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Why does Half-Life: Alyx's "Alyx Vance" model look like this? - YouTube
Channel: Komegatze
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i get this question all the time on my
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posters my animations more than i should
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really
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so why does alex vance from half-life
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alex look like that
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a common misconception that i see a lot
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is that this is supposed to be young
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alex vance i guess people might think
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this because you play as young alex in
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this game
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but i find it really strange that people
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think this because you never see
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yourself until it replaced the episode 2
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ending showing you alex vance from
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episode 2.
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also if you look at the promotional art
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for half-life alex alex vance actually
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looks nothing like this
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sometimes when people see this model
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they usually say she looks like she's in
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her 50s rather than 27 or younger at
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least that she is much older than she
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actually is supposed to be and people
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seem frustrated because they see that
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some of the characters have been
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redesigned especially for their
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appearance in vr and that they think
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this is supposed to be the definitive
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look of alex but i have the answer i
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have the full reason why alex vance's
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model looks this way
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it's unfinished the thing you need to
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know about game development is that if
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you can't see it developers have no
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reason to actually put in the effort to
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make it look good you see this alex at a
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very specific angle and a very specific
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lighting where you just can't get a good
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look at her without ruining your
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immersion and if you still don't believe
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me they forgot to render back faces on
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her vest so you can see right through it
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on the inside she has the neck of a
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giraffe her hair turns gray very easily
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in certain lighting conditions no wonder
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people think she looks old all these
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model and texture problems just keep
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adding up even without this knowledge if
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this is how valve wanted alex fans to
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definitively look the face flexes would
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not look like this
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that bit i just did there alone will
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cause me lost sleep
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trying to make alex's face look decent
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while trying to stray away from the
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default face pose is pure suffering
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let's look at one of cory lado's videos
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for example
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alex looking this way isn't necessarily
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corey's fault corey is just trying to
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help her express a basic human emotion
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but instead it looks like she took a
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bite out of a lemon i have an idea let's
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take a frame from corylado's video and
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try to match alex's face flexes in my
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source filmmaker session to look like
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his
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and then we'll take the face flexes and
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copy them over on a model that's
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supposed to look good and is finished
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and see how that looks
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wait did he actually shorten the neck
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i'm not sure
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let me just uh
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send this to corey
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let's see what he thinks about it
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yikes
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as you can see although the face is a
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little bit too contorted it still looks
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like a human being it still looks like a
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human being could
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make this space if they tried hard
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enough
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or if they cried hard enough i suppose
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i swear her looking somewhat decent in
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my breaking bad animation and other
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posters that i might have made is
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nothing short of black magic
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gordon's model is unfinished too it's
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just that valve accidentally made him
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more bearable to look at
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if you move his arms you can see holes
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in his shoulders if you phase pose them
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you get significantly better results but
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still not as good as it could be
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compared to eli gman or russell who get
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right up in your face
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and in these cases you get to see these
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models up close and personal for more
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than 5 seconds so of course they're
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going to look better because in these
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situations you can tell if something's
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off in conclusion does this model look
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good no
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is the model finished no
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is this definitively how alex vance will
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look in future half-life games no it
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really seems that valve only remade the
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bare bones of alex's model so that from
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a distance and in very specific lighting
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this will look like alex vance to you in
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the game
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i imagine that if we see alex up close
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and personal in a future half-life game
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not only would she look good she would
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also look more like she does in
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half-life 2 and the episodes just with
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more detail
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go on across gordon she's waiting for
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you
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you lucky dog you
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i honestly made this video so i wouldn't
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have to explain this to anyone who asked
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i would just link this video to them and
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be done with it
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