SHORT FILM: SUPER BAOZI vs SUSHI MAN

I have been on a road trip for the last week so my posts have been lacking. 3700 miles of driving is pretty brutal but if you get a chance to ever do something like this, I highly recommend it. Driving through 8 states in 8 days, some I have never seen before, nor do I care to see again. (Wyoming, I’m looking in your direction) In general though, seeing parts of the country never seen before was quite an experience. Now I’m hoping I can get back into the swing of things and we’ll start off with a funny short film I found on 3DM3.com. Hope you enjoy! Go check out the site as there are some other short films worth watching.

Short film: Swing
Short film: Dragon Fist

HALF-LIFE 2 MINI SERIES NEEDS TO COME TO THE BIG SCREEN

Just take 5 minutes to go through some of my past blog posts and you are sure to realize I am a big fan of Valve and the Half-Life series. They really are some of the best First Person Shooter games ever made. Well, it seems some even bigger fans of Half-Life have produced their own take on the series in a Half-Real, Half-CG clip appropriately titled “Escape from City 17.” Created by The Purchase Brothers.

More info from their YouTube post:

“The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500. “

“Valve flew the team out to Seattle last year, and the brothers have been in communication with them since.”

“David and Ian Purchase are commercial directors represented by Sons and Daughters in Toronto. They are working on an unannounced feature film. Not HL related.”

This video was posted on YouTube on February 12 and already, there are 1.1 million hits and over 10,000 comments at the time I am writing this. The Purchase Brothers website has crashed not once, but twice since posting this due to the amount of traffic. Hollywood producers need to take notice as I see a gold mine if they were to create a full Hollywood motion picture. If we were only so lucky.

So would you want to see a Half-Life movie made? What would you rather see, a Half-Life movie or a Halo movie? And should they be made by creative and talented indie directors like The Purchase Brothers? I think so. Either way, I think gamers are obviously ready for it.