ムービー

Meet the Heavyからのワンシーン。

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Paint me the picture. — ムービーのディレクター

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幾つかのショートアニメーションムービーはTeam Fortress 2を宣伝するためにValveによって制作されました。その中で最も目立つMeet the Teamシリーズでは、各クラスの物語を特色としています。その他のムービーはメジャーアップデートに焦点を当てたものや、マップ制作のようなゲームの開発プロセスを紹介するものがあります。基本的にそれぞれのビデオの収録時間は3分～4分となっています。

ムービー

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Nine mercenaries have come together for a job. It's the middle-ish part of a century a lot like the one we just had. A simpler time. There are three TV stations, one phone company, and two holding corporations that secretly control every government on the planet. Each corporation administers its half of the world with a multi-disciplined army of paper pushers. For any problem lacking an obvious bureaucratic solution, mercenaries like these are contracted to address the situation through a massive application of force. Now's your chance to Meet the Team. — Meet the Teamの以前の概要

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Meet the Scout 2008年4月19日公開	Meet the Soldier 2007年8月22日公開	Meet the Pyro 未公開
Meet the Demoman 2007年10月9日公開	Meet the Heavy 2007年5月14日公開	Meet the Engineer 2007年9月11日公開
Meet the Medic 2011年6月23日公開	Meet the Sniper 2008年6月7日公開	Meet the Spy 2009年5月19日公開
	Meet the Sandvich 2008年10月10日公開

プロモーションムービー

トレイラー 1 2006年7月19日公開	トレイラー 2 2006年8月21日公開	Engineer アップデート ティーザー 2010年5月5日公開

Mac アップデート トレイラー 2010年6月10日公開	Replay アップデート ティーザー 2011年5月7日公開	Team Fortress 2 is Free to Play 2011年6月23日公開

開発の舞台裏ムービー

TF2におけるレンダリングの解説 2007年9月3日公開	Viaductの制作 2009年8月21日公開	Meet the Medicボツ映像集 2011年7月11日公開

Meet the Team

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TF2 started with nine mercenaries, each with his own distinct personality. Because they live inside a frantic multiplayer shooter, though, the only facets of those personalities people got to see were the screaming, shooting, and being-on-fire parts. Enter the Meet the Team shorts, showcasing the mercs in their off-hours—arguing with their parents, barking orders at their head collections, or just strumming a guitar by the campfire. Also we made a movie about a sandwich. — Meet the Teamの概要

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Meet the Team is a series of computer-animated shorts starring the various classes of Team Fortress 2.

The clips have their origins in audition scripts for the voice actors who played the likes of the Heavy, the Sniper and the rest of the characters in the game. The first video in the series released in May 2007, Meet the Heavy, is almost word-for-word what Valve used to cast actor Gary Schwartz. The video was made on the heels of a Portal video used to promote the personality of that game. After the first short was released, viewers praised both the quality of the animation and the humour of the script, likening it to productions by professional animation studios such as Template:W. Due to this highly positive reception, Valve announced plans to release a Meet the Team video for each individual class in the game, with possible side-features for items and non-player characters such as Meet the Sandvich. Only Meet the Pyro has yet to be released. Developer Robin Walker has stated that the shorts "tie in to the strategy we have with TF2 of continually updating the service ... it makes a lot more sense." "What the videos do is give ways for people who don't even have Team Fortress 2 yet to get some entertainment from the game. And that may turn them into TF2 players and customers."

The series managed to influence the game itself in addition to simply being promotions for fans. Game write Eric Wolpaw said creating the series "helped everyone on the team get a little bit more in tune with who that particular character was, so we just kept knocking them out and they kept on being popular". An example of the series' influence on the design of the game was the Sandvich. According to Walker, the item "came almost directly out of the movie... We felt the movie had justified and created a way for us to have a 'Sandvich' in the game and have that action [of eating it] make any kind of sense in our game world". Another item to be introduced after its appearance in the series was Jarate which was added after its debut in Meet the Sniper.

The series also assisted in the development of game technology. Valve used Meet the Heavy to test the facial animation system the studio was developing for Team Fortress 2. According to Walker, the new system "allowed our characters to have a much greater range of expressions than we were able to do in Half-Life... We wanted a test case for that". The resulting technology produced in the creation of the Meet the Team series now appears in the game when played on the highest graphical settings. Walker recalled that team's pleasure about "the expression on the Heavy at the end when he's shooting and screaming" was not fake, and was not just "this thing that the coolest bit in [the movie] was something that would happen in the game."

Attendants of the Spike TV 2010 VGA Awards reported seeing a private screening of a cut of Meet the Medic during the event. The short was also shown to a user from the Steam Users' Forum upon his visit to Valve head offices in Bellevue, Washington. Soon after, an announcement for the release of Meet the Medic was posted on the TF2 Official Website, and the short was was later officially released on YouTube on June 23, 2011.

Source Filmmaker

もっと詳しく: Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmakerはゲーム環境でSource Engineを操作し、アニメーションを記録するビデオ制作ツールです。ValveはTeam Fortress 2のMeet the TeamシリーズやLeft 4 Dead及びLeft 4 Dead 2の導入ビデオ制作にこのツールを使用しました。Source Filmmakerは広い範囲の映写効果やモーションブラー、被写界深度のような技術が使用可能で、Meet the Teamシリーズで示される非常に高品質なテクスチャーをインゲームモデルに適用可能となっています。

ツールはゲームのコードに残されており、Team Fortress 2 Betaによってアクセス可能ですが、Valveは後に安定したバージョンを公式にリリースする意向を伝えています。Valveの創立者であり社長であるTemplate:W氏はSource Filmmakerについて、“公式リリースに向けて準備中”とインタビューで話しています。

関連項目

• リプレイ
• コミック

外部リンク

• TF2 公式ウェブサイトのムービーセクション。
• Source Filmmakerで制作されたYouTube上のビデオ。