Meet the Medic: Behind the Scenes

[tf2.com]

Coming up with a Meet the Team short is a lot like a game of Jenga. 99% of it involves making room for an idea and seeing what happens.

Most of the time what happens is the whole structure collapses. Then you have to figure out why it collapsed and rebuild it, this time making sure to add in some structural support for your idea so it doesn't bring the whole short down.

As you'll find out in this Behind the Scenes blog, though, sometimes you can spend so much time adding all that structural support that it’s not until you step back that you realize your short is now nothing but structural support.

You can spend a lot of time building around an idea, in other words, before it occurs to you that the simplest solution is to get a better one.

Source: TF2.com

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Now that was interesting.

 

[HellJumper]

So it really only took them 6 weeks D:

 

[Fruity Snacks]

So it really only took them 6 weeks D:

Thats what I thought, but if that was true, TPG wouldn't have seen it...

 

[Micnax]

Kill meeeeee! Kill meeeeeeee!

We need more of these behind-the-scenes things, they're brilliant

 

[YM]

So it really only took them 6 weeks D:

They already had the whole battle sequence at the end down, and 6 weeks of redoubled efforts after having their animatic in very much the right direction

So no. but it does sound like they could have done it in under 10 weeks if they really tried and their original idea was a killer, however, as we saw, it wasn't

 

[Micnax]

Don't forget the horrible, horrible rendering time they would've had to go through.

 

[Trotim]

sometimes you can spend so much time adding all that structural support that it’s not until you step back that you realize your short is now nothing but structural support.

^whole game by now?

i.e. you can't keep adding parts to a streamlined and optimized experience and expect it to keep that quality

 

[LeSwordfish]

This reminds me how much i want to see a few new commentary maps.

 

[grazr]

Thats what I thought, but if that was true, TPG wouldn't have seen it...

TPG has already explained that what he saw was very WIP and not entirely the same as what was released. The stories corroborate each other.

 

[Pocket]

This reminds me how much i want to see a few new commentary maps.

Yeah, they totally need to add commentary nodes about KOTH and payload modes and some of the new items.