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[[File:Heavy face.PNG|550px|right|thumb|A scene from ''Meet the Heavy''.]]
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[[File:Meet the Heavy SFM.png|550px|right|thumb|The ending scene from ''Meet the Heavy'']]
  
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{{Quotation|'''The Director''' on movies|Paint me the picture.}}
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{{Quotation|'''The Director'''|Paint me the picture.}}
  
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Several short-animated '''movies''' have been created by [[Valve]] to promote ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. The most prominent of the shorts are contained in the ''Meet the Team'' series, which feature each of the [[classes]] in their own narrative. Other movies have centered around [[Patches#Major updates|major game updates]] or depicted various game development processes, such as the creation of [[list of maps|maps]]. Typically, each video lasts from three to four minutes.
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A number of short animated '''movies''' have been created by [[Valve]] to promote ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. The most prominent of the shorts are contained in the ''Meet the Team'' series, which feature each of the nine [[classes]] in their own narrative. Other movies have centered around [[Patches#Major updates|major game updates]] or depicted various game development processes, such as the creation of [[list of maps|maps]]. Typically, each video lasts from three to four minutes.
  
 
== Movies ==
 
== Movies ==
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| '''[[Team Fortress 2 is Free to Play]]'''<br /><small>Released on June 23, 2011</small>
 
| '''[[Team Fortress 2 is Free to Play]]'''<br /><small>Released on June 23, 2011</small>
 
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| [[File:MTTCard MvM.png|link=Mann vs. Machine (teaser)]]
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| [[File:MTTCard SecondSaxxyAwards.png|link=Second Annual Saxxy Awards (video)]]
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| [[File:MTTCard Robotic Boogaloo.png|link=Robotic Boogaloo (video)]]
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| '''[[Mann vs. Machine (teaser)|Mann vs. Machine]]'''<br /><small>Released on August 13, 2012</small>
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| '''[[Second Annual Saxxy Awards (video)|Second Annual Saxxy Awards Teaser]]'''<br /><small>Released on November 28, 2012</small>
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| '''[[Robotic Boogaloo (video)|Robotic Boogaloo]]'''<br /><small>Released on May 17, 2013</small>
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| [[File:MTTCard AdultSwim1.png|link=Adult Swim commercial]]
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| [[File:MTTCard MvM2.png|link=The Sound of Medicine]]
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| [[File:MTTCard ExpirationDate.png|link=Expiration Date]]
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| '''[[Adult Swim commercial]]'''<br /><small>Released on June 02, 2013</small>
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| '''[[The Sound of Medicine]]'''<br /><small>Released on November 21, 2013</small>
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| '''[[Expiration Date]]'''<br /><small>Released on June 17, 2014</small>
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| [[File:MTTCard TheSpoilsofLoveandWar.png|link=The Spoils of Love and War]]
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| [[File:MTTCard End of the Line.png|link=End of the Line (video)]]
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| [[File:MTTCard Invasion.png|link=Invasion (Video)]]
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| '''[[The Spoils of Love and War]]'''<br /><small>Released on June 18, 2014</small>
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| '''[[End of the Line (video)|End of the Line]]'''<br /><small>Released on December 8, 2014</small>
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| '''[[Invasion (Video)|Invasion]]'''<br /><small>Released on October 6, 2015</small>
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| [[File:MTTCard Meet Your Match.png|link=Meet Your Match (video)]]
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| [[File:MTTCard Jungle Inferno.png|link=Jungle Inferno (Video)]]
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| '''[[Meet Your Match (video)|Meet Your Match]]'''<br /><small>Released on July 6, 2016</small>
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| '''[[Jungle Inferno (Video)|Jungle Inferno]]'''<br /><small>Released on October 16, 2017</small>
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| [[File:MTTCard Viaduct.png|link=Creating Viaduct]]
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| [[File:MTTCard Viaduct.png|link=Creating KOTH Viaduct]]
 
| [[File:MTTCard MedicOuttakes.png|link=Meet the Medic#Outtakes]]
 
| [[File:MTTCard MedicOuttakes.png|link=Meet the Medic#Outtakes]]
 
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| '''[[Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2]]'''<br/><small>Released on September 3, 2007</small>
 
| '''[[Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2]]'''<br/><small>Released on September 3, 2007</small>
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| '''[[Creating Viaduct]]'''<br /><small>Released on August 21, 2009</small>
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| '''[[Creating KOTH Viaduct]]'''<br /><small>Released on August 21, 2009</small>
 
| '''[[Meet the Medic#Outtakes|''Meet the Medic'' outtakes]]'''<br /><small>Released on July 11, 2011</small>
 
| '''[[Meet the Medic#Outtakes|''Meet the Medic'' outtakes]]'''<br /><small>Released on July 11, 2011</small>
 
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== Meet the Team ==
 
== Meet the Team ==
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{{Quotation|'''''Meet the Team''''' overview|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.}}
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{{Quotation|'''''Meet the Team''''' overview|TF2 started with nine mercs, 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 mercenaries 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.}}
 
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The Meet the Team videos are a series of computer-animated shorts starring the various [[classes]] of ''Team Fortress 2''.  
 
The Meet the Team videos are a series of computer-animated shorts starring the various [[classes]] of ''Team Fortress 2''.  
  
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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 {{w|Pixar}}. 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."<ref name="kotaku-interview">"[http://kotaku.com/5273555/valve-dreams-of-team-fortress-2-movie-divulges-meet-the-team-origins Valve Dreams Of Team Fortress 2 Movie, Divulges ‘Meet The Team’ Origins]" by Stephen Totilo, Kotaku, May 31, 2009. Accessed July 16, 2011.</ref>
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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 [[w:Pixar|Pixar]]. 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''. 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."<ref name="kotaku-interview">"[https://kotaku.com/5273555/valve-dreams-of-team-fortress-2-movie-divulges-meet-the-team-origins Valve Dreams Of Team Fortress 2 Movie, Divulges ‘Meet The Team’ Origins]" by Stephen Totilo, Kotaku, May 31, 2009. Accessed July 16, 2011.</ref>
  
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The series managed to influence the game itself in addition to simply being promotions for fans. Game writer 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.  
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The series managed to influence the game itself in addition to simply being promotions for fans. Game writer 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.
  
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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."<ref name="kotaku-interview" />
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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 the team's pleasure about the fact that "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."<ref name="kotaku-interview" />
  
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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]]'s head offices in Bellevue, Washington.<ref name="backfromvalve">"[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1803644 Back from Valve]" on [[Steam Users' Forums]], [http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/member.php?u=588243 Political Gamer], posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.</ref> Soon after, an announcement for the release of ''Meet the Medic'' was posted on the [[TF2 Official Website]], and the short was later officially released on YouTube on June 23, 2011.
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Attendants of the Spike TV 2010 VGA (Video Game 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]]'s head offices in Bellevue, Washington.<ref name="backfromvalve">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20120222131834/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1803644 Back from Valve]" on [[Steam Users' Forums]], Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Archived from the [https://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1803644 original page] on 2012-02-22.</ref> Soon after, an announcement for the release of ''Meet the Medic'' was posted on the [[TF2 Official Website]], and the short was later officially released on YouTube on June 23, 2011.
  
 
== Source Filmmaker ==
 
== Source Filmmaker ==
 
{{main|Source Filmmaker}}
 
{{main|Source Filmmaker}}
  
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[[Source Filmmaker]] is a video creation tool that manipulates the [[Source Engine]] to animate and record various scenes in game environments. The tool has been used by Valve to create the Meet the Team series in ''Team Fortress 2'' and the introductory videos for both ''{{w|Left 4 Dead}}'' and ''{{w|Left 4 Dead 2}}''. Source Filmmaker is capable of producing a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques, such as motion blur and depth of field, and enables the use of significantly-higher quality textures for in-game models as depicted in the Meet the Team series.
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[[Source Filmmaker]] is a video creation tool that manipulates the [[Source Engine]] to animate and record various scenes in game environments. The tool has been used by Valve to create promotion videos of their video games, some notable ones being the Meet the Team series in ''Team Fortress 2'', the introductory videos for both ''[[l4d:Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead]]'' and ''[[l4d:Left 4 Dead 2|Left 4 Dead 2]]'', and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYCtaNueQY CS:GO Trailer]. Source Filmmaker is capable of producing a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques, such as motion blur and depth of field, and enables the use of significantly-higher quality textures for in-game models as depicted in the Meet the Team series.
  
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The tool was left in the game code and is accessible through ''[[Team Fortress 2 Beta]]'', however, Valve has stated its intention to release a stable version of the tool publicly in a later release. Valve founder and managing director {{w|Gabe Newell}} said in an interview that Source Filmmaker is "in the pipeline for a public release".<ref name="backfromvalve" />
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The tool was made available via Steam on July 11, 2012. Download it [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1840 on Steam].
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [https://www.teamfortress.com/movies.php Movies] section on the [[TF2 Official Website]]
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The ending scene from Meet the Heavy
“
Paint me the picture.
— The Director
 ”

A number of short animated movies have been created by Valve to promote Team Fortress 2. The most prominent of the shorts are contained in the Meet the Team series, which feature each of the nine classes in their own narrative. Other movies have centered around major game updates or depicted various game development processes, such as the creation of maps. Typically, each video lasts from three to four minutes.

Movies

Meet the Team movies

“
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.
— Former Meet the Team overview
 ”
MTTCard Scout.png MTTCard Soldier.png MTTCard Pyro.png
Meet the Scout
Released April 19, 2008 		Meet the Soldier
Released August 22, 2007 		Meet the Pyro
Released June 27, 2012
MTTCard Demoman.png MTTCard Heavy.png MTTCard Engineer.png
Meet the Demoman
Released October 9, 2007 		Meet the Heavy
Released May 14, 2007 		Meet the Engineer
Released September 11, 2007
MTTCard Medic.png MTTCard Sniper.png MTTCard Spy.png
Meet the Medic
Released June 23, 2011 		Meet the Sniper
Released June 7, 2008 		Meet the Spy
Released May 19, 2009
MTTCard Sandvich.png
Meet the Sandvich
Released August 19, 2008

Promotional movies

MTTCard Teaser1.png MTTCard Teaser2.png MTTCard EngineerUpdTeaser.png
Trailer 1
Released on July 19, 2006 		Trailer 2
Released on August 21, 2006 		Engineer Update Teaser
Released on May 5, 2010
MTTCard Apple.png MTTCard Saxxy.png MTTCard FreeToPlayTrailer.png
Mac Update Trailer
Released on June 10, 2010 		Replay Update Teaser
Released on May 7, 2011 		Team Fortress 2 is Free to Play
Released on June 23, 2011
MTTCard MvM.png MTTCard SecondSaxxyAwards.png MTTCard Robotic Boogaloo.png
Mann vs. Machine
Released on August 13, 2012 		Second Annual Saxxy Awards Teaser
Released on November 28, 2012 		Robotic Boogaloo
Released on May 17, 2013
MTTCard AdultSwim1.png MTTCard MvM2.png MTTCard ExpirationDate.png
Adult Swim commercial
Released on June 02, 2013 		The Sound of Medicine
Released on November 21, 2013 		Expiration Date
Released on June 17, 2014
MTTCard TheSpoilsofLoveandWar.png MTTCard End of the Line.png MTTCard Invasion.png
The Spoils of Love and War
Released on June 18, 2014 		End of the Line
Released on December 8, 2014 		Invasion
Released on October 6, 2015
MTTCard Meet Your Match.png MTTCard Jungle Inferno.png
Meet Your Match
Released on July 6, 2016 		Jungle Inferno
Released on October 16, 2017

Developmental movies

MTTCard Render.png MTTCard Viaduct.png MTTCard MedicOuttakes.png
Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2
Released on September 3, 2007 		Creating KOTH Viaduct
Released on August 21, 2009 		Meet the Medic outtakes
Released on July 11, 2011

Meet the Team

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TF2 started with nine mercs, 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 mercenaries 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 overview
 ”
Camera.png

The Meet the Team videos are 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 Pixar. 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. 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."[1]

The series managed to influence the game itself in addition to simply being promotions for fans. Game writer 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 the team's pleasure about the fact that "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."[1]

Attendants of the Spike TV 2010 VGA (Video Game 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's head offices in Bellevue, Washington.[2] Soon after, an announcement for the release of Meet the Medic was posted on the TF2 Official Website, and the short was later officially released on YouTube on June 23, 2011.

Source Filmmaker

Main article: Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmaker is a video creation tool that manipulates the Source Engine to animate and record various scenes in game environments. The tool has been used by Valve to create promotion videos of their video games, some notable ones being the Meet the Team series in Team Fortress 2, the introductory videos for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, and the CS:GO Trailer. Source Filmmaker is capable of producing a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques, such as motion blur and depth of field, and enables the use of significantly-higher quality textures for in-game models as depicted in the Meet the Team series.

The tool was made available via Steam on July 11, 2012. Download it on Steam.

See also

References

  1. ↑ a b "Valve Dreams Of Team Fortress 2 Movie, Divulges ‘Meet The Team’ Origins" by Stephen Totilo, Kotaku, May 31, 2009. Accessed July 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Archived from the original page on 2012-02-22.

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