Portal: Forget Wheatley, Meet Betty!

[MattMunson]

For those of you who may have been watching Wayside Creations' "Aperture R&D", you will for sure have seen Betty.

I built Betty a few months ago in a very short time span, with a decent budget, and the constraint that I keep it secret. With the webseries now released, I can talk about it and show some pictures.

I put together a blog post that includes ALL of the pictures I took, and a link to an episode of the series if you haven't seen it yet:

The Project Workbench: Building Betty for "Aperture R&D"

I hope you like the write up and the few pictures I managed to snap along the way.

 

[nick daring]

Excellent build!

I wanted to build a personality core from the first game but could never figure out a good way to build two spheres that would fit together nicely enough. Your solution seems obvious now.

Nick

 

[Lurksmith]

That's great. And ingenious to use the globe as an impromptu rotocast that becomes the cast's own nested outer layer. I'm definitely filing that trick away for future use.

 

[Cerebdaithi]

Very cool! Turned out great! I seem to recall some Valve commentary from one of the animators discussing how Wheatley's eye actually represented a physical impossibility that could not be re-created in real life. It looks like you did a great job with a work-around!

 

[AParrette]

i need to try and make one for the car

 

[Jrandom90]

This is incredible.

 

[FateLazarus]

Wow, awesome work! I have been hoping that someone would produce a personality sphere for sale but after seeing how much work goes into one I understand why that has not happened yet. So I will be content to drool over yours for now - again great job.

 

[Talisen]

Looks great, Matt. I really enjoyed the spheres in the game and what you've come up with works nicely considering the constraints!

 

[MattMunson]

Thanks for all the kind words guys! It was indeed a very fun project to work on , though absolutely exhausting.

I put a lot of thought into molding it and offering castings, but because she is different from the in game model in some non-trivial ways, I figured there woudln't be much interest in it.

I also thought of building a more accurate wheatley, as nobody seems to be offering one, but MAN that is a complex beast!