Richard Lord
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Richard Lord is an artist who worked at Valve.
Work[edit]
Half-Life 2: Episode Two's leaked model sources indicate that Lord worked on a number of new models, such as the Borealis, the Barn Advisor's life support system, the Autogun, explosive props, technical assets for White Forest, Victory Mine and the Outlands, and the Muscle Car.[2]
For Portal 2, Lord designed, modeled, and rigged Wheatley before Karen Prell started working on the sphere's animations.[3] Along with Laura Dubuk, he designed the Relaxation Chamber from the game's intro.[4] He also animated the service announcement slideshows seen in chamberlocks, and created the concept of the Animal King.[5]
Lord provided placeholder voice for Wheatley;[6][7] it can be heard in the "Meet Wheatley" video shown at E3 2010. Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official.[8] Later Lord himself emphasized that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be disappointed with the final voice - im over teh moon with who it might be." [sic],[7] until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice, much to the dismay of "a small but vocal minority of people who were livid" and wanted the previous actor back.[9] Richard Lord also voiced an early prototype Personality Construct, called the Paranoid Sphere, and both robots of the third Directed Design Experiment.[10]
Lord worked on the Perpetual Testing Initiative map editor, and created the trailer for it. He also made the "Valentine's Day Gift Buying" and the "Portal is Free" promotional videos.[7]
Selected gameography[edit]
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
- Portal (2007)
- Portal: Still Alive (2008)
- Portal 2 (2011)
Gallery[edit]
Richard Lord and Stephen Merchant on a Portal 2 post-mortem slide.
References[edit]
- ↑ The last Valve game Lord was credited on was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive according to MobyGames, which would indicate he left in 2012. Lord's blog and Vimeo account confirms he left Valve.
- ↑ Half-Life 2: Episode Two model repository leak,
MACHINE=RLORDidentifier in corresponding.smdfiles - ↑ Karen Prell - Video Games
- ↑ Portal 2 Collector's Edition Guide
- ↑ The NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Erik Wolpaw on Vimeo
- ↑ Portal 2 Gains a Talkative Companion on Wired.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Last Outpost of Sanity, Richard Lord's official blog (May 27, 2014) (archived)
- ↑ Feep's post in the Portal 2 E3 gameplay video thread on the NeoGAF forums
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Portal 2 - Post Mortem (GDC) on YouTube
- ↑ The Final Hours of Portal 2
