References:Miscellaneous emails

This page mirrors email conversations and other correspondence made between fans and various people that contributed to the Half-Life and Portal series. The legitimacy of these messages has been verified by OverWiki staff.

Joachim Barrum

On Barney's face reference for the Half-Life: Blue Shift cover artwork

“	But no, Valve didn't give any directions on the face. In fact the face we used photoreference from my colleague Mikael Noguchi, which I made the cover with. And we used his face as a reference also on a couple of Half life covers we did. This was before Half Life 2, it was for Half Life 1, so if Valve used the same face features for Half Life 2, it was not with our involvement.	”
	– Source  (July 2, 2026)

Chris Jensen

On his work for Half-Life: Opposing Force

“	Well file this under the category "Better Late Than Never" but I wanted to let you know I have finally dug through my archives and posted almost two hours worth of the work I did for Opposing Force and Counter Strike on my Sound Cloud Page - the tracks are titled "Mishaps in the Reactor Chamber" and I think there are close to 100 if not more currently posted for your enjoyment.	”
	– Source  (January 7, 2014)

Andrew Phelan

On his work for the censored version of Half-Life, the Robot Grunt

“	Ok, the main one I did, you can see my one here https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Grunt https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Robot_Grunt That top one actually now that i think of it, I did do 2, but the other was a finishing off of another model, they were produced because germany could not have people to shoot in multiplayer, these 2 were made specifically for this. The other 2 must have been later additions.	”
	– Source  (April 18, 2023)

Dark Pulse Productions

On whether the film Lambda was cancelled

“	No it's just stuck in production hell. A lot of our battle scenes keep failing cause last minute people don't show up.	”
	– Source  (March 31, 2016)