團隊專訪
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— 團隊專訪系列簡敘
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團隊專訪（Meet the Team） 是一系列由每個不同職業所主演的電腦動畫短片。
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關於團隊專訪系列
這些影片的配音員是由遊戲的原始語音配音員來擔任，像是重裝兵、狙擊手和其他遊戲中的角色。這系列的第一部影片Meet the heavy（專訪重裝兵）請來了配音員Gary Schwartz，演出了一段重裝兵的獨白。當時這第一部影片是在傳送門（Portal）影片之後釋出的，為了是要凸顯出這款遊戲的特色（兼推銷）。專訪重裝兵釋出後有很多人對影片的品質和幽默的內容大加讚賞，甚至還說可和像Pixar之類的知名動畫大廠相提並論。因為許多的正面評價，Valve之後宣布要為每一個主要遊戲角色各作一部＂專訪影片＂（翻譯請求），with possible side-features for items and non-player characters such as Meet the Sandvich. Only 'Meet the Medic' and 'Meet the Pyro' have yet to be released. Robin Walker has stated that the videos "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 videos were not released for promotional purposes and fan service alone but also influenced the game itself. Eric Wolpaw stated that "It 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 how the videos influenced the design of the game was the Sandvich, which according to Robin Walker "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." Jarate was also added into the game after it's appearance in Meet the Sniper.
The videos also helped the game's technology. Valve used Meet the Heavy to test the facial animation system the studio was developing for TF2. 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." Ultimately, what they got to work in the Meet the Team videos is what would display for players running the game itself at its highest settings. Walker recalled that team's pleasure about "the expression on the Heavy at the end when he's shooting and screaming." It was no fake. "It wasn't 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 report seeing a private screening of a final cut of Meet the Medic during the event, suggesting a release of the video in the near future.
影片製作程式
製作絕地要塞2團隊專訪系列影片的工具是"Source Filmmaker"（次世代影片編輯程式），和惡靈勢力（Left 4 Dead）系列開頭短片所用的程式一樣。這是一個可在次世代引擎內運作的程式，It allows users to record themselves many times over in the same scene, creating the illusion of many participants, as well as supporting a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques such as motion blur and depth of field. (Motion blur has now been added to the games themselves, though only when the view is moving at high speeds - not per-object as in the film-maker). The tool also allows the use of extra-high quality textures for the classes as seen in the Meet the Team videos. This tool was leaked, being only possible to use with the public beta version of TF2. Valve have stated an intention to release the tool publicly at some point in the future. Many videos using the Source Filmmaker can be found on YouTube[2].
