Building a Better Animatronic Wheatley from Portal 2
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Excited to finally share this guy. Now, who wants to see MkIV? Also, I want to do more design focused videos in the future (like the "Impossible design of Wheatley from last year) What would you like to see? (non Valve-related ideas encouraged)
Me!
Auto from Wall-e would be cool to see brought to life! Your content is awesome man!
I mean, not sure if its possible, but it’d be cool if the voice lines and stuff were all AI, so you could have like an actual conversation with him and stuff
I was just about to say that. Maybe step into the world of giving it pre programed actions, maybe some motion detection to wake it up when you walk in the room and it greets you/insults you, then who knows maybe the world of ai for the future versions lol.
How about the Overwatch voice done by an AI?
"Overwatch says stop kicking it." - HL:A Grunt
Imagine instead of having a set of Alexa's in your house, you just have a Wheatley following you around on a rail
Need
I mean considering where he is right now I don't think that's too much to ask for.
OR-- find a way to get Alexa to operate Wheatley!!!
I’ve been thinking about this the WHOLE TIME XD
Now that would be awesome to have
can't wait to wake up at 3am and only see his glowing eye say "this is the part where I kill you"
TRUE
lol
what the hell is he gonna do? drop himself on me?
"Oh come on now! Pick me up please! im sorry! dont leave me here! ill make you cake!"
That's the part where he kills you
Eye*
Absolutely Brilliant as always- it’s been so cool seeing the progress from iteration to iteration
It’s always improved every time which is pretty cool
I feel like I've seen you before
@@agentsloth8593 he created the Glamrock Freddy Costume
@@The_real_JamesProgaming Yeah and also a lot of other costumes like normal freddy and springtrap
@@BadRozZSFM yeah ik
0:55 the perfect timing between "a high-tech moron" and the shutter for the eye is amazing
Apparently Wheatley didn’t like that
*_"I AM NOT A MORON !!!"_*
“Could a moron smash you down this pit”
@@bruh4138 "Yes you are!" - GLaDOS
@@Site-234”YOUR THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!”
Valve should make a theme park, I would LOVE IT!
Day Alyx will be the best
I'd love to spend a day at Aperture Science
Sorry for not picking up your calls, I was on the Aperture tech expo ride. But I did get potato glados candies.
Did you say potato gladss candies, they're my favourite! @@yahoo5726
Universal studios, Nintendo already made a decision why not Valve.
Wheatley: I did everything
Mr. Volt: Are you sure about that?
He literally constructed him
I'd say losing the screen kind of takes away from his expressions, as quite a bit of them require his light blinking or dimming to a point you can't see details.
It's always a tradeoff. I'd like to use a proper printed transparency + tinted diffuser + lens in the future for more realism/contrast.
I saw someone who used a literal aperture. I felt it added a lot because of how his eye getw smpwller when he's scared :3
@@AverageConsumer-uj8sm You mean this guy? 😉🤔
@@suicidalbanananana oops lmao
wasn't sure if it was actually him x-x
@@AverageConsumer-uj8sm An aperture between the light and the paper that's translucent instead of black could help affect the brightness.
Especially of on the outside there is a very thin black film over the blue paper eye. Meaning internal light is required for the blue to be visible, but barely any at that.
I'd try the test myself but I have no real knowledge on the electronics or side of things. I can deal with mechanical stuff or post processing, but I just could not learn much in my required ECE classes.
i can't stop replaying the part at 10:39, the movements are so good
Thanks! That's my favorite clip too!
BABE WAKE UP MK III RELEASED
Who
And what
“Not what everyone wanted” dude. This is what I have dreamed of since I was a kid. This is Awsome and still brings a smile to my face. Epis work man
7:50 aw man… i don't care so much about the raspberry pi. but the circular display was a really cool part of the design!
yeah, that was def a big downgrade
I agree, you can definitely see it's a piece of paper with a light behind it. The circular display made it much more real, bummer
Well it could always return for the Mk4
piE
@@bradclooney69 ahhhh shit u got me there
idk what is more impressive, the whole project of the fact that you released the whole project in STEP format instead of crappy proprietary format such as Autodesk and for free instead of paywall.
Mad respect for you, subscribed.
Absolutely fantastic! It looks great! definitely put a smile on my face
I will say I did prefer the digital screen for an eye more than what's in Mk III just made it look more real.
the only other thing I can think of to improve the performance of Wheatly would be to make his body able to pivot on the pole he is attached to rather than being static. I think it would just add that bit more extra life to him
But that's the only feedback I have I think it's absolutely gorgeous!
Being a collector of life-size props I wish this was a collectible coming to market.
Keep up the fantastic work!
I miss the aperture function the most.
@@overhauledunderpaid6469 Hmm, but he does have a mechanical iris still... Or are you referring to something else?
@@MrVolt I think just another form of print or defusion would do the trick, it just seems a bit flat And the reflection doesnt seem as Real as the last one
@@MrVolt It would have been nice to see more of the iris in action, kinda only shows up in the final clip of the video
@@MrVolt he's referring to the ability for Wheatlys eye to shrink when the aperture he has in the game closes and opens, this new model has Wheatlys eye stay the same size all the time. I agree as this being the most disappointing removable, but besides that everything else is great
I think having the ability to also pan/tilt the whole assembly on the maintenance rail would make it look even more realistic/alive. But I’m still very impressed. Cool project!
That's definitely needed! A bit more to design for that since Wheatley weighs 4kg, so I need fast and strong motors to make the rail mount expressive too.
ye this would really do it lol
@@MrVolt oh yeah, sounds like real pain. But thanks for releasing the files, i have been thinking about building a wheatley myself so this definitely helps!
Your new Wheatley model genuinely looks AMAZING!!
Now all you need to do is launch him into space
Im in space, space space
SPAAAAAAAACe!!! space, spa- space!
Im im spaace! space im in space! SP A A A A- ce....
IM IN SPACE!
space, space space space! im in space!
Im in- im in space! space, is full of space! more space, in double space!
SP A AAAAAAAAAACE!!
Oooo it's so surreal seeing him in the real robotics like this. Love the expressions he gives and I really like the aesthetic of this video and explanation of the build too. Very cool!
Thanks! I felt like the video was clunky, so it's nice to hear that haha
I’m planning to, in the future, get into Hollywood. If I make a Portal Movie, I’ll make sure to hire you for this animatronic Wheatley. It’s absolutely beautiful.
I wish you luck. Id love a portal movie, if it were to ever happen
It's still gonna be a bit of a challenge to get Valve's permission
too ambitious
Good luck !
I don't know if you can immediatly take the role as a producer for movies, but follow your dreams bud.
It's actually incredible how much motion you got out of this guy. I've been following since mkI, and it's so awesome how far the design has come. You've done an incredible job dude!
Did not expect you to be here, then again I can now see the overlap of simple shapes that can move.
Hi tride
I love how in that first jump into the pit clip you oh-so-subtly moved the bottom eyelid right at the end. Such a tiny movement but it makes the entire thing absolutely hysterical. Great work on Mk3!!!
I appreciate you appreciating the little details :)
“Wheatley Crab 🎶🎶🎶🎶
ha ha ha
Wheatley Crab
Wheatley! Wheatley Crab!
Ha ha ha
Wheatley, Wheatley crab
Wheatley crabbed
Crab, crab, crab, crab, crab, crab, crab
Wheatley crabbed
Crab crab crab
Wheatley crabbed
Crab, crab, crab, crab, crab, crab, crab
Wheatley crab, crab crab crab
Crabbed
can’t transform into Wheatley Crab 0/10 /joke
@@protocetid, Yes, we're waiting for a core that can turn into a crab!
We're need Wheatley Crab!
WOOO MORE WHEATLEY CONTENT AAAAAA
seeing Wheatley in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty four is such a hilarious treat. I admit I'm not much into electronics or building things like this, so I understand maybe half of the things you explain, but I'm blown away by the quality of your work every single time. Thanks so much for sharing this!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This turned out absolutely perfect! Easily the most expressive version of the three ^^
If Valve ever gets around to making that Portal movie they announced, they seriously need you on-board as a designer
100%.
When/where did they announce a portal movie?
@@joshmikekingIt was announced _way_ back in 2013, and everyone assumed it was dead, until they confirmed it was still in development in 2021
@Valve yall need to hire this man
insane honestly
Sent me waaay back 2011, at the time I watched tons and tons of wheatley videos, even my password was wheatley at one point, back at time time the only thing we had was a realistic puppet, always wanted someone to make an animatronic or some kind of robot from wheatley irl, never thought id see that in 2024, amazing work!
I wish he was able to actually move around on his own 😭
This is one of the coolest things i've ever seen in my life. AND HE HAS RAILS TOO! Imagine you are studying in your room and suddenly Wheatley enters your room with his rails and tries to have a chat with you or tells you some jokes. It would be so amazing and cool!
You probably won't see this, but the way you subtly put in that sponsor was fantastic. On other youtuber's comment sections, there would be many people who talk about saying "oh their sponsor was so smooth!" And when I went to check it often wasn't very smooth. Yours, however, takes my personal record list. Out of the near-millions of videos I've watched, you are the record breaker for just how creamy smooth your sponsor was. The only reason I noticed it was because of how smooth it was.
Thank you! It helps when it happens to be a product I was already using for years :D
Everything you produce is really on another level. The way in which you make engineering choices, as if this were a real product for mass production, is so impressive!
Thank you so much!
Wheatley was convincing.) The only thing is that I would leave his eye in the form of a screen, as for me, it looks better that way.
By the way, it might be worth trying to make a utility for Wheatley's animation, or even for transferring animations from the Source engine, but I can't tell you how to do it.
I apologize for my English, I used a translator, but I hope you will understand me.
It translated very well!
I've been thinking for a while that coming up with a way to convert the animation data from a 3D animation tool into servo controls would be a brilliant way to achieve more natural movement in animatronics, since it's ultimately all slides and pivots in both cases but animators are able to create movement that feels more natural.
@@stevethepocket www.bottango.com/ is pretty close to that!
Incredible how much the project has improved in each iteration. Been an awesome journey to follow, and can't wait to meet him at Open Sauce!
Also crazy coincidence, I am in the market for a 360 motor for a project I have planned.
Thanks, man! Also congrats on your channel growth. Gonna have that shiny play button soon :D
You don't know how badly I want this lil guy
I want him, a railing and the Ai system to serve as an Alexa
It would be awesome to see this little guy roaming around valve's office! Give it some time and i'm sure you'll get a message from valve asking you for one of those! Damn, i've been following this saga for so long now, it feels great to see our boy finally complete!
I wouldn’t mind having that as an Alexa in the house….
THE BOY!!!!!!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!!!!!!! HES GLORIOUS!!! HES THE SPITTING IMAGE OF PERFECTION!!! HES THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN!!!
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE!!! Sir, you have my infinite respect! Your attention to detail seems to go largely unnoticed by folks in the comments, which is a shame. You have managed to capture the most important part of Wheatley's design, which is the emoting! The genius design of this robot allows for incredibly smooth, quick, and game-accurate motion that I thought would never be realized in the real world. I cannot tell you how much joy it brings me that my favorite childhood robot, deemed to be impossible to recreate, has been made real. Like, it is just bonkers how much motion it has!
Thank you so much for putting in all the time, effort, and money you have into this project. I couldn't stop smiling and jumping around like a child while watching. Wishing you luck on future endeavors!
What a nice comment. Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed him and the details :)
OMG ITS PERFECT NOW! You need to get some key point animations on this. It will look crazy realistic
Build Wheatley a friend you say? Surely that'll take up a lot of SPACE
SPAAAAAAAACCCEEEEEEE!!!!!
I really admire your work, the wheatley robot is increadible.
Thank you!
This is awesome!!!
The puppeteering is great! You really matched the motion of a core!
A suggestion I have that I think would be cool (If possible)
would be to hide the sound of the motors with the futuristic motor sounds that wheatley makes when he moves in game.
It's not a necessity, but I think that would be a nice detail.
Keep making cool things!
Thanks! That's a good idea
Oh hey it's the rec room person
Way snapier than before, good job.
The screen is a huge lost but the rest is really freaking awesome.
Good thinking simplifying the eye. I’d recommend having the colour and the mask on separate layers to reduce light bleeding through the black.
What a massive improvement! Not as much inertia, better performance, captures the character so well. I love the sound of his parts moving in the diagetic clips. It's been incredible following the many iterations of your design and effort put in to bringing it all to life. Makes me want a Portal Live-Action adaptation of some kind, and this animatronic to be in it.
Man, it's amazing that he can flip his eye around 360 degrees like in the game. Crazy. Absolutely astonishing. Love how his eye flashes as it does when he talks in the game.
I swear every single engineering channel on youtube is good
I love him. I wonder how hard it would be to have the little pop out bits his eye and eye ring(?) do for emphasis in a future version. Always excited to see your new iterations regardless
You've done such an incredibly good job that this animatronic trips me out, my brain keeps getting confused about wether this is in game footage or not. It just doesn't seem like something that should exist in the real world.
If you're building another core, it needs to be the other one that ended up in space 100%
SPAAAACE, So much space need to see it all, I'm in spaaaace
the movements feel so much snappier and lifelike than before, no doubt due in part to the stronger frame
The level of detail in this is insane, absolutely amazing project!
It would be really cool to see the whole circle in the middle be able to push forward, as that ads a great deal of emotional expression in the game. I can't imagine it would be anything but incredibly difficult though, amazing work already
seeing the animated voicelines were AMAZING! you SERIOUSLY brought him to life! I loved it! Hope you keep going with your projects, dude! It'd be amazing to see other video game robots brought to life!
i have been watching from episode one and the new and improved wheatley is amazing
Thanks for sticking around so long!
If you’re actually going to build a second core with the Mark III design, I vote for it to be Virgil. There’s no other core that stands out like Wheatley in the canon game, and “Portal Stories: Mel” deserves the recognition
I would love to see Virgil
Virgil is such a beautiful core, that 70s hawaiian shirt-ish chassis, that iris in the shape of the old aperture logo... perfection
But- But what about the mad SPAAACE!! core? :
Meet the Cores has a variety of fun cores to go for.
This is the most accurate looking one you've done! I love the motors making the hiss when they move, gives it all just that detail aswell and brings it so much closer to feeling the way he does in Portal (I know they just make the sounds but it just feels too satisfying to hear em and not comment on em)
Amazing! Might have to build one myself once i finish my portal gun and radio. Been a dream of mine for a long time now
Thanks! Gotta finish those builds then (I need to build my own set too haha)
Top notch work as always, the animations are really quite smooth, the only shakes seem to be when the eye drops down and gravity helps, perhaps with some software you can adjust the speeds. I will check out those servo's I need some for my projects.
I ordered two of the smallest servo's one for my StealthBoy, and one that may work for the Fallout Radio.
Thanks man! I agree. It needs some rework for the face. Lookin forward to seein you get into Dynamixels too
We got Wheatley IRL before GTA 6
Woooaaahh, this is so cool!! Wheatley is one of my favorite characters and it's awesome to see him brought to life like this! I know his crazy range of motion in the game is not in any way realistic, but you managed to get so close to that, that's crazy! I could totally see this used in like a high budget movie, the quality is so good! I really love the aperture shutter on his eye, that just adds so much to his expressions, and your puppeteering skills are great, he feels so alive, haha, I love this
Looks incredible, I was completely blown away how real this looks
This is like the animatronics you see before you get on a ride at Disney World.
Nah this should be an actual product 😂😂😂
Dude, you seriously never fail to impress me with this on going project. I absolutely love this!
its amazing finally seeing it in action. looks fantastic, even better than i expected. and you did a great job animating him
id love to try making one but i neither have the money nor technical skills (nor can i mount rails to my ceiling). its very cool that you have the ability to do these kinda projects for all of us to see, and you're even sharing the files
Amazing. I think it could use rotation about the thing it is mounted on - in some of the animations from the game, you get "nodding" expressions and I think that could really improve the animations!
OMG THIS THING IS SO COOL, in all seriousness i love the design of your animatronics, and i hope to one day be as cool as you:)
Dude! I'm 2:30s in, and you have the LOST 108 minute countdown clock! That is freaking awesome dude!
One of my favorite old builds! (on another channel) I want to make a better version this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary
Sick! If you decide to do it I'll be waiting! @@MrVolt
Awesome! this just floated across my dash board, last time i seen your channel you were still on the mark1, MASSIVE improvements!
This look so amazing Wheatley looks much brighter and alive now, im happy to see that the portal community is still alive even to this day!
Btw your videos and works are marvelous and i hope you get the recognition that you deserves!
What happened to animatronic Glados? You probably said the reasons why you might not work on it for a while or never work on it ever again in an older video but I’m curious,
What happened to the older prototype?
GlaDOS was always trying to kill him and release neuron toxins into his lab, So he ended up canceling the project.
Oh ye I forgot about the segment on the end of that video 😆@@facetubetwit1444
The servos did a huge amount. Just look how smooth the results are. Epic project and outcome! I hope one day there's an "easy" way to get any voice you want do do what Alexa/Siri/Google Home does with open source.
oh my god that was amazing!! A project two long years in the making and finally completed this is so satisfying to just watch work and I'm so hyped for whatever core you build next and this is just great like it looks exactly like he does in the game and everything
Oh, he’s back from space, I guess I’ve got to send him back now
Only one thing could improve this: better audio quality
It probably sounds better in real life. Recording sound from speakers always sounds bad.
Perhaps the aperture laboratory and testing facilities made a better place for sound like in the games, compared to some guys house?
Holy shit this is incredible!! The puppeteering for the last line was absolutely spot-on too! Amazing stuff!!
This is insane. So much effort and the final product is glorious! Great job man
Little guy looks amazing! Would love to see some pre-recorded animations (maybe even a recreation of the ones in game) played out on him! Great stuff
Holy crap, this has really come a long way since the first iteration. I never would have imagined the speed and level of precision in movement you achieved with Mk. III, it's honestly mind-blowing.
Throughout this series though I've been curious about your decision to exclusively puppet Wheatley manually, instead of programming the servos to play a set animation. It certainly brings some life to his expressions, but I imagine there is a limitation to juggling all 11 servos in real time, so I've always wondered if he's missing out on his full potential.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, but regardless, congrats on this amazing build.
I remember watching your videos years ago, I'm glad to see you're still at it !
Its wild how smooth this is. Like literally wild. Awesome build!!
WOAH MAN THIS IS AWESOME!! Your commitment and engineering on this project is inspiring! I want to see this running with some Large Language Model trained on Wheatleys personality now and finish bringing him into this world, amazing work!
Absolutely incredible. Really well done video. The time and effort you put into this build is clearly visible. Super entertaining, keep it up!
This is incredible! He looks just like the game. It must be magical having him there in real life.
And you end the video with a epic 360!! Holy moly, what a awesome build!
He's beautiful, your pursuit of elegance in his design is utterly commendable. I remember seeing your posts about the earlier versions every time you made a new one. It's great to see such a fantastic version.
this is so exciting ive been following the project since mk I and it has already progressed so much, great job
It’s so cool! This has been such a fun ride, watching this project and watching you improve each time
This is such a cool project, its great to see the progress youve been making!!
This is amazing! Incredible job on Mk III! I love how he moves, and how he’s on the rail too!
This certainly put a smile on my face. Thank you for making it.
This is amazing! The paint job on top of the enginerering is just nuts! So neat.
It definitely put a smile on my face! I love following up with this build you did an amazing job
This is so sick!!! World-class job on this!
Man i've been waiting for this video to come out for so long, this is so cool!
Great to see you still working on these, and best possible affiliate-sponsors you could get too, im making a note here: huge success! 👍😁
Oh, he looks amazing, what a fantastic work. Love the weathering too
This so inspiring of what can be created in real life today. The snippet at 12:35 could be a great pre-roll for a channel trailer video. Appreciate the dynamixel reference, some modern actuators that would come in handy.
Mr. Volt. I can definitely say that I'm a longtime fan of your work and skill to build these projects. Thanks again for uploading your videos.
Absolutely fantastic work!
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It looks so good!!!! You did a super good job :D!
Oh thats stunning! Im a big fan of the simplifications. I especially like the new eye design