WIP: Heavy and Medic

This is going to be my first ever project in Valve's popular Source Filmmaker - the same tool used to produce their games' marketing and cutscene animations.
As a fairly new TF2 player I thought i'd play on the gameplay mechanic between Medic and Heavy - they both work together extremely well and the thought of the pair having a close friendship isn't hard to fathom.

This still was an experiment into posing, lighting a scene, rendering from SFM and applying post production.

For colour correction and the rocket FX I rendered out a 32bpc TARGA from SFM, then converted this into TIFF format into Photoshop before sending it into After Effects.
FX applied are a curves and slight desaturation for colour correction, and for the rocket tails I made custom flares in Video Copilot's Optical Flares, blurring these with Frischluft's Depth of Field plugin to match the scene's shallow depth of field.

This will be an ongoing short film project that I will work on in my spare time. I hope you enjoy this image for now, and feel free to let me know what you think.