This week’s film selectiion is a technical masterpiece, made in RDR2. It is both an homage to the game and the film. John Wick’s Red Dead Redemption is made by eli_handle_b.wav, and is worth every second of your time watching it!
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John Wick’s Red Dead Redemption, by eli_handle_b.wav released 9 August 2025 –
This week’s film is Ricky’s pick, a Team Fortress 2 composited trailer of Law Abiding Citizen (film) made using Source tools. We discuss the throwback to the mid 2000s and how well the film has stood up to the test of time, the Saxxy Awards and another TF2 film which we also really enjoyed, Demoman (Pure Pwnage ep 15 Intro) by GiigoPwNs.
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Team Fortress 2 – Law Abiding Engineer, released 1 April 2010 by TrueOneMoreUser
Side by side comparison between Law Abiding Engineer and Law Abiding Citizen
TF2 – Demoman (Pure Pwnage ep 15 Intro), released 25 Nov 2007, by GriigoPwNs
The Saxxy Awards, Team Fortress 2 website
Source Filmmaker on Steam
Throwback: Faceposer, on Valve’s Developer Community site
Find out more about compositing techniques here (Filmlifestyle.com)
This episode is Ricky’s December film pick, Artists of Second Life by Teal Aurelia, released 3 October 2022. We discuss the emerging trend of photography in virtual worlds and reflect on the significance of the compositing used by the creator of this film, which has a surprising backdrop to the runway style presentation of ‘inspiring’ characters. Plus, we reflect on the state of TV advertising today!
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Film –
and this is Teal’s editing and compositing process video we discuss in our review –
Create Studio Pro – a low cost tool for editing short form content such as adverts
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