CGI 3D Game Trailer : Valve's Source Engine Animated Movie Deep (2012)

Valve"s Source engine has been licensed by Brown Bag Films and Shane Acker (director of the Tim Burton produced movie 9) to create the animated movie Deep. The movie is set in a world after World War III has happened and we have been forced to live underwater using sunken ships for shelter. The story revolves around Captain Sullivan who commands a nuclear sub and is determined to save a devastated earth.

Deep only has a budget of $19 million, which is a drop in the ocean compared to what someone like Disney must allocate for new projects. So Brown Bag had to think outside the box on how to cut corners and save money. A game engine like Source offers up many of the features required to make a movie, albeit it at a drastically reduced cost compared to typical industry tools.

As well as offering all the features and a rich set of tools to make the movie happen, using the Source engine brings with it two further advantages. The first is the ability to produce a game that reuses all the assets and looks just like the movie, again at a reduced cost and development time.

The second advantage has the potential to push Valve into a new market. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Valve opts to distribute Deep the movie alongside Deep the game on Steam. Movies on Steam? Why not?

Whatever the final look of Deep turns out to be, it"s an interesting experiment that could lead to other movie studios trying the same thing in the future. You only have to view the quality of cutscenes being produced using game engines like Unreal Engine and CryEngine to know that movie-quality visuals won"t be a problem.

[Sizifus]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the reasons, why I consider Valve to be the best video game developer ever!

[RowiDankelsaft]

That is exactly what makes it awesome. If it have the quality of the normal movies that you see where immense budgets are used, with a simple tool like this, then the tool is awesome indeed.

Also this is just a teaser trailer.

[booblian]

This is great because we can get back to what's really important ... the story! Democratising the creation process lets so many more creative individuals contribute their view of things.

[frenak]

all that cool stuff you can do with the Source Engine :D not only games but also movies wow

[acpan]

So Valve could be moving into the movie industry?

[captaintaco]

An entire movie animated in Source? Someone can take this movie and replace all the models with TF2 characters. Actually, that would be kind of cool.

[NukemToTheGrave]

Again, just because you never beat the game doesn't mean the ending isn't there.

[MrSnIcKeRz]

Half Life as a story hasn't been concluded thus making it a little hard to conclude something that has yet to have an ending to it.

[holben]

@MrSnIcKeRz2 why does it have to be about gordon? Why not barney or another resistance leader like odesa beffore gordon was taken out of stasis.

[MrSnIcKeRz]

If the movie does that then that's fine. I'm just saying if the movie is directly based off of the game, then I don't see the point since the games don't have a conclusion.

[greystorm_digital]

Nice eye candy. After much review on Source Filmmaker. The Cons completely out way the pros here. You have to be building a game in order to make an animated production. This should not be used for feature length movies. Doing everything in real-time is a waste of time on the front end of the production, especially if you want to blow half your budget on building out of a new workflow.

[SpAMCAN]

How the hell are they rendering proper water in Source? o3o

[canadianbird]

wow... the source engine...Valve's too busy profiting from steam to renovate this derelict thing.

Honestly, it's time to move on. Cryengine and Unreal seems to be doing really well these days

[BioUmbrellaChronicle]

this movie use source flimmaker Or what ?

[gorgolyt]

Because of an extremely sub-par animated movie?

[MrSnIcKeRz]

You're not understanding what I'm even saying. Please read what I even said.

If the movie manages to some how make their own conclusion then a movie is possible, but as far as the storyline in the games go, the STORY is unfinished. I've played every Half-Life game and beat them, what I'm saying has nothing to do with that.

[augustvalek]

yet again, we've been starving for a HL3 since years ago, oh well, I'll just go cry under my pillow

[centercannothold]

misson " impossebru " ! main chacracter don`t speak !

[troyspencer]

Variety calls this an "experiment leading to other movie studios trying the same thing in the future". lol. It`s called Machinima.

[MrSnIcKeRz]

You can't really make a movie if you don't know the whole story and ending to something.