Amazing... Simply Amazing (HL2 Short Film)

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This is how you make a Movie about a game...

Imagine if they actually get called to make a HL2 Based Movie...

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Updated Part:  From this Site

How they did it:

He said all of the visual effects were done from scratch. Many of the elements (the background, the gunships, etc.) were extracted from Half-Life 2, then graphically enhanced, and incorporated into the live action with “a lot of complicated tracking and rotoscoping.” Though the movie itself was made independently of Valve Software, the developers and publishers of the Half-Life franchise, David said the game company got involved with its promotion, plugging its premiere on Valve’s user community channel, Steam News.

Only $500.. really?:

“[F]rom beginning to end on a budget of $500.” That would be 500 Canadian dollars — roughly $315 stateside.

So what’s the exact breakdown of that C$500 figure? “The equipment and software isn’t included in the budget because we already owned it from previous projects,” David Purchase told me by email. Rather it refers to the money spent on live-action elements, like the authentic-looking uniforms worn by the brutal Combine enforcers. “The costumes, and used/broken airsoft guns made up the bulk of the budget. There was no crew. We weren’t paid for the hours of time we put into it.”

When does part 2 come out?:

The brothers plan to release part two of City 17 in 6-8 weeks, though the storm of attention over part one has delayed that somewhat. “We have been getting a ton of emails and phone calls, which has slowed things down,” said David. Judging from the brief teaser clips at the cliffhanger end of the first video, a spunky heroine joins the team — as do hordes of headcrab zombies. (The Purchases promise to reveal details about their cast after that goes online.)

Soooo... does this mean your making a Half Life Movie?:

In the meantime, the brothers are already working on a feature film, but David will only say that it’s not related to Half-LifeCity 17, however, they’ve ably demonstrated just how much indie filmmakers working with a shoestring but a lot of technical ingenuity can do. and despite my pleading, won’t reveal anything else about it just yet. Presumably it’ll cost more than C$500 this time. With

 

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Half-Life 2: The (Short) Movie

By Luke Plunkett,

A Half-Life movie based on Gordon Freeman would suck. But this short film - the first in a series - is not about Gordon Freeman. And, what do you know, it doesn't suck, either.

Directed by The Purchase Brothers, Escape From City 17 was supposedly shot with "no money, no time, no crew, no script, [and] the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500". So they did a few thousand bucks' worth of work for free, then, because for a fan movie, this is freakin' amazing.