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Escape From City 17 - Part One (video)

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Directed by The Purchase Brothers. The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation....

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play-girlz.com - 2/13/2009

Half-Life 2: Short Film

— play-girlz.com — Prepare to be impressed. The following short film entitled ‘Escape from City 17′ is based on Half-Life... 2 and was apparently created with a $500 budget, no script, and no crew. Best fan movie ever made? Decide for yourself. Escape from City 17 - Part One For what they were working with, ... (more) Half-Life 2: Short Film

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Boing Boing — Wagner James Au sez, "I just published a short interview with the Purchase Brothers, the Toronto guys who made that great 'Escape from City 17' movie featured on Boing Boing last week. They explain more how they did it, and what they spent their $500 budget on. As it turns out, that's 500 *Canadian* dollars, so even less than most of us first assumed." 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 ...