It’s a loosely kept secret that many of the artists here spend the lunch hour gunning each other down, using the same version of the same software that they’ve been using for something like the last ten years. Even though they have all updated to the latest Intel-based Macintosh tower for work, they each cling to an old PowerPC tower in order to blow each other to bits on maps that they know by heart. Well, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I guess.

Some of us, though, are attracted to new, shiny ways of shooting each other. Like Team Fortress 2. Which rocks. Some of us like it so much we made a sample. Photography by Eric Sahrmann, 3D CGI and digital compositing by alter. See the inspiration for our image, a promotional image using the actual game art, directly below our sample.