffles801]

How about the other charred remains?

[@Microsave2]

I know

[@ScrubbaDubDub]

They all do

[@twistedaxles9126]

"One of our team members had a nightmare folder of people suffering from diseases and injuries" I am now officially scared of the Valve developers.

[@beepboop9313]

NOW you’re scared of them? I got scared of them after hearing about the tf2 coconut.jpg, though for different reasons.

[@twistedaxles9126]

@@beepboop9313 that was a hoax.

[@TheNameIsNobody]

I'd like to meet that developer, sounds like a very dedicated person.

[@tailsminishow123]

You should see what horrible things the netherealm studios do to get fatalities

[@beepboop9313]

@@tailsminishow123 I did look into that a bit. Yikes.

[@2xsaiko]

If I die in a horrific way I hope at least a picture of that will be included in a video game. Sounds metal af

[@unoriginalperson72]

That's the dream

[@mrscruffles801]

I remember a band did something very similar, where one member offed himself and another took a photo of it and used it as an album cover. I have a mix of disgust and respect for that.

[@Alexander-nc4vy]

@@mrscruffles801 That would be Dawn of the Black Hearts by Mayhem.

[@LaRavachole]

@@mrscruffles801 It gets worse as the guy who took that picture was later murdered by another band member.

[@commenter_HIMIK-MAN]

Fr

[@ALTEMERI]

the origin of the corpse playermodel is actually the photograph of someone who was forced to play darkrp for 72 hours straight without breaking any of the rules. truly horrifying.

[@xinniethepooh204]

Good one Mr ALTEMERI

[@Thetorque665]

What's darkrp?

[@jaxonradcliffe1573]

@@Thetorque665 Admin abuse simulator

[@naoeveel]

@@Thetorque665 banned, you broke one of the rules

[@candle_eatist]

@@jaxonradcliffe1573 angry children simulator

[@Shadowhunterbg]

This model always creeped me out. Specifically the one in the sewers that you go through to escape in the begining. There you can actually see it while an industrial unsettling terminator-ish music plays. It looked to me more detailed compared to other corpses. The teeth most of all. Now i know why.

[@Nilns]

Yeah, those teeth always got me. That model was always way more unsettling than the other corpses and zombies.

[@RelKier_is_jdude]

I think it because seeing teeth without covered by lips is skary because it remind skull and mounth around remind skull with meat, and in that texture we can really see a corpse, damaged meat and teeth(closest bones what we can see)(and i forget to add earlier->) tooth ache is very hurt so when we see a damaged teeth or damaged jaw, our mind think "damaged jaw is damaged teeth, damaged teeth is very hurt, i don't want to feel hurt, get out of here" and we feel fear

[@girlgamer6678]

@RelKier_is_jdude I doubt it, it's probably cause the teeth look unnervingly realistic and mutilated compared to everything else the most, so we get an uncanny valley sensation that in a world of mostly nonrealistic, unrefined textures this stands out, and draws our eyes. Doesn't help that the rest of the body is dark and burnt either. Sorta like attaching realistic eyes to a cartoon character. It's not scary cause " oh their poor eyes!" but cause " It is staring at ME, not the screen. " In any other media realistic eyes and teeth would be fine, but in this context it becomes a very startlingly real danger and image that your mind locks onto. That's my take anyways

[@Shadowhunterbg]

@Acceleration Quanta What does look scary then?

[@NoSaysJo]

@Acceleration Quanta found the edgy 12 year old who's never actually seen a real corpse

[@honkhonk8009]

I remember hearing how the developers of certain gory games genuinely had PTSD developing them. Now I know why. Jesus christ.

[@NateCraven318]

Those stories are fake. There's a reason why anatomy textbooks exist, and the "symptoms" that those "devs" said they "have" are only the BASIC forms of PTSD. Everyone has it different.

[@johnxina-uk8in]

I guess they never went on liveleak

[@uncannyvalley3190]

I don't get how though? Especially the amount of medical photos they just could've used.

[@NateCraven318]

@@uncannyvalley3190 That's what I was saying. Every single one of the stories of game developers somehow developing post-traumatic stress disorder from looking at shit like that? That's all fake and set up. No games company would force their employees to do something like that, Lord knows the kinds of lawsuits that would crop up. Anatomy textbooks and medical documents exist for a reason, there is no need to severely and irreversibly cause mental trauma to workers of a company simply to develop a fucking game.

[@BrettMattHarris]

Oooooo I got some real bad news for you. I don't think the problem is as shallow as you think it is.

[@xergoyev]

i remember reading a presumably deleted article on some gore site, and then suddenly seeing this very image of the burnt man. i was acutally fucking flabbergasted "IS THAT?", my mind was right it was the corpse model from hl2

[@kiritoe1527]

do you know whwre to find the og image

[@mrscruffles801]

@@kiritoe1527 I wonder too. Morbid curiosity.

[@oyveyshalom]

@@DanyaIrwing link it here

[@aiexzs]

"i remember reading an article on some gore site" bro what

[@pyrobytee]

@@kiritoe1527 its on the subreddit

[@hermestrismegistus3417]

Meeting this thing in VR is ten times more horrifying,

[@Raven-Purple]

and sad feel sorry for the dude

[@EZ-Flix]

I remember playing the Half-Life 2 VR mod and finding one of these corpses and started goofing off with it. Looking back on it I don’t what to say now

[@Bithe_Get]

@@EZ-Flix guess its easy to believe with all the technology humans got that making a realistic body wasnt impossible you didnt had any hints it was an actual dead body

[@justinjett5558]

I was just playing the vr mod and it’s so scary 💀

[@ChrisD__]

@@EZ-Flix Yeah, I'm playing through the VR mod... This.. changes things...

[@jyrese117]

the man in the picture was actually the leaker of the half life 2 beta, gaben decided to immortalize him in the game

[@Leo_8753]

XD

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

🤫

[@plantgum]

yo is that BNRAN

[@sadredemojiball]

wtf bnran what are you doing here

[@matheusc.5839]

what a wholesome tribute

[@isaiahdaniels5643]

I KNEW IT! I ALWAYS KNEW IT! Dude, I was like 12 when I played HL2 and stumbled on this the first time. It was in a small dank dark flooded hole with a hidden ammo pickup. It scared the shit out of me! Something always felt off about it. I somehow knew it was real gore from the times I had been traumatized through shadylinks on old internet forums. The the mid to late 2000s internet had no answers on the origin of the texture, so until now it's always been at the back of my head. Between then and now I've googled this exact thing before, like a lingering intrusive thought.

[@ckopen7192]

tbh i always kinda assumed it was the case from the start. like, they used real models for every other face, even the low res guy and the stripped combine soldier, so why wouldnt the most realistic looking face have a real model behind it aswell. thank god they edited out that eye tho, that does a shocking amount of heavy lifting.

[@Richard-iv3ii]

This guy made the best deal. Trade your life with the mafia to be apart or even more mafias in dark rp servers.

[@crushedcan5378]

Eyo COrleone ITS the CAnoillIo

[@SirDavid290]

This sounds like a deal made with the devil.

[@Reipilled29]

he just had an offer he couldn't refuse

[@bugjams]

Sounds more like he wished the Monkey's Paw to immortalize him in media.

[@ShadowEclipse777]

Honestly if my mutilated corpse wound up immortalized in a popular piece of media, I'd be happy.

[@mr.shambles9617]

bro got burned to death and got turned into a source asset

[@rebel6301]

i mean i wouldnt complain if my remains were used for video games assets after i die

[@DoctorBones1]

a fate worse than death

[@thesaddestdude3575]

he probably didnt burn to death its more likely he was killed in some other way and the burned face was just torture or maybe to hide his identity after, its unlikely that would kill him unless it was hot enough to boil his brain.

[@ijemand5672]

burnt*

[@mr.shambles9617]

@been guy gabagool... *fucking dies*

[@inkmime]

"Apart from editing the guy's one remaining eye out" That was probably the most horrific singular detail I got from this video, like jesus christ

[@justhari1487]

The original eye looked nothing like an eye but yea it's disgusting

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

@@justhari1487 god you just made it worse.

[@lonewolf2150]

@@justhari1487 I mean he was torched... What do you expect

[@justhari1487]

@@lonewolf2150 Who said I expected anything good? 😂

[@unoriginalperson72]

Demoman HL2

[@NovaBlueNova]

It is wild how we can look at a burnt corpse and not even blink but knowing it’s real suddenly makes it horrific. Like now it’s going to be harder to look at in the future. Poor devs going through that though, you can’t forget some of that stuff after you’ve seen it

[@nukegamereactor7750]

Is your profile picture from a real skull?

[@NovaBlueNova]

@@nukegamereactor7750 idk it's clipart

[@jessebeegee]

it’s not burns just rot

[@nukegamereactor7750]

@@jessebeegeeSince the cheeks are more fleshy, those parts rot early. That's why the corpse's teeth are visible, as if it had been burned.

[@jessebeegee]

@@nukegamereactor7750 those are just cheekbones lol clearly this is rotting example of a cut off face which looks different from burns

[@FSRiko]

damn. all those years as a kid running around throwing bugbait at people as a hobo now suddenly have a deeper meaning. 💀

[@Laeli218]

The only thing deep about Gmod RP is the ban list.

[@PMC14J]

that's messed up ..

[@stare4539]

yea

[@gahler8552]

@FSRiko And shut up with your kid story lmaooooo

[@griffiththechad9483]

This reminds me of Dead Space and how the devs for that series scoured through countless photos of graphic car crash victims in order to get the Necromorph injuries and the gore.

[@dark13death]

yeah that's why i'm not surprised. i mean when i saw about dead space, that was awesome because there are a large bunch of gore content. In half-life 2 it's like nothing to me that they used 1 photo of dead ppl

[@owenpadilla9132]

people are so desensitized to violence anyway, it just adds to the realism. people shouldnt have to care if its based off a real image or not, its a godamn video game its just an image either way

[@bigbeng6041]

What puzzles me most is that people seem to think this is some crazy thing. That the developers were insane for using, and even studying the image. When I can guarantee you that all movies/shows/games that have any form gore in it, has done exactly the same thing. Maybe not just copy pasting the image, but study gore content similar to that they're making for reference.

[@0_dearghealach_083]

Oh, sweet Jesus lord. Seriously??! That's messed up! I hope the devs are ok...

[@disposable3167]

@@dark13death dead space doesnt use pictures of real dead people. they used them as reference. half life devs did the same thing as dead space devs, except they took it further by using an actual corpse in their game. also they most likely did this with the other corpse models as well, we just havent found the source images.. i believe theyre using real corpses in half life alyx as well.

[@Whomobile]

Other weird gorey image sources in videogames include Mussolini's body used for a Doom sprite [Edit: turns out it's not true] and the later parts of System Shock 2 had textures made out of one of the developer's colonoscopy photos.

[@thespyfromteamfortress2149]

doom never used mussolini

[@Whomobile]

@@thespyfromteamfortress2149 pretty sure his upside down body was used for one of the sprites

[@Hydratus7]

as far as i know that's just a rumor

[@thespyfromteamfortress2149]

@@Whomobile gi joe was not mussolini, from what I recall, there are already videos on yt covering this topic

[@Alex-vm8vn]

There’s a good video by the KZbinr Doomkid that discusses this rumor

[@nullhydrangea]

I no longer want to donate my body to science. I’m gonna donate my body to valve so they can use my carcass as a model texture

[@corvusgaming2379]

Can't wait to see you in HL3 when it eventually comes out.

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

​​​@@corvusgaming2379None of us will be around to see it if it ever happems lmao.

[@timohara7717]

Someone made a hypthesis that maybe it was burned by the hospital

[@artg556]

Valve has always had something "unique" about their game development.

[@unoriginalperson72]

Extremely unconventional

[@stanleybochenek1862]

didn’t know valve liked gore bro wtf

[@ribba23]

It's hard to think of any other studio that would consider putting an alien that rapes the player to death as its main attack in their game, or a creature that's literally a spider crab with a massive testicle which spits white globs at you

[@lucre113]

People so mad about balenciaga (rightfully) but don’t realize this is part of the same shit.

[@biggusdickus8992]

I guess you could say they have questionable ethics

[@varicosevaynes]

Seeing the beta model for the fast zombie the face DEFINITELY has to be at least in part an amalgamation of a real photo and some snappy editing using other textures like maybe raw beef or something. Very reminiscent of some Cry of Fear monsters

[@unoriginalperson72]

The feet texture is real, which is obvious. But people say the feet are from a real cadaver but the more I think about it the more I realise that it would be more effort to get a photo of a dead person's feet instead of just taking a photo of your own feet

[@BusinessWolf1]

@@unoriginalperson72 yup. occam's razor.

[@bubbleman2002]

@@unoriginalperson72 Getting photos of a dead person's feet is much easier than you would think, you just have to look in the right place on the internet. Or the wrong place, depending on your point of view and moral code.

[@Dogman_35]

@@bubbleman2002 Getting images of living people's feet, on the other hand, is surprisingly hard. Dudes are so skittish. Whatever happened to 20 dollars is 20 dollars?

[@Mikrak1]

@@unoriginalperson72 medieval times havent ended, ppl just pretend to be civilised

[@trilliumbloom4211]

Thank you for including closed captions on your videos. Hugely helpful for hard-of-hearing folks.

[@PootisSpencerHeeyah]

It’s so much better than auto generated captions

[@Overthinking-rain]

as a fellow who is also hard of hearing, i appreciate it too

[@tameimpalareal]

i have hard of hearing sisters and it makes their life sm easier when watching youtube with closed captions made by the content creator compared to the auto generated ones

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@tameimpalareal They blasted tame impala too loud!

[@JackJockyJac]

0:50 photo on a cigar box be like:

[@chickenplush2580]

fr

[@GM5C]

lmaao

[@alefz]

my bad guys It was an accident

[@superkong]

Yo wait what

[@BruhImmaBrokeAight]

It's ok bra our minds go a bit goofy sometimes

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

Judge my client is just built different.

[@LEOOEL46]

“Your honor my client simply “did a little trolling.”

[@bojanmarkovic4500]

💀💀💀

[@cherry__Soda]

Rest In Peace to the man who had that fate

[@Gregariousness1]

As some people have pointed out. His body could of been donated to science and torched afterwards

[@Tester-sh1mn]

@@Gregariousness1 Still died either way, gotta pay respects.

[@seronymus]

@@Gregariousness1 pray for his soul to have eternal peace

[@scazab6408]

Imagine being the mafia that did this, not even knowing that this will be put into a game that the children will play. But I get the feeling they never even knew about this

[@cherry__Soda]

@@scazab6408 it wasn’t meant to be a game children would play

[@a_singular_feline]

Jesus christ, I always thought the corpse model looked too realistic but I guessed it was just a skilled artist and never an actual corpse

[@eatbreaddigward]

Same I thought it was some skilled artist and didn't care

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

Most of the textures in Half life 1 and Half life 2 are real photographs

[@FeeAnomalous]

Technically it was a skilled artist because they had to recreate/reference off of these pictures

[@BusinessWolf1]

Well, nowadays artists can illustrate stuff muuuch more horrifying involving the human body than real life can produce. Best example that comes to mind instantly is furries.

[@leothehuman_9476]

@@BusinessWolf1 bullying kids? Duh that's so cringe, get a life

[@alexandrunegreanu1507]

Out of all the models, that scared me the most when I was little… crazy how impactful something like this is

[@Captain_Kobalt]

why the hell were you playing half life when you were little

[@grande1900]

Since (iirc) the image appears in a medical journal, I'd actually suspect that they just found a random person that was already dead, then torched their face to see what would happen.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Thats.... actually not uncommon. That could be a thing.

[@gormros]

I mean if you donate your body they can do more or less whatever they want (for medical purposes). I wouldn't be that surprised.

[@Sickcrazyneet]

Or the body was donated

[@Ackira]

I know it’s a normal thing to do since it’s medical science… but wow it still sounds fucked up to a point

[@johan13135]

Medical crime science do that. Letting corpses rot in the open in different stages for ID training, doing different wounds to complicate IDing, like burning the face. All for training further forensic students

[@Auriee_]

I love how you're not allowed to show the original photo, but there's no issue with showing the face texture right next to it, which is basically the exact same thing but slightly edited and cropped. KZbin is a scary place to make content in.

[@Sernival]

Theyre not the same thing because graphics from a 2006 game dont compare to real life, hence the need to blur it

[@xninewxw7559]

Yeah because the one from the left is a video game

[@Victor_2000s]

KZbin allow videogame gore, i don't remember the plataform deleting these content about video game gore.

[@Victor_2000s]

@@Sernival Half Life 2 was released in 2004.

[@doom5895]

KZbin hasn't been good in 10 years

[@rainysunday9664]

"Nightmare folder" Bruh only at Valve

[@unoriginalperson72]

Videogame devs on their way to give themselves PTSD and horrible nightmares so they can make a videogame unessesarily realistic

[@JNJNRobin1337]

i want a leak of that folder

[@WisteriaNerium]

It actually happens more now than back then. Just look at how proud Netherrealm Studios and Naughty Dog are about the fact they forced their devs to watch gore so they could make violence realistic in their games.

[@Kubaadamiec]

Bruh not only some people have a 1 billion cheese folder.

[@Youcican]

Worse than fnaf my god...

[@srbrant5391]

When _Halo_ was first being developed, Captain Keyes' Flood form had to be burned, so developer Robt McLees had to look through tons and tons of photos of burn victims to get the desired effect. He did such a good job at texturing that none of the developers could even _look_ at the thing, so it had to be left on the cutting room floor along with the flamethrower.

[@averagechapstick]

Wow

[@callumkristofer7793]

I assume it was removed before 1749?

[@Froggoss]

Holy shit, that's terrifying. Insane discovery.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

I found out myself as a kid, it was spooky

[@lonewolf2150]

@@thesaddestdude3575 me too bro. I was scared for a week

[@moderndemon84]

@@lonewolf2150 Wow.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@lonewolf2150 I wasnt too scared though becaus i was already suspecting it to be real and i still just used it.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

its not that bad though. guy died tragic death and immortalized in video game. story would be different if valve killed him for the asset though.

[@RosaDFreeman]

Source always manages to scare me everyday

[@isgodreal1337]

True. This fact only makes HL2/Beta/Source-anything even more mysterious than it already is. Now the bizarre aura just got dialed up to 900.

[@expandleo8243]

Your pfp is my reaction when I learned about this fact today

[@Watanga10]

You're never alone in Gmod

[@lonewolf2150]

There was always something spooky feeling in old valve games

[@jameshsu8303]

@@isgodreal1337 this

[@thebigman8250]

Gotta love the tone of this video “Yeah this is a real mafia corpse with a melted face. Pretty gnarly right. Anyway smash like and I’ll seeya next time”

[@dannya1854]

I often try to maintain a suspension of belief in horror games like this to get through it or enjoy it, but this is too much. Sometimes I look at real corpses and my mind automatically imagines that happening to myself or people I love and reminding me of the brevity of life and the absolute horror and ugliness we try to hide from our eyes.

[@thewatcher7940]

You're not alone. This shit makes me really uncomfortable

[@destinydynamites]

same . hate when people think they're quirky and special for being desensitized to that stuff .

[@miguelelgueta5830]

lol what a snowflake

[@futuretrunks9257]

@@destinydynamites ^ This.

[@k4rec4]

Why do you look at real corpses sometimes?

[@wolfcl0ck]

So I'll be honest, of all the uses of real life imagery in hl2's models, the corpse was the last one I anticipated. I always thought it was just a skull with a burnt meat texture overlayed. Was very shocked to learn it was real, especially compared to stuff like the beta fast zombie, which has clearly real eyes, nostrils, and mouth.

[@unoriginalperson72]

Ayo we gonna get a corpse model eyeball """""restoration""""" mod my guy? It is *TECHNICALLY* cut content real beyta (do not research 1997)

[@marvityx]

Welp, I regret searching up that burnt corpse image online. I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.

[@miguelelgueta5830]

welcome to the real world, the smartphone that you are using was made by Uyghur slaves in China and the clothes you use are made by working kids that are paid 1 dollar a day in Bangladesh

[@grin3670]

@@panteralover01 did you watch it?

[@thenerdlord8894]

@@grin3670 Bruh💀

[@SymphonyOfTheSouls]

@@panteralover01tell me, so I don't have to watch it

[@panteralover01]

@@SymphonyOfTheSouls it’s a video of a cartel leader getting his face burned off to the point where you can see his skull

[@0xC47P1C3]

HL2’s textures are so deeply cursed yet so iconic. There probably won’t be something like it again

[@notabomination4799]

Damn, I never knew that. It's always a blast when a mystery type video gets uploaded from your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@impulse1914]

A part of me thinks they didn't stop this practice. Have you guys seen the human corpses in Half-life Alyx? Shit looks insanely real. You can even see where fatty tissue layers meet the skin and how it is decomposing together. They are into their forensics lol

[@fjfhfhfhfhfhpdhdjfhfhfhodn8836]

Yeah, that shit made me stop playing half life and and I’m probably going to delete gmod Just doesn’t sit right with me

[@DrMeowMD]

They actually used real cases of horribly diseased humans as reference for the original zombies in Left 4 Dead. However the producers thought they were too horrifying and they redesigned them! It appears they have not learned their lesson lol

[@mftmss7086]

@@DrMeowMD we know because it's FUCKING MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO

[@machko1]

@@mftmss7086 l4d1 bro

[@FainthedCherry]

@@mftmss7086 Chill geez.

[@cakir3]

he still lives in our game, rest in piece.

[@gangstaelectrik1332]

rest in DarkRP

[@Yosefsnake38]

@@gangstaelectrik1332 bro💀

[@apollo3951]

@@gangstaelectrik1332 💀

[@NotRemmyCormo]

Or at least his corpse is in our game.

[@giovannigiacchetti2057]

He still lies dead in our game maybe.

[@cringeyedgy]

I remember being a kid and first finding that model in hl2 in the low ceiling secret area in the sewers and being super unsettled by it and just staring at it for a few seconds before I couldn’t anymore

[@gahler8552]

Anymore what? Shut it lmao

[@guineapig0983]

@@gahler8552don’t wanna mess with this guy 😰 Hes mean on the internet for no reason, dangerous, and cool!

[@gahler8552]

@@guineapig0983 Stop using emojies for no reason, little kid.

[@guineapig0983]

@@gahler8552 am I not allowed to use emojis? Dear god this guy called me a little kid! What shall I ever do 😰

[@EggsNbacon815]

bro wtf@@gahler8552

[@PrimusSwallows]

1:03 "I remember reading the first one was a mafia guy. They torched his face" Petition to have the mafia added to HL2's credits as part of the graphics team

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

“Special thanks to “hey you never saw us capiche”

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

Ah, yes Special thanks to Don Sabélandá for providing special textures

[@shaggyshrimp7126]

@@Bruh-zx2mctalk about a re-model on special textures.

[@stare4539]

Bro…

[@ricedanan]

That explains why that specific rag doll always felt different from the others.

[@GordonBirdman]

You know I always found this specific corpse in Half Life 2 to be most unsettling, alongside with the poison zombie one. I never understood why those faces hit me differently, especially since there are a lot of games not just in the Half Life series that have gruesome dead bodies, yet those don't usually give me the same unsettling feeling. After watching this I feel like unconsciously my brain was recognizing it to be real face, giving it almost uncanny valley vibes. That or I'm just overthinking it lol. But it's fascinating to think about.

[@thebiggestnoob999]

fascinating how our brain manages to recognize what's real and what's not no matter how edited it is

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Even at first glance it seemed off, but then again most of the extreme violence in hl2 just seems odd, it’s like resident evil on meth.

[@dux3644]

Same feeling here, never got scared by everything else but I remember that this model would always weird me out and I would avoid to look at it whenever it appeared in the game

[@7kVestra]

For me it was the full body charple.

[@thebakedtoast]

I never liked this model and will always avoid looking at it

[@salkinreslif9830]

"I see your future... You will be one of the greatest faces in the world of videogames." "Oh great, I can't wait to see myself in a game." "Yeah... About that..."

[@digitaal_boog]

1:52 Those bastards. I was part of the damn dev team, and look at what they made me. A damned texture.

[@somerandomname3124]

If I had a nickel for every time a photo of a real corpse or gore video was part of my childhood I'd have at least around 10 dollars, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened at least 30 times.

[@VicerimusMortem]

Half Life 2, Doom, and Dead Space?

[@WisteriaNerium]

@@VicerimusMortem Bioshock too unless the commenter is older than that and can't be considered a childhood game. Some of the enemies are based on WW1 survivors iirc. Not exactly corpses, but you know..

[@ArchSchizo]

@@VicerimusMortem The Doom one is a rumor, unless he meant Brutal Doom, which might also be a rumor... TLOU2 and the recent Mortal Kombat used some, but only for animation. MK is too goofy though, and both are too new unless OP is a child. Uhh... what DID he mean by this? $10 in is 200 nickels. "At least around" 200 is not "at least 30". This is the only game I can think of that had an actual corpse used directly as a texture. For what its worth, it was found in a medical journal. Without being identifiable either, like that real-life skeleton found in a theme park as a prop.

[@lord_razur]

@@ArchSchizo Brutal Doom was _intended_ to have real gore for new sprites at one point, but that was walked back from the main version. There _was_ however an optional addon for it that did exactly that, I don't think it works on newer versions but you can still find the download for it if you know where to look.

[@ToastReaper]

OP is bad at math

[@MossiesWay]

This probably explains the use, of bloody rebel models, instead of the corpse models, throughout the later episodes. And skeletons.

[@ryszakowy]

or the fact that uprising had combine in defensive for first couple of hours and then rebels were pounded into a patty because gordon was missing for 2 weeks and after half-life 2 in episodes everyone is trying to escape from city 17 to white forest rebels killed shortly after citadel blew up won't decay that quickly

[@unoriginalperson72]

The skeletons are only seen around acid pools and antlion caves in episode 2 where it makes sense because of acid. And the bloody rebels are there because the corpse01 is clearly a citizen and during episode 1 and 2 almost all humans are wearing rebel attire and haven't had much time to 'age' after their deaths

[@kaiser98berlin]

Whenever I played HL2 I always tried to avoid looking at the burnt corpse. Now I know why. Kudos to Valve and their committed spirit to bring out the realism to such extent.

[@croissantlover1]

same, you see it and you dont or barely look at it and move by fast or around it as far as possible. Shocked its real face.

[@scazab6408]

Yeah but it's actually horrifying that anyone in the studio had a folder with such images, kinda makes you think huh

[@activeshooter73]

@@scazab6408 some people even are sick enough to watch gore videos for fun

[@scazab6408]

@@activeshooter73 I know 'bout those people but it surprises me that someone from Valve studio had such a problem. Like how did he end up in the position he is in if he watches these sick disturbing photos

[@Vozars]

@@scazab6408 i hope he got fired, can someone tell me if he did?

[@bobberman4641]

I remember looking at that body and going “there is no way this isn’t a real person”

[@steve.burlander]

I always used that ragdoll to spook my friends. But this make it terryifing.

[@swapertxking]

Whenever I hear real dead body references I think of deadspace’s development actually looking at car crash victims and seeing all the ways the human body can be posed

[@crack4184]

Man, it must have sucked for the development team...

[@ryszakowy]

@@crack4184 back then they were paid by EA and greedy corpo wasn't gonna go cheap on something that could bury them for good with bad PR

[@swapertxking]

@@crack4184 well, addendum to game dev stories. Visceral and Maxis shared a soundbooth, and the way visceral got those good noises was by smashing a lot of vegetables. even with visceral doing a good job cleaning, that sound booth really smelled. they had to call in a cleaning service to deep clean the whole place.

[@crack4184]

@@swapertxking Oh, awesome...

[@Acidlib]

Now I know that I spent all of sixth grade in 2005/6 playing a game where I looked at the burnt face of a man’s corpse countless times. Wonderful…

[@dogemaster-hm2ce]

This is a amazing Christmas special

[@elwen8525]

Bro really showed his gore folder to his boss and said. This would be great for left 4 dead

[@rainetolentino4336]

Now i'm having nightmares. This thing is actually insane by telling how realistic the texture is

[@isgodreal1337]

And we never even considered it was an actual dead guy's picture

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@isgodreal1337 I did, i knew it was real when i was kid, i went up close and realized it was a actual picture. Or that it could be.

[@Walternity]

@@thesaddestdude3575 I thought about it years ago when I was making a reskin for the corpse that gives it the retail refugee outfit, the face looks way too realistic when looking at the original VTF file.

[@-error-7936]

Coool

[@Timic83tc]

inb4 valve takes it out

[@seto007]

I've gotta say that it is kinda funny how you don't think KZbin will allow you to show the picture of the body when you have the fully textured model front and center in the thumbnail.

[@whereamI6143]

That is funny.

[@VoltiXHD2]

Creators have gone soft

[@cave_dweller6]

The model isn't exactly 1:1 with the full-fledged photo. There's certainly a difference between showing one or the other. And if he had of thrown that shit up, I would certainly have reported the video and blocked the channel, so he was wise to err on the safe side.

[@sprite4800]

@@cave_dweller6 It quite literally is 1:1, they just covered up the still remaining eye, I've compared the two.

[@tofetta8253]

@@cave_dweller6 It is 1:1, I checked both

[@DaxMarko]

1:14 Yep, that one on right undoubtedly looks like a photograph of a fresh corpse. It used to be a common practice in game development to use raw photographs for textures, which included real life gore if game had violence included. I think nowadays the evolution of graphic-based technology allowed us to prevail usage of photographs, since we are able to simply draw the textures and unique art styles prevailed the need for realism.

[@emiphim]

i wonder how many old games i've played that had gore in them

[@ThyBigCheddar]

I dunno man, it looks too drawn to me

[@Fatchick2316]

@@ThyBigCheddarSeems real to me, especially when I used to literally seek gore, the image already looks like a flashlight is being held to the face, typically seen in a lot of autopsy/postmortem images I come across, I can already picture the full image including a blue tarp in my mind. Don’t forget that it’s valve we are discussing, they always manage to do some crazy shit.

[@ThyBigCheddar]

@@Fatchick2316 Yeah but compare the texture quality to corpse1 and it looks way different.

[@quentin_godec]

Yes.

[@hanaja3631]

Look on the bright side, he's now part of the gaming history, forever remembered.

[@DoktrDub]

I’ve always felt the body had a more realistic twist to it

[@crybabyhazel]

I remember that dev commentary in L4D2. I was so taken aback hearing they hired a worker that has what's basically a snuff folder. My immediate thought was questioning the guy's sanity then I realized they never clarified if this folder was on their work computer or at home, needless to say I like to not think about this topic lol.

[@mus1c3gg]

oh yeah... calling it 'nightmare folder' makes it so much less than it is

[@Silvia.Araujo]

@@mus1c3gg The Hacker pfp?

[@ItsChevnotJeff]

Atleast you are immortalised as a model that is part of a widely popular game franchise that brought joy to many fans It could be worse You could've been an NFT Edit: Did not expect this much likes this quick, and it's scaring me

[@darkxplayzz]

True

[@AquaticCog]

Man i wanna buy a picture of a real corpse NFT

[@swiggidy1scorpion]

I’m turning a corpse into a NFT now

[@friendlyneighbor5345]

@@swiggidy1scorpion too late remember gamestops 9/11 jumper nft

[@mxusoleum]

reporting as of 19th december 2022: they are still circlejerking about nfts

[@toaster9922]

Imagine dying and getting immortalized as the playermodel that DarkRP users use for hobos

[@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897]

Pretty friggin sweet brah

[@NateTalksToYou]

Just discovered your channel. Props to keeping things concise and not needlessly drawing things out.

[@planescaped]

I could definitely see a game dev who's had to look at gruesome reference photos of dead bodies having some lasting issues from it. Some things once seen can't be unseen.

[@churupinha3510]

I always wondered this while inspecting that model throughout HL2. I made up an assumption of how that texture might have been made in my head, if it wasn't real gore, being a mashup of a skull texture, a picture of someone with really bad teeth, and a burnt bacon texture over the entire thing, but nope. That cut Fast Zombie face texture looks really grizzly as well so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a macab origin like this burnt corpse texture too.

[@BosnianProdigy]

I always had eerie feels when playing this game in the late nights when I was younger just from the silence and ambient noises in the background on private servers. This just adds more to it and confirms that i wasn’t wrong.

[@croissantlover1]

because of this, i cant play dead island 1 anymore, the screams and ambient noises gets me and there's two places in the game it has creepy random sound effects. One is near the start where you drive almost in a circle swing and there's to the right an entrance into a jungle or something. And there's this weird screeching sound effect, sounds like a mixture of a monkey + a car turning (which isnt your car because you never hear it when you turn all the other times, which is ALOT) and some other effect over it, so like 3 sounds at once. Only seen 2 posts on steam about this from years ago with little investigation, last heard it in 2021 and cant play the game anymore lmao. Another steam post questioned a scary sound at the main hotel but I never noticed this but it could be the same creepy sound effect. I remember also in Dying Light (or it was Dead island) there's this slamming door sound effect that echoes briefly, hate it, out of the blue during daylight.

[@swifto12usedtobetaken]

When I first heard the Distorted Trumpets a few months ago, I've tried forgetting it existed since it started interfering with my sleep, because it was stuck in my mind. Thank you for making this song stuck in my mind again.

[@unoriginalperson72]

If you didnt know it's from a music track catalogue called ghost in the machine by cuckoland, their tracks are used in many games like postal and silent hill. Doesn't make their music any less creepy. You probably already knoe but if you didnt I think letting you know where it comes from will help you a little

[@swifto12usedtobetaken]

@@unoriginalperson72 Yeah, I usually get obsessed with stuff I find weird and creepy, so I research them.

[@swifto12usedtobetaken]

@@unoriginalperson72 Although, thank you!

[@rattles544]

Fun fact: The Dead Space main menu was when the devs bought a slaughtered goat, screwed around with insides and filmed it decomposing.

[@unoriginalperson72]

Bro what is up with the dead space devs

[@rattles544]

@@unoriginalperson72 It was a good, yet gruesome way of making it more unsettling. They also used car crash victims as references for the necromorph design.

[@-error-7936]

@@rattles544 that's metal as fuck

[@momentosbruh81]

Dead space Dev are literals an psycho

[@genkisuperethical96]

Did somebody slaughter a goat in here?

[@LaughableNam3]

Imagine someone going like: "wow the burnt corpses are so realistic!" And then finding the truth

[@gaelsanma9105]

the face in reality was originated from a science text book,the body was burnt because they wanted to see how the body would react,which explains why the hair is in better state,still tho its kinda dark.

[@gaelsanma9105]

it was a pretty popular post,so its trustable

[@membles69]

@@gaelsanma9105 Doesn’t mean it’s instantly trustable, but yeah.

[@gaelsanma9105]

anyway,there was no mafia involved,it was just a scientific text book.

[@dj-murlock]

@@gaelsanma9105 whats the book name

[@gaelsanma9105]

@@dj-murlock dont know the name,i just heard its made with a image in a scientific textbook,with some research you can probably find the name tho

[@jebadiahkerman1195]

It feels like that one bandit from the 1800s who died in a explosion while trying to rob a bank and had his body embalmed where he was then passed around the Midwest as a carnaval attraction until at some point in the 70s someone found out he was a real person

[@Scazoid]

Where can i watch videos about this?

[@memeour.skinner.v1996]

@@Scazoid Sam 'O Nella did a video on it, I forgot which cuz it's a 2 parter, but just look up "sam 'o nella dead body shenanigans" and it should pop up

[@jebadiahkerman1195]

@@Scazoid Hmmm.…… I wonder where?

[@pajchoking8388]

@@Scazoid Simple history made a video about him

[@darkxplayzz]

Honestly I didn't expect a video like this, but it is interesting to know where the texture came from.

[@Mydogismypfp]

imagine dying and being turned into a gamem odel

[@provenancemachining]

This wasn't an uncommon practice, especially back then during HL2's development. It's well known, for example, that Bioshock used reference photos of soldiers who suffered horrific injuries in World War One, including the concept of using gala masks to hide those injuries.

[@PlayBatty]

I remember this

[@Ecchi_]

They did it for Doom and Blood as well

[@lucre113]

Using images as a design guide for concept art is VERY different than what is shown in the video

[@yellowmello1223]

@Aterm [GD] Other way around. That's how Zeoworks got inspiration for Po's design. It was a Dead Space reference.

[@provenancemachining]

@@lucre113 Except it really isn't... They didn't even use those images as a guide in a lot of cases, Bioshock nearly outright recreated the same injuries from the reference photos. The end result in the product is more or less the same. I do not know to what extent the Dead Space or Mortal Kombat devs copied their source material, but the entire point of using real photos of gore as a reference is to get as realistic as possible to the source material with maybe some room for creative liberty depending on the use-case in the games.

[@jimdigriz2923]

I remember reading a gaming mag back in the day about something similar in the first Resi Evil, when you first enter the mansion and meet the turning around zombie, apparently the eye was scanned from a corpse

[@eatbreaddigward]

Just like the Necromorphs from Dead Space they were based on car crash victims

[@YouMustDrinkOil]

its ok valve do a little trolin

[@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897]

Lol

[@JamesAC17GA]

Poor guy, it's honestly sad to know this.

[@cashmerrre]

i'm never looking at this model the same way ever again 💀

[@christopherc7075]

I remember that there was occasionally a "skinned" model that looked oddly realistic, also almost like was out of a medical textbook, but I don't think that one was made from any real photo

[@zetatheflooftm6642]

By "skinned" model do you mean the skin texture on the poison zombie?

[@christopherc7075]

@@zetatheflooftm6642 No, like it was all muscle tissue. IIRC you find one body like that early into Episode 2

[@Walternity]

@@christopherc7075That description almost exactly matches the fast zombie's model, you can find dead fast zombies without their headcrabs in the mines in episode 2 before you encounter live ones.

[@christopherc7075]

@@Walternity Yeah I think that's it!

[@DogsRNice]

Maybe you're thinking of the poison zombie texture

[@scraub8913]

Crazy, had no idea. That model always creeped me out a bit as a kid and now it gets to creep me out as an adult for different reasons

[@waterman7082]

Also, it's the pyro's face from Emesis Blue.

[@thebarnbargainboi8353]

"Imagine you get viciously burned to death by the mafia and in death they turn you into the DarkRP hobo." What's that? You just died in probably one of the most brutal way imaginable? Well now your a hobo! Congrats!

[@richardvlasek2445]

yeah haha imagine if AAA developers forced their employees to look at photos of dead people and at videos of people literally getting shot and bleeding to death for the sake of realistic death animations that none of the players care about, that would be really naughty, dawg

[@mrscruffles801]

Sounds like a metal af dev team, not gonna lie.

[@ASqdrnDA]

@@mrscruffles801 happened with TLOU2 development

[@mrscruffles801]

@@ASqdrnDA Damn, that gives me a newfound respect for that game.

[@zaid6676]

I see what you did there lol

[@bhicksbraf4038]

@@mrscruffles801 i’m pretty sure that the team that worked on Dead Space looked at car crash victims to use as design inspiration for the Necromorphs.

[@Pierce1996h]

When I was a kid and I saw that model I started telling people at school how realistic half life 2s graphics were and how great of a game it is. I always assumed it was just an artists creation

[@croissantlover1]

same, am shocked 19 years later.

[@djtomoy]

Moral or the story is: don’t mess with the mafia or else you’ll be burned to death and thousands game nerds will abuse your corpse for 20 years.

[@WafelixRox]

More like : stand against any mafia or this world is going to be a crap hole iven bigger than it is now.

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

it wouldnt be the first time. during the creation of dead space 1 the art team had to go through albums full of just mangled bodies and real accidents, just to give it that extra touch, when designing the creatures for their world.

[@Вуероор]

Sad

[@Bignfluffy]

Inhumane

[@genericjonathan4115]

1:24 really helps you see the blurred image

[@Specoups]

I was always disturbed by the face of this body. Something deep down said to me that it looked believable compared to many mutilations we see in other games.

[@itoyokocho.mp4]

short, simple, informative with bits of trivias, spooky, love it !

[@liammrpersonal]

I've never been able to feel real disgust when looking at a photo of someone who is dead, because death sorta crosses that uncanny-valley line in which a human stops having those identifiably "human features" for me. So my brain nearly disassociates dead people from actual human beings. Videos of people dying on the other hand, and being able to see a real living person become lifeless and lose those identifiable "human features" so instantaneously really makes me feel that fear/sickness. So this situation induces a strange uneasiness for me because in a sense i am seeing a real dead body being reanimated and characterised, which gives it that sense of living. Kinda meshing that barrier between a photo and a video of a corpse. Very strange.

[@wyvern4588]

Yeah, it's kind of messed up, the human mind tries to associate human features in everything, couple that with empathy it's easy to creep you out. I have had the unfortunate experience of seeing 2 dead bodies on the road, one just face up and later one that was splattered, I also saw someone who was shot from gang violence 5 minutes before he died. And some of this "fake" stuff stuck with me longer than this stuff.

[@catsinwonderland7473]

Same. The uncanny valley is already horrifying enough, gore and the uncanny valley are one of my two biggest soft spots. There is a point of intersection between them, and it scares the living shit out of me.

[@haramaschabrasir8662]

I remember seeing a video of two students in Syria getting hit by a mortar grenade while they are just sitting and chatting. Watching them lifelessly falling over like sand sacks in a matter of milliseconds after they were just normally sitting and chatting is a truly horrifying sight.

[@EpicBattleToaster]

thats interesting but me personally as long as there are flesh on the corpse i'd feel disgusted.different story if it's just skeleton.

[@mileskernel]

@@wyvern4588 wait like in real life?

[@CaveyMoth]

This reminds me of how in Hong Kong 97 they use a real picture of a corpse for when the player or NPCs die.

[@monkeysgaming7196]

I think a lot of old games did this, even the chopped in half texture for the zombies and zombines have that weird flashlight look to it, some of the zombies in cod bo2 zombies also had that weird flashlight look to some of their visible injuries.

[@cephalopaints]

that outro is just so unsettling, the eerie noise mixed with the model that we now know has the face of a real person gives me chills.