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Wow really cool.
And creepy. 

bananaman114 wrote:

I'll look at it when it isn't 3 AM
but it's tempting

I'll give you a summary, it's like the second one (guy with valve at the back of his head) but the guy turns his head slightly, but you still can't see his face because of the lighting, then it fades out and theres the Valve logo.

It's creepy.

It's... weird. Looks kinda unprofessional.

bananaman114 wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

I'll look at it when it isn't 3 AM
but it's tempting

I'll give you a summary, it's like the second one (guy with valve at the back of his head) but the guy turns his head slightly, but you still can't see his face because of the lighting, then it fades out and theres the Valve logo.

It's creepy.

urgghhhhhh :<
the reason i'm not asleep is because I had a nightmare
and then there's a creepy teddybear in the room down the hall that looks like a person standing there
not to mention I swear someone got beat up just outside my place last night
and then that
and then the slender thread

no wonder i cant sleep

You found my teddy?? C:

NeilWest wrote:

BirdByte wrote:

It's... weird. Looks kinda unprofessional.

I think it's because Valve are planning to make psychological horror games (like the first Half Life) and therefore, their logo just HAS to be as creepy as the game itself.

They wouldn't half to re-use the "creepy" logo for everything.

A lot of movies in particular base the opening company screen on the movie's content.

Great.

Even creepier than the last one.

Yeah, it's existed for a while now. Think I first saw it in the CS:GO beta months back. Anyway, they also couldn't find the original actor for that photo, I don't think. There's a pretty interesting story about finding the bald dude here, posted on Reddit courtesy of user "vism."

vism wrote:

I was wondering who that bald guy with the valve in his head was in the Valve [1] splash screen  and emailed Gabe. Learned some interesting things when I got this response from Ray Ueno:

Ray Ueno wrote:

I worked with Gabe and team to develop the "guy in the logo" back when we first named the company, Valve (circa 1995/6), and needed to develop the visual brand vocabulary to go along with it.

Interesting that you should ask about the bald guy. Back then, the casting agencies we were using to find models only had "supermodel"-type talent. We kept requesting "heavy-set", "normal" models, and they kept sending us "beautiful", "thin", "perfect" headshots to review.

So, we finally asked them to just go out on the street and pull "everyday Joes" who were more "interesting", "common", and for the bald guy, "kinda big, heavy-set, and bald".

They went out to the streets of Seattle's Broadway district, took tons of polaroids of the types of folks we were looking for, and brought the shots back to us. We selected the bald guy from the batches of "off-the-street" polaroids—he was literally pulled out of a coffee shop or book store!

A few days later, we brought him into studio and shot the image you now see at the beginning of our games. We also shot a 2nd image of a different guy with a valve in his eye using the same process (you might remember him as well—attached below ). The two comprised the "Open your mind. Open your eyes." concept for our initial brand, respectively.

It's been very long since we did that work, so we don't know who the models were. And the fact that they weren't professional models, would make it very difficult to find them—if not impossible for the bald guy (not facing camera).

Hope that answers your question. If you have any others regarding the Valve brand, please feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks for your interest in Valve and the bald guy image.

Last edited by cocoanut (2012-08-19 16:18:51)

I prefer the first Valve logo in Half Life. It was the least creepiest, and the fact that the man had derp eyes had no fear set upon me. BRING IT BACK VALVE!

CheeseMunchy wrote:

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

Wow really cool.
And creepy. 

BLU_Spy wrote:

this sums it up perfectly.

NeilWest wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

I'll look at it when it isn't 3 AM
but it's tempting

I'll give you a summary, it's like the second one (guy with valve at the back of his head) but the guy turns his head slightly, but you still can't see his face because of the lighting, then it fades out and theres the Valve logo.

It's creepy.

Maybe he was too ugly?