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Portal Turrets' serenade

Cory Doctorow at 6:41 am Wed, Jan 23, 2013

Zachariah Scott created this wonderful machinima video, "The Turret Anthem," capturing a marvellous musical performance by the Portal Turrets in Glados's chamber:

This video was shot on black void, using a rebuild version of glados' chamber that I put together by hand. Fun story about this video, I've been trying to make it for about 6 months, it's a super late Turret Week video. I kept overthinking it, and had much of the principal synchronization done but couldnt' figure out how I wanted to shoot it, well I sat down this weekend and knocked it out in two days, and I'm pretty sure nobody will have any problem with the results. The name of this video is The Turret Anthem, but throughout production I always referred to it by it's secret codename, Megadub, and so it sticks.

The Turret Anthem

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slippy0

Incredirad.
ZikZak

I was so ready for a massive wobble-bass drop with glados as the bassline! But instead it’s just a piano. Missed opportunity, I say.
But still very clever and well done.
- http://www.facebook.com/jj.black.560 JJ Black
  
  Hah! I had the *exact* same thought! I was like.. “they are totally setting up Glados for the wub… here it comes, here it comes…”
- http://www.facebook.com/greg.seth.56 Greg Seth
  
  dubstep is fucking garbage
  - peterraines
    
    You don’t have to like other’s music choice, but you should not be a dick about it
euansmith

Ass has been kicked. Thank you.
gamophyte

That’s thoroughly good…