Probably won't be near a theater near you anytime soon. However ....
The VALVe Corporation has been producing these shorts around characters from "Team Forteress 2." (That's a best-selling video game, if you're not a teenager but a codger like me.) From their website:
... The real moral of Frankenstein is: If you're going to bring a guy back to life with lightning, maybe don't give him the brain of a serial killer. Try a vegan librarian. If you're stitching together animal-man hybrids, how about not jumping straight to ravenous hyenas? Start with hamsters, see how that goes, and work your way up the food chain.
Never toil in God's domain? Good advice if you're an idiot. If you know what you're doing, though, toil away. Why not give the Demo a couple extra livers? Why not replace Sniper's spine with a giant piece of sheet metal? Why not stitch a mouth onto Scout's backside so he can literally talk out of his ass?
Which brings us to our point. Not every mad doctor lives in a castle surrounded by villagers with pitchforks. Sometimes they live in the trenches, where there's plenty of spare parts flying around and a pressing need to get inventive with them. ...
The reason I put this up is, I find it (in its depraved way) pretty compelling. And I have a young game-player at home who turned me on to it.
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Great shorts, and the game looks awesome. But the game play is pretty run of the mill.
Disney and Dreamworks animator jamaal Bradley directed some of those shorts. They are great!
I enjoyed Team Fortress 2 for quite a while and loved the extra touch Valve put in with these cinematics. If you haven't yet, avail yourself the opportunity to watch them all.
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They've been doing great work on their shorts for some time and I'd love to see them tackle a feature project. I've heard rumors about the shorts as the lead up to a full blown animated feature(whether this property or something else entirely).
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