One thing I noticed is that when he jumped down into the purple portal, it would take 5 seconds for him to reappear, but from his perspective it's instantaneous, shown by the clock skipping forward in 5 second increments. Great attention to detail! Niko really thought of everything!
@@WoWmakerWT It´s basically all about learning what you did in the past and being better in the future... until you just hit terminal velocity to break the room around you.
I like how you can hear the time loop that is being created by the two portals being so close to eachother i.e. you hear the character saying "whatever" before the ro sham bo, "during" the match and after it!
If you think about this more, this shows how this would get REALLY weird or outright break from his perspective. Because the portals are in front of each other, normally it just creates an infinite loop, like 2 mirrors in front of each other. But with time being a factor, It would be surreal to see. On the past side of the portal, it would show each past iteration from when he opened the portal. Basically, he would see the portal open 1 farther room away with each... iteration. So he would at first see his past self open the portal "1 room over", then after a while through that, it would open a portal 2 rooms away. If you feel like something doesn't add up with that explanation, that's because there is a catch: You shouldn't be able to see further to the past then when the portal was opened. So it can't be infinite, but it should be, since if you are looking through one end, the other should already be open. I guess there could be a fix like there is in the game, where before you put down the second portal, you can't see through the first, and it's just an effect, but that still has problems. On the other hand, on the side of the future portal, you would see all the way into the future where you escape. Or more likely, until the moment where the first portal is moved to the ground, because there, you can't see the other portal, so you can't see farther. Honestly, I'm not at all sure if all this is even remotely correct. But it's what I was able to thing of. It's a fun thought experiment.
One minor oversight, when Niko kicked the portal gun and both portals changed colors to time-travel ones, the green portal should have been closed for 5 seconds, since it didn't lead to any space-time 5s before (as the purple portal didn't exist at that time yet). But other than this small nitpick, I must say, awesome video man! Loved it
There are actually two other options: 1. it's a gradual speed up from 0 to 5 seconds, so both time portals can appear at the same time. 2. the time travel aspect ripples back in time the moment the green portal got created, which means the purple portal should have appeared 5 seconds before the gun was kicked. Which actually would've been even cooler in my opinion.
To test the time delay, you don't have to count or pass through. Just stand by the portal and look at the clock in your room and the clock in the "next" room, and compare.
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Yeap, but will harder for the audience to understand what he's doing.
This exact thought is also what breaks the idea of time traveling portal. The future portal must show what happens 5 seconds into the future but how can it show anything if you haven't decided what to do? Unless everything you do is predetermined.
"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."
I get the ending now, he jumped through the portal that sends you five seconds into the future and accelerate the decay of the room he was in until it broke apart
Unfortunately the only chance to escape would be if the portals were no longer aligned, which would surely happen during the decay of the building, but he would be thrown at terminal velocity into the floor, the wall, or something...
“The link is right here” Me: uh, no *checks description “You found the link!” *click link* “This video is private” This is almost as confusing at time traveling portals!
Terminal velocity = 120 mph = 176 ft/s The room appears to be around 7 feet high. The portal adds 5 seconds each pass. 176/7 = 25.14 = Number of passes per second from his perspective. 25.14 x 5 = 125.7 If I didnt miss anything, time is traveling 125.7 faster by using the portal as he did in the video. It would probably take quite a while even from his perspective for the facility to collapse. If it took 100 years to collapse, then he was falling for close to 10 months. If we assume that gravity is added by the portal, since he is falling toward both an earth that is 5 seconds in the future and the earth at his current time, he could travel much faster. Actually, taking that thought further, all the other portals beneath that portal would be adding their gravity to some extent as well. The second that portal on the ground opened it would have started accelerating all of the air falling into it to insane speeds. The guy would probably get sucked in instantly and get vaporized. Whichever portal is the one where the room breaks apart would be where all of this would end, but the newly formed gravity beam would probably be what destroys it rather than it decaying overtime. I think we can assume that gravitational forces just don’t come through this portal lol. If anyone savvier with physics and math wants to take that further, please do.
Also, the portal would change position since the earth is rotating. After a few passes, he would start clipping the edge. A few passes after that, he would be splattered on the floor
I just did in a comment (sort by new and you should see it). You can almost make it work if each time through the loop with the portal gun increases the time differential by +5 seconds but even then and a 300ft/s terminal velocity (which apparently is more possible when vertical) it's going to take him a minimum of 4 hours falling (Assuming 10 years for a building to crumble, a 5ft tall room, and a 300ft/s terminal velocity Niko). Much more likely 12-24+ hours of falling. Without the portal gun going through the loop increasing the differential yeah he's almost certainly going to die of dehydration falling before the room would have time to crumble.
@@eyespy3001They can hold up that long. But from my googling there is speculation that some will start to collapse in 10 to 30 years. That's why the last of us depicts the world how it does, because it's moderately plausible that some of the buildings have begun collapsing. The sources I looked at pointed to examples of partially crumbling building infrastructure in Chernobyl which has been abandoned for like 30+ or whatever years.
@@eyespy3001 now that i think about it the outside world was looking real shabby what if he got lucky and an apocalypse hit somewhere in the next 5-10 years?
I like that you could see the clock jump by the 5 sec intervals at the end, I was wondering why there wouldnt be a time delay with him falling each time... Nice attention to detail, as always
@@The_Viktor_Reznovor maybe the time portals had already began taking the effect as the time between when he started running and when he kicked the gun was close to 10 seconds, and that adds up to when he walked into the purple portal earlier himself and his clones time added to 10 seconds. Idk though now I sound dumb
There is great concept. Also there is a mod for portal, Portal Reloaded, that is exactly this, it adds a third coloured portal for a time dimension. 1:49
I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's "exactly" This, but they are both interesting concepts. This video shows two Porto's connected to each other, with one bringing you 5 seconds into the future through the other portal, and then going the other way brings you 5 seconds into the past in a closed loop. Portal Reloaded is different As the time portal doesn't take you into the past at all, it only takes you into the future by 30 years, allowing you to manipulate objects by moving them in the present and changing where they are in the future, while moving objects in the future doesn't change where they are in the other. Other. But I believe every level ends with you in the present time:)
I would have loved to have seen a scene similar to the 1966 Time Machine to see the room around Niko warp and degrade with time as soon as he begins his hyperspeed forward. If you've seen the old movie, then you'll know about the effects they used to show great swaths of time and nature reclaiming buildings, for example. I am sure that would have been slightly out of scope for this project and surely it would have added a lot more time and effort but it would have really sold the premise at the end. Superb video, as always. Thank you guys at Corridor for putting out entertaining and beautiful short films.
@@kianthornton2856 I did watch the video. It didn't degrade the same way as I am describing. The scene from the George Pal adaptation should be fairly easy to find online. Regrettably, I cannot share a link.
The missing part is where he moves the portal 10ft to the left outside the wall , goes back in time and escapes the cell in the original time and location
Saw on the site yesterday, awesome short. The pacing and subtle mastery of the effect were spot on. I love how it's obviously about the effect but not using it as a gimmick, using it to tell the story. Also love that Niko's not hamming it up for the camera, makes it so much easier to watch.
Does that mean if a -5 portal was placed on the ground and a +5 on the ceiling, you would go back in time instead? Now that I think about it you would already be falling through once you decide to jump, and if you doubled up with yourself falling through, there would be exponentially more of you. Interesting concept.
Actually he would fly out the other door the second he moved the one of the portals, because his future self drop speed would increase to the point that eventually he would arrive before he jumped in. So either he would come out the side or come through the roof before the future portal was placed. They already eluded to this outcome with a few of the earlier examples like where he beats him self at rock papers scissors in the past. Thus the only way out is to ride time into the future until time destroys the location of one of the two portals breaking the link as happened.
Gravity is proportional to time, therefore if down is the past and up is the future, then gravity would essentially be inverted. Otherwise you would be falling from the ceiling 5 seconds before you even jumped in, preventing you from jumping in correctly, then boom, causality paradox.
@@YawgmothWasRightBut you wouldn't even have to place the portals on the floor/ceiling. He could just leave them where they initially were and just keep moving right to left. However, the biggest factor here is that you're only going to be able to travel back to the point where the first time portal was created, and NOT to a point before you entered the room.Your only option is going forward. One thing though- you would also be aging as you're passing through these time portals. You'd be dead a very, very long time before that concrete room erodes.
@@eyespy3001 why would you age? Just like how the normal portals allow you to skip the distance between two points these temporal portals allow you to skip the time between two points as well. To his point of view he exits the portal as soon as he entered it but the world has moved 5 seconds into the future.
Had to rewatch the last part to see the clock discretly jump. Maybe it would have worked better with a continuous clock slowly speeding up and the respective empty room moments, like the first part slowed down. Otherwise it's absolutely flawless, great job it's really impressive. Hope to see it inspire some bigger content in the future.
This was by far the best time travel video I have ever seen, it makes so much sense, and I really love how the character discovers the implications gradually. Excellently done as always folks
Loved the video, especially how the end is about waiting the bunker out by abusing time portals. However, ive done some maths and basically, falling at terminal velocity will only make 105 seconds pass each second (53m/s 2.5m tall room, 5 seconds each pass). This means you would need to be falling for half a year minimum to start to see some concrete degradation (50 years), but concrete has been known to last much longer than that (200-2000 years). Even if the concrete box is at surface level, it would take extraordinary forces from the outside to break in a reasonable time period unless you can get some crazy wind resistance reductions in that small box, perhaps through a better insulated air current that makes all the air go through the portal along with the body, thereby making terminal velocity unlimited, but as it is, i think the room has too much aerodynamic spill to significantly increase terminal velocity
Actually nevermind, the wind being pushed through the -5 portal would create a constant vacuum and the wind out of the +5 portal would create a constant thrust, creating a much higher terminal velocity as well as producing extraordinary forces on the structure of the box
This would be a really cool game concept, Portal, but also portals that go through time. Sure you'd have to be the first one every time, but it would be cool to have some levels like that Titanfall 2 level
Right? I love the concept of a device making portals through space, but due to a malfunction, it affects SpaceTime as a whole instead. Such a neat idea.
@@billywhizz09Depends, there's been loads of games that have used various time loop concepts, and as mentioned above Portal Reloaded already implements Titanfall 2 style parallel timeline gameplay in Portal
My only note would be that for the ending to work, we are switching to The Subject's point of temporal reference, and that isn't telegraphed well. He's jumping into the +5 portal, so from the audience perspective, there should be a long gap between each iteration as he very eventually reaches terminal velocity, but if you got a shot where the camera passes through like in "Portal Trick Shots", the entropy exploit works. Hella disorienting that version would be, though, I guess. Maybe just a crash-zoom to The Subject as he picks up the device, then sharper, more deliberate camera movements to indicate a shift in prespective?
@@hOREP245 it does, yes. For a few seconds, while The Subject and the room itself take your attention away from it, then blanks out. I don't feel like it helps the scene much for what I'm talking about. If you're going to very suddenly switch the subjective POV, I feel like there needs to be something more significant to signpost that. On reflection, bookending the short with speed ramping does provide that context to some extent, but yeah I think there's other ways to do it better and clearer.
@@Taurusus Do the speed ramp, but start it slower. Jump down through the portal the first time, wait five, fall through again. At that point, start a slow pan and zoom into the clock as we watch it tick faster and The Subject fall past it more frequently.
@@unvergebeneid nah i dont think the oner was an issue, i do agree with @Taurusus . It was a bit of a puzzling ending, something to solve, which could be a virtue by itself, but with a short so... Short.. Niko could of taken his sweet time to ease us into the ending and feed us the solution with a spoon. Plus, we'd gain a few more seconds of this Masterpiece ❤
Spoiler alert!!! Just watched the BTS and I wonder if it helps to think about it as an infinite line of adjacent rooms replaying the same timeline, but offset by 5 secs. Video kind of hinted at it - at 1:12 you can hear the high five - at 1:17 you see and hear the high five - at 1:22 you can hear the high five From our perspective, - room on the left is 5 secs in the future - the room we see is in the present - room on the right is 5 secs in the past
Thats a very interesting concept, because the portal gun normally one would think that is just a space thing, but it follows the same formula as a wormhole connecting two spots through space and time, as normally traveling that distance would require time. So the portal gun has to be in sync for both space and time so that it remains in the same time but when that stabilization breaks and you can move back or front in time, doing it at high speed allows the prisioner to advance time in just mere instants until the loop is broken due to the building crumbling down.
If it did, it wouldve gone 5 seconds into the past since its the Green portal. So it Would be in the room 5 seconds before the roof collapsed. Right after the guy fell through for the Last time.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but when he jumps at the end,it’s not the room decaying faster right? Instead, it didn’t accelerate the decay of the room, and we were following Niko’s perspective of time at the point, what we saw was just him moving faster through time. Hence the appearance of the room breaking down super fast.
After listening to the most recent podcast, must say I'm glad you're making things you really want to make again. You guys have inspired many like me to create, so thanks. I can't wait to see what's in store 😊
The idea is that each time he falls through the loop he jumps forward in time 5 seconds. So at terminal velocity he'd be moving through time at a rate of about 301 times as fast as he was experiencing it. But most buildings will take 10-30 or more years before they collapse, so odds are he'd die of dehydration long before the building crumbled and the falling cycle was broken. Also, once the falling cycle is broken he'd almost certainly hit the ground at around 300ft/second. If however going through the portal with the gun increases each loops delta by 5 seconds it becomes more possible, but he's still going to be falling for a minimum of 3 hours, much more likely 12-24+. If you sort comments by new, I posted recently a comment that goes into the detail of all the math.
It's not a clone, it's himself. As someone already traveling through portals, he's used to seeing and surely even being able to interact with himself by this point. This is only a relatively minor change to that status quo, all things considered.
Dammit Niko, always coming out with the mos interisting concepts! Please de more of that stuff. It takes us back to the good old days of RUclips and OG Corridor digital
the fact that the green portal is no longer underneath him by the end implies that these portals can also MOVE, which adds a whole new level of confusion
@@Bellick666 There's no output portal there at that time. That's like placing only one portal and trying to go through it. If no output portal exists you can't go through.
my favorite part is where the portal create hurricane level storms because air goes into 1 and comes out the other pushing other air out of the way so that more and more air gets pushed through. aren't physics a fun thing?
really cool concept and performance..... Looking forward what else you can do with that robot A little bit off with the matchmoving and rotoscope around the portal gun in the beginning though
What happened here? The compositing on this one is distractingly poor compared to past works. You can see practically every edge wipe, leading to a very 'unstable' look to the short. The ground around the portal gun appears 'frozen' compared to its surroundings and is even layered incorrectly as the character passes it by at 0:17. My guess is a camera robot or programmed gimbal of some kind was used here to introduce movement, but the restrictive angle draws more attention to the compositing than is necessary, reinforcing the fact that it's a 'set' rather than a real space. To top it off, the AI generated background at 2:17 - while likely a timesaver - is truly awful. Call me nitpicky should it please you, but for something that reads so much like a 'tech demo', I'm really not feeling this one
In the behind the scenes they mentioned they didn't tighten the mount on the robot camera tight enough and the camera angle drifted during some shots and they had to fix it in post.
@YOOOOOOOOOOOOO-dv2nt Publishing videos on two separate monetized RUclips channels - one of which contains sponsored segments - and releasing it early to paying members makes them 'literally no money'? 🤔 Despite their enthusiasm, they are still a company whose primary objective is to make a profit. If people are willing to boycott 'Late Night With the Devil' for using AI generation during title cards, why should we be so lenient here? Corridor is more than capable of doing better, but this entire project just indicates either super harsh deadlines, laziness, or a combination of both
Small problem. Terminal velocity wouldn't be high enough and the time skip of 5 seconds wouldn't enough to live long enough for the building to decay. You would probably die of thirst first
Damn, such a nice twist to classic portals. Took me a time to wrap my head around how the sound would work but I think you executed it correctly. You would hear the sounds of the room from portal 5 seconds ahead of time, current time and then 5 seconds later. Assuming sounds wouldn't be loud enough to be heard from across the portals. You even nailed the opening of portals, only 2 can be heard since one of the three happened before the portal opened. 10/10 on sound design, masterful! o/ Ps. Suprised to hear about "Sisu" cinema robots, having Finnish in the name yet not having anything to do with Finland :D
This actually feels like an OG Corridor video.
Finally, right?
just wanted to write the same! love it
YES!
Bout time
This actually feels like an OG Rocketfilms Video.
One thing I noticed is that when he jumped down into the purple portal, it would take 5 seconds for him to reappear, but from his perspective it's instantaneous, shown by the clock skipping forward in 5 second increments. Great attention to detail! Niko really thought of everything!
Nope,
Dude with scissors gone right. But Another dude with rock didn't appear.
@@WoWmakerWT the rock guy is the scissors guy that left to the right
@@WoWmakerWT It´s basically all about learning what you did in the past and being better in the future... until you just hit terminal velocity to break the room around you.
I totally missed that! Thanks! But how did he survive the fall unscathed? He would have reached terminal velocity while falling.
@@PontusWelin in portal there is no fall damage thanks to very scientific boots.
THE CAKE IS CGI
What cake?
I thought the cake is a lie?
huh?
FREE WILL IS A LIE!
THE CAKE IS A SPY
I like how you can hear the time loop that is being created by the two portals being so close to eachother i.e. you hear the character saying "whatever" before the ro sham bo, "during" the match and after it!
I also really enjoyed that extra touch with the audio editing. So many little touches like that make this such a great piece.
You can even see the winner make an expected face as he knew what was going to happen
BTW "ro sham bo" means "rock paper scissors" if anyone was confused
@@RedCaio I have literally never heard it called ro sham bo, thank you
If you think about this more, this shows how this would get REALLY weird or outright break from his perspective.
Because the portals are in front of each other, normally it just creates an infinite loop, like 2 mirrors in front of each other.
But with time being a factor, It would be surreal to see.
On the past side of the portal, it would show each past iteration from when he opened the portal. Basically, he would see the portal open 1 farther room away with each... iteration. So he would at first see his past self open the portal "1 room over", then after a while through that, it would open a portal 2 rooms away.
If you feel like something doesn't add up with that explanation, that's because there is a catch: You shouldn't be able to see further to the past then when the portal was opened. So it can't be infinite, but it should be, since if you are looking through one end, the other should already be open. I guess there could be a fix like there is in the game, where before you put down the second portal, you can't see through the first, and it's just an effect, but that still has problems.
On the other hand, on the side of the future portal, you would see all the way into the future where you escape. Or more likely, until the moment where the first portal is moved to the ground, because there, you can't see the other portal, so you can't see farther.
Honestly, I'm not at all sure if all this is even remotely correct. But it's what I was able to thing of. It's a fun thought experiment.
One minor oversight, when Niko kicked the portal gun and both portals changed colors to time-travel ones, the green portal should have been closed for 5 seconds, since it didn't lead to any space-time 5s before (as the purple portal didn't exist at that time yet).
But other than this small nitpick, I must say, awesome video man! Loved it
Good point. (Though many people would probably be confused by that)
There are actually two other options:
1. it's a gradual speed up from 0 to 5 seconds, so both time portals can appear at the same time.
2. the time travel aspect ripples back in time the moment the green portal got created, which means the purple portal should have appeared 5 seconds before the gun was kicked. Which actually would've been even cooler in my opinion.
Or should the other portal have opened 5 seconds earlier 🤯
Very great point!
Very astute. Same with the repositioning at the end. The green should have shown the new viewpoint 5sec before the purple was repositioned.
Finally a classical corridor upload
People been sayin that for the past like 6 videos
Just watch their old stuff then
@@l0gan359 yeah ... i think it's a meme ;)
They've been on a tear! It's amazing how great this channel can be when they're not focusing on all that annoying "VFX breakdown BTS" video stuff.
@@ComedyBros5it makes them an absurd amount of income and a lot of people sure as hell enjoy them. stop being selfish
To test the time delay, you don't have to count or pass through. Just stand by the portal and look at the clock in your room and the clock in the "next" room, and compare.
Yeap, but will harder for the audience to understand what he's doing.
Just look at yourself
This exact thought is also what breaks the idea of time traveling portal. The future portal must show what happens 5 seconds into the future but how can it show anything if you haven't decided what to do? Unless everything you do is predetermined.
@@acyweiyou should watch the Japanese movie about the infinite two minutes.
Correct
Not only that. The person in the video was confuse on what's happening.
"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."
2:10 pov: you pressed the skip button too many times
Stanley come back! 😞
I understood that reference! Did you, Stanley?
Do you get the reference, Stanley?
@@bob4_theseriousbob too busy skipping rn sorry
I get the ending now, he jumped through the portal that sends you five seconds into the future and accelerate the decay of the room he was in until it broke apart
GENIUS!!
Well it didn’t accelerate the decay of the room, we were following Niko at the point, what we saw was just him moving faster through time.
thats basically what i thought he was gonna do or go back in time to before the room was even made
Unfortunately the only chance to escape would be if the portals were no longer aligned, which would surely happen during the decay of the building, but he would be thrown at terminal velocity into the floor, the wall, or something...
@@SentinalSliceyeah, the change of perspective without even so much as a camera cut was kinda jarring though.
“The link is right here”
Me: uh, no
*checks description
“You found the link!”
*click link*
“This video is private”
This is almost as confusing at time traveling portals!
haha was thinking the same
In due time....
Lol! Dang it. I followed your map and got the same result.
Lmfao
It's out now
There is a mod called Portal Reloaded that does have a portal that goes into the future, but it's, like, WAY into the future.
So probably more than 5 seconds
@@cube2fox it's definitely not 6...
@@cube2foxtry 30 years
@@theworm7156 So... 946,080,000 seconds. Man, I'm gonna need a lot of extra fingers to keep count of that - maybe even some toes!
There are two time travel mods... I can't remember the name of the other one.
Terminal velocity = 120 mph = 176 ft/s
The room appears to be around 7 feet high.
The portal adds 5 seconds each pass.
176/7 = 25.14 = Number of passes per second from his perspective.
25.14 x 5 = 125.7
If I didnt miss anything, time is traveling 125.7 faster by using the portal as he did in the video.
It would probably take quite a while even from his perspective for the facility to collapse. If it took 100 years to collapse, then he was falling for close to 10 months.
If we assume that gravity is added by the portal, since he is falling toward both an earth that is 5 seconds in the future and the earth at his current time, he could travel much faster. Actually, taking that thought further, all the other portals beneath that portal would be adding their gravity to some extent as well. The second that portal on the ground opened it would have started accelerating all of the air falling into it to insane speeds. The guy would probably get sucked in instantly and get vaporized. Whichever portal is the one where the room breaks apart would be where all of this would end, but the newly formed gravity beam would probably be what destroys it rather than it decaying overtime. I think we can assume that gravitational forces just don’t come through this portal lol.
If anyone savvier with physics and math wants to take that further, please do.
Also, the portal would change position since the earth is rotating. After a few passes, he would start clipping the edge. A few passes after that, he would be splattered on the floor
I just did in a comment (sort by new and you should see it). You can almost make it work if each time through the loop with the portal gun increases the time differential by +5 seconds but even then and a 300ft/s terminal velocity (which apparently is more possible when vertical) it's going to take him a minimum of 4 hours falling (Assuming 10 years for a building to crumble, a 5ft tall room, and a 300ft/s terminal velocity Niko). Much more likely 12-24+ hours of falling.
Without the portal gun going through the loop increasing the differential yeah he's almost certainly going to die of dehydration falling before the room would have time to crumble.
@@esotericVideos Concrete buildings last thousands of years. We still have concrete structures going strong built by the ancient Romans
@@eyespy3001They can hold up that long. But from my googling there is speculation that some will start to collapse in 10 to 30 years. That's why the last of us depicts the world how it does, because it's moderately plausible that some of the buildings have begun collapsing.
The sources I looked at pointed to examples of partially crumbling building infrastructure in Chernobyl which has been abandoned for like 30+ or whatever years.
@@eyespy3001 now that i think about it the outside world was looking real shabby
what if he got lucky and an apocalypse hit somewhere in the next 5-10 years?
I like that you could see the clock jump by the 5 sec intervals at the end, I was wondering why there wouldnt be a time delay with him falling each time... Nice attention to detail, as always
It doesn't match the falls at all. For the rate of Nikos to increase like that the clock needs to speed up much more.
i like the fact that when he starts running at 0:10 the clock goes back to normal even when the camera is still in fast forward lmao
Maybe he was just running VERY fast :P
@@The_Viktor_Reznov maybe, maybe.
@@The_Viktor_Reznovor maybe the time portals had already began taking the effect as the time between when he started running and when he kicked the gun was close to 10 seconds, and that adds up to when he walked into the purple portal earlier himself and his clones time added to 10 seconds. Idk though now I sound dumb
There is great concept. Also there is a mod for portal, Portal Reloaded, that is exactly this, it adds a third coloured portal for a time dimension. 1:49
I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's "exactly" This, but they are both interesting concepts.
This video shows two Porto's connected to each other, with one bringing you 5 seconds into the future through the other portal, and then going the other way brings you 5 seconds into the past in a closed loop.
Portal Reloaded is different As the time portal doesn't take you into the past at all, it only takes you into the future by 30 years, allowing you to manipulate objects by moving them in the present and changing where they are in the future, while moving objects in the future doesn't change where they are in the other. Other. But I believe every level ends with you in the present time:)
I would have loved to have seen a scene similar to the 1966 Time Machine to see the room around Niko warp and degrade with time as soon as he begins his hyperspeed forward.
If you've seen the old movie, then you'll know about the effects they used to show great swaths of time and nature reclaiming buildings, for example.
I am sure that would have been slightly out of scope for this project and surely it would have added a lot more time and effort but it would have really sold the premise at the end.
Superb video, as always. Thank you guys at Corridor for putting out entertaining and beautiful short films.
The room literally did degrade over time. Did you not watch the video?
@@kianthornton2856
I did watch the video. It didn't degrade the same way as I am describing. The scene from the George Pal adaptation should be fairly easy to find online. Regrettably, I cannot share a link.
The missing part is where he moves the portal 10ft to the left outside the wall , goes back in time and escapes the cell in the original time and location
They finally downloaded the Portal Reloaded mod!
Saw on the site yesterday, awesome short. The pacing and subtle mastery of the effect were spot on. I love how it's obviously about the effect but not using it as a gimmick, using it to tell the story.
Also love that Niko's not hamming it up for the camera, makes it so much easier to watch.
So it seems Cave Johnson was lying, the timeline did not get wiped after meeting yourself on the testing track
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Wait..
That was probably just so you didn't cheat or something by cloning yourself.
Does that mean if a -5 portal was placed on the ground and a +5 on the ceiling, you would go back in time instead? Now that I think about it you would already be falling through once you decide to jump, and if you doubled up with yourself falling through, there would be exponentially more of you. Interesting concept.
Actually he would fly out the other door the second he moved the one of the portals, because his future self drop speed would increase to the point that eventually he would arrive before he jumped in. So either he would come out the side or come through the roof before the future portal was placed. They already eluded to this outcome with a few of the earlier examples like where he beats him self at rock papers scissors in the past. Thus the only way out is to ride time into the future until time destroys the location of one of the two portals breaking the link as happened.
Then he escapes by exploding the room from the inside due to the sheer pressure of all his dead clones.
Gravity is proportional to time, therefore if down is the past and up is the future, then gravity would essentially be inverted.
Otherwise you would be falling from the ceiling 5 seconds before you even jumped in, preventing you from jumping in correctly, then boom, causality paradox.
@@YawgmothWasRightBut you wouldn't even have to place the portals on the floor/ceiling. He could just leave them where they initially were and just keep moving right to left. However, the biggest factor here is that you're only going to be able to travel back to the point where the first time portal was created, and NOT to a point before you entered the room.Your only option is going forward.
One thing though- you would also be aging as you're passing through these time portals. You'd be dead a very, very long time before that concrete room erodes.
@@eyespy3001 why would you age? Just like how the normal portals allow you to skip the distance between two points these temporal portals allow you to skip the time between two points as well. To his point of view he exits the portal as soon as he entered it but the world has moved 5 seconds into the future.
Had to rewatch the last part to see the clock discretly jump. Maybe it would have worked better with a continuous clock slowly speeding up and the respective empty room moments, like the first part slowed down. Otherwise it's absolutely flawless, great job it's really impressive. Hope to see it inspire some bigger content in the future.
Yeah the clock jumps don't match reality at all.
This was by far the best time travel video I have ever seen, it makes so much sense, and I really love how the character discovers the implications gradually. Excellently done as always folks
Did I hear GLaDOS chuckle just after the kick (~ 0:20) ?
The squirrel needs an award for comedic timing.
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Loved the video, especially how the end is about waiting the bunker out by abusing time portals. However, ive done some maths and basically, falling at terminal velocity will only make 105 seconds pass each second (53m/s 2.5m tall room, 5 seconds each pass). This means you would need to be falling for half a year minimum to start to see some concrete degradation (50 years), but concrete has been known to last much longer than that (200-2000 years). Even if the concrete box is at surface level, it would take extraordinary forces from the outside to break in a reasonable time period unless you can get some crazy wind resistance reductions in that small box, perhaps through a better insulated air current that makes all the air go through the portal along with the body, thereby making terminal velocity unlimited, but as it is, i think the room has too much aerodynamic spill to significantly increase terminal velocity
Actually nevermind, the wind being pushed through the -5 portal would create a constant vacuum and the wind out of the +5 portal would create a constant thrust, creating a much higher terminal velocity as well as producing extraordinary forces on the structure of the box
@@josephbartmanovich2923 Also, the box may not be at the start of its life cycle.
This would be a really cool game concept, Portal, but also portals that go through time. Sure you'd have to be the first one every time, but it would be cool to have some levels like that Titanfall 2 level
Right? I love the concept of a device making portals through space, but due to a malfunction, it affects SpaceTime as a whole instead. Such a neat idea.
Portal Reloaded is free on Steam if you have Portal 2 and it's basically the same thing.
It’d be too hard to deal with paradoxes
@@billywhizz09Depends, there's been loads of games that have used various time loop concepts, and as mentioned above Portal Reloaded already implements Titanfall 2 style parallel timeline gameplay in Portal
Now you thinking with time machine
My only note would be that for the ending to work, we are switching to The Subject's point of temporal reference, and that isn't telegraphed well. He's jumping into the +5 portal, so from the audience perspective, there should be a long gap between each iteration as he very eventually reaches terminal velocity, but if you got a shot where the camera passes through like in "Portal Trick Shots", the entropy exploit works. Hella disorienting that version would be, though, I guess. Maybe just a crash-zoom to The Subject as he picks up the device, then sharper, more deliberate camera movements to indicate a shift in prespective?
The clock updates faster, skipping ahead 5 seconds, so you don't have a delay to the viewer.
@@hOREP245 it does, yes. For a few seconds, while The Subject and the room itself take your attention away from it, then blanks out. I don't feel like it helps the scene much for what I'm talking about. If you're going to very suddenly switch the subjective POV, I feel like there needs to be something more significant to signpost that.
On reflection, bookending the short with speed ramping does provide that context to some extent, but yeah I think there's other ways to do it better and clearer.
@@Taurusus Do the speed ramp, but start it slower. Jump down through the portal the first time, wait five, fall through again. At that point, start a slow pan and zoom into the clock as we watch it tick faster and The Subject fall past it more frequently.
I agree, the flex of it being a oner gets in the way of the filmmaking here.
@@unvergebeneid nah i dont think the oner was an issue, i do agree with @Taurusus . It was a bit of a puzzling ending, something to solve, which could be a virtue by itself, but with a short so... Short.. Niko could of taken his sweet time to ease us into the ending and feed us the solution with a spoon. Plus, we'd gain a few more seconds of this Masterpiece ❤
The behind the scenes video having more views than this one is actually criminal
Corridor Crew is just much more famous than Corridor at this point
thank the algorithm. Im subscribed to both but the other one popped up first. I had to go to find this
It makes sense to me.
I don't really care about the short itself. What I'm interested in is the behind the scenes and the crew.
@@maxinoumethats wild
The Corridor channel is more like their second channel at this point, has been for years.
Spoiler alert!!!
Just watched the BTS and
I wonder if it helps to think about it as an infinite line of adjacent rooms replaying the same timeline, but offset by 5 secs. Video kind of hinted at it
- at 1:12 you can hear the high five
- at 1:17 you see and hear the high five
- at 1:22 you can hear the high five
From our perspective,
- room on the left is 5 secs in the future
- the room we see is in the present
- room on the right is 5 secs in the past
Thats a very interesting concept, because the portal gun normally one would think that is just a space thing, but it follows the same formula as a wormhole connecting two spots through space and time, as normally traveling that distance would require time. So the portal gun has to be in sync for both space and time so that it remains in the same time but when that stabilization breaks and you can move back or front in time, doing it at high speed allows the prisioner to advance time in just mere instants until the loop is broken due to the building crumbling down.
I expected the squirrel right at the very end to jump in the portal, loool.
didnt even notice the squirrel- had to go back and rewatch 😂👍
If it did, it wouldve gone 5 seconds into the past since its the Green portal.
So it Would be in the room 5 seconds before the roof collapsed. Right after the guy fell through for the Last time.
It looks defunct.
0:47
Wouldn't we see Niko's back on the right portal since he bumbs into himself?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but when he jumps at the end,it’s not the room decaying faster right? Instead, it didn’t accelerate the decay of the room, and we were following Niko’s perspective of time at the point, what we saw was just him moving faster through time.
Hence the appearance of the room breaking down super fast.
Yes.
Now you're thinking 4th dimensionally!
The 4th dimension isn't time.
yea boiiiii
To everyone saying this is an old school Corridor video: well, it IS a video about time travel
After listening to the most recent podcast, must say I'm glad you're making things you really want to make again. You guys have inspired many like me to create, so thanks. I can't wait to see what's in store 😊
man, the gun from 0:15 to 0:20 is pretty rough though
lmaoo
noooooooooo
ripppppppp ah well, mistakes happen, the overall video is fantastic
The jank was real with this vid, but it's a great techdemo.
Yeah cool video! That really distracted me tho
I love how every time Corridor uploads, the comment section is all like "yay this feels like an OG corridor video".
Literally every video lol.
As someone who has a suspiciosly high understanding of temporal mechaniks i confirm this makes mostly sense(not completly)
I'm lost. Can you explain what happened?
The idea is that each time he falls through the loop he jumps forward in time 5 seconds. So at terminal velocity he'd be moving through time at a rate of about 301 times as fast as he was experiencing it. But most buildings will take 10-30 or more years before they collapse, so odds are he'd die of dehydration long before the building crumbled and the falling cycle was broken.
Also, once the falling cycle is broken he'd almost certainly hit the ground at around 300ft/second.
If however going through the portal with the gun increases each loops delta by 5 seconds it becomes more possible, but he's still going to be falling for a minimum of 3 hours, much more likely 12-24+.
If you sort comments by new, I posted recently a comment that goes into the detail of all the math.
@@esotericVideos Alright. I think I kind of get it. Thanks for taking the time. 👍
Could you give some examples of the things that are wrong?
Corridor I'm so glad you guys are doing more of these classic videos! Was the biggest fan back in the day
Corridor be lookin like a Timelapse
It be fo sho
This was so well done, so cool!! I love simple concepts that are really well fleshed out yet leave you guessing. Awesome job as usual Corridor!
He is remarkably calm about meeting a time clone of himself
It's not a clone, it's himself. As someone already traveling through portals, he's used to seeing and surely even being able to interact with himself by this point. This is only a relatively minor change to that status quo, all things considered.
He's not _that_ calm.
Dammit Niko, always coming out with the mos interisting concepts! Please de more of that stuff. It takes us back to the good old days of RUclips and OG Corridor digital
portal reloaded be like:
Outer wilds be like:
Very well done. The timing was amazing!
THE CAKE IS CGI!
when you time travel. Sometimes things get weird
When repositioning the time portals at the end, shouldn't the green one have changed 5 secs before the purple was shot on the floor?
Even the sound goes on in the future side (repeats) great attention to detail.
Corridor Crew link goes to private video.
Sad
It's not time yet. 😂
@@troseberry91585 😂
IT'S OUT ! IT'S OUT !
Impressive work on the time travel concept and the visual effects. This definitely piqued my interest, glad I found the hidden link.
Corridor Classic
Congratulations! Very well done!
Going back in the video once I figured out how the portals work, feeling like a time traveler
That squirrel at the end was a wonderful little photo bomb
We need infinitely more silly videos like this.
Mind bending. This was so thoroughly thought out.
Thank you Corridor. Thank you.
Woah, this is a really cool and original concept. Everything is so well thought out!
2:47 No it ain't
the fact that the green portal is no longer underneath him by the end implies that these portals can also MOVE, which adds a whole new level of confusion
2:05 is it just me or this didn't look good, something is off
This is so cool. I love the crew vid it explained what I missed really well! Now I get everything and the second watch is even better!
alternative ending: keep going back in time to before the box was built
You can't. You can only go back to when the first time portal opened.
You can't. The earliest you can go back to is the moment the time differential was made by the kick.
but can you go to a time before the portals were placed?
@@Bellick666 There's no output portal there at that time. That's like placing only one portal and trying to go through it. If no output portal exists you can't go through.
Such an interesting concept about time travel and free will. Certified banger
my favorite part is where the portal create hurricane level storms because air goes into 1 and comes out the other pushing other air out of the way so that more and more air gets pushed through. aren't physics a fun thing?
this is the coolest corridor video ive seen in a LONG time
THE CAKE HAS NOT BEEN BAKED YET!
Or if you ran in the other direction;
THE CAKE HAS BEEN EATEN ALREADY!
This is genius!!! I love content like this that's really clever and thinks outside the box, you guys do this so well!
feel like it could be nolan's next sci fi physical impossibility idea
Came back to see it again after the explanation, such a great video!
My new fav corridor video is this one now. It is just perfect, almost feels like it's been made for me :')
Too soon for the link! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Love the return to classic Corridor content! Great work guys!
Why is the floor next to the portal gun sliding over the rest of the floor...
really cool concept and performance..... Looking forward what else you can do with that robot
A little bit off with the matchmoving and rotoscope around the portal gun in the beginning though
What happened here? The compositing on this one is distractingly poor compared to past works. You can see practically every edge wipe, leading to a very 'unstable' look to the short. The ground around the portal gun appears 'frozen' compared to its surroundings and is even layered incorrectly as the character passes it by at 0:17. My guess is a camera robot or programmed gimbal of some kind was used here to introduce movement, but the restrictive angle draws more attention to the compositing than is necessary, reinforcing the fact that it's a 'set' rather than a real space. To top it off, the AI generated background at 2:17 - while likely a timesaver - is truly awful.
Call me nitpicky should it please you, but for something that reads so much like a 'tech demo', I'm really not feeling this one
In the behind the scenes they mentioned they didn't tighten the mount on the robot camera tight enough and the camera angle drifted during some shots and they had to fix it in post.
@YOOOOOOOOOOOOO-dv2nt Publishing videos on two separate monetized RUclips channels - one of which contains sponsored segments - and releasing it early to paying members makes them 'literally no money'? 🤔
Despite their enthusiasm, they are still a company whose primary objective is to make a profit. If people are willing to boycott 'Late Night With the Devil' for using AI generation during title cards, why should we be so lenient here? Corridor is more than capable of doing better, but this entire project just indicates either super harsh deadlines, laziness, or a combination of both
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Intriguing video 🥹❤️
AI generated background at 2:17
Ok the two videos themselves a time loop 😂 i have been going back and forth 😂
ai generated background at the end is a big oof
if it's only visible for a few seconds, doesn't reappear anywhere later on screen and doesn't play any key part in the story, then why not?
I really love that you returned to your classical style of videos, really great :D
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And?
🤓「Fun Fact: if you double click a comment it likes it」
Better yet, if you click thumbs down, it doesn't like it, which is better for stupid comments like this
Triple clicking it lets you answer it
Nope.
This is some very VERY clean cuts! Can't see any cuts or fading anywhere. VERY nice!
The ending is brilliant 🤘🏻
Great job past/future Niko!
I love this concept. Portals + time travel is such a simple yet genius idea!
0:36 time travel? Grab that portal gun scp foundation!
Really awesome video and concept, a corridor classic
Oh man, for a minute there I was like: "This couldn't be part of an announcement campaign for Portal 3, could it?! 😃"
You sbould try out portal reloaded. It actually Lets you use time travel but to way further forward than 5 seconds.
Actually one of the best videos you guys ever made, loved it!
This was so smart, well done!
I like this, a very intuitive yet simple concept: A portal with a 5 second delay into the past or future
This, along with that infinite hallway shot, these are some of the most impressive Corridor videos of all time!
Small problem. Terminal velocity wouldn't be high enough and the time skip of 5 seconds wouldn't enough to live long enough for the building to decay. You would probably die of thirst first
The air in the room is also gonna move through the portals as well
Damn, such a nice twist to classic portals.
Took me a time to wrap my head around how the sound would work but I think you executed it correctly. You would hear the sounds of the room from portal 5 seconds ahead of time, current time and then 5 seconds later. Assuming sounds wouldn't be loud enough to be heard from across the portals.
You even nailed the opening of portals, only 2 can be heard since one of the three happened before the portal opened.
10/10 on sound design, masterful! o/
Ps. Suprised to hear about "Sisu" cinema robots, having Finnish in the name yet not having anything to do with Finland :D
Wow this was actually pretty sick this was like OG corridor videos this was really sick :0
You'd die due to terminal velocity, Chell only survives in the games because of prosthetic knees/heel spring (Portal 1) & long fall boots (Portal 2).
Man, that was amazing. It’s wild to think I’ve been following you guys for well over 10 years
Watching the VFX breakdowns has really shown me what to look for. LOL Oh! I saw that comp line, I know how you do that, etc. hahaha