{"id":36902,"date":"2012-04-30T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36902"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:52:20","slug":"portal-animated-film-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36902-portal-animated-film-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Portal animated film in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An animated reincarnation of Portal, named &#8216;Companionship&#8217;, is currently being developed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Companionship&#8217; is a passion project from <a title=\"Alex Zemke\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24442-Alex-Zemke\">Alex Zemke<\/a>, and will take the form of a short movie.<\/p>\n<p>Zemke describes the project as a &#8220;tale of love, loss and cubes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Zemka has previously worked as an animator on Uncharted 2 and 3, as well as The Smurfs movie, putting some high-caliber animation pedigree behind his name.<\/p>\n<p>A few live-action Portal iterations have made their way onto the internet, although an animated approach might be the best format to capture the off-beat and quirky action of the game series.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Alex Zemke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/alexzemke.deviantart.com\/gallery\/#\/d4bdi37\">Deviant Art page<\/a> for more still from the project.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2012\/04\/28\/portal-animated-film-has-an-awesome-pixar-look.aspx\">GameInformer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/11710-meet-the-model-behind-portal-s-chell.html\">Meet the model behind Portal&#8217;s Chell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/12115-5-video-game-movies-that-need-to-be-unmade.html\">5 video game movies that need to be unmade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal film looks incredibly Pixar-esque. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3913,3912,3914,3911,3915,3910],"class_list":["post-36902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-alex-zemke","tag-chell","tag-companionship","tag-portal-animated-short","tag-portal-companionship","tag-portal-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36915,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36902\/revisions\/36915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}