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Game Art: Petri Levälahti aka Berduu's machinima

Matteo

Matteo

— 1 min read
Petri Levälahti aka Berduu works at EA DICE in Stockholm. He's also an accomplished game photographer: his flickr stream is a visual triumph ("video game tourism, snapping shots as mementos", he told EA). Like Duncan Harris, Berduu pursues an aestheticized digital photorealism that recalls Jean Baudrillard's notion of iper-reality using camera hacks and mods developed by other modders, including Finnish maestro Matti Hietanen and Dutch wunderkind Frans Bouma.  
"Heligoland Bight"

However, what I find truly fascinating is Levälahti's machinima portfolio, which includes delicious shorts made with Grand Theft Auto V, like the following trifecta. Incidentally, all the GTA videos star three different characters. Both absurdist in tone and slickly produced, these videos exemplify Barduu's impressive technical prowess.

Equally impressive are his Battlefield 1 machinima. Consider his 4K "restorations" of fictional movies (It Came From the Desert, 1968 and Outpost, 1961), created by amalgamating a variety of media sources (novels, games, films) including Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Cinemaware's It Came From the Desert, and The Innocents (1961).

LINK: Berduu

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