Dan Trachtenberg – Portal: No Escape
Independent film-maker Dan Trachtenberg recently released his fan-film tribute to Valve Software’s Portal game series. Titled “Portal: No Escape” the short film features Danielle Rayne in the lead role, playing a woman who awakes to captivity in a strange dark place. What follows next is over all too soon but is worth the watching. Such is the critical praise being received by this creation that talk of a full-length feature follow-up is already taking place. We can only hope! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk&w=600] More material of a behind-the-scenes nature can be seen in the ‘making-of’ featurette below: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeTycAZsdzI&w=600]
Beyond Aperture – Chell’s Epilogue
Set sometime after the conclusion to the story of the original Portal game, this fan-movie provides something of a “what-if” next chapter for the game’s protagonist Chell. Well made and littered with some wonderfully inventive touches, look out for the back-scratching! Anyone for cake? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0&w=600]