Introducing projects and demo library

In preperation for the Team Fortress 2 movie contest we will shortly be announcing, we have built a platform for movie makers to list their work in progress. With the use of the project listing, producers can gather demos from users, or browse through the public demo library. Users can follow the progress of projects, post comments, view screenshots and read updates regarding them. Get started by creating a new producer group and add your project. Users can post their demos for all movie makers to use here and if they wish to submit for a specific project, they can follow the submit link below the project.

Generating depth of field in After Effects for Team Fortress 2 footage

This tutorial will show you how to use the z-depth footage attained from using in-game command "r_depthoverlay 1" in After Effects to generate depth of field with the Lens Blur effect.

Watch the tutorial here.

Introducing producer profiles

We are proud to introduce our new producer profiles (sample)! Now you can find your favorite movies based on the creators, or to learn more about the creators behind a movie. Movie makers now have the possibility to form their own movie groups or join existing ones. Please note that a lot of movie groups exist already, and if you are part of the group please apply to join and claim ownership of the group (all requests will be moderated). Get started and form your own movie group now, as we will shortly be opening our demo archive for movie makers to use to find content for their movies, as well as the upcoming Team Fortress 2 movie contest!

Updated video player and fixed poll

We've added a volume adjuster to the video player as requested by our users. We also fixed some minor bugs within the player which some users were experiencing. We also managed to finally fix our poll on the front page, so get voting!

PldX looking for movie moderators

We are looking for eager gaming movie enthusiasts to join our staff. Our goal is to provide the community with gaming related movies from a variety of games. As a movie moderator your responsibilities include uploading new movies from your community and providing the required details for them, as well as approving movies submitted by other users. No technical skills required, but basic image editing as well as English preferred.

Movie moderator spots currently available:

• Team Fortress 2 - NZ/OZ communities


• Team Fortress 2 - North America


• Team Fortress 2 - Europe


• Counter-strike: Source - World wide


• Counter-strike - World wide


• Call of Duty 4 - World wide


• Quake Live and Quake 3 - World wide


• Spots for other games available as well, feel free to contact us for more details.

All interested users should contact us and provide some information regarding yourself, and which parts you would be interested in covering, and whether you have worked on similar projects earlier.

Small downtime due to network outage

We experienced a short downtime tonight due to a network outage at our main ISP.

The root cause of the problem was a failed 4x10GE blade on one of our core routers. When the traffic failed over to the other core router it has crashed the router thus causing complete network outage.

The issue has been resolved and the network should be back to normal now.

Disco Inferno - 3DS MAX generated TF2 movie

A while ago I created the TF2 machinima movie Engination, the purpose of the movie at first was to create an Engineer frag/machinima movie, but it turned out to be only machinima. During the later stages of the project, I got into some 3D work and learnt that the Team Fortress 2 models could be imported to 3DS Max. However, I only ended up doing a minor part for the credits with 3DS Max, but saw the potential it had. Watch the movie here.