Exile Vilify - a Portal 2 music video

Music video using gameplay from Portal 2, Track is Exile Vilify, by the National
Created specially for the Portal 2 Exile Vilify music Video Contest.
This track was created for Portal and centers around the unseen charachter Doug Rattman (Ratman).
In my video I hope to show Chell as she comes to terms with the expectations put on her by Ratman, and learns about what she must do through his paintings.

For this Video I used Photoshop to recreate all of Ratman's art work as high resolution digital paintings using multiple layers
(this took a long time).
The I used used Adobe after effects to compile these into footage recorded from the game,
or order for the paintings to appear in layer by layer, I needed to learn to use Valves
mapping tool Hammer to remove the paintings from the game when I filmed. Game footage
recorded using Fraps.
I then had to use Mocha to track the surfaces where the paintings and images would
appear so they could be imposed into the gameplay footage. Unfortunately a lot of my paintings couldn't make it into the game because of issues both decompiling official maps and tracking the motion or the footage.
Footage was then organised and edited and colour corrected with Adobe Premier Pro.

As I write this description the video is rendering, and so my desktop has a bag of frozen peas on top of it as I try to stop it over heating.

To get the footage in game such I did I had to use the developer console commands some of which which are as follows
"sv_cheats 1" -turn on cheats
"bind v noclip" - lets you toggle noclip mode using the V key
sv_noclipspeed #" - add a number to control the speed on noclip mode, I mostly used around 0.2 for close ups
"notarget" AIs such as turrets cannot see you
"impulse 200" - hide portal gun
"cl_drawhud 0" -hide crosshairs
"thirdperson" puts you in third person mode
"thirdperson_mayamode" - a type of thirdperson mode when by holding alt and holding down and moving left and right mouse buttons I can move the camera.
"god" - god mode, ensure you don't die.

In order to get smooth turning shots I had to use an xbox controller with my PC.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• portal
• the
• national
• exile
• vilify
• music
• video
• fan
• valve
• PORTAL2NATIONALEXILE
• steam

[NoobSeanGamer]

Youll get more Views if you have more than 11 tags :P try like 50 and your views will go up heaps man ;D

[doomkittykillz]

@NoobSeanGamer thanks bit my tags are fairly accurate, I don't want to get views by lying about what my content it.

[DevilsDaughter107]

2:31 WRONG!!!!

[doomkittykillz]

@DevilsDaughter107 'smooth jazz fails'? well rat man seemed thing to think so

[AGrayPhantom]

Hrm. Fading between different scenes from the game with only a little effort made for your original artwork. Makes me question whether or not you were really trying.

Syncs with the music alright, but doesn't have enough orginality.

[doomkittykillz]

@AGrayPhantom

Ha, I really was trying, I worked on it all day for 3 weeks. Unfortunately so much stuff didn't work out I much as some of the match moving that I had to rely on more game play footage then I wanted too but I did have to use develops console a lot to get the camera exactly right.

[triforcekitten]

This deserve more views!

[schrobotindisguise]

Good job man, i really enjoyed it. The layering must have taken you ages? Lol @ the frozen peas when you were rendering, i used to sit my old laptop on a bag of ice :)

[TheMrMoustashe]

Very well done....

[wwhulk12]

@HomoSapiens99 um...the creators changed her appearance.

[HomoSapiens99]

In portal 1 she is ugly like hell

But in portal 2 she is cute like hell

How is that possible

[NoobSeanGamer]

@doomkittykillz haha ok well i just have heaps of stuff (i make gmod and TF2 vids) so all my tags are "teamfortress, tf, tf2, gmod, garrysmod, garrys, mod, source, engine" Lol

[DevilsDaughter107]

@doomkittykillz He probably just got sick of it.