New Team Fortress 2 Movie (Updated)
by Maarten Goldstein, May 14, 2007 6:16pm PDTValve sends along a new Team Fortress 2 movie, serving as a introduction to the Heavy Weapons Guy while showing off the game's wonderful art style and animation. Team Fortress 2 will be included with Half-Life 2: Episode Two (check out our preview), due out later this year. Update: Valve has posted a note regarding the Heavy video on its official site, explaining that the animation seen in the video is indeed real-time, in-engine output. "By leveraging the rapid pace of advancement in PC graphics, videogames can now match and actually surpass the facial animation used in feature film and broadcast television production," reads the update. "By running entirely on the GPU of the videocard, the facial animation not only looks dramatically better, but frees up the CPU to perform other tasks like physics or AI." As with all of Valve's technology improvements for its games, the new animation tech will be added to the Source SDK for all licensees.
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Uh ok. The facial animation looks good (about the only part I actually liked) but "feature film" quality it is NOT. I'm pretty sure it will be fun, but 11 years to come up with a cartoony sequel seems a bit much. They should just port it over to DNF and be done with it.
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I would love to see this as an animated series.
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I am seriously considering buying a new one for this game.
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what I'd love to see is a version of this done for TF2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8286692699492141258
it's the original intro movie for QuakeWorld Team Fortress
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Haha, hold on there partner, film animation uses PCs as well, so I don't see where they get this whole "surpass" business.
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