I watch the podcast, just wanted to say thank you for creating short films again. Even if they're not the most financially lucrative, it's the reason a lot of viewers fell in love with the channel in the first place. It's not like a Disney nostalgia, we don't need remakes and reboots, just make short films you love. This one was absolutely sick and innovative!
@GoldenPickaxeАй бұрын
Oh is Corridor Cast finally back???
@MotionOndraАй бұрын
100% this. Well said.
@ConnorHammondАй бұрын
Woohoo, didn't know the podcast is back. KZbin should know better than to withhold that sort of information!
@gogomillenium8 күн бұрын
Dang
@drakocarrionАй бұрын
There's a free Portal 2 mod called Portal: Reloaded that adds a time travel mechanic with you placing a third green portal that when passed through takes you backwards or forwards in time.
@lollingrockАй бұрын
Yeah but Niko's interpretation is slightly different: the portals have an equal and opposite displacement of time with respect to the present day which takes place within a short interval of time, while portal reloaded switches from the far future to the present to ensure that you never interact with yourself fron the past or the future.
@B.C.wheelingАй бұрын
Both you guys are blowing my mind!!! Ouch
@thewolfstuАй бұрын
ohhh, love that mod
@n_coreАй бұрын
Which was also inspired by another Portal 2 mod called Thinking with Time Machine, and you as a player actually interact with your past self as you need to solve the puzzle with the combination of your recorded past action and your current action.
@JackTulsen77Ай бұрын
But how does the game put the future player in the present? How does the game predict what the player will do in the future and project that into the past which is the players current present? If future player is going back in time then the present player should be seeing their future selves before they even go back in time, but how would the game know what the player would do before they've done it? I've never played the game, but I don't see how the game can really do time travel justice without boxing the time travel mechanic into a very very narrow box turning it into more of a gimmick than something actually interesting.
@XyrenАй бұрын
This idea is used in a pair of Doctor Who mini episodes called Space and Time. The TARDIS lands inside itself, so the interior door and exterior doors act like portals. Then it drifts in time, so people start coming out of one door before they've gone in the other door.
@sleepdeep305Ай бұрын
Almost forgot about that short, it’s brilliant
@amarissimus29Ай бұрын
That short was exactly the right length for a looping time travel story. Long enough to be coherent, short enough to avoid everyone realizing how stupid time travel is.
@redwiltshire1816Ай бұрын
@@amarissimus29time travel isn’t stupid and in quantum physics theoretically possible weirdly enough the Orville by Seth McFarland of all people does it perfectly
@skaahejoАй бұрын
@@redwiltshire1816what episode may I ask...
@redwiltshire1816Ай бұрын
@@skaahejo it’s a few episodes one in season 1 I believe 1 in season 2 that had a continued storyline into another episode and another at season 4. it’s just odd Seth McFarland the guy who made family guy actually made a show that covers multiple subjects and it’s well written even better than the original Star Trek hopefully it gets a new season
@SpicyMelonYTАй бұрын
5:16 You can use the arm to put yourself into already existing movies. So you can make a corridor video where you put yourself BACK into a previous corridor video like your a time traveler going to fix/break the timeline!
@DoctorX17Ай бұрын
That sounds like an enormous amount of fun… could do something like the Star Trek: DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations where the DS9 crew is in the background of a TOS episode
@SpicyMelonYTАй бұрын
@@DoctorX17 Yeah exactly, I personally didn't know what your talking about but I asked my dad and he agrees haha! Edit: and to be clear I have watched Star Trek I am not a kid lol, I just didn't see that episode
@jeffsorrowsАй бұрын
My man was waving his hand back and forth like if he was going to run and move his body against it 😭 though would be interesting for the 5 seconds ahead to drop themselves from ceiling to floor, hit terminal velocity, then wait for the concrete to decay, then he has to figure out how to safely slow down without killing himself lol
@masonbarber87128 күн бұрын
@@jeffsorrowsThe safe way of escaping an infinite portal fall is to move the ceiling portal to a floor outside, move the other portal next to it once you go through, and let gravity plus air resistance gently slow you down. You will eventually just end up being suspended half way through with gravity from both sides holding you steady, then you can just climb out.
@mannydani918026 күн бұрын
Dude, a clockblockers remake/sequel could be super cool A hell of a lot of work but really cool
@FallenTieАй бұрын
Almost like portal reloaded
@YOLO-ox6luАй бұрын
Your right
@oppenguin6462Ай бұрын
Exactly like Thinking with Time Machine
@CaptainHank3Ай бұрын
its a shame they didn't make it a rectangle
@mrseemsg00dАй бұрын
I hated this mod so much. Too difficult for my small brain. Never got to finish it. :(
@gageswearingen7038Ай бұрын
I got excited i thought they made it from the title
@unvergebeneidАй бұрын
It's crazy that rotoscoping has become so easy that you don't even need to bother to put in a patch of greenscreen for the clock. And that's with all that crazy hair!
@clockwork204Ай бұрын
They didn't bother to rotoscope the gun in front of Niko's foot though. It's barely noticeable though, so embrace the jank!
@bighominidАй бұрын
The old 1979 movie _Time After Time_ made this point: traveling in time means also traveling through space. It's not done with Einsteinian precision, but the hero (a fictional HG Wells in the 1800s, played by Malcolm McDowell) moves forward in time and ends up in 1970s San Francisco to catch Jack the Ripper (David Warner), who has thrown himself into the future to escape justice in the past.
@inasimplerhymeАй бұрын
Classic film.
@RiverRockRecordsАй бұрын
01:49 oh god this would make for such a fricken cool fight scene thats "unscripted" looking. thanks
@mads6103Ай бұрын
You should watch Tenet then, it's a little bit like that, but instead of skipping forward or backwards, you just move backwards or forwards instead.
@karlkastorАй бұрын
There's a Portal mod called Thinking with Time Machine. Basically you can record and replay 'your past self' and then interact with it as your future self. (kinda like the record feature in Talos Principle)
@RoyalTerravoreАй бұрын
Just what I was going to say. It's really clever.
@SpookedGirlАй бұрын
this feels like trying to understand TENET all over again
@muditahlawatАй бұрын
corridor portals are back 🔥
@MrGoalie2012Ай бұрын
7:14 Any time I hear that iconic corridor music , i jus KNOW they about to hit us with all that insider knowledge
@Rocksteady72aАй бұрын
"What would that look like?" It would look like Outer Wilds 😂
@MichaelReinekeАй бұрын
Exactly.
@SaberSmith1118Ай бұрын
Immediately looked to see who else would say that 😂
@CuivTheLazyGeekАй бұрын
Thank you, I was looking for this comment! But it does seem like they didn't break the fabric of spacetime :)
@NipkefАй бұрын
@@CuivTheLazyGeek remove a portal at the wrong time, and say goodbye to your fabric of reality
@that1alan29 күн бұрын
aww... i was hoping i could be the first to mention that....
@dusty5227Ай бұрын
Bro that sponsored segment, the skit made me watch it without skipping 😅
@SamuelRegierАй бұрын
Same
@Wow1wАй бұрын
The best kind of sponsor segments are the ones that are skits and not just an line read
@kamilhasbi5686Ай бұрын
@@Wow1w To add to that, I think it's also better to have the same person that's already hosting/narrating the video, do the sponsored skit themselves, than someone else suddenly showing up in the video to do it.
@maxf4422Ай бұрын
How about using the arm to create some controlled camera moves in both forward and reverse? You could totally pull off some mind-bending TENET-style scenes with that setup. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
@MichaelDarrow-tr1mnАй бұрын
There could be a part where the guy puts the camera into the time reverser so it can see both directions of time
@ZekiumАй бұрын
The "sending to the past" part remind me the sandwich from The Orville : Careful with that part as you could create a whole new universe.
@bryanwoods3373Ай бұрын
They sent the sandwich to the future. Sending Past!Kelly back to her time s closer. And technically when Malloy got stuck in the 2010s, but he didn't do much.
@ZekiumАй бұрын
@@bryanwoods3373 My bad >
@sunhallowedАй бұрын
I've been re-obsessed with portal lately, replaying the games, praying someone would make a new short film or SOMETHING. sure enough the best team of artists I could hope for were working on it. A+
@julianr8544Ай бұрын
6:37 somehow I forgot that they weren't actual portals so I got confused when it wasn't showing the little room from the other wall.
@GLabs2523Ай бұрын
"Alright, this next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. So, word of advice: If you meet yourself on the testing track, don't make eye contact. Lab boys tell me that'll wipe out time. Entirely. Forward and backward! So do both of yourselves a favor and just let that handsome devil go about his business."
@wnbetvАй бұрын
I was scrolling through the comments hoping someone would've made this reference hah. There's also a sign that says "if a future you tries to warn you about this test, don't listen"
@GLabs2523Ай бұрын
@@wnbetv I was deciding on using this quote or that sign
@MikeDS49Ай бұрын
4:55 Very similar to Megadeth's "Sweating Bullets" video where Dave is in his own mind prision talking to multiple copies of himself.
@Shadowsphere1Ай бұрын
Before watching the video, note that there already is a Portal time travel mod. It's been since 2021 and has the player using time travel portals as part of the puzzle.
@david5894Ай бұрын
I've stopped the video and noted that down bro 👌
@FallenTieАй бұрын
@@david5894 crazy
@brianmuicey1283Ай бұрын
Yes, but it's not the same. It's basically a portal that let's you travel to a distinct point in the future, not the desynchronization stuff that this video does. I honestly think the Corridor idea is better and that somebody should do a mod like this in the future.
@nepunepu5894Ай бұрын
@@brianmuicey1283 no, it's the exact same, just 200 years apart and only 1 instance of past and 1 instance of future instead of looping
@blonkasnootch7850Ай бұрын
How should this be possible? The game would have to predict your actions before you know thrm to simulate this..
@dashtilldawn9532Ай бұрын
This mad lad: "I'll only do a sponsor read at gunpoint" Squarespace: "Yeah that works for us"
@FundamSrijanАй бұрын
2:42 load aim shoot 😅
@thatweirdphoneguystickman559627 күн бұрын
Another portal idea. Two portals connected to one portal. Go through the blue one and come out the green, go through the orange one, also come out the green, go through the green one and come out as gay.
@Christian_LuczejkoАй бұрын
4:15 use a NERF!
@RanOutOfSpacАй бұрын
I legitimately thought you were using doubles in parts like the high five scene, but I paused and saw that it was just Niko’s beautiful face. I was confused on how that looked so freaking good. Great job.
@CimgibАй бұрын
Yep is face change alot if his hair is attached or not, I was so confused
@tiagotiagotАй бұрын
They do have a lot of practice with deepfakes, so it wouldn't be completely out of the question...
@CanOCorn81Ай бұрын
clockblockers 2 with the new camera!
@SteelLard14 күн бұрын
Such a fantastic example of very skilled people making something look so simple but such complexity, time and consideration behind the scenes.
@atomichaeleditzАй бұрын
Hey Niko, With the sisu arm you could do a time freeze effect or matrix bullet time style short. Also I definitely was lost throughout this video but you guys always explain things so nicely! Great work!
@SergKhrypunАй бұрын
5:14 If robot-arm would hold the Projection Screen, there's a lot of simulations can be made in Houdini. Including tilting of a screen Effects etc. Great vid as always!
@jkili4070Ай бұрын
Nico might have one of the most gifted minds in the world
@el_doinkoАй бұрын
These are my favourite projects from you guys, when you come up with an effect that's technically challenging and then showing the process of solving it. As a creative I only ever really learn new things when I try to attempt new things and thus these sorts of videos are really inspiring for the next time I get stumped trying to pull off a certain effect.
@Zoey_710Ай бұрын
Didnt yall get your own robot arm A while ago? I thought I remember a video about that... 4:46
@ImmaSayKOOHWIPАй бұрын
I absolutely love that the Dan Trachtenberg portal film got a little recognition. it is one of the best short films.
@DesignByKirkАй бұрын
this video gets my award for best sponsor segment 2024
@SamuelJacobsenROliveiraАй бұрын
Hey Wren and team! It would be amazing to see a video comparing the scale of volcanic eruptions, like the current activity at Etna, to everyday objects such as buildings and airplanes. Visualizing the size of the fumes and the strength of the explosions would really help us grasp the incredible power of these natural events. Keep up the fantastic work!
@sealdoggydogАй бұрын
I'm not even half way through this video but just wanted to pop in and say how entertaining it is 😂 Top notch Niko 👍
@mrpain684116 күн бұрын
Lmao... you wouldn`t believe it but I watched corridor crew for a few years now and JUST learned that there's a corridor channel. Amazing!
@abdmin326816 күн бұрын
I'm so confused why its not linked together very properly, a lot of times i thought it's just a corridor crew video turns out they also upload on the main channel.
@reaganmonkey8Ай бұрын
4:35 You need a camera that can repeat actions. What about that DJ Insipre 3 you guys used earlier in "We Made an Effect NO ONE has Ever Done Before! (DJI Inspire 3)"?
@lundylowАй бұрын
0:44 Niko you scamp, you made it already. You already know we're gonna watch Portal Trick Shots again after this.
@LOL_MANNАй бұрын
The cake is CGI 😠🎂
@ThyuserofthynameАй бұрын
Lol
@Sonicspeed37318 сағат бұрын
The cake really is a lie then
@Mastervitro28 күн бұрын
I would like to see a simulation incorporating "retro-causality" which would cancel out things like duplicating yourself and other paradoxes, but nonetheless would have "echos" of actions acted upon the world taken by your past self. Actively experiencing the world around you move backwards, but every change you make from what you previously did creates a butterfly effect backwards in time changing the past.
@TheEg_TheegАй бұрын
I love portal reloaded
@Sgtcrazyeyes23528 күн бұрын
the best part i think was the sound design through the portals, getting what just happened echoing was a very nice touch
@tiranus5861Ай бұрын
0:58 just pancake shot lol
@RocketenginetoasterАй бұрын
Based reference
@ThrowTop29 күн бұрын
That's only through a door, a seamshot might work
@korriannavanheart891128 күн бұрын
Those only work if there's a gap in the collision. If there's a portalable surface on the other side, try portal bumping.
@Warlock_UKАй бұрын
Great video, this sent me down a slight rabbit hole about terminal velocity and how much faster you can jump forward in time, and my rough guestimate was about 140 *ish* but an amazingly fun concept.
@NicoMahlerCGАй бұрын
PLS do a commercial product shot contest! Corridor with the high-tech gear and crane vs a team of 1-2 pro videographers with amateur-mid tech! would love to see the results
@SKLL3TRАй бұрын
I love these videos, genuinely my favourite on this channel, smart, experimental, fun.
@invisyTAFАй бұрын
9:48 hehehe Portal Reloaded
@Hand_Of_Cthulhu16 күн бұрын
I love all the little flexes in this one. The clock(s), the bump, the high five, etc. You really bumped the lamp here. As for something else to do with the cinema camera... could be a lot of fun to see what you can make by way of like classic star wars spaceship motion control shots.
@ValSeanMoАй бұрын
Since you asked, I would love to see a vfx shot that utilizes the motion controlled drone shots with the motion controlled arm shot. I suspect that would be difficult to time, but honestly don't know who else would be better to test it. One purpose could be what you see in sports imbetweening shots where they create the 3d view between cameras, but have every player on one team be the twin/duplication (Anime Baseball 2?). Love the channel.
@adirfaga8554Ай бұрын
4:28 wait wait wait didin't y'all solve that problem with a drone camera because the industrial robot was to expensive??????
@chrissugg968Ай бұрын
There's a bit in the videogame The Outer Wilds where you have two little portals with a few seconds delay between them. If you put an object through and remove the other portal it breaks the universe and the game ends.
@everopeАй бұрын
Spoiler alert
@dr.wolfenwho4310Ай бұрын
Plus that game slaps
@cameronpritchett8300Ай бұрын
@everope it's an old game, spoilers no longer apply here, if you haven't played it that's on you
@Nacil_54Ай бұрын
@@cameronpritchett8300 false, the entire thing about the game, it's that you progress with knowledge, spoilers will always apply.
@EyeofHorus33Ай бұрын
The moment he asked about the clock! 😂 .. this is honestly awesome though!
@Teraplexor1Ай бұрын
Isn't this just portal reloaded?
@stupit467Ай бұрын
I feel like a smartass, but: In Reloaded you have one time portal, that will be in the exact same position in the future. So his portals move you through time and space, Reloaded's portals only move you through time. And I guess Reloaded moves you through much more time. I should also add that in the short he can infinitely travel forwards or backwards, in Reloaded you can only go to two places exactly the present or exactly the year XXXX.
@Nacil_54Ай бұрын
@@stupit467 and Thinking with Time Machine is another kind.
@aaronmachado8021Ай бұрын
Kiiinnda. Portal reloaded you get 1 time portal and it takes you a lot farther into the future/past.
@EthanIsItАй бұрын
In this one the time is much shorter being 5 seconds so not exactly
@silkatouch24 күн бұрын
First sponsor segment I actually haven't skipped. That was entertaining to watch.
@advikshanАй бұрын
Portal 3 is on the way
@everopeАй бұрын
Really? Don't get my hopes up
@zmarkoАй бұрын
What? Really?? Omg. ❤
@Nacil_54Ай бұрын
@@everope Already exist, it's called Stories: Mel, but nothing official.
@Nacil_54Ай бұрын
@@zmarko Already exist, it's called Stories: Mel, but nothing official.
@drakocarrionАй бұрын
Valve can't count to three.
@thomad4Ай бұрын
Post-Op of a Corridor video These are my favorite type of Corridor Crew video's
@sourcelocationАй бұрын
That's a Portal Reloaded reference 🔥
@halloweendadАй бұрын
7:23 the loose screw made your motion control robotic arm a little wibbly wobbly. 😂
@ecurbАй бұрын
This video is very quiet
@Dr.Funk8864Ай бұрын
Ur mom wasnt very quiet last night
@ecurb29 күн бұрын
@@Dr.Funk8864 bro can't get any so he has to go dig up my moms corpse for some action
@tigri_as_games_pl7083Ай бұрын
sugestion: make a mini-movie where there are many diffrent nikos in diffrent sizes, looks and forms.
@MadTwatter7Ай бұрын
A multiverse of Niko’s?? Lol that could be funny. Maybe he makes them accidentally with the portal time gun? 😂
@JekayАй бұрын
Ayy
@Bluechief6Ай бұрын
3:31 This dance made me think of those You Pranked My Dad videos from when youtube had choose your own adventure videos
@How2Bdangerous28 күн бұрын
THIS WILL BE THE MOST LIKED COMMENT!!
@VickieHulАй бұрын
thanks for breaking down complex topics into manageable pieces!
@samo8178Ай бұрын
"The Talos Principle" is a puzzle game like portal and while it doesn't have Portals it has a mechanic in one part linked to time travel, where you record your actions so a clone repeats them in the future and helps you solve the puzzle, makes you think ahead and work with your future self, pretty neat, reccomended for Wren if he hasn't played it yet
@Skinned_fried_n_cut_up_potatoАй бұрын
You made a very good sponsored section. It was quite entertaining that I just watched it instead of skip them like I normally do.
@YashirmareАй бұрын
0:35 Might be able to escape with a portal bump (speedrunning tech) Granted I don't know exactly how it works so it might not be possible with a completely sealed room.
@caelanread3199Ай бұрын
this was awsome, these are my favourite kind of corridor digital films
@QorideАй бұрын
what would happen if you went so far deep into the portal to the past that the next portal would send you to a place in time where the other end didn't exist? another possible way to escape is to go through the future portal over and over to the point where the concrete room deteriorates and weathers away. (it's also fun the speculate how placing new portals while actively going through them would get alarmingly complicated very fast)
@MrSandman3355Ай бұрын
The short story “What’s Expected of Us” by Ted Chiang immediately jumped into my head when I fully understood what you were going for, and I felt so good when you mentioned free will as an issue for this concept. The story takes it to its logical conclusion.
@IKingPabloIАй бұрын
I love this idea of moving clones in a shot with the robotic arm! Someone people has made a game mod of portal with the idea of portal through time. Portal Reloaded. Instead of the portals original portals changing time, you still have Blue and Orange with an added Green one that takes you 25 years in the past or the future. Super cool mod. Definitely mind bending to solve.
@PotatoClipsАй бұрын
With the sisu arm, I'd be interested in seeing if you could replicate the matrix bullet dodge, but with yourselves holding the neo character up in the dodging position.
@DyslexiaRulesK027 күн бұрын
So nice to see Nico back on creating his own complete episodes
@gerardomorales151Ай бұрын
I love that y’all just use still cut outs for the portal vertical endless jump. Classic.
@MadSpacePigАй бұрын
Doctor Who Red Nose Day Special 2011 did this really well.
@cg.man_aka_kevinАй бұрын
Doing twin things editing but with camera move, it takes to the whole new level!
@RossThelsАй бұрын
This is seriously amazing - the ONLY gripe I have with the full short ( and I'm being extremely picky - it was fantastic ) is that every iteration through the portal is 5s. Does that mean that the entire building collapsed during that short of a time window? Also like other commenters, huge Portal Reloaded vibes. 10/10.
@rogueshadowunit4964Ай бұрын
2:26 just got the sudden urge to replay Quantum Break….. WELP! I know what I’m going to do tomorrow.
@DarthBiomechАй бұрын
8:00 This gave me a thought. Your camera was on a robot arm with pre-programmed motion. Essentially you ALREADY have a perfect tracking data to effortlessly add any CGI elements into the shot. So wouldn't it be better to do the portals as a cool 3D VFX effect rather than just a bunch of filters in Nuke? This led to another idea - maybe you can use the arm to make perfect 3D integration for shots that would be otherwise impossible or nightmarish to track?
@karelpgbrАй бұрын
1:07 Speedrunners looking at this like: “Yeah right.” 😂😂😂
@Dr_OddityАй бұрын
There's a short film named Stalled on the channel Omeletto that uses time remnants in its story. Pretty wild video
@rafacanicalАй бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos from corridor! I love this concept. I never played Portal, but played Splitgate and it made my head dizzy the thought about portals.
@kobeyftw1789Ай бұрын
There’s a 10/10 short film called “Stalled” by Omeleto where they pretty much did this, it is a one man masterpiece.
@themaxfdАй бұрын
You guys should do a deep dive into food commercials, and use the arm to do some sweet drink/burger ads. People should know how these videos are made, since everyone sees them everywhere. It would be pretty entertaining, too!
@codziennypotok3 күн бұрын
Lol, the dude is creating funny videos on KZbin and he has a crew who helping with that. What a future.
@jakobboers5067Ай бұрын
Sisu arm idea: CGI vs in-camera food photography competition! See who can make the cooler food advertisement style shot
@greggersonnyАй бұрын
this whole video feels like a breakdown of how Stalled intersecting timelines work
@jorgenamnum6481Ай бұрын
damn RIP Real Nico, the reign of Evil Nico continuous
@onair392Ай бұрын
the ad was amazing. That was a short film on it's own
@command_sans27 күн бұрын
Honestly this was a really great idea on how to do a sponsor its actualy one of the few i wasnt bored to watch
@xdeltaoutcast4164Ай бұрын
a guy whos power is copies of himself, you guys can do whatever you want with that simple premise
@KaaxeАй бұрын
I had JUST played through the mod "Portal Revolution" so the timing couldn't be better
@jakeking974Ай бұрын
"think of things we can try out with the robot arm" *Desire to give it a gun intensifies*
@youngwang97Ай бұрын
Everytime I see portals from this channel, I think of Sam going, "IT'S A HOLE IN A GREEN SCREEN"
@orcanimalАй бұрын
I just love that Niko uses Davinci Resolve/Fusion for editing and compositing his VFX. Been using it for years and it's just the best
@the_vanish8 күн бұрын
Love to know that the spirit and wonder of the Portal Series is still strong in our hearts!
@kemasukАй бұрын
This is the reason I enjoyed *Quantum Break* At the beginning, a character walks out of the time machine they were working on and passes himself (just before he had gone in), grinning that it worked.
@Halak014Ай бұрын
next level of "thinking with portals!!" omg the mind crunching imagination of +5 here and -5 through there. Timei whimy stuff.